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Music takes your mind to another place and allows it to wander freely and unencumbered.Barbara Anne Scarantino
Music Power: Creative Living Through the Joys of Music


  • 2003, National Federation of Music Clubs
  • Adams, Douglas
  • Adams, John
  • Aiken, Conrad
  • Anderson, Bryce W.
  • Anderson, Hans Christian
  • Andrews, Julie
  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • Aristotle
  • Armstrong, Louis
  • Arrau, Claudio
  • Arriola, Pepito
  • Ashkenazy, Vladimir
  • Asow, Meuller von
  • Attenborough, Sir David
  • Auerbach, Berthold
  • Aumonier, Minnie
  • Ayers, Roy
  • Bach, J. S.
  • Bachaus, Wilhem
  • Bacon, Ernst
  • Baker-Jordan, Dr. Martha
  • Baker-Jordan, Marth
  • Baker-Jordan, Martha, Dr.
  • Baker-Jordan, Martha
  • Beecham, Thomas
  • Beecher, Henry Ward
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van
  • Berlioz, Hector
  • Bernstein, Leonard
  • Bernstein, Seymour
  • Bizet, Georges
  • Blacking, John
  • Blickenstaff, Marvin
  • Borge, Victor
  • Boulanger, Nadia
  • Brahms, Johannes
  • Brendel, Alfred
  • Britten, Benjamin
  • Browning, John
  • Browning, Robert
  • Brubeck, Dave
  • Bulwer Lytton, Edward
  • Bunt, Leslie
  • Busoni, Ferruccio
  • Busoni, Feruccio
  • Byron, Lord
  • Cage, John
  • Carlyle, Thomas
  • Carreno, Teresa
  • Casals, Pablo
  • Chopin, Frederic
  • Chronister, Richard
  • Clark, Frances
  • Clementi, Muzio
  • Confucius
  • Congrave, William
  • Congreve, William
  • Copland, Aaron
  • Crandall, Joanne
  • Crosby, Bing
  • Debussy, Claude
  • de Lamartine, Alphonse
  • de Pachmann, Vladimir
  • Depp, Johnny
  • Doherty, Pete
  • Dreher, Diane
  • Duncan, Lawrence
  • Dvorak, Antonin
  • Edwards, Jonathan
  • Einstein, Albert
  • Einstein, Alfred
  • Eliot, George
  • Eliot, Thomas
  • Ellington, Duke
  • Elliot (Mary Anne Evans), George
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • Fielden, Thomas
  • Flora van Grinsven, Mark Meerum Terwogt and
  • Gabrilowitsch, Ossip
  • Gach, Peter
  • Galamian, Ivan
  • Gaston, E. Thayer
  • Gershwin, George
  • Gibran, Kahlil
  • Gieseking, Walter
  • Godowsky, Leopold
  • Grieg, Edvard
  • Grimm, Baron
  • Haddon, Walter
  • Hall, Edward T.
  • Hambourg, Mark
  • Hammerstein II, Oscar
  • Hancock, Herbie
  • Harris, Robert
  • Harrison, Sidney
  • Hasse, Johann Adolf
  • Haydn, Franz Joseph
  • Heine, Heinrich
  • Hendrix, Jimi
  • Heyman, Katherine Ruth
  • Hindemith, Paul
  • Hoffman, Josef
  • Hofmann, Josef
  • Holmes, Oliver Wendell
  • Honegger, Arthur
  • Hopkins, Gerard Manley
  • Horowitz, Vladimir
  • Howe, Edgar Watson
  • Hubbard, Kin
  • Hugo, Victor
  • Hummel, Johann
  • Hutchenson, Earnst
  • Huxley, Aldous
  • Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  • Ives, Charles
  • James, Willam
  • James Hertel, Hamid Hekmat and
  • Jan Kochanski, Wladimir
  • Jessop, Craig
  • Johnson, James Weldon
  • Johnson, Samuel
  • Joplin, Scott
  • Kawabata, Yasunari
  • Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
  • Kodaly, Zoltan
  • Landowska, Wanda
  • Latham, Geoffrey
  • Leginska, Ethel
  • Lehrer, Tom
  • Lennon, John
  • Leschetizky, Theodor
  • Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
  • Liszt, Franz
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  • Longsfellow, Henry
  • Lucas, Elizabeth
  • Luther, Martin
  • Mahler, Gustav
  • Manson, Marilyn
  • Marsha Maslan, Joan Allekote and
  • Matthay, Tobias
  • MCartney, Paul, Sir
  • McCartney, Paul, Sir
  • Mendelssohn, Felix
  • Mikuli, Karol
  • Milton, John
  • Moussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
  • Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
  • Muir, John
  • Murakami, Haruki
  • Musicale, Revue
  • Neuhaus, Heinrich
  • Newberry, David B.
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich
  • Orff, Carl
  • Ortiz, PhD, John M.
  • Paderewski, Ignace
  • Paderewski, Ignace Jan
  • Pepys, Samuel
  • Petri, Egon
  • PhD, John M. Ortiz,
  • Plato
  • Plato
  • Poole, William
  • Pope, Alexander
  • Presley, Elvis
  • Proverb, Chinese
  • Pullman, Philip
  • Punam Anand, Morris Holbrook and
  • Rachmaninoff, Sergei
  • Rachmaninov, Sergei
  • Randolph, David
  • Reagan, Ronald
  • Richter, Sviatoslav
  • Rieder, Ambrose
  • Rorem, Ned
  • Rosenthal, Moriz
  • Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
  • Rowling, J.K.
  • Rubenstein, Arthur
  • Saint-Saens, Camille
  • Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), George
  • Scarantino, Barbara Anne
  • Schelling, Ernest
  • Schnabel, Arthur
  • Schoenberg, Arnold
  • Schonberg, Harold C.
  • Schopenhaurer, Arthur
  • Schumann, Clara
  • Schumann, Robert
  • Shakespeare, William
  • Shaw, George Bernard
  • Shelley, Percy
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  • Simon, Abbey
  • Simone, Nina
  • Sousa, John Philip
  • Spaeth, Sigmund
  • Spencer, Herbert
  • Spinoza, Benedict
  • Springsteen, Bruce
  • Stern, Isaac
  • Stevens, Wallace
  • Stewart, R.J.
  • Stokowski, Leopold
  • Storr, Anthony
  • Strauss, Claude Levi
  • Strauss, Richard
  • Stravinsky, Igor
  • Sullivan, Arthur
  • Suzuki, Shinichi
  • Szell, George
  • Tate, Jeffrey
  • Taylor, James
  • Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich
  • Tennyson, Alfred Lord
  • Thomas, Lewis
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Tolstoy, Leo
  • Twain, Mark
  • Ustinov, Peter
  • van Beethoven, Ludwig
  • Verlaine, Paul
  • von Bulow, Hans
  • von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
  • Wadsworth, William
  • Wagner, Richard
  • Walker, Alan
  • Walsh, Peter
  • Ward, William Arthur
  • Watts, Andre
  • Welk, Lawrence
  • Whiteman, Paul
  • Wilde, Oscar
  • Williams, Ralph Vaughn
  • Williams, Tenessee
  • Wolf, Hugo
  • Wonder, Stevie
  • Wordsworth, William
  • Yeats, William Butler
  • It is of utmost importance that the teaching environment be as professional and inviting as possible, whether it be the living room of the teacher's home, a separate studio room in the home, or in a commercial setting.Martha Baker-Jordan

    Provide students with a fun and exciting way to practice elementary theory terms.  This crossword puzzle includes 10 early elementary music terms and definitions — tie, whole note, repeat sign, quarter note, half note, bar line, slur, double bar line, measure and staff.