music

Introduces rhythm, melody, form, instruments, music history, and dance through a variety of folk songs, rhythmic poems, and stories with musical themes.

Explores the history of Latin music in America. Discusses various musical styles, common musical instruments, famous artists and groups past and present, popular dances, and hit songs. Includes sample playlists, artists' quotes, color photographs, a glossary of terms, a timeline, biographical sketches, award lists, and further resources.

Eighteen-year-old Anthem rebels against the Corp's addictive, mind-altering music by singing in an illegal underground band, but defying the Corp comes at a deadly price when they come after Anthem's family.

Explores American music during the colonial and revolutionary time periods. Describes the types of music enjoyed in each region of America and its ethnic roots.

Over the course of a year, thirteen-year-old Allegra Katz, a student at the demanding Julliard School and the daughter of two musicians, tries to decide whether she wants to continue to pursue a career as a concert pianist or to do something else with her life.

Contains band profiles, origins of band names, and thirty unique categories of types of band names for the music lover and pop-culture fan. Also offers some little-known trivia and dynamic images.

Describes the importance and history of music, which has long provided the soundtrack to social, political, and cultural change in the world.

In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.

A biography of the Japanese violin teacher who developed the Suzuki Method, a way of teaching children how to play certain instruments at a very early age.

Presents instructions for reading classical, popular, folk, and jazz music, with a musical dictionary, note directory, and directory of musical signs.