Reference, Special Needs

Don Campbell chose  music to inspire and encourage learning and creativity in small children.

Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music by Don Campbell. 

Classic texts on music and nature and a CD of natural sounds.

Did you know you can "see" with sound?—an intro to bioacoustics and the music of nature for ages 9 and up.

By Lang Elliott.

Over 50 native birds, including songbirds and lesser-known birds that make curious, bizarre sounds.

Compiled & edited by Marshall Bowden with caricatures by Mike Rooth

compiled by Stephen & Nancy Tanner. 

 Patricia Shehan Campbell.

Gerald Klickstein

A fast-paced revel of insights and oddities by Stuart Issacoff.

Autobiography of Li Cunxin, dancer from the Bejing  Dance  Academy during the Cultural Revolution in China.

Written with wit by a former NY Times music critic, with the useful addition of  a Naxos website of 500 listening examples.

by Norman Lebrecht

Shaping Music Education from a Global Perspective by Huib Schippers.

Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places by Bernie Krause.

A Guide for All Music Students by Bonnie Blanchard with Cynthia Blanchard Acree offers students a set of tools for their musical lives.