Resources Available to Support 
K-5 Music Units

Books:
Aaron Copland- by Mike Venezia (Children’s Press)
Bach’s Big Adventure-by Sally Ketcham (Orchard Books)
Bach- Famous Children Series, by Ann Rachlin (Fun With Music Pub.) Beethoven- Famous Children Series, by Ann Rachlin (Fun With Music Pub.)
Beethoven Lives Upstairs*- by Barbara Nichol (Orchard Books)
Brahms- Famous Children Series, by Ann Rachlin (Fun With Music Pub.)
Chopin- Famous Children Series, by Ann Rachlin (Fun With Music Pub.)
Franz Joseph Haydn- by Carol Greene (A Rookie Biography)
If I Only Had a Horn-the story of young Louis Armstrong, by Roxane Orgill (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
I Wonder Why Flutes Have Holes?-by Josephine Paker (Kingfisher)
Igor Stravinsky- by Mike Venezia (Children’s Press)
Introducing Mozart- by Roland Vernon (Silver Burdett Press)
Her Piano Sang-A story about Clara Schumann, by Barbara Allman (Carolrhoda Books)
Johann Sebastian Bach- by Carol Greene (A Rookie Biography)
Ludwig Van Beethoven- by Mike Venezia (Children’s Press)
Meet the Orchestra-by Ann Hayes (Voyager Books)
Mozart- Famous Children Series, by Ann Rachlin (Fun With Music Pub.) Mozart Tonight- by Julie Downing (Aladdin Books)
Musical Instruments From A to Z-by Bobbie Kalman (Crabtree)
Schubert- Famous Children Series, by Ann Rachlin (Fun With Music Pub.)
Strings-An Introduction to Musical Instruments-by Dee Lillegard (Children’s Press)
Tchaikovsky- Famous Children Series, by Ann Rachlin (Fun With Music Pub.)
Tchaikovsky Discovers America*- by Esther Kalman. (Orchard Books)
The Magic Flute- Retold by Anne Gatti (Audio CD included) (Chronicle Books)
The Orchestra-byMark Rubin and Alan Daniel (Firefly Books)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart- by Carol Greene (A Rookie Biography)
Young Mozart- by Rachel Isadora (Viking Pub.)
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin-by Lloyd Moss (Simon and Schuster)

Cassettes/CDs
Beethoven Lives Upstairs*- CD/cassette portraying life and music of Beethoven.
Bizet’s Dream*- CD/cassette
Hallelujah Handel!*- CD/cassette
Mozart’s Magic Fantasy*-CD/cassette/teacher’s manual- leads students through a journey of "The Magic Flute."
Mr. Bach Comes to Call*- CD/cassette
Tchaikovsky Discovers America*- CD/cassette
Vivaldi’s Ring of Mystery*- CD/cassette

Videos
Amazing Music, Vol. 3, Families of the Orchestra-performed by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Dallas Symphony Assoc., Inc.)
Bach's Fight for Freedom*-(Sony Classical Film and Video)
Beethoven Lives Upstairs*-video (The Children’s Group)
Berlioz the Bear-(Reading Rainbow)
Bizet’s Dream*- (Sony Classical Film and Video)
Handel's Last Chance*-(Sony Classical Film and Video)
Liszt's Rhapsody*-(Sony Classical Film and Video)
Mozart's The Magic Flute Story-(Children's Cultural Collection)-story narrated in English, songs sung in German
Rossini's Ghost*-(Sony Classical Film and Video)
Strauss:The King of Three-Quarter Time*-(Sony Classical Film and Video)
Zin, Zin, Zin, A Violin-(Reading Rainbow)
*Combines fiction and history

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