Women of Western Music: Hildegard to Ella - Book and Enhanced CD

Balance your music history curriculum with this indispensable classroom resource! This long-awaited manual focuses exclusively on the female artists who haven't made it into most textbooks. Biographies, student assessments, and recordings are included for 18 important women who enriched the world with their incredible talents, such as Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Marian Anderson, Ethel Merman, and Billie Holiday. Recommended for grades five and up. Book is 100% reproducible.

Table of Contents:

• A Note from the Author
• Hildegard von Bingen
• Sacred Music in the Medieval Era
• Bingen Bingo
• Francesca Caccini
• The Origins of Opera
• Caccini Crossword
• Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
• Keyboard Instruments Through History
• Mendelssohn Matching
• Clara Wieck Schumann
• The Romantic Era
• Schumann Scramble
• Jenny Lind
• The Pre-Civil War Era
• Lind Letter Tiles
• Amy Marcy Beach
• Classical Music in the United States
• Amy Acrostic
• Maud Powell
• The Development of Sound Recording
• Powell Puzzler
• Nadia Boulanger
• The Prix de Rome
• Boulanger Bingo
• Florence Beatrice Price
• African-American Spirituals
• Price Puzzler
• Germaine Tailleferre
• The Twentieth Century Era
• Tailleferre True or False
• Edna White
• The Vaudeville Stage
• White Word Search
• Marian Anderson
• Classical Voice Types
• Anderson Acrostic
• Ruth Crawford Seeger
• The American Folk Music Revival
• Seeger Scramble
• Ethel Merman
• The Birth of Broadway
• Merman Matching
• Billie Holiday
• The Swing Era
• Billie Bingo
• Ella Fitzgerald
• The Great American Songbook
• Fitzgerald True or False
• Beverly Sills
• The Building of Lincoln Center
• Sills Scramble
• Patsy Cline
• The Grand Ole Opry
• Cline Crossword
• Answer Keys
• About the Author
• Additional Music History and Culture Resources

Publisher:	Alfred
Composer/Author:	Wentlent, Anna
Catalog Number:	00-46048
Pages:	76