Introducción a la música de concierto: Bichos (Incluye CD musical)

The books in this collection offer a fun, accessible, and educational introduction to music by focusing on a particular theme. The first three are about birds, fantasy creatures, and water. This fourth book is about animals and the various compositions they’ve inspired through the ages. These pages are populated with flies, wasps, frogs, spiders, crickets, ants, and butterflies as imagined and recreated musically by composers like Rimsky-Kórsakov, Haendel, Bartók, Ravel, Telemann, Haydn, Prokófiev, and Revueltas.

"An ambitious feast for the senses." —Kirkus Reviews, on the English language edition

"A fabulous find." —Midwest Book Review, on the English language edition

Ana Gerhard is a concert pianist. She studied at Ars Nova in Barcelona, the Lausanne conservatory—where she received a grant from the Swiss government—and at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico. She has performed as a soloist and in groups in Mexico, Spain, France, and Switzerland. She also works to promote classical music among children by producing radio programs for Radio Educación y Opus 94, as well as puppet shows for Allegro Scherzando. Her books include Las aves, Seres fantásticos, El agua, and Bichos.