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Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Language
English
Description
In 1772, with summer long gone and winter fast approaching, Joseph Haydn, court musician to Prince Nicholas of Esterhazy, creates a symphony that finally persuades his oblivious employer to close up his summer palace and allow the staff to return home.
Author
Language
English
Description
After her sister and songwriting partner, Lee, dies in an automobile accident, seventeen-year-old Rumi is sent to Hawaii with an aunt she barely knows while she and her mother grieve separately.
Rumi Seto plans to spend her life writing music with her younger sister, Lea. When Lea dies in a car accident, her mother sends Rumi to live with her aunt in Hawaii while she deals with her own grief. Struggling with the loss of her sister, abandoned by her...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When three noisy, mischievous rising stars of a British boy band come to Los Angeles to make their first album, they stay in the home of a record producer and her seventh-grade daughter, a talented but painfully shy singer-songwriter, urged by her best friend to step into the spotlight.
12) We are the song
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Cadenza music is power, and twelve-year-old Elissa is one of twelve singers, voices of the Goddess, who can sing miracles into being and bring healing and hope to the world--but in the war torn kingdoms of the world there are rulers who would like to use her and her song to gain power instead, and Elissa stuggles to understand what the Goddess wants her to do, and how to protect herself, her composer, Lucio, and Cadenza itself."--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Sullivan, who write operas together for a theater called Topsy-Turvydom, have a falling-out when Mr. Sullivan refuses to write music for another ridiculous story that is like all the others.
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Things are finally looking up for Amelia Jones: she's officially a Mystwick student, and she even has a teacher to help her learn how to use her rare Composing magic. The only problem is that she still doesn't understand how her powers work. But then she hears about a super exclusive Midnight Orchestra--half performance, half magical black . . . But the Midnight Orchestra is far more sinister than it initially appears and if Amelia can't unlock her...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Success requires sacrifice. No one understands this better than high school senior Angie, who's worked her entire life toward her dream of making it onto Nashville's music scene. When her idol, Mona Stone, launches a songwriting competition, Angie's dream suddenly feels within reach. Against her mother's wishes, Angie pours her heart and soul into creating a song worthy of Mona. But soon it isn't only her mother who stands in the way of her dream....
Author
Publisher
BIG, an imprint of Humanoids, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Little Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lives only for music--and he already knows how to appreciate it in all its forms, even the most unexpected. The young virtuoso is looking for--and finding!-- inspiration wherever it hides, even in the cries of Nannerl, his sister, or the poop of his dog. He takes lessons from the birds, crickets and frogs, intertwining every note into his great masterpieces.Based on real events in Mozart's childhood. A charming tale,...