Resources

IMPORTANT LINKS

Pacific Symphony Orchestra 

Philharmonic Society of Orange County 

Pacific Chorale

Highschooland.com

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUGGESTED READING

Copland, Aaron. What to Listen for in Music. New American Library, the Penguin Group, 1985.

Corey, Dean. Beethoven: The Late Great: 33 Personal Variations. Philharmonic Society of Orange County, 2013.

Cutietta, Robert A. Raising Musical Kids: A Guide for Parents. Oxford University Press, 2001.

Fleming, Renee. The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer. Penguin Books, 2004.

Galewitz, Herb. (editor) Music: A Book of Quotations. Dover Publications, 2001.

Jourdain, Robert. Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy; How Music Captures Our Imagination. Harper Perennial, 1997.

Levitin, Daniel J. The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature.
Plume, a member of Penguin Publishing, 2009.

Levitin, Daniel J. This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession. Plume Books, 2006.

Marcus, Gary. Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning. The Penguin Press, 2012.

Martin, Buzzy. Don’t Shoot! I’m the Guitar Man: The Remarkable True Story of the Musician Who Set Out to Change Lives, Note by Note. Berkley Books, the Penguin Group, 2007.

Nathan, Amy. The Young Musician’s Survival Guide. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Phillips, Lisa. The Artistic Edge: 7 Skills Children Need to Succeed in an Increasingly Right Brain World, 2012.

Powell, John. How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.

Sacks, Oliver. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain. Vintage Books, 2008.

Tunstall, Tricia. Changing Lives: Gustavo Dudamel, El Sistema, and the Transformative Power of Music. W. W. Norton and Company, 2012.

Wooten, Victor L. The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music.
Berkley Books, the Penguin Group, 2006.