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REFERENCE BOOKS  

For Children and Adults

Children’s Reference:

From Metal to Music   Wendy David

Large print and wonderful color photographs are used to describe the steps in making trumpets, tubas and other horns.  From the mining of the ore to the shaping of the finished product, the reader is brought into the picture.

      0685   paperback   Grades 2-5    32pp      $6.95 

I Wonder Why Flutes Have Holes   Josephine Parker

Answers many questions about music.

      5835   Hardcover   Grades preK-4   32pp    $11.95 

Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum Joanna Cole

Learn all about sound as you travel through this haunted museum.

      4125   paperback   Grades K-3    32pp         $3.50 

Music Eyewitness Books   Neil Ardley

Discover how music is made from the most primitive to the most modern instruments.  Like a mini-museum between the covers of a book.

      8284   Hardcover   Grades 4-up   64pp       $15.95 

Music and Dance   Neil Morris and Fiona MacDonald

Celebration of cultures showing musical instruments, traditional forms of dance and costumes from around the world.

      2499   paperback   Grades 1-7     40pp    $8.95 

Music of the W orld

Barron’s music of world cultures from antiquity to present day.

      1355   Hardcover   Grades 5-12   64pp   $14.95 

Musical Instruments from A to Z   Bobbie Kalman

Easy-to-read introduction to instruments, their history and how they are played.

      4088   paperback   Grades 1-4   32pp     $7.95 

      3954    Hardcover                                    $16.10 

Music of the World  Eyewitness   Neil Ardley

Photos and short text, it’s almost like browsing through a museum of world music.

      8284   Hardcover   Grades 4-8   64pp   $25.95 

Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra  Anita Ganeri

Benjamin Britten’s composition on CD narrated by Ben Kingsley, introduces families of instruments.  The inspiring book with color photographs complements the CD giving more detailed information.

      3040  Hardcover w/CD   Grades 3-up  56pp  $25.00 

Adult Reference:

Didgeridoo:  Ritual Origins and Playing Techniques Dirk Schellberg

All you need to start playing the didgeridoo

      7130   paperback   all ages     144pp        $12.95 

Joy of Drumming:  Drums and Percussion  Tom Klower

Commentary on drums and percussion instruments from around the world.

      7319   paperback   all ages     202 pp     $16.95 

Singing Bowls: a Practical Handbook   Eva Rudy Jansen

Explains the singing bowls and the sounds they make.

      7017   paperback   Grades s7-up   110pp   $12.95 

Drumming books by Alan Dworsky and Betsy Sansby:

   Each is a large paperback with CD included, price of each $24.95:

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