"How do woodwind instruments blow beautiful ballads? With flowing air, reeds, and Tuneful Tubes! Includes glossary, critical thinking questions, and sheet music"--
Introduces sound and how it is made, explaining how sound waves travel through the air, and includes activities to help readers understand how to make sound.
With over 90 000 entries in alphabetical order, this crossword dictionary is a comprehensive yet easy to use reference with material from a wide range of sources.
Lavishly illustrated, Exploring Music: The Science and Technology of Tones and Tunes explains in a nonmathematical way the underlying science of music, musical instruments, tones, and tunes. The author explores the magical quality and science of music, facilitating pleasure and the understanding in both young and older readers. Based primarily on the highly successful series of Christmas lectures given by the author in 1989-1990 at the Royal Institution, this book contains an expanded version of what he demonstrated to live audiences in excess of 2,000 as well as over 10 million television viewers.