The Oxford First Companion to Music is the first comprehensive music book for children under thirteen. Some of its special features are: * Content arranged by topic so that is can be read for interest as well as used for reference * "More about" boxes, referring to pages on related topics, to help with looking up facts * Numerous photographs and line drawings in full color, especially chosen to be informative rather than merely decorative * Over 50 short music examples, many easy enough to be picked out on a recorder or piano * Covers all kinds of music including music of the Far East and Africa as well as pop and jazz * Suggestions for music to listen to, a reminder that music is not just facts but an aural experience This is a book for all children who want to find out more about the music they enjoy through records, radio, television, or playing instruments.

The Oxford First Companion to Music

McLeish, Valerie

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

Music Round the World includes information on African, West Indian, Indian, and Far Eastern music, the theatre, musicals, jazz and pop.

McLeish, Kenneth

Reference

Oxford University Press Music

A colourful, large-format music information book for 9-13 year olds arranged by topic and suitable for classroom project work. The five sections of the book are also available separately.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The Story of Music covers includes music from the time of ancient Egypt, through the middle ages, Renaissance, and baroque, to the electronic music of today.

Arts, Music & Photography

Composers and their Music covers composers (alphabetically) from Bach and Bartok to Wagner and Walton-with a section on 'Wizards of the orchestra' and a 'Gallery of 20th Century Composers'.

Biographies

Contains a description of each piece of classical music and its context, the society and occasion for which it was written and a biography panel on the background of each composer. The book is designed to encourage readers to move from more popular to more obscure pieces of music.

Crucial Classics: How to Enjoy the Best Music in the World

Arts & Photography

Music

MACMILLAN PUB. LTD.

Offers brief profiles of one hundred composers, describes the major works of each individual, and suggests which pieces to listen to first

Listeners' Guide to Classical Music: An Introduction to the Great Classical Composers and Their Works

Longman Trade/Caroline House

Featuring over 500 writers and 2000 books, this guide follows the format of the "Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide", and steers the reader through the plethora of excellent crime writers. Authors are listed A-Z, and each entry summarizes the style of the writer and outlines several works. A series of cross references suggests suitable further reading and "menus" of books with related themes appear periodically throughout the book.

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Murder, Thrillers and Crime Fiction

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

The Listener's Guide to Classical Music: An Introduction to the Great Classical Composers and Their Works

Contains artistic and career profiles of 100 classical composers, and describes the features of over 1,000 works. Entries are also included for main instrument groups. A short glossary does not indicate pronunciation. No subject index. First published in England in 1986. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

G.K. Hall

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The Oxford First Companion to Music

The Oxford First Companion to Music

The Oxford First Companion to Music

The Oxford First Companion to Music

The Oxford First Companion to Music

The Oxford First Companion to Music

Crucial Classics: How to Enjoy the Best Music in the World

Listeners' Guide to Classical Music: An Introduction to the Great Classical Composers and Their Works

Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Murder, Thrillers and Crime Fiction

The Listener's Guide to Classical Music: An Introduction to the Great Classical Composers and Their Works