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"Justin Bieber has risen from being a star of YouTube videos to being an international singing sensation in just a few shorts years.

Explores what music is and how it is made, describing various kinds of instruments, and how technology has influenced music over the decades.

Melancholy because he and his children have lost their music in a world filled with nasty noise, Gustav Mole circles the globe and seeks to retrieve his music among a host of animals playing many different kinds of instruments.

Kai-Lan and her friends learn to play instruments so they can form a band and Tolee has a difficult time thinking of lyrics for their songs.

Guide with complete instructions for making musical instruments, costumes, musical games, and how to read and compose music.

Suggests activities demonstrating how variations in the creation of sound can create musical tones for the human ear and why musical instruments produce sound.

Presents the science of sound and music, including how sound is made, how the ear hears sounds, and how different musical instruments are made.

A baby mole born into a musical family begins a lifetime of learning pleasure along with his animal friends.

Presents color-illustrated profiles of musical instruments from around the world, arranged by family, describing their origins, evolutions, and how they are played; and also provides a history of music-making itself, discussions of the most famous players, and a guide to famous orchestras and concert halls.

Explains the physical dynamics of musical instruments' creation of sound, covering vibrating systems, sound waves, and string, wind, and percussion instruments.

Contains an introduction to making music, in simple text with illustrations, including an explanation of what music is, with descriptions of a variety of different instruments and the sounds they make.

Photographs and simple text written in both English and Spanish describe how different families of instruments such as strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion make music.

A comprehensive overview of the orchestra that profiles the string, woodwind, horn, heavy brass, and timpani and percussion sections as well as keyboards and other instruments.