Aïda / by Price, Leontyne

Accent on composers : the music and lives of 22 great composers, with listening CD, review/tests, and supplemental materials / by Althouse, Jay

Table of Contents: “…Hildegard von Bingen -- Antonio Vivaldi -- George Frideric Handel -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Franz Schubert -- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Richard Wagner -- Giuseppe Verdi -- Johannes Brahms -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Antonin Dvorak -- John Philip Sousa -- Edward Elgar -- Claude Debussy -- Scott Joplin -- Charles Ives -- Igor Stravinsky -- Aaron Copland.…”

Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought) / by Krull, Kathleen

Table of Contents: “…The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi -- Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach -- No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven -- "My dear corpse": Frédéric Chopin -- A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi -- A different white dress every night: Clara Schumann -- Dear friends and gentle hearts: Stephen Foster -- The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms -- Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Topsy-turvydom: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan -- Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie -- The entertainer: Scott Joplin -- He stretched our ears: Charles Ives -- Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky -- Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger -- Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev -- "Great, isn't it?"…”