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1) Music
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes some of the many different types of instruments made throughout history, and discusses their construction and sound. Includes photographs.
Author
Language
English
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"This book presents the authentic stories of American DIY music, with step-by-step projects, photo studies of antique instruments, interviews with music legends, and historical accounts. Shane Speal, the King of the Cigar Box Guitar, shows how anyone can build amazing musical instruments from found items"--
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Series
Language
English
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This first comprehensive history of musical instruments, this book ranges from prehistoric times to the 20th century. It traverses five continents and every stage of evolution, from primitive rattles and bull-roarers to the electric organ. Author Curt Sachs, one of the world's most distinguished musicologists, combines rich scholarship with personal insight in a remarkable fusion of music, anthropology, and the fine arts. Beginning with the earliest...
8) Clarinets
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
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Description
Simple text describes clarinets, how they work, and how they are played.
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Language
English
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"This is a book of easy-to-build, low-or-no-cost musical instruments that con be constructed by children under adult supervision, or,in some cases, by older kids without supervision. Examples of the instruments include washtub bass, driftwood marimba, thumb piano, bucket drums, and flowerpot bells: simple stuff, but stuff kids can have fun with."--T.p. verso.
10) Play this book
Author
Language
English
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Description
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to try various instruments and join a band.
11) We play music!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simple text and photographs introduce different musical instruments.
Author
Language
English
Description
This interesting and authoritative book includes essential facts about the various forms of Japanese music and musical instruments and their place in the overall history of Japan. Japanese Music and Musical Instruments has three main orientations: The history of Japanese music Construction of the instruments Analysis of the music itself. The book covers in a lucidly written text and a wealth of fascinating photographs and drawings the main forms of...
13) Drums
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Briefly describes simple drums and how they are made and played.
14) 88 instruments
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 410L
Language
English
Description
"A little boy can't choose which instrument to play, so he decides to try them all"--
16) Violins
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simple text describes violins, how they are made, and how they are played.
17) Musical ABC
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
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Description
"An alligator with an accordion! A bunny with a banjo! Strum, clap, and tap your way through the alphabet of instruments and the animals who play them!"--Back cover.
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Series
Language
English
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The Keyboard Player's Chord Bible is designed for beginner and intermediate musicians looking to understand, improve, and experiment with chords. In this book, you can explore new and exciting sounds that you may have come across in existing pieces of music, or simply add to your repertoire for performing and composing. This is a great reference book that you can go to when you find a chord in a piece of music that you haven't met before. Also includes...
19) Flutes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simple text briefly describes flutes, how certain kinds differ, and how they are played.
20) Satan's guitar
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English
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Right or wrong, left or right, should I, or shouldn't I? Every minute of every day, people make decisions that will change the course of their lives. Usually, the course change is small and insignificant. Sometimes it is profound. Not only does it affect the person making the decision, but it also alters the path of everyone around them. Satan's Guitar offers the most crucial decision ever, Good or Evil? When a number of players decide to take advantage...
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