musical instruments

Photographs and simple text written in both English and Spanish describe how different families of instruments such as strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion make music.

Contains an introduction to making music, in simple text with illustrations, including an explanation of what music is, with descriptions of a variety of different instruments and the sounds they make.

Introduces four categories of instruments: string, woodwind, brass, and percussion, and their inter-relationship in an orchestra.

Mrs. Frizzle's class learns how sound is made when they spend the night in a haunted sound museum.

Text and pictures introduce musical instruments from early times to the present--from pipes and flutes to electronic synthesizers.

This handbook, divided into two sections, contains individual entries on instruments or families of instruments and essays on the chronological development and rise and fall of instruments over the centuries.

Introducing words such as cymbal, drum, bell, xylophone, guitar, and tambourine, this book describes activities to make music.

This book takes the reader on a tour of music and musical instruments from all over the world, from the ancient zithers of the East to the latest in synthesizer technology.