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Be an eyewitness to the creation of music in all its forms and the amazing variety of instruments -- from zithers and pan pipes to electric guitars and synthesizers. See why most violin players require frogs. Find out about the ripples of sound created using a drum. Discover what an oboe and a snake charmer's vegetable gourd have in common.

Text and pictures introduce musical instruments from early times to the present--from pipes and flutes to electronic synthesizers.

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Be an eyewitness to the creation of music in all its forms and the amazing variety of instruments -- from zithers and pan pipes to electric guitars and synthesizers. See why most violin players require frogs. Find out about the ripples of sound created using a drum. Discover what an oboe and a snake charmer's vegetable gourd have in common.

Text and pictures introduce musical instruments from early times to the present--from pipes and flutes to electronic synthesizers.

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Gr 4-7-- Four more subject-surveys, in a handsome picture series, that will catch youthful imaginations with their wide-ranging selections of fascinating items, beautifully photographed. Topics are developed in two- to four-page groupings, with cross-references and an index--and browsers will find themselves caught and drawn into the flow. Music traces families of instruments and discusses the physics of sound with diagrams and cut-aways. From a 40,000-year-old bone whistle to components of an electric guitar, there are wonderful photos of ancient harps, bagpipes, pianos, and oriental instruments. Shell prods children to think about cases, whether egg, husk, or skull, but deals mostly with mollusks, urchins, and crustaceans. Early Humans shows early human fossils, and pictures selective topics (e.g., art, magic, tools, writing) for the human family up through the Iron Age. Examples come from Africa, Europe, the Americas, early China, the Near East, and Australia. Mammal explores that class in terms of its attributes, evolution, and variety of adapted forms. Photos of the bones of a seal's flipper, an elephant's foot, a panda's jaw, and a close-up of a whale's baleen are sure to appeal to children. While scale is infrequently given, relative sizes of objects are usually clear. A good source for often-asked-for and hard-to-find illustrations, this series could find a place in any library. --Ruth M. McConnell, San Antonio Pub . Lib .

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780756607098
  • Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
  • Publication date: 8/1/2004
  • Pages: 72
  • Sales rank: 127,393
  • Age range: 10 - 13 Years
  • Series: DK Eyewitness Books Series
  • Product dimensions: 8.85 (w) x 11.34 (h) x 0.46 (d)

Table of Contents

Seeing sound 6
Wind tunnels 8
Pipes and flutes 10
Vibrating reeds 12
Long-lasting hybrids 14
Bags of sound 16
Piped music 18
Beginning of brass 20
Blazing brass 22
Curly horns and big tubas 24
Breaking the silence 26
Early and unusual strings 28
The violin family 30
Making a violin 32
Harps and lyres 34
From pears to whole fishes 36
From gourd to board 38
Indian string 40
Creating a guitar 42
Keynotes 44
Grand and upright 46
Musical impact 48
Rhythm and ritual 50
On the beat 52
Appeal of percussion 54
Clang, crash, bang 56
Electrifying music 58
Rock guitars 60
Machine music 62
Did you know? 64
Who's who 66
Find out more 68
Glossary 70
Index 72

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