Reading List

Books:

• All About Sound: The Question & Answer Book by David Knight (Troll Associates)
• Beethoven Lives Upstairs by Barbara Nichol
• Ben's Trumpet by Rachel Isadora
• Composers Since 1900: A Biographical and Critical Guide by David Ewen
• The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt by Patricia MacLachlan
• Great Composers by Piero Ventura
• Handel and the Famous Sword Swallower of Halle by Bryna Stevens
• The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel
• How Music Came to the World by Hal Ober
• I Can Be a Musician by Rebecca Hankin
• Jazz: My Music, My People by Morgan Monceaux
• John Philip Sousa: The March King by Carol Greene
• Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times...And What the Neighbors Thought by Kathleen Krull
• Ludwig van Beethoven by Noemi Vicini Marri
• Making Music by Arthur K. Paxton
• Making Musical Things: Improvised Instruments by Ann Sayre Wiseman
• Man's Earliest Music by Richard Carlin
• The Meaning and Magic of Music by Peter Gammond
• Meet the Orchestra by Ann Hayes
• Mozart: Scenes From the Childhood of the Great Composer by Catherine Brighton
• Mozart Tonight by Julie Downing
• Mozart: Young Music Genius by Francene Sabin (Troll Associates)
• Music by Neil Ardley
• Music by Carol Greene
• Music by Ted Greenwald
• Music by Laurence Santry (Troll Associates)
• Music, an Illustrated Encyclopedia by Neil Ardley
• Music and Sound by Mark Pettigrew
• Music: Careers Without College by P. Schmidt
• Music in the Wood by C. Cornelissen
• Music Through Children's Literature: Theme & Variations by D. Levene
• Musical Discoveries: Kendra and Friends Uncover a Musical Mystery (National Grammy
• Concert Series for Children) by Julia Fraser
• Musical Instruments by G. Jeunesse
• Musical Instruments (Cassell's Styles in Art) by Sergio Paganelli (Cassell Publishers Limited)
• Musical Instruments of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia - Diagram Group
• Musicians by Peggy Roalf
• Nate the Great and the Musical Note by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat and Craig Sharmat
• Pet of the Met by Don and Lydia Freeman
• The Philharmonic Gets Dressed by Karla Kuskin
• The Science Book of Sound by Neil Ardley
• The Science of Music by Melvin Berger
• Sound and Music by Neil Ardley
• Sound Waves to Music by Neil Ardley
• Van Cliburn by Howard Reich
• A Young Person's Guide to Music by Neil Ardley (this includes a CD)
• Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss

Series:

Famous Children

• Bach
• Beethoven
• Brahms
• Chopin
• Haydn
• Mozart
• Schubert
• Schumann
• Tchaikovsky

Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers

• Aaron Copland
• Duke Ellington
• George Gershwin

Other Media Types:

• CD Rom:
• Beethoven Lives Upstairs
• Beethoven's 5th
• Composer Quest
• The Music Game
• Musical Instruments
• The Musical World of Professor Piccolo
• CD Rom Encyclopedias