music

A guide to preparing for the Advanced Placement exam in music theory, featuring in-depth review of all topics, test-taking tips, and two full-length practice tests with explained answers.

Eleven-year-old April must come to terms with the sudden death of her best friend, Zee.

Eleven-year-old Bo is used to it being just her and her mom in their cozy New York apartment, but when her mom gets married, Bo must adjust to her new sisters and a music-minded blended family that is much larger, louder, and more complex than she ever imagined.

Text and illustrations present fifty things the reader should know about music.

"Nearly all of us have the capacity to enjoy classical music but too often we are put off by not knowing where to look, or what we are actually looking for. We feel the need of a guide to help navigate such vast and varied artistic terrain. With this delightful book, historian Tim Bouverie provides just this. Drawing on his lifelong passion for music, he has created a compilation of 100 classical masterpieces sure to move and be enjoyed by almost anyone. He provides a short introduction to each piece--variously anecdotal, personal, historical and quirky--and a recommended recording to try. Highly accessible and entertaining, Perfect Pitch is filled with engrossing stories and insights that bring to life 300 years of the world's greatest music"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the most effective way to train the brain and body to learn to play an instrument and discusses whether people have or need to be born with musical ability.

Scientist and musician John Powell explores decades of psychological and sociological studies in order to understand why music affects us so profoundly.

Maurice loved to share his music with everyone, and the crowds loved him, but times changed, his audience drifted away, and without anyone to share with Maurice became sad and lonely--until one day, his heart remembered and he found a new audience.

In 1905 North Dakota, eleven-year-old Russian immigrant Shoshana is bullied for being Jewish, but after listening to the music of her homeland, she is reminded of the resilience and traditions her people have brought all the way to the prairie.