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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)

E Pd Lp: Juan Bautista Plaza

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has a brief bibliography of the Venezuelan musician and composer Juan Bautista Plaza.
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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)

E Pd Lp: Angel Sauce

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has a brief bibliography of the Venezuelan musician, director and composer Angel Sauce.
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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)

E Pd Lp: Alberto Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a brief bibliography of the Spanish composer and musician Alberto Williams.
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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)

E Pd Lp: Juventino Rosas

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has a brief bibliography of the Mexican musician Juventino Rosas.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Lead Belly

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of influential blues musician Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter.
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Africlassical: Black History and Classical Music

For Students 9th - 10th
Africlassical profiles musicians and composers of African descent since the time of Mozart.
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Paul Hindemith

For Students 3rd - 8th
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963 CE) a German musician/composer ran away from home at the age of eleven. Luckily he was able to become an accomplished musician. Use this resource to learn more about his life and work, which was banned by...
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Louis Armstrong

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers interesting biographical details on jazz musician, Louis Armstrong, a 1990 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Includes a timeline of key events and essential songs list.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Sonny Rollins

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical account of Sonny Rollins, an American jazz musician, a tenor saxophonist who was among the finest improvisers on the instrument to appear since the mid-1950s.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Cootie Williams

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life of Cootie Williams, an African-American trumpeter whose mastery of mutes and expressive effects made him one of the most distinctive jazz musicians.
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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)

E Pd Lp: Julian Aguirre

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief bibliography of the Spanish composer and musician Julian Aguirre
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El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word)

E Pd Lp: Pedro Elias Gutierrez

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has a brief bibliography of the Venezuelan musician and composer Pedro Elias Gutierrez.
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Scott Alexander

Red Hot Jazz: Louis Armstrong (1900 1971)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Red Hot Jazz contains a good biography of Louis Armstrong, arguably the most influential jazz musician. Very interesting and informative, also includes a picture.
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Gallery 41

For Students 9th - 10th
Interviews, audio, video, and pictures of prominent jazz musicians.
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Domenico Scarlatti: A Biographical Note

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from BaroqueMusic.org contains a rather lengthy biography on Domenico Scarletti, musician and composer.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: Benny Goodman

For Students 9th - 10th
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1996 to commemorate famous jazz musician Benny Goodman. With a short biographical passage.
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Ottorino Respighi

For Students 3rd - 8th
A brief biography of Ottorino Respighi (1870-1936 CE), Italian musician/composer studied violin, viola, and composition. He became a professor of composition in Rome after many years of playing with the Opera Orchestra in St. Petersburg,...
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Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids: Arcady Dubensky

For Students 3rd - 8th
Visit this resource to learn about Arcady Dubensky, a Russian-born musician who went from playing piano in hotels to becoming a noted composer. Use RealAudio or Windows Media Player to listen to some of his work.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: T Bone Walker

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides very brief biographical details on influential musician T-Bone Walker, a 1987 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Art Pepper

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Art Pepper, an American jazz musician noted for the beauty of his sound and his improvisations on alto saxophone, and a major figure in the 1950s in West Coast jazz (see cool jazz).
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Ben Webster

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Ben Webster, an American jazz musician, considered one of the most distinctive of his generation, noted for the beauty of his tenor saxophone tone and for his melodic inventiveness.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Billy Eckstine

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Billy Eckstine, an American singer and bandleader who achieved great personal success while fostering the careers of a number of younger jazz musicians.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Bunk Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Bunk Johnson, a black American jazz trumpeter, one of the first musicians to play jazz and a principal figure of the 1940s traditional jazz revival.
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Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Fats Waller

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Fats Waller, an American pianist and composer who was one of the few outstanding jazz musicians to win wide commercial fame, though this was achieved at a cost of obscuring his purely...

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