A coloring book with portraits or sometimes goofy caricatures of the composers. The real merit of the books lie in the information, brief one to two page biographies of each composer, approximately 30 per book.
This book includes information about the following composers:
- William Billings
- Francis Hopkinson
- Stephen Foster
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
- John Philip Sousa
- Victor Herbert
- Edward MacDowell
- Scott Joplin
- Charles Ives
- The Second New England School: John Knowles Paine, Arthur Foote, Horatio Parker and George Whitefield Chadwick
- Amy Beach
- The Growth of Jazz and Blues
- Jerome Kern
- Cole Porter
- Irving Berlin
- William Grant Still
- Walter Piston
- Roger Sessions
- Howard Hanson
- Virgil Thomson
- Jimmie Rodgers
- Henry Coswell
- Roy Harris
- George Gershwin
- Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington
- Aaron Copeland
- Samuel Barber
- Richard Rodgers
- Elliott Carter
- Alan Hovhaness
- John Cage
- Thelonious Monk
- Leonard Bernstein
- Hank Williams
- Philip Glass
- Lou Harrison
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