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Koscielniak, Bruce
3 Reviews
(4)
K-3
Koscielniak focuses his impressive history of timekeeping on clock technologies developed over centuries. He starts with the employment of natural events; moves to the design of sundials, water clocks, and mechanical clocks; and ends with today's use of crystals and atoms to keep time in increasingly smaller increments. The loose watercolors have an amateurish quality except when portraying the detailed schematics of various clocks.
Reviewer: Danielle J. Ford
(4)
K-3
Presenting Gutenberg's contribution to printing, as well as considerable information about Chinese and Korean printing before his press, this account is packed with accurate details, such as how parchment is made and how type is poured. Informative captioned illustrations in watercolor strengthen the explanations, which are fairly complex and contrast with the breezy beginning and end of the volume.
Reviewer: Frieda F. Bostian
(3)
K-3
This concise chronological account covers the pre-Baroque period all the way to contemporary jazz and computer-controlled synthesized orchestras. For each historical period, a standard-bearer composer is discussed, while detailed illustrations of musicians playing period instruments are employed to introduce all the instrument families in the modern orchestra.
Reviewer: Daniel Brabander
3 reviews
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