orchestra

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orchestra

Tubby the tuba

2006
With some help from a frog, Tubby the Tuba shows the orchestra that tubas can play melodies as well as other instruments, and contains a CD of the author's performance with full orchestration.

Second fiddle

a Sizzle & Splat mystery
1988
Two members of the Pirelli Youth Orchestra find their lives in danger when they try to find the practical joker whose string of pranks includes destroying a $250,000 violin.

The story of the orchestra

listen while you learn about the instruments, the music, and the composers who wrote the music
2001

Keyboard instruments & ensembles

2001
Presents an illustrated introduction to keyboard instruments and ensembles, looking at the clavichord, harpsichord, virginal, spinet, piano, organ, and other miscellaneous keyboards; and discussing chamber ensembles, the early orchestra, the modern orchestra, and orchestra music composition.

The orchestra

an introduction to the world of classical music
1993
Traces the history of the orchestra and discusses the musical instruments that make up the various orchestral families.

Meet the orchestra

Describes the features, sounds, and role of each musical instrument in the orchestra.

A young person's guide to music

1995
An interactive book designed to be used with accompanying CD, follows the development of a concerto, while studying the orchestra and each of its sections.

The young person's guide to the orchestra

Benjamin Britten's composition on CD narrated by Ben Kingsley
1996
Provides information about the history of the orchestra since its beginnings in the seventeenth century, instruments of the orchestra, and famous composers of classical music.

You can't be timid with a trumpet

notes from the orchestra
1980
A well-known conductor and seventeen men and women from nine well-known orchestras discuss their individual instruments.

The Scribner guide to orchestral instruments

1983
Introduces the various musical instruments of the symphony orchestra.

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