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Kids Make Music! : Clapping & Tapping from Bach to Rock! (A Williamson Kids Can! Book)
Author: Avery Hart, Paul Mantell, Loretta Trezzo Braren
Discription: You don't need to have any special training or own an instrument to make music with kid-loving music makers Avery Hart and Paul Mantell. Kids everywhere will be doing the "Dinosaur Dance," singing the "Dishwashin' Blues," belting out "Jug Band" and learning to "Tap Dance." Those hands will be clapping, those feet will be tapping, and those faces will be grinning.
Grade Level: K-3
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Arts/Music/MUS0004.html
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Meet The Orchestra
Author: Ann Hayes
Description: In this "smashing introduction to classical music" (Publishers Weekly), lyrical descriptions of the instruments and their sounds--and an amazing menagerie of musicians--introduce readers to the orchestra.
Grade Level: K-3
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Musical Instruments from A to Z
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Description: B is for banjo. Z is for zeze. Using an unusual question and answer format, this easy-to-read introduction to music showcases a broad assortment of instruments explaining their history and how they are played.
Grade Level: K-3
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The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
Author: Karla Kuskin
Description: The 105 members of the Philharmonic Orchestra get ready for a performance. This book focuses on how the musicians prepare for their evening at work. The illustrations are charming and full of the personality of each individual musician depicted. This book does a wonderful job of showing that the "show" is not the only thing, and that many hours of preparation go into getting ready for work!
Grade Level: K-3
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The Maestro Plays
Author: Vladimir Radunsky
Description: The Maestro plays. He plays proudly. He plays Loudly. The text continues with page after page of rhyming adverbs that creatively describe the style of the clown maestro as he plays fourteen different instruments.
Grade Level: K-3
Activity:
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Zin! Zin! Zin! : A Violin
Author: Lloyd Moss
Description: Pleasantly alliterative verse effectively introduces the sound and soul of ten orchestral instruments. The subtle counting game simultaneously acquaints listeners with numerical groupings from solo through the obscure nonet and encourages appreciation for the orchestra. Breezy, colorful gouache illustrations capture the nuances of instrument and rhyme.
Grade Level: (K-4)
Activity:
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lessons/lesson7/PFAa1_A.htm |
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Max Found Two Sticks
Author: Brian Pinkney
Description: On a day when Max prefers his own company to that of others, he finds two twigs that make a perfect pair of drumsticks and dedicates himself to using them to express himself with rhythm, rather than speech. Superb illustrations convey the details of urban life and capture the inherent quality of restlessness in Max's activities as well as the sense of renewal he achieves through making music.
Grade Level: 1-4
Activity:
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Arts/Music/MUS0006.html |
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Lives of the Musicians : Good Times, Bad Times (And What the Neighbors Thought)
Author: Kathleen Krull
Description: The inside stories on 20 famous musicians--Vivaldi, Mozart, Scott Joplin, Nadia Boulanger, Woody Guthrie and others--are presented in fascinating and often humorous detail. Krull covers both their musical natures and personal characteristics. Full-color caricatures bring each musician vividly to life.
Grade Level: 4-5
Activity:
http://www.musicnotes.net/sc.html |
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101 Music Games for Children: Fun and Learning With Rhythm and Song (Smartfun Books)
Author: Ger Storms
Description: A collection of more than one hundred melodic amusements, rhythmic routines, and philharmonic fun and games for parents, teachers, scout leaders, or anyone wishing to utilize the wonderful medium of music to elicit creativity and encourage learning among young people.
Grade Level: (K-5)
Activity:
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Poems That Sing To You
Author: Michael R. Stricktland
Description: The fifty selected poems, written by Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, and Walt Whitman, among many others, include song lyrics, verses about dance and musical instruments, and poems about the musicians themselves. Decorated with strong black-and-white line drawings, the collection offers an insightful and rousing view of the relationship between poetry and music.
Grade Level: 4-5
Activity:
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