Books with title History of Music

The Cambridge Assignments in Music series features a variety of books, audio cassettes and CDs including History of Music, Popular Music, Performing and Responding and Popular Music. This book presents a brief outline of the history of western music, covering all important areas, with the main emphasis on recognition of style and period. A checklist of pointers, or 'fingerprints' of music style, is included for each period and the book ends with a main summary chart. The book is intended to help GCSE candidates in areas of the examination which involve the history of music and music styles, especially in questions where they are asked to identify the period and composer of previously unheard pieces of music.

Before the remix! Groove to the sounds of jazz, gospel, and rhythm and blues. We take your child through the progressive history of music influenced by African Americans, going from spiritual heritage songs, to Ma Rainey’s "Bo-Weavil Blues", to "Shoo-ba-doo-wa!", to pianist Duke Ellington, to the birth of Motown. Now let’s begin! This educational software allows a child to self-personalize and become the star character (in addition to family members and friends) of their own computer story. The child can choose characters of their ethnicity, select their reading level, and have the computer read the story to them. The educational content is reinforced through supporting animation, interactive review quizzes, word puzzles, memory games, and a computer coloring book.