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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101 Hymn Stories - audio book on CD
by Kenneth Osbeck, read by Wayne Shepherd
from Oasis Audio
for 6th-12th grade
in Audio Books & Dramas (Location: CD-AUDIO)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
700 Years of Classical Treasures
from Reader's Digest
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
Accidental Voyage
Mr. Pipes Series #4
by Doug Bond
from P&R Publishing
for 5th-8th grade
in History of Hymns (Location: XCH-HYMN)
$15.99 $8.00 (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)
Bach Book
by Victoria Tierney & Crystal Landucci
from Oregon Coast Music Association
for 2nd-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$5.00 (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 Lives Upstairs
by Barbara Nichol
for 3rd-8th grade
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$4.00 (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)
Beethoven/Haydn Lapbook Set
by Opal Wheeler & Sybil Deucher
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$9.00 $5.00 (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)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Boll Weevil
by Glen Rounds
from Golden Gate Junior Books
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Book of Music
by Gill Rowley
from Bounty Books
for 8th-Adult
in Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Brahms/Schubert Lapbook Set
by Opal Wheeler & Sybil Deucher
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$9.00 $5.00 (1 in stock)
Bravo! Brava!
by Anne Siberell
from Oxford University
for 3rd-8th grade
in Opera & Choral Music (Location: ELE-MUSOP)
$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 Music History (Location: ELE-MUSHIS)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Christmas Carols
by Karl Schulte (selected and arranged by), illustrated by F. D. Lohman
from Whitman Publishing Company
for 3rd-Adult
in Vintage Nonfiction (Location: VIN-NFIC)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Classical Music for Dummies
by David Pogue, Scott Speck
from For Dummies
for 3rd-7th grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$14.00 (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 (2 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
for 7th-12th grade
in Music Theory (Location: ELE-MUSTHE)
$3.00 (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 (2 in stock)
Cry from the Earth
by John Bierhorst
from Four Winds Press
for 6th-Adult
in Native Americans (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Dance Me a Story
by Jane Rosenberg
from Thames and Hudson
for 3rd-8th grade
in Dance (Location: ELE-DANCE)
$12.00 (3 in stock)
Dionysus Rising
by E. Michael Jones
from Ignatius Press
for Adult
in Culture & Discernment (Location: XCU-DIS)
$18.00 (1 in stock)
Drum Dream Girl
by Margarita Engle, illustrated by Rafael Lopez
from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Duke Ellington
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney
from Scholastic Inc.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Duke Ellington
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
1st edition from Hyperion/Madison Press
for 3rd-6th grade
1999 Caldecott Honor Book
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$8.00 (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)
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)
Essential Jazz
by Henry Martin
1st edition from Schirmer
for 9th-Adult
in Clearance: Art & Music (Location: ZCLE-ART)
$6.00 (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)
$4.50 (2 in stock)
Francis Scott Key
Sowers Series
by David Collins
from Mott Media
for 5th-7th grade
in Sowers Biographies (Location: BIO-SOW)
$8.99 $5.00 (1 in stock)
Frederic Chopin
by Victor Seroff
from Macmillan
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
Golden Encyclopedia of Music
by Norman Lloyd
from Western Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$12.00 (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)
$15.00 (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 Artists - Great Composers: Portraits
from Amadeus Press
for 6th-Adult
in Biography Anthologies (Location: BIO-ANTH)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Handel's World
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$5.00 (1 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)
$6.00 (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)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Joseph Haydn - Study Guide
by Judy Wilcox
from Zeezok Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Opal Wheeler Great Musicians Series (Location: BIO-OPAL)
$3.50 (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)
Learn & Master Piano with Will Barrow
by Will Barrow
Homeschool Edition from Legacy Learning Systems, Inc.
for 6th-Adult
in Piano Instruction (Location: ELE-MUSPI)
$60.00 (1 in stock)
Learn to Play the Guitar
by Nick Freeth
from Parragon Publishing
for 8th-Adult
in Guitar & Bass Instruction (Location: ELE-MUS)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Life & Times of Beethoven
by Gino Pugnetti
from Curtis Publishing Co.
Biography for 7th-10th grade
in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
$4.00 (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)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Lives and Times: John Philip Sousa
from Heinemann Library
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$3.00 (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)
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 Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Meet The Great Composers Book 1 (with CD)
by June Montgomery, Maurice Hinson
from Alfred Publishing
for 3rd-6th grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$20.99 $12.00 (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
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Mozart: A Bicentennial Tribute
by Wendy Thompson
from Chartwell Books
for 9th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Mr. Pipes and Psalms and Hymns of the Reformation
Mr. Pipes Series #2
by Doug Bond
from Christian Liberty Press
for 5th-8th grade
in History of Hymns (Location: XCH-HYMN)
$15.60 $7.00 (1 in stock)
Music & Moments with the Masters - Comprehensive Study Guide
by David & Shirley Quine
from Cornerstone Curriculum
for Preschool-Adult
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$15.00 (1 in stock)
Music Appreciation 1 - Lapbook Disc
from Zeezok Publishing
for Kindergarten-6th grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$18.00 (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)
Free (13 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 Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Music Hour Elementary Teacher's Book
3rd edition from Silver Burdett Press
for Adult
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$10.00 (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 of the Great Composers
by Patrick Kavanaugh
from Zondervan
for 9th-Adult
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$21.99 $15.00 (1 in stock)
Music Pack
for 3rd-12th grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$10.00 (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)
Musical Instruments
Scholastic: Voyages of Discovery #4
by Scholastic Books and Gallimard Jeunesse
from Scholastic Inc.
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
New International Dictionary of Music
by Philip D. Morehead
from Meridian Book
for 9th-Adult
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$7.50 (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)
Peer Gynt
by E. H. Grieg, illustrated by Yoshiharu Suzuki, adapted by Makoto Oishi, translated by Ann Brannen
from Silver Burdett Press
for 9th-Adult
in Vintage Picture Books (Location: VIN-PIC)
$14.00 (1 in stock)
Physics of Music
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$3.00 (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)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind, and His Music
by Robert W. Gutman
from Time-Life Books
for 10th-Adult
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$4.00 (1 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 (3 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)
Sing Unto the Lord! 5 - Audio CD
Sing Unto the Lord!
from A Beka Books
for 5th grade
in A Beka Music (Location: MUS-ABK)
$8.00 (2 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)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Song Time for K5 - CD
3rd edition from A Beka Books
for Kindergarten
in A Beka Music (Location: MUS-ABK)
$8.00 (2 in stock)
Song Time for K5 - Songbook
4th edition from A Beka Books
for Kindergarten
in A Beka Music (Location: MUS-ABK)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Songs to Grow On
by Beatrice Landeck, piano arrangements by Florence White, illustrated by David Stone Martin
from Edward B. Marks Music Corporation
for Kindergarten-6th grade
in Vintage Readers & Textbooks (Location: VIN-READ)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
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