My Music Box: Little Classical Masterpieces for My Baby

by Élodie Nouhen

Overview

20 miniature masterpieces in mesmerizing piano-four hand arrangements. Open up the fairy tale and dreamlike worlds imagined by renowned classical composers for the piano. Compositions transport listeners to France and Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when the instrument was the preferred way to introduce children to the magic of music. Explore the poignant yet fleeting fears and joys of childhood with 20 miniature movements for two- and four-hand piano by Bizet, Debussy, Liadov, Moussorgsky, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and others. Performed by acclaimed pianist duo Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle. Brief explanatory notes and illustrations accompany each musical work. Includes a CD and unique digital download code.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782898360145
Publisher:	The Secret Mountain
Publication date:	11/01/2022
Pages:	44
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Elodie Nouhen honed her creative talent at the Ecole Supérieure d’arts graphiques Penninghen in Paris. She has worked for many years as an illustrator, having published more than 30 children’s books that have been translated into several languages, including Sleep Softly, Songs from the Baobab, and My Music Box.

Table of Contents

TRACK LISTING CD Duration: 43 minutes. 1. En bateau / Claude Debussy (1862–1918) 2. Tuileries (Children’s Quarrels after Games) / Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881) 3. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) 4. Serenade for the Doll / Claude Debussy (1862–1918) 5. Trompette et tambour / Georges Bizet (1838–1875) 6. Fairy Tale, opus 26, no. 1, in E-flat major / Nikolai Medtner (1880–1951) 7. Golliwogg’s Cake-walk / Claude Debussy (1862–1918) 8. Prelude, opus 10, no. 1, in D-flat major / Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914) 9. La Toupie / Georges Bizet (1838–1875) 10. The Porcelain Shepherd and His Flock / Arthur Lourie´ (1892–1966) 11. Cortège / Claude Debussy (1862–1918) 12. The Sick Doll / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) 13. The New Doll / Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) 14. Music Box / Anatoly Lyadov (1855–1914) 15. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes / Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) 16. Le Petit A^ne blanc / Jacques Ibert (1890–1962) 17. Egypt / Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873–1945) 18. Boi^te à musique / Pierre Sancan (1916–2008) 19. Berceuse / Gabriel Faure´ (1845–1924) 20. Le Jardin féérique / Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)

Editorial Reviews

"Swaths of paint and pencil lines are employed in a deft manner to portray a variety of patterns and textures, from the gentle waves of a child’s hair to the geometric pattern of a clown’s costume; each illustration is intended to evoke the mood of the paired musical selection."—FOREWORD REVIEWS

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