Rock Music - Rap Music - Future Music - Music Therapy
Hip Hop - New Music - Old Music - Live Music
RRP $18.99
In the Mouldy Series of books for humorous children, Ant, his bossy sister Emma who calls herself M For Madwoman and his pesky little brother, Old Dan, learn to get along with one another. This is what Ant has to say about the book "Rotten, Mouldy, Music": - "My big sister Emma's studying 'Enterprise'. No one knows what enterprise is or where you can get some. They told her at Enterprise that adults choose the books children have got to read. Em says that's our problem: we need to sell this book to the adults who buy the books kids have got to like. The first rule of Enterprise is that I have to tell you I wasn't always this successful and I used to live on a trailer park. I asked Em if we ever lived in any kind of park, but she says to skip that part and she told me that I'm not successful at anything. Next I have to say what your problem is and how this book will solve your problem. So, your problem is, this is the book you need to buy but you don't know it yet. You can solve your problem by buying this book. The benefits are, you are going to learn a lot of neat things, like how to spell important words that don't exist and how to spell stupid words that the Guvermnt says we've got to learn, like 'anchor', which is a word no one ever uses. A boy in my class at school, called Daniel Withers, says that's where he disagrees with the Guvermnt. Yes Emma, he said it just like that. He said, "That's where I disagree with the Guvermnt." No, Em, I don't know how he spells it, but he said we should have to learn very useful words, like, however it is you spell 'Guvermnt' and how to spell 'thingy'. Bonus Material Now I have to give you what Em calls, "YOUR FREE BONUS." This is very important new stuff I don't normally tell anyone. In America you say that horrible things are moldy. You say to your mom, "Mom, this music is moldy." But as soon as you get off the aeroplane in London, you've got to start calling her Mum and say mouldy. Then, driving along, you can't say, "I'm super excited to be on this black top highway!" Say instead, "How jolly interesting to drive on a motorway and notice an anchor in the central reservation." So that's the benefits for adults. Now what about kids? Well kids, you are going to learn about sibling rivalry. (That's me and Dan versus Emma.) Then you will read about siblings without rivalry. (That's me and Dan versus Emma.) Obviously, it's also about families, because we've got to include my Mum, Mom, mother, who is the anchor of our family." What all this means is, you need to buy the book.
RRP $32.99
I grew up on the tales I heard around my Grandma Frank's kitchen, of life in Kentucky, as told by my mother, Nora, Aunt Lucille, Aunt Annie, Cousin Etta and Grandma. They told ghost stories about Indian princesses and big stallions, funny stories about the big ol' sway back white horse, Dollar. Scary stories, told by the kids as they walked to school, about the wolves following them on the edge of the woods. They fed them biscuits from their shortening can lunch buckets, thinking they were dogs. Stories of fireballs racing through the house at night. Little people, romance, magic, herbs, medicine men and women, witches and Indian kidnappings. I didn't want these stories to be forgotten so I wrote 'The Cumberland Witch' for my grandchildren. But there were so many stories that I couldn't fit into the novel that I began a sequel, 'Cumberland Music'. I named the heroine Music for the 105-year-od midwife that delivered my father in 1912, one week after the Titanic sank.
RRP $14.99
A fairytale in the tradition of Hans Christian Andersen – heart-warming and enchanting.
It is 1823 and the child is a loner who spends her time hiding in the Vienna Woods until she spies an old man - a music maker. And so begins an odd friendship which develops through their mutual love of music.
The man is composing a new work. It will break new ground. He fears it will be ridiculed and is aware that he is thought mad. He confides in the child, who sits for hours watching and listening as he revises and plays. She has a feeling for the music that he cannot fathom. And not only for the music, but for what he is. She knows his pain, his anger, his fear and also his gentleness. Together they give each other the courage to face their critics and dare to be different.
A tale of a song written by a man who couldn't hear for a child people thought strange. Yet the song will live forever in the heart and mind of every child where there's nurtured a love of music.
About the Author
Celeste Walters is the author of playscripts for children and adults, novels and picture story books for young readers, texts on developmental drama and the writing of eulogies, and three books of whimsical verse for all ages. She has also written five highly acclaimed novels for young adults. Anne Spudvilas is a multi-award-winning illustrator of children's books and an established portrait painter who also works as a courtroom artist for the Melbourne media.
RRP $17.99
Introducing the flippiest, flappiest, foldiest and funnest way to learn about numbers! Twirl's new series of books uses flaps to engage young readers and enhance learning. Children will love to lift the flaps to find out the animals and things that represent the numbers 1 through 10 - and even 20! Counting has never been this much fun!
RRP $16.99
An excerpt from the INTRODUCTION.
1. Sound is the effect on the ear of a wavelike (undulatory) motion of an elastic medium, caused by the vibrations of an elastic body.
2. When the vibrations occur at regular intervals, and the waves are therefore of equal length, amusical sound is produced.
3. Musical sounds differ from each other (independently of their duration) inintensity, character and pitch, - determined respectively by theextent, form, and frequency of the vibrations.
4. Intensity, which depends on the extent of the vibrations, regulates the loudness or softness of a sound.
5. Character, which is also called quality or complexion (Frenchtimbre, 'stamp'; German klangfarbe, 'sound-tint'), has already been said to depend on the form of the vibrations. Difference in character enables us to distinguish between voices and instruments, different kinds of voices, and different kinds of instruments.
6. The human voice may be divided into two classes, each of which may again be subdivided, as follows:-
1. Female or high voices (including those of children of both sexes):-
Soprano or Treble, the highest; Mezzo-soprano, the intermediate;Contralto, the lowest.
2. Male or low voices:- Alto or Countertenor, an exceptionallyhigh voice; Tenor, the highest ordinary voice; Barytone, the intermediate; Bass, the lowest. The terms 'contralto,' 'alto,' and 'countertenor,' are used somewhat vaguely, all three being applied to voices of the same range. 'Contralto' is generally used of a female voice, 'countertenor' of a male, 'alto' being sometimes inaccurately applied to either.
The names of the voices are thus derived:-
1. Bass, Low Latin bassus, 'broad.'
2. Barytone, 'heavy,' 'deep,' 'a tone.'
3. Tenor, Latin teneo, 'I hold': so called because it formerly held the principal melody when sung by men. This was calledcantus, or canto, when sung by boys or women.
4. Countertenor, Latin contra tenorem, answering to the tenor.
5. Alto, Latin altus, ' high.'
6. Contralto, Latin contra altum, answering to the alto.
7. Mezzo-soprano, Latin medius, 'middle,' and Low Latin superanus, 'high.'
8. Soprano, Low Latin superanus, 'high.'
9. Treble, Latin triplex, 'triple': so called, either as applied to the third (i. e.the highest) octave of the vocal register, or as being formerly the third (i. e.the highest) part in part-singing.
Search
Sauce Music Articles
| Rock Music | Rap Music | Future Music | Music Therapy |
| Hip Hop | New Music | Old Music | Live Music |
Sauce Music Books
| Rock Music | Rap Music | Future Music | Music Therapy |
| Hip Hop | New Music | Old Music | Live Music |