List of modern music composers for kids
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Composers For Kids
Composers' Letters
- By: Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Narrated by: Jeremy Nicholas, Daniel Philpott, Edward de Souza
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Set against the music we know and love, Mozart, Beethoven, and many more come alive through their correspondence. Poignant, funny, revealing, informative and so often direct and honest, these letters offer a fascinating insight into the personalities that created our Western musical tradition.
- 4 out of 5 stars
A Charming Little Collection.
- By J. Grablowski on 09-02-18
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Modern
There are no rules!
Modern classical music is about breaking rules. It’s about being different. Whatever you think music should sound like, I am sure there is some modern classical music that doesn’t sound like that at all!!
Do you think music should have a tune? Well there is lots of modern classical music that doesn’t have a tune.
Do you think music should be played on a music instrument? Well there is lots of modern classical music that is played on things that aren’t very ‘musical’ at all! Watch this video to see a piece of music written for a typewriter (this is what people used to type on before computers were around)!
‘The Typewriter’ by Leroy Anderson
And I guess everyone thinks music should at least make some sort of sound. Well there is actually a real piece of music that makes no sound at all!!! It is called 4’33. This is because it is four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence! If you don’t believe me, watch this video! (Maybe I should try this one at a school assembly sometime!!)
Many people say the first piece of modern music was Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune(Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) by Claude Debussy (see the Debussy page for a video of pa
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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