Becoming Bach By Tom Leonard
For Johann Sebastian there was always music. His family had been musicians or bachs as they were called in Germany, for 200 years. He always wanted to be a bach…This is the story of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Beethoven Lives Upstairs By Barbara Nichol
Correspondence between a young boy and his music-student uncle chronicles the upheaval in Christoph’s household caused by the arrival of an eccentric, difficult, and deaf composer, Ludwig van Beethoven, the new upstairs tenant.
Dancing Hands By Margarita Engle And Rafael López
The story of Teresa Carreño, a child prodigy who played piano for Abraham Lincoln.
Do-Re-Me By Susan Roth
If you can read musical notes, you can sing any song or play any piece. But musical notes have not always been here. Long ago, songs were memorized. If songs were forgotten, they were lost forever. Thanks to one man, Guido d’Arezzo, music now can last forever.
Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue By Anna Harwell Celenza
George Gershwin only has a few weeks to compose a concerto. His piece is supposed to exemplify American music and premiere at a concert entitled “An Experiment in Modern Music.” Homesick for New York while rehearsing for a musical in Boston, he soon realizes that American music is much like its people, a great melting pot of sounds, rhythms, and harmonies. JoAnn Kitchel’s illustrations capture the 1920s in all their art-deco majesty.
King Of Ragtime: The Story Of Scott Joplin By Stephen Costanza
A stunning, rhythmic picture book biography of African American composer Scott Joplin, whose ragtime music paved the way for jazz.
Mozart Finds A Melody By Stephen Costanza
For the first time in Wolfgang’s life, the famous composer was at a loss for a tune. He tried every trick to get his imagination going. He sang standing on his head. He played his violin in the bathtub. He even threw darts at the blank music paper. Alas, nothing worked.
Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum By Robert Andrew Parker
Regardless of whether they’ve heard of jazz or Art Tatum, young readers will appreciate how Parker uses simple, lyrical storytelling and colorful, energetic ink-and-wash illustrations to show the world as young Art Tatum might have seen it. Tatum came from modest beginnings and was nearly blind, but his passion for the piano and his acute memory for any sound that he heard drove him to become a virtuoso who was revered by both classical and jazz pianists alike.
Polly And The Piano By Carol Montparker
A beautifully narrated and illustrated story, Polly and the Piano is based upon the true-life-loving relationship between the pianist-author and her dog, Polly.
Crumpet the Trumpet by Kristine Papillon
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