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1) Make music
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Can you sing a song? Can you play an instrument? This book shows, lots of ways, to make music. Which instrument would you, like to play?
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"Music doesn't come out of nothing. It always starts somewhere... with something... with someone. Discover how music is made in this survey of musical instruments from around the world. Organized by material-from wood to gourds to found objects and more-Before Music marries a lyrical core text with tons of informational material for curious readers. In the narrative text, readers will encounter makers as they source their materials and craft instruments...
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Enhanced with twenty-five audio and twenty-three video clips of expert musicians performing on rare and historical instruments, this e-book edition of Musical Instruments brings the world-renowned collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to life. Musical instruments are among the most meaningful artifacts produced by humankind, a marriage of technology, artistry, symbolism, religion, and entertainment. This title in the MFA Highlights series...
4) Pianos
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Simple text describes the parts of a piano and how it is used to make music.
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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...
6) Trumpets
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Describes the parts of a trumpet, the history of the instrument, and how it is played.
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This is an encyclopedic, large-format book containing hundreds of illustrations. While not geared toward making conventional instruments, Musical Instrument Design provides all the information that anyone (amateur or professional) should ever need to construct an amazingly wide variety of percussion, string, and wind instruments. Includes many designs along with parts lists and detailed construction instructions.
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"From Rush frontman Geddy Lee's personal collection of vintage electric bass guitars, dating from the 1950s to the 1980s, comes the definitive volume on the subject. Geddy's love of the bass has been nurtured over a lifetime spent in the limelight as one of the world's premier rock bassists. For the past seven years, he's dedicated himself to studying the history of the instrument that's been so essential to his career, collecting hundreds of basses...
9) Flutes
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Simple text briefly describes flutes, how certain kinds differ, and how they are played.
10) Drums
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Briefly describes simple drums and how they are made and played.
11) Music
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A close-up look at the world of music discusses the history of music and the development of the diverse types of wind, percussion, brass, string, and electronic instruments--from early panpipes to high-tech synthesizers.
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Science study volume S11
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Fascinating introductory text explores scientific, aesthetic aspects of musical sounds. Noted educator, physicist, and flutist covers simple and complex vibrating systems, ear's reception of sound, sound-making capacities of the piano, violin, trumpet, bugle, trombone, oboe, clarinet, flute, saxophone, many other instruments. Also, how to build a working trumpet, flute, and clarinet. Includes 76 illustrations. Bibliography.
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This extraordinarily comprehensive text, requiring no special background in physics, math or music, discusses the nature of sound waves, musical instruments, musical notation, acoustic materials, elements of sound reproduction systems - from the telephone to stereo sound systems - and electronic music. Includes 376 figures.
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This title is a terrific introduction to guitars for kids. After starting with an overview of the main parts of the guitar from tuning pegs to the bridge, the general characteristics and uses of the instrument are described. Simple, fun and informative sentences accompany photos of kids and adults playing guitars to provide an understanding of this instrument in the world of music. The title also includes a picture quiz, comprehension quiz and glossary....
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This title is a terrific introduction to pianos for kids. After starting with an overview of the main parts of a piano from hammers to pedals, the general characteristics and uses of the instrument are described. Simple, fun and informative sentences accompany photos of kids and adults playing pianos to provide an understanding of this instrument in the world of music. The title also includes a picture quiz, comprehension quiz and glossary. Super...
16) Guitars
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Simple text describes guitars, how they work, and how they are played.
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"In Drum's hometown of musical instruments, even the birds sprout miniature trumpets from their beaks. He loves his violin brother, his cello father, and his piano mother, yet secretly he feels like an outcast because he alone, among all his family and neighbors, can't play a melody. But Drum is about to discover what he was meant to do"--Front dust jacket.
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