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From Composer Highlights, an educational coloring book series, by
Leonice Thompson Kidd. The pictures and text on each page of this interesting
series tell the stories of twelve famous composers and their families-their
lifestyles, travels, difficulties, accomplishments, compositions, and maps of
significant places in their lives, as well as customs, clothing fashions,
cities, buildings, instruments of their times. At the beginning of each book
there is a page "Understanding These Words". By choosing the colors to
complete the pictures, students invest some imagination and effort into the
completed stories, aided by a few lines of narrative on each page.
Age 6 up. Good for studio, home school, classroom, camps, gifts or awards.
(For class projects, different pages can be assigned to various students and
then reassembled to complete a study of a selected composer.) Coloring Books are
8 ½ X 11 inches, 32 pages.
LK001 Johann Sebastian Bach and Family. $4.95 Written by
Leonice Thompson Kidd, Drawing by Kevin R. Murphy
The Bach family was large
and filled with musical talent generations before Johann Sebastian was born.
His childhood schooling is described, along with his becoming an orphan at the
age of nine. when he went to live with his older brother. Some pages illustrate
various churches, organs, maps, and people who were significant in his life.
His marriages and family life, along with the story of the Anna Magdalena
Notebook are included, and the final page tells of his son, Johnann
Christian Bach who was fifteen years old when his father died. John Bach (as he
was called in England) had a successful career in London where he held the
position once held by Handel, and where he met eight-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart.
Sample Text from p. 25: The
famous Anna Magdalena Notebook contains some of the music familiar to
young piano students, including the familiar G major, g minor, and d minor
menuets. The music was written by various composers and copied by Anna
Magdalena. Some of the Bach children made their own contributions. Bound in
sea-green parchment and decorated with gold, the book was probably tied together
with red satin. It opens with two partitas written by Sebastian himself, and a
handwritten dedication that starts out: Your
slave am I, sweet maiden bride, God give you joy this morning!
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