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Capitalizes on popularity of Kodaly Method. Supplement or stand alone text.

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This Book Needs To Be Brought Back Into Print
I first read this book when I was a young teacher and have read it several times since. I had checked it out from my local university library, and tried to buy a copy of it, only to find it is out of print. Books like these need to be reprinted and should be required reading for elementary music teachers.

Today, almost anything goes in the music classroom. Songs are sung about the 100th day of school, naming the planets of the solar system, or "character counts". Music teachers are asked to use songs to teach safety, math facts, consonants and vowels. All the artistry is being sucked out of the curriculum. Luckily, there are still teachers who want to teach music (not math and reading) and who want to teach children the culturally-rich, artistic folk music of our country and other countries around the world. They want to teach children to be able to read music, understand music, perform music, and create their own music. They want children to experience music that doesn't have a "Broadway"-style soundtrack or dopey cartoon characters altering the words of it to make it politically correct or saccharinely sweet.

The book focuses on several topics of interest to music teachers: early childhood music, using movement in the music class, teaching the older beginner, working with the elementary school chorus, and developing a Kodaly curriculum. It also contains a song collection with many of the materials used throughout the book. There is much common-sense to be found in its pages.

Although one can still find plenty of information in the author's updated "Kodaly Method I and II", this book is still worth reading and keeping on hand. I wish the author the best in her well-deserved retirement. She has made more than a significant contribution to the music education world!

required reading
The author discusses how to apply the Hungarian curriculum to the United States.She goes over the many questions involved in sequencing the curriculum, teaching notation, planning each lesson, and helping the students to appreciate good music.

I got somewhat lost in her chapter on directing a choir.I have always had trouble understanding instructions given by voice teachers and choir directors.(Voice teachers have told me to "imagine yourself wearing a mask.""Imagine the sound spinning out of the top of your head."What the heck does THAT mean!)

I take issue with Choksy's blanket rejection of popular music.It seems inconsistent.Kodaly said that the children's own folk music is familiar to the children, and therefore should be the starting point of the children's music education.Should not the children's own popular music be incorporated for the same reason?Choksy might be speaking more from her own musical tastes than from her training and experience.I discuss this question in my review of 0139491732.

Last I heard, Choksy had retired from music education and gone into the bed-and-breakfast business.I hope the bed-and-breakfast business gained as much as the music education profession lost. ... Read more

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The Kodaly Choral Method is a comprehensive series of progressive songs and sigh-singing exercises designed to promote a thorough understanding of interval and tonality. By incorporative a wide range of Hungarian folk music and poetry, Kodaly has produced a stimulating addition to the repertoire of school and amateur choirs. This collection of 333 reading exercises is the revised English Edition, taken from the 1966 Hungarian Edition. ... Read more

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fun to practice
Recommended for any vocal or instrumental student.In fact, when I was taking voice lessons, I used these exercises on my own.

The exercises are written on a single line, in solfege notation for some exercises and in conventional notation for others.

The exercises are categorized according to tone row.Recorder teachers may be especially interested in pages 1-3 and 8, which, if played in G major, are playable with the fingers of the left hand.However, a teacher following the Choksy sequence would not be able to use any of the exercises in the beginning stages. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Ludwig Von Köchel, Béla Bartók, Theodor W. Adorno, Komitas, Hugo Riemann, Zoltán Kodály, Pierre-Jean Croset, Mohamed Saâda, Maxence Caron, Paul Wehage, Egon Wellesz, François-Joseph Fétis, Milan Munclinger, Marius Schneider, Salah El Mahdi, Ernest Ansermet, Yuri Landman, Robert Wangermée, Makis Solomos, André Sas Orchassal, Brigitte François-Sappey, Pascal Crittin, Eno Belinga, Harry Halbreich, Martin Gerbert, Mohamed Garfi, Eduard Hanslick, Thābit Ibn Qurra, Simha Arom, Alfred Einstein, András Szőllősy, Louis Lambillotte, Daniel Alomía Robles, Willi Apel, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Lajos Bárdos, Trân Van Khé, Angelico Surchamp, Bertrand Guay, Jules Combarieu, Bruno Bouckaert, Leopold Nowak, Horacio Vaggione, Manfred Bukofzer, Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi, Jérôme Lejeune, Jean During, Norman Lebrecht, Semion Bogatyrev, Davitt Moroney, Lucie Rault, Cyril W. Beaumont, Valeri Brainin, Anthony Van Hoboken, Mário de Andrade, John Hawkins, Michel-Rostislav Hofmann, Gabriele Baldini, René Dumesnil, Rochus Von Liliencron, Cuthbert Girdlestone, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Yavor Konov, Charles Burney, Guy Erismann, Otto Erich Deutsch, Henri Arnault de Zwolle, Clément Morin, Anonyme Iv, Alfred Hipkins, Marina Scriabine, Antoine Livio, Abd Al-Mu'min Ibn Yusuf Ibn Fakhir, Angelo Ephrikian, Guido Adler, Roger Tellart, Johann Nikolaus Forkel, Walter Willson Cobbett, Stanley Sadie, Maxime Kovalevsky, Wilibald Gurlitt, Nicholas Cook, Marcus Meibom, Thomas Mace, Alexandre Chalfoun, Denis Arnold, Inghilbertus, José Bruyr, Ievgueni Trembovelski. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Béla Bartók (Bartók Béla, selon l'usage en hongrois), né le 25 mars 1881 à Nagyszentmiklós en Autriche-Hongrie (aujourd'hui Sânnicolau Mare, soit en...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Zoltán Kodály, Kató Lomb, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, Uray Géza, Ferenc Kazinczy, András Kornai, Ádám Nádasdy, Ignác Kúnos, Sámuel Gyarmathi, Ferenc Kemény, István Lanstyák, Oswald Szemerényi, András Róna-Tas, Csaba Pléh, Gyula Szepesy, Ernest Klein, László Antal, Gyula Farkas, Stephen Ullmann, János Sajnovics, János Harmatta, Károly Újfalvy Von Mezőkövesd, Michael Brody, Antal Reguly, Peter Toma. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Kató Lomb (Pécs, February 8, 1909 - Budapest, June 9, 2003) was a Hungarian interpreter, translator, language genius and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world. Originally she graduated in physics and chemistry, but her interest soon led her to languages. Native in Hungarian, she was able to interpret fluently in nine or ten languages (in four of them even without preparation), and she translated technical literature and read belles-lettres in six languages. She was able to understand journalism in further eleven languages. As she put it, altogether she earned money with sixteen languages (Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian). She learned these languages mostly by self-effort, as an autodidact. Her aims to acquire these languages were most of all practical, to satisfy her interest. According to her own account, her long life was highlighted not primarily by the command of languages but the actual study of them. Through her books, published in Hungarian in several editions as well as in some other languages, interviews (in print and on the air) and conversations, she tried to share this joy with generations. As an interpreter, she visited all five continents, saw forty countries, and reported about her experie...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=923496 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Franz Liszt, Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, Ernst Von Dohnányi, Emmerich Kálmán, Paul Abraham, Ferenc Erkel, Sándor Veress, András Szőllősy, Leó Weiner, Endre Szervánszky, Lajos Bárdos, Károly Goldmark, János Bihari, Leopold Auer, Erzsébet Szőnyi, György Kósa, Sándor Balassa, Tibor Serly, György Ránki, József Soproni, Miklós Kocsár, Joseph Gungl, Tibor Harsányi, István Vántus, Zoltán Kocsis, Stephen Heller, Mihály Mosonyi, Ottokar Nováček, Laszlo Tihanyi. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferenc en hongrois) est un compositeur et pianiste hongrois sujet des Habsbourg-Lorraine, né à Doborján (all. Raiding, aujourd'hui en Autriche) le 22 octobre 1811 et mort à Bayreuth (Allemagne) le 31 juillet 1886. Liszt est le père de la technique pianistique moderne et du récital. Avec lui, naissent l'impressionnisme au piano, le piano orchestral - Mazeppa, la quatrième étude d'exécution transcendante - et le piano littéraire - les Années de pèlerinage. Il est à l'origine - avec Frédéric Chopin - du style de toute une lignée de compositeurs : Ravel, Rachmaninov, Scriabine. Son père, Adam Liszt, était le petit-fils d'un migrant serf germanophone, Sébastian Liszt, qui avait quitté sa Basse-Autriche natale durant la première moitié du siècle pour venir s'installer en Hongrie. Adam qui était devenu secrétaire du prince Esterházy et violoncelliste dans un orchestre local, n'était pas musicien de profession. Il eût sans doute pu devenir un musicien distingué, si il n'avait pas été issu d'une famille très nombreuse de quatorze enfants, qui ne lui laissa aucun héritage. Il transportera sur son fils ses espoirs déçus, comme le note une exclamation qu'il lui adressait souvent : Sa mère, Anna Maria Lager, é...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Béla Bartók, Alan Lomax, Komitas, John Lomax, Halim El-Dabh, Zoltán Kodály, Jamyang Norbu, Alain Daniélou, Daniel Chatelain, Ngawang Chophel, Giovanna Marini, Gilbert Rouget, Colin Turnbull, Simha Arom, Josef Režný, Trân Van Khé, Jean During, Lucie Rault, Christian Poché, Arthur Morris Jones, Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Constantin Brăiloiu, Tran Quang Hai, André Schaeffner, Jules Rouanet. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Béla Bartók (Bartók Béla, selon l'usage en hongrois), né le 25 mars 1881 à Nagyszentmiklós en Autriche-Hongrie (aujourd'hui Sânnicolau Mare, soit en français Saint-Nicolas le Grand, en Roumanie), décédé le 26 septembre 1945 à New York, était un compositeur hongrois, pianiste et collectionneur de musique folklorique d'Europe de l'Est. Il fut l'un des fondateurs de l'ethnomusicologie. Bartók à 18 ansBéla Viktor János Bartók est né dans le Banat austro-hongrois, région à la confluence des cultures (magyare, roumaine, slovaque) et foyer d'irrédentisme, d'hostilité aux Habsbourg, puis au régime Horthy. Ses parents étaient assez cultivés. Sa mère, Paula Bartók (née Paula Voit) était institutrice et son père, dénommé Béla lui aussi, était directeur d'une école d'agriculture. Tous deux pratiquaient un peu la musique. Béla fut leur premier enfant, bientôt suivi d'une petite sœur, Erzsébet (Elza) en 1885. Le premier instrument du tout jeune Béla fut un tambour dont il se servait pour battre la mesure lorsque sa mère lui jouait du piano. Elle commence à lui enseigner ce dernier lorsqu'il atteint ses 5 ans. Il a 7 ans quand son père meurt. Cela oblige sa mère à déménager et à donner des cours de piano, en plus de son métier, pour subvenir aux besoins de la petite famille. L'année suivante, ils par...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály, László Lajtha, Mátyás Seiber. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 34. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Béla Viktor János Bartók (pronounced (Wells 1990), Hungarian pronunciation: ) (March 25, 1881 September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as his country's greatest composer (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology. Béla Bartók was born in the small Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in Austria-Hungary (now Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on March 25, 1881. He displayed notable musical talent very early in life: according to his mother, he could distinguish between different dance rhythms that she played on the piano even before he learned to speak in complete sentences (Gillies 1990, 6). By the age of four, he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano and his mother began formally teaching him the next year. Béla was a small and sickly child and suffered from a painful chronic rash until the age of five (Gillies 1990, 5). In 1888, when he was seven, his father (the director of an agricultural school) died suddenly. Béla's mother then took him and his sister, Erzsebet, to live in Nagyszls (today Vinogradiv, Ukraine) and then to Pozsony (German: Pressburg, today Bratislava, Slovakia). In Pozsony, Béla gave his first public recital at age eleven to a warm critical reception. Among the pieces he played was his own first composition, written two years previously: a short piece called "The Course of the Danube" (de Toth 1999). Shortly thereafter László Erkel accepted him as a pupil. Bartók on his high school graduationBartók studied piano under István Thomán, a form...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4527 ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Béla Bartók, Colin Turnbull, Erich Von Hornbostel, Curt Sachs, Zoltán Kodály, Demetrio Stratos, Mário de Andrade, Percy Grainger, Yuki Kajiura, Miloš Velimirović, Isaac Nathan, Oleg Timofeyev, Dana Hall, S. A. K. Durga, Raden Machjar Angga Koesoemadinata, Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, Mantle Hood, Armas Launis, Joseph J. Palackal, Ashenafi Kebede, László Lajtha, Gerard Béhague, Colin Mcphee, Natalie Curtis, Robert E. Brown, Robert Garfias, List of Musicologists, Alberto Hemsi, Stephen M. Wolownik, Jaime de Angulo, Charles Seeger, Laxmi Ganesh Tewari, Giovanna Marini, Ernest G. Mcclain, Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta, Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, Steven Feld, Ngawang Chophel, Michael Tenzer, Massimo Milano, Helmut Brenner, Frances Densmore, Jaap Kunst, Carl Stumpf, Imani Sanga, Sumarsam, Dariush Safvat, Gerhard Kubik, Jean Jenkins, Alexander John Ellis, Mariana Sadovska, Hugh Tracey, Han Kuo-Huang, Carlo Forlivesi, Erica Azim, Erynn Marshall, Julia Elena Fortún, Bruno Nettl, James Makubuya, Stephen Wade, Theodore Levin, Valentina Suzukei, Nazir Jairazbhoy, Walter Kaufmann, Chalkdust, Willard Rhodes, Henry Eichheim, Fernando Ortiz, Paul Arma, Vinko Žganec, David P. Mcallester, Henrietta Yurchenko, Steven Loza, J. H. Kwabena Nketia, Dimitri Arakishvili, John Donald Robb, Sean Williams, David Fanshawe, Paul Berliner, Arthur Morris Jones, František Bartoš, François Brassard, Martin Stokes, Terri Quaye, Robert Lachmann, Kurt Reinhard, Antanas Juška, Alan P. Merriam, Barbara Benary, James E. Mumford, Rob Bowman, Ida Halpern, Habib Hassan Touma, Mwesa Isaiah Mapoma, Aaron Fox, Laura Boulton, Harry Brauner, Simha Arom, Klaus Wachsmann, Sam-Ang Sam, Vlado Milošević. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Efstratios Demetriou (Alexandria, April 22...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14688706 ... Read more

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Hardcover edition, 1971, Corvina Press, Hungary, printed in Budapest. In English translation, 160 pages. Compiled and introduced by Laszlo Eosze. 17 page introduction, 248 black and white plates, each with English caption. About 11 1/2 inches high. A high quality presentation of the life of the Hungarian composer who, along with his friend, Bela Bartok, made a life work of collecting and recording the folk music of his country and using this work as the basis of his musical composition. The photos span the life of the composer from about eighteen-eighty-two to nineteen-sixty-seven. ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Béla Bartók, György Ligeti, Georg Solti, Zoltán Kodály, István Kertész, György Kurtág, Ernő Dohnányi, David Popper, Thomas Rajna, Wanda Wiłkomirska, Antal Doráti, Emmerich Kálmán, Georges Cziffra, Fritz Reiner, Sándor Veress, György Sándor, Tibor Varga, Adrienne Krausz, José de Eusebio, Jenő Hubay, Peter Erős, Géza Anda, András Schiff, Zeynep Üçbaşaran, János Fürst, János Gonda, Sylvia Sass, Elisabeth Klein, Lajos Bárdos, Leo Weiner, Lili Kraus, Jenö Ádám, Ilona Eibenschütz, Balint Karosi, Zoltán Jeney, Emil Ábrányi, Zoltán Kocsis, Tamás Vásáry, Anthony Ritchie, Dénes Gulyás, László Polgár, Gabriel Von Wayditch, Vlastimil Lejsek, Lívia Rév, Magda László, Jenő Huszka, Károly Schranz, András Szőllősy, Edith Farnadi, Frigyes Hidas, Béla Síki, Ferenc Farkas, Gábor Darvas, Endre Hegedűs, Gregory Vajda, Dezső Antalffy-Zsiross. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Béla Viktor János Bartók (pronounced (Wells 1990), Hungarian pronunciation: ) (March 25, 1881 September 26, 1945) was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as his country's greatest composer (Gillies 2001). Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology. Béla Bartók was born in the small Banatian town of Nagyszentmiklós in Austria-Hungary (now Sânnicolau Mare, Romania) on March 25, 1881. He displayed notable musical talent very early in life: according to his mother, he could distinguish between different dance rhythms that she played on the piano even before he learned to speak in complete sentences (Gillies 1990, 6). By the age of four, he was able to play 40 pieces on the piano and his mother began formally teaching him the next year. Bél...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4527 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Arvo Pärt, Franz Liszt, Joseph Haydn, Louis Spohr, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten, Carl Orff, Zoltán Kodály, Frederick Delius, Cyril Rootham, Bohuslav Martinů, Johann Adolph Hasse, William Walton, Edward Elgar, Krzysztof Penderecki, Leonard Bernstein, Max Bruch, Yvon Bourrel, Alexandre Tansman, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Michael Haydn, Frank Martin, Heinrich Schütz, Gustav Holst, Arthur Bliss, Franz Schmidt, Nicolas Nabokov, Karl Ditters Von Dittersdorf, Vítězslav Novák, Edison Denisov, Leopold Anton Kozeluch, Jan Ladislav Dussek, John Stanley, Johann Sebastiani, Johann Antonin Kozeluch, John Stainer. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferenc en hongrois) est un compositeur et pianiste hongrois sujet des Habsbourg-Lorraine, né à Doborján (all. Raiding, aujourd'hui en Autriche) le 22 octobre 1811 et mort à Bayreuth (Allemagne) le 31 juillet 1886. Liszt est le père de la technique pianistique moderne et du récital. Avec lui, naissent l'impressionnisme au piano, le piano orchestral - Mazeppa, la quatrième étude d'exécution transcendante - et le piano littéraire - les Années de pèlerinage. Il est à l'origine - avec Frédéric Chopin - du style de toute une lignée de compositeurs : Ravel, Rachmaninov, Scriabine. Son père, Adam Liszt, était le petit-fils d'un migrant serf germanophone, Sébastian Liszt, qui avait quitté sa Basse-Autriche natale durant la première moitié du siècle pour venir s'installer en Hongrie. Adam qui était devenu secrétaire du prince Esterházy et violoncelliste dans un orchestre local, n'était pas musicien de profession. Il eût sans doute pu devenir un musicien distingué, si il n'avait pas été issu d'une famille très nombreuse de quatorze enfants, qui ne lui lai...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Olivier Messiaen, Arnold Schönberg, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Nicola Porpora, Zoltán Kodály, Alfred Cortot, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Henri Pousseur, Marie Jaëll, Józef Koffler, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Kolp, Armas Launis, Blanche Selva, Carl Czerny, Giovanni Sgambati, Nadia Boulanger, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Makis Solomos, Simone Plé-Caussade, Johann Joachim Quantz, Isidor Philipp, André Gedalge, Jean-Baptiste Arban, Alexandre-Étienne Choron, André Dumortier, Lazare-Lévy, Bernard Sarrette, Lucien Capet, Leó Weiner, Lajos Bárdos, Paul Taffanel, Max Deutsch, Antoine François Marmontel, François Sabatier, Jacques Lancelot, François-Auguste Gevaert, Carl Flesch, Édouard Risler, Anton Diabelli, Georges Dandelot, Antonin Marmontel, Irène Aïtoff, Noël Gallon, Germaine Mounier, Robert Walser, Hyacinthe Klosé, Liste Des Directeurs Des Conservatoires de Musique et D'art Dramatique de Paris, Emilio Pujol, Jean Alard, Vincenzo Lavigna, Richard Wüerst, Shinichi Suzuki, Charles-Louis Hanon, Georges Caussade, Friedrich Wieck, Gunild Keetman, Auguste Sérieyx, Ferdinando Provesi, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Henri Challan, Gunnar de Frumerie, Maurice Hauchard, Manuel Garcia Junior, Jos Wuytack, Jean Gallon, Franco Ferrara, Franz Wohlfahrt, Maja Lex, Ernest Van de Velde. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Olivier Eugène Charles Prosper Messiaen (Avignon, 10 décembre 1908 - Clichy-la-Garenne, 27 avril 1992) est un compositeur, organiste et pédagogue français. Son œuvre trouve ses sources dans une profonde ferveur catholique, un goût prononcé pour le plain-chant médiéval, les rythmes hindous et grecs, ainsi que le chant des oiseaux. L'Ascension (1933), le Quatuor pour la fin du Temps (1940), les Vingt Regards su...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more