Music Resources

Teaching a student to be proficient musically is sometimes no easy task, but we believe everyone should develop a love for music and work diligently to learn how to glorify God with our voices and with other instruments.

While we don't offer musical instruction books, we do have a small selection of books that give insights into the lives and music of great composers. It is revealing to see how religion has inspired such men, even those who were not Christians!

For those of you in our local area, we are pleased to recommend these sources for instruments, lessons, and more books (including sheet music).

  • Classic Pianos (503.239.9969)
    There are several piano stores in Portland, but this is the one we respect the most.
  • Manselle's Music Shop (503.659.9817)
    Run by a homeschool family! String instruments, lessons.
  • Wally's Music (503.656.5323)
    Bluesy store with brass, woodwinds and assorted other stuff.
  • Harmony Road Music (503.557.5151)
    Three locations in the Portland area offering group music lessons and the best selection of music instruction materials we've seen.
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700 Years of Classical Treasures
from Reader's Digest
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
African-American Arts: Music
by written by Angela Shelf Medearis and Michael R. Medearis
from Millbrook Press
for 6th-Adult
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
All Shook Up
Pivotal Moments in American History
by Glenn C. Altschuler
from Oxford University
for Adult
in History for Adults (Location: ADU-HIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Arrow Pointing to Heaven
by James Bryan Smith
Revised from B&H Books
for 10th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Beating the Drum
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Beatles vs The Rolling Stones
by Jim Derogatis and Greg Kot
from Voyageur Press
for 9th-Adult
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Beethoven's Wig 2 - CD
from Rounder Records
for 3rd-8th grade
in Music CDs (Location: CD)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Beethoven's Wig 3 - CD
from Rounder Records
for 3rd-8th grade
in Music CDs (Location: CD)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Beethoven's Wig 4 - CD
from Rounder Records
for 3rd-8th grade
in Music CDs (Location: CD)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Best Known Gilbert & Sullivan Operas and Bab Ballads
by William Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan
from Halcyon House
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Book of Composers
by Rebecca Manor
from Beautiful Feet Books
for 2nd-12th grade
in Beautiful Feet Books (Location: HISCUR-BFB)
$24.50 (1 in stock)
Book of Music
by Gill Rowley
from Bounty Books
for 8th-Adult
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Bravo! Brava!
by Anne Siberell
from Oxford University
for 3rd-8th grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$24.00 $12.00 (1 in stock)
Carmenda Music History
by Carla Courtney
from Logos School
for 4th-7th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$15.00 $10.00 (1 in stock)
Carols for Choirs 1: Fifty Christmas Carols
by Reginald Jacques and David Willcocks, edited and arranged by
from Oxford University
for Adult
in Christmas & Advent (Location: HOLIDAY)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Chopin
by George Ruttkay
from Hyperion Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$2.80 (1 in stock)
Classical Music
by Phil G. Goulding
1st edition from Fawcett Books
for 8th-Adult
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Classical Music for Dummies
by David Pogue, Scott Speck
2nd edition from For Dummies
for 3rd-7th grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$17.50 (1 in stock)
Classical Music for Dummies (old)
by David Pogue, Scott Speck
from For Dummies
for 3rd-7th grade
in Clearance: Art & Music (Location: ZCLE-ART)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Coloring Book of Early Composers
by Eric Tomb & Nancy Conkle
from Bellerophon Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$4.95 $3.50 (1 in stock)
Coloring Book of Great Composers Book 2
by David Brownell & Nancy Conkle
from Bellerophon Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Coloring Book of Great Composers Book 3
by David Brownell & Nancy Conkle
from Bellerophon Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Complete Color-Coded Music Flash Cards
from Alfred Publishing
for 7th-12th grade
in Music Theory (Location: ELE-MUSTHE)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Concepts of Piano Theory - Level 2
from ReSa Publications
Piano theory book for ages 10 and up
in Clearance: Art & Music (Location: ZCLE-ART)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Cry from the Earth
by John Bierhorst
from Four Winds Press
for 6th-Adult
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Dance Me a Story
by Jane Rosenberg
from Thames and Hudson
for 3rd-8th grade
in Dance (Location: ELE-DANCE)
$10.00 (4 in stock)
Duke Ellington
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
from Scholastic Inc.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Duke Ellington
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
1st edition from Hyperion/Madison Press
for 3rd-6th grade
1999 Caldecott Honor Book
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Enjoy Your Recorder
by Trapp Family
from Magnamusic Distributors
for 3rd-Adult
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$8.00 (2 in stock)
Enrichment Studies Volume 1: Lesson Plans for Grades 1-12 (old)
by Sonya Schafer
from Simply Charlotte Mason
for 1st-12th grade
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Enrichment Studies Volume 2: Lesson Plans for Grades 1-12
by Sonya Schafer
2nd edition from Simply Charlotte Mason
for 1st-12th grade
in Simply Charlotte Mason (Location: CUR-SCM)
$17.50 (1 in stock)
Essential Dictionary of Music
by Lindsey C. Harnsberger
2nd edition from Alfred Publishing
for 4th-Adult
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Famous Children: Brahms
by Ann Rachlin
from Barron's
for 1st-3rd grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Famous Children: Haydn
by Ann Rachlin
from Barron's
for 1st-3rd grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Famous Children: Mozart
by Ann Rachlin
from Barron's
for 1st-3rd grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$3.50 (2 in stock)
Francis Scott Key
Sowers Series
by David Collins
from Mott Media
for 5th-7th grade
in Sowers Biographies (Location: BIO-SOW)
$7.64 $4.00 (3 in stock)
Francis Scott Key
by David Collins
from Mott Media
for 5th-7th grade
in Sowers Biographies (Location: BIO-SOW)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Franz Schubert and His Merry Friends (hardcover)
by Opal Wheeler & Sybil Deucher
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$9.60 (1 in stock)
Frederic Chopin
by Victor Seroff
from Macmillan
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Frederic Chopin, Son of Poland: Early Years
by Opal Wheeler, illustrated by Christine Price
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$12.71 $7.20 (1 in stock)
George Handel
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers
by Mike Venezia
from Children's Press
for 4th-6th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$3.60 (1 in stock)
Gift of Music
by Jane Stuart Smith & Betty Carlson
3rd edition from Crossway Books
for 6th-12th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$23.99
Go In and Out the Window
by Dan Fox
from Henry Holt and Company
for Kindergarten-5th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Gondoliers, or, The King of Barataria
by Gilbert & Sullivan, adapted by Robert Lawrence, illustrated by Sheilah Beckett
from Grosset & Dunlap
for 5th-Adult
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
$12.00 (1 in stock)
Gonna Sing My Head Off
by Kathleen Krull
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Gonna Sing My Head Off
by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Allen Garns
First Printing from Scholastic Reference
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Great Composers - Coloring Book
Dover Coloring Books
by John Green, Paul Negri
from Dover Publications
for 2nd-6th grade
in Fine Art Coloring Books (Location: COL-ART)
$4.24 $2.40 (1 in stock)
Great Composers - Great Artists: Portraits
by Stewart Buettner and Reinhard Pauly
from Amadeus Press
for 6th-Adult
in Biography Anthologies (Location: BIO-ANTH)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Handel at the Court of Kings
by Opal Wheeler
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$12.71 $7.20 (2 in stock)
History of Western Music
HarperCollins College Outline
by Hugh M. Miller & Dale Cockrell
5th edition from HarperCollins
for 7th-12th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
History Sings
by Hazel Gertrude Kinscella
from University Publishing Company
American Music History for 7th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$18.00 (1 in stock)
Horn for Louis
Stepping Stones
by Eric A. Kimmel
from Penguin Random House
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Hot Peas & Barley-O - Book & CD
by Susan Brumfield
from Hal Leonard Corp
for 1st-6th grade
in Europe (Location: HISMC-EUR)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Igor Stravinsky
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers
by Mike Venezia
from Children's Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Jazz on a Saturday Night
by Leo & Diane Dillon
from Blue Sky press
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
John Philip Sousa
by Ann M. Lingg
1963 Printing from Holt, Rinehart and Winston
for 5th-8th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$4.80 (1 in stock)
Joseph Haydn
by Opal Wheeler
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$12.71 $7.20 (1 in stock)
Lap-Time Song and Play Book
by Jane Yolen (editor), illustrated by Margot Tomes, musical arrangements by Adam Stemple
from Harcourt Brace Jovanich
for Nursery-Kindergarten
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Life & Times of Chopin
by Adelaide Murgia
from Curtis Publishing Co.
for 8th-12th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Life and Times of Stephen Foster
from Mitchell Lane Publishers
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Lives and Times: John Philip Sousa
from Heinemann Library
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Lives of the Musicians
by Kathleen Krull
from Sandpiper Books
for 4th-6th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Lives of the Musicians
by Kathleen Krull
from Sandpiper Books
for 4th-6th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$8.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells
by Opal Wheeler
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$12.71 $7.20 (1 in stock)
M is for Melody
by Kathy-jo Wargin
from Sleeping Bear Press
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Alphabet & Counting Books (Location: PIC-ALPH)
$3.60 (1 in stock)
Magic Flute - Book with 2 CDs
Black Dog Opera Library
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, text by David Foil
from Black Dog & Leventhal
for 8th-Adult
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Make Mine Music!
by Tom Walther
from Little, Brown & Company
for 3rd-8th grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Masters of Music: Debussy
by Percy M. Young, Illustrated by Richard Shirley Smith
from David White
for 8th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$5.60 (1 in stock)
Metropolitan Opera Guide
by Mary Ellis Peltz and Robert Lawrence, illustrated by Alexandre Serebriakoff
7th edition from Modern Library
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Mozart the Wonder Boy
by Opal Wheeler & Sybil Deucher
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$12.71 $7.20 (1 in stock)
Mozart's Magic Fantasy - CD
from Classical Kids
for Kindergarten-8th grade
in Music CDs (Location: CD)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Mozart: A Bicentennial Tribute
by Wendy Thompson
from Chartwell Books
for 9th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
Music Appreciation 1 - Lapbook Disc
from Zeezok Publishing
for Kindergarten-6th grade
in Clearance: Art & Music (Location: ZCLE-ART)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Music Appreciation Family Study Teacher Guide
by Rebecca Manor
from Beautiful Feet Books
for 2nd-12th grade
in Beautiful Feet Books (Location: HISCUR-BFB)
$28.00 (1 in stock)
Music Education in the Christian Home
by Mary Ann Froehlich
from Noble Publishing
for 2nd-6th grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$2.00 (11 in stock)
Music Enrichment
First Edition from Memoria Press
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$8.50 (1 in stock)
Music for Living Book 3: Now and Long Ago
by Feodor Rojankovsky (illustrator)
from Silver Burdett Press
for 2nd-4th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Music Hour Elementary Teacher's Book
3rd edition from Silver Burdett Press
for Adult
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Music Makers: Clarinets
by Pamela K. Harris
from Child's World
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Music Makers: Drums
by Pamela K. Harris
from Child's World
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Music Makers: Pianos
by Pamela K. Harris
from Child's World
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Music to Remember
by Lillian Baldwin
from Silver Burdett Press
for 6th-Adult
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
My First Classical Music Book
by written by Genevieve Helsby; illustrated by Jason Chapman
from Naxos Books
for 1st-4th grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Nine-Note Recorder Method
by Penny Gardner
2nd improved/multicultural from Penny Gardner
for 3rd-8th grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
NPR Listener's Encyclopedia of Classical Music
by Ted Libbey
from Workman Publishing
for 6th-Adult
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Paganini, Master of Strings
by Opal Wheeler
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$12.71 $7.20 (2 in stock)
Peter Tchaikovsky
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers
by Mike Venezia
from Children's Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Peter Tchaikovsky and the Nutcracker Ballet
by Opal Wheeler
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$12.71 $7.20 (1 in stock)
Pocket Manual of Musical Terms
Shirmer Pronouncing
by Theodore Baker, Nicolas Slominsky, and Laura Kuhn, editors
5th edition from Schirmer
for 4th-Adult
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Raising Musical Kids
by Patrick Kavanaugh
from Servant Publications
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$4.00 (3 in stock)
Real Nice Clambake
by Rogers & Hammerstein, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott
from Joy Street Books
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind, and His Music
by Robert W. Gutman
from Time-Life Books
for 10th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Robert Schumann and Mascot Ziff
by Opal Wheeler
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$12.71 $7.20 (2 in stock)
Rubber-Band Banjos and a Java Jive Bass
by Alex Sabbeth
1st edition from Jossey-Bass
for 4th-6th grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$10.50 $6.00 (2 in stock)
Sally Go Round the Sun
by Edith Fowke, illustrated by Carlos Marchiori, musical arrangements by Keith MacMillan
from Doubleday & Company
Children's Songs for Kindergarten-4th grade
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Sebastian Bach
by Opal Wheeler & Sybil Deucher
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$12.71 $7.20 (2 in stock)
Sing Me a Story
by Jane Rosenberg
from Thames and Hudson
for 2nd-6th grade
in Opera & Choral Music (Location: ELE-MUSOP)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Singing for Young Beginners with CD
by Peter Gelling
from Koala Music Publications
for Kindergarten-4th grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Singing Together
by Lilla Belle Pitts, Mabelle Glenn, Lorrain E. Watters
from Ginn and Co.
for 1st-5th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Song Time for K5 - CD
3rd edition from A Beka Books
for Kindergarten
in A Beka Music (Location: MUS-ABK)
$6.40 (1 in stock)
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