Oxford First Companion to Composers and Their Music
by Kenneth McLeish
The Healing Drumbeat
by Scott Wood and Jessie Taken Alive - Rencountre
Help your child learn about great musicians with this fact-packed guide, clip-art CD, giant wallchart and dedicated website From how modern artists like Jim Hendrix transformed music, to the great composers like Beethoven: let your child discover all about the genius of the world’s best musicians through the centuries. They’ll discover more browsing the dedicated Eyewitness website and downloading 100s of amazing images from the clip-art CD. Then use the giant pull-out wallchart to decorate t...
GETTING TO KNOW THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMPOSERS:THE BEATLES
by Venezia and Mike
The author/illustrator of the highly successful Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series lends his creative talents to another fun, informative series, this one featuring world-famous composers.
Swingers and Crooners (Art of Jazz) (Art of Jazz S.)
by Leslie Gourse
Describes the lives of notable jazz singers, traces their influence on one another, and investigates the impact of different innovators on the development of jazz music.
Deep Down in Music (Art of Jazz) (Art of Jazz S.)
by Leslie Gourse
Presents the lives and artistry of notable jazz bassists, traces their influence on one another, and investigates the impact of various innovations on the development of jazz music.
Discusses the role of drumming in jazz and surveys some of the greatest jazz drummers in history, from Warren Baby Dodds and Arthur Zutty Singleton to Tony Williams and Elvin Jones.
Traces the evolution of the guitar in jazz history and profiles the world's greatest jazz guitarists from the early 1900s to the present.
Introduces some of the most famous jazz horn players, focusing on trumpet and saxophone players.
This bilingual book allows young readers to enter Celia Cruz's life as she becomes a well-known singer in her homeland of Cuba, then moves to New York City and Miami where she and others create a new type of music called salsa. School Library Journal has named My Name is Celia "[a]n exuberant picture-book biography ...a brilliant introduction to a significant woman and her music."
With the passion of a poet and the knowledge of a historian, Nikki Giovanni tells the story of Africans in America through the glorious words of spirituals. Ever since she was a little girl attending three different churches, poet Nikki Giovanni has loved the spirituals. With the passion of a poet and the knowledge of a historian, she paints compelling portraits of the lives of her ancestors through the words of songs such as "Go Down, Moses" and "Ain’t Got Time to Die," celebrating a people wh...
"Read about the music, stars, clothes, contracts, and world of reggae music"--Provided by publisher.
"Read about the music, stars, clothes, contracts, and world of Latin music"--Provided by publisher.
Black Achievements in Music (Black Excellence Project (Read Woke (Tm) Books))
by Elliott Smith
The History of Salt With Observations on the Geographical Distribution, Geological Formation, and Medicinal and Dietetic Properties
by Edw Le Rice
Preschool Theme Boxes, Grades Preschool - Pk
by Kelly Gunzenhauser and Melissa Fisch
50 Things You Should Know about Music (50 Things You Should Know about)
by Rob Baker