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Title                                          Author

adult fiction           

• Antonietta                                         Hersey, John            
• Canone Inverso                              Maurensig, Paolo            
• The Soloist                                       Salzman, Mark            
• Violin                                                  Rice, Anne

 biography             

• 21st Century Violinists                   VanClay, Mary ed.             
• Composer's Fandex                       none             
• Fiddler to the World, Inspiring    Behrman, Carol             
• Lives of the Musicians                   Krull, Kathleen             
• More Stories of Composers for  Kendall, Catherine Wolff             
• Musical Prodigies                           Kenneson, Claude             
• Nadja, On my Way                         Salerno-sonnenberg, Nadja             
• Speaking in Strings                         Sonnenberg             
• Stories of Composers for               Kendall, Catherine Wolff             
• Teaching Genius                             Sand, Barbara Lourie             
• The Life and Work of                     Suzuki              
• Violin Virtuosos                             VanClay, Mary

 children             

• A  Fiddle For Angus                        Wilson, Budge             
• Anatole and the Piano                   Titus, Eve             
• Beethoven Lives Upstairs           Nichol, Barbara             
• Bramble Brown the Bear and      Merrill, Kathryn             
• Donald Plays the Violin                 Patch, Karen             
• Ferdinand & Friends/Ridout        Ridout             
• I Can Play My Violin Just as          Keith, Margaret             
• If This and That, Then What?      Butrick, Lyn McClure             
• Krissy's Violin                                  Chell, Evangeline             
• Long Live Music                               Peles, Les Chats             
• Meet the Orchestra                       Hayes, Ann             
• Mole Music                                      McPhail, David             
• Musical Life of Gustav Mole         Meyrick, Kathryn             
• Peter and the Wolf/                       Philadelphia
• Tchaikovsky Discovers America   Kalman, Esther          
• The Bat Boy and His Violin           Curtis, Gavin             
• The Cello of Mr. O                          Cutler, Jane             
• The Orchestra                                 Rubin, Mark             
• The Remarkable Farkle McBride Lithgow, John             
• The Story of Ferdinand                 Leaf, Munro             
• Twinkle, Twinkle                             O'Brien, Tim              
• Zin! in! Zin! A Violin                        Moss, Lloyd

 children/non fiction + CD             

• Music in the Wood                         Cornelissen, Cornelia

 children/ poetry             

• People of Note, A Score of           McKinney, Laurence

 children/non fiction             

• Fiddlin' Sam                                     Dengler, Marianna              
• Music                                                Santrey, Laurence             
• The Master Violinmaker               Fleisher, Paul             
• When Can I Clap Daddy?              Keith, Margaret

 children/Suzuki             

• The New PreTwinkle Book            Merrill, Kathryn;Brandt Jean

 children/tips             

• Work is Play if you Practice          Keith, Margaret             
• You Can't Reach a Goal You've    Keith, Margaret

 Music theory/children             

• No H in Snake                                  Yurko, Michiko

 musician advice             

• No Time to Practice                        Agopian, Edmond             
• Playing Less Hurt                            Horvath, Janet             
• Stage Fright                                      Havas, Kato             
• The Art of Practicing                      Bruser, Madeline             
• The Inner Game of Music             Green, Barry             
• The Musician's Survival Manual Norris, Richard             
• The Young Musician's Guide        Nathan, Amy              
• Violin Owner's Manual                 Scott, Heather Ed.             
• Walk on the North Side                 Primrose, William

 parent tips             

• Dare to Discipline                           Dobson, James             
• Everybody Wins                              Sobel, Jeffrey             
• Everything Depends on How       Tanaka, Shigeki             
• First Class Tips for Suzuki              Suzuki Assoc.             
• Helping Parents Practice, Ideas  Spring, Edmund             
• I Love To Practice                            Halls, Yvonne & Steiner, Patricia             
• Mommy, Can We Practice            Parkinson, Margaret             
• Your Child's Self Esteem               Briggs, Dorothy Corkville

 practice tips            

• How to Get Your Child to               Richards, Cynthia

reference             

• A Parent's Guide to String             Fink, Lorraine            
• Child Art                                           Lewis, Hilda Present             
• Classical Music For Everybody     Sethma, Dhun             
• Introduction to Music Education  Hoffer, Charles             
• Performer Playing Cards                CARDS             
• Amadeus Book of the Violin        Kolneder, Walter             
• The NPR Classical Music                Hoffman, Miles

 reference/children             

• Ah, Music!                                        Brandenburg, Aliki             
• Cellos                                    
• The Story of the Orchestra

 Suzuki             

• A Suzuki Parent's Diary                  Morris, Carroll              
• Ability Development from Age    Suzuki, Shinichi             
• An Introduction to the Suzuki      Suzuki             
• Diamond in the Sky                        Cannon, Jerlene             
• In the Suzuki Style                          Mills, Elizabeth             
• Journey Down the Kreisler           Timmerman, Craig             
• My Scale Book                                  Maurer, Jaqueline             
• Nurtured by Love                           Suzuki, Shinichi             
• Shinichi Suzuki, The Man &          Hermann, Evelyn             
• Suzuki Changed My Life                Honda, Masaaki             
• Suzuki Education in Action           Cook, Clifford             
• Suzuki Images                                 Montzka, Arthur             
• Suzuki, Man of Love                       Honda, Masaaki             
• Talent Education for Young          Suzuki, Shinichi             
• Teaching from Balance Point        Kreitman, Ed             
• The Genius of Simplicity                Wickes, Linda             
• The PreTwinkle Book                     Merrill, Kathryn;Brandt, Jean             
• The Suzuki Concept                        Suzuki et al             
• The Suzuki Violin Method in        Kendall, John             
• The Vehicle of Music                      Honda, Masaaki             
• They're Rarely Too Young &         Slone, Kay Collier             
• To Learn with Love                         Starr, William; Starr, Constance             
• Where Love is Deep                       Suzuki, Shinichi

 teachers             

• Teaching Music With Passion      Boonshaft, Peter Loel             
• The String Teacher's Handbook Henkle, Ted

youth/fiction  

• Sandy Bottom Orchestra              Keilor, Garrison;Nilsson, Jenny             
• The Facts & Fictions of Minna      MacLachlan, Patricia             
• The Fiddler's Secret                        Johnson, Lois Walfred             
• The Mozart Season                        Wolff, Virginia Euwer            
• Yang the Youngest...                      Namioka, Lensey

RECORDINGS/biographical for children

• Beethoven Lives Upstairs-biographical
• Hallelujah Handel -biographical 
• Mr. Bach Comes to Call-biographical 
• Mozart's Magnificent  Voyage-biographical 
• Tchaikovsky Discovers America-biographical 
• Vivaldi's Ring of Mystery-biographical 

RECORDINGS/children 

• Beethoven's Wig 1, 2, 3, 4 --Sing Along Symphonies 
• Blue Moo - Sandra Boynton 
• Elmo and The Orchestra 
• Ferdinand the Bull and other Classics 
• Philadelphia Chickens - Sandra Boynton 
• Rhinoceros Tap - Sandra Boynton 

RECORDINGS 

•CELLO 

• Saint-Saens--Yo Yo Ma, Cello 

•FLUTE 

• Bach--Sonata 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6--William Bennet, flute 
• Beethoven--Concerti in D Major--William Bennet, flute 
• Handel--Sonata 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6--William Bennet, flute 
• Multi--Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute 
• Multi--Serverino Gazzelloni, flute 

•ORCHESTRA OR CHAMBER 

• Mozart--multi artists 
• Orff Carmina Burana--Orchestra Mozarteum Salzburg, Kurt Prestel 
• Saint-Saens--C minor, Carnival of the Animals, Berceuse)  
• Telemann--string concerti 

•QUARTET 

• Haydn (Bb, D Major, Eb, C Major, F Major, G Minor) Griller String Quartet 
• Kronos Quartet, Caravan 
• Mozart (G minor, D Major, C minor, Eb Major, C Major) Griller String Quartet 

•VIOLIN 

• Bell, Leonard Bernstein music from West Side Story, Candide & On the Town 
• Mozart Violin Concerti--Henryk Szerying, violin  
• Perlman, Concertos from My Childhood (Seitz, Accolay, De Beriot, Viotti) 
• Perlman re Discovered (Paginini, de Sarate, Handel, and others) 
• Piazzolla --Gidon Kremer, violin 
• The Red Violin soundtrack 
• Schumann (Humoreske, Fantasie)--Alicia de Larrocha 

•MISCELLANEOUS 

• Flow by composer Alan Schmitz 
• Remembrance--Preucil School Alumni Chamber Soloists 

PERIODICALS 

Past Issues of  

• Ability Development
• Strings
• Suzuki Association of the Americas quarterly journals
• Teen Strings

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