Coordinating Authors
Susan Snyder
Mollie G. Tower
Technology Producer
Steven Estrella
Contributors
Carlos R. Abril
Allison M. Logan
Christina Reyna Baird
Maritsa Madias-Kalasz
Edith Bicknell
Cordelia Mann
Patricia Bogart
Lisa M. Meyer
Matt Bowers
Ileana Nápoles
Louise Coscarelli-Topie
Julie Novak
Rachel Frimel
Kathleen Schietroma
Elda Garcia-Gomez
Geoffrey L. Silver
Nicole Keim
Debbie Tannert
Heidi Langan
Brian J. VandeWalle
Lyrics
My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Music by Richard Rodgers. Copyright © 1959
by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Copyright Renewed Williamson Music owner of publication and allied rights
throughout the world. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission of Hal Leonard Corporation.
What a Wonderful World, Words and Music by George David Weiss and Robert Thiele. Copyright © 1967 by Range Road Music
Inc., Bug Music-Quartet Music, and Abilene Music, Inc. Renewed 1995 and assigned to Quartet Music, Inc., Range Road, Abilene
Music LLC c/o Larry Spier Music LLC. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
Illustration and Photo Credits
Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez (Rodrigo), Gr. 4: Illustration: Joe LeMonnier
Adukbe (Adenkum Traditional), Gr. 8: Photo: (tin whistle) McGraw-Hill Companies, (guitar) Jules Frazier/Getty Images, (violin,
djembe) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (hands) Photodisc/Getty Images, (others) Courtesy Baka Beyond
Afirika (Kidjo, Hebrail, and Faragher), Gr. 7: Photo: Iréne Alastruey/Alamy
Afoxé (Brazilian Traditional/Dunlap arr.), Gr. 8: Photo: WoodyStock/Alamy
Akinla from African Suite (Sowande), Gr. 2: Photo: (harp) PhotoSpin/Getty Images, (others) McGraw-Hill Companies; Illustration:
Ivanke & Lola
Amazing Grace (Newton), Gr. 7: Photo: (sky) DAJ/Getty Images, (violin) McGraw-Hill Companies, (bagpipes) Photodisc/Getty Images
Assembly Required (Kozak), Gr. 2: Illustration: Paul Sharp
Barcarolle (Belle nuit) from Tales of Hoffman (Offenbach), Gr. 6: Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Belhadawa walla belshaawa (Ramzy), Gr. 6: Photo: (doumbek) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (tablas) Photodisc/Getty Images,
(pyramids) Peter Adams/Corbis, (others) McGraw-Hill Companies
Bird Island (Kaneko), Gr. 8: Photo: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division [LC-DIG-jpd-00509]
Bo Hai Huan Ten (Chinese Folk Song), Gr. 7: Illustration: Belgin K. Wedman
Brother, Come and Dance with Me from Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck), Gr. K: Illustration: Liz Adcock
Car Song (Guthrie), Gr. K: Illustration: Gregory Baldwin
Carillon from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1 (Bizet), Gr. 7: Photo: (bell) Ingram Publishing/SuperStock, (French horn, flute, saxophone)
C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (others) McGraw-Hill Companies
Carnival of Venice, The (Arban), Gr. 6: Illustration: Nancy Harrison
Cattle from The Plow That Broke the Plains (Thomson), Gr. 4: Photo: (cattle) Digital Vision/PunchStock, (English horn) Terry Wilson/
iStockphoto, (viola, cello) McGraw-Hill Companies, (guitar) Ingram Publishing/Alamy, (others) C Squared Studios/Getty Images
Chango Guango (Mariachi), Gr. 2: Photo: (trumpet) McGraw-Hill Companies, (musicians) Jeff Greenberg/Alamy, (mural) Ian
Dagnall/Alamy
Clock at Night, A (Miloslavskiy), Gr. 3: Illustration: Olivier Daumas
Concerto for Trombone, Fifth Movement (“Motorbike Concerto”) (Sandstrom), Gr. 2: Photo: Ingram Publishing/SuperStock
Concerto for Two Trumpets, Allegro (Vivaldi), Gr. 2: Photo: Colin Arche/Star Ledger/Corbis
Concierto de Aranjuez, First Movement (Rodrigo), Gr. 3: Photo: (background) De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images, (violin,
flute, bassoon, tuba, trumpet) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (guitar) Ingram Publishing/Alamy, (bass) Jules Frazier/Getty
Images, (others) McGraw-Hill Companies; Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Courante from Terpsichore (Praetorius), Gr. 8: Photo: (top) Redferns/Getty Images, (c) Graham Salter/Lebrecht Music & Arts/
Alamy, (b)Ingram Publishing/SuperStock
Crazy Songs (Kopelent), Gr. 6: Illustration: Ali Akbar
Dance of the Mirlitons from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky), Gr. 4: Photo: (bow) Royalty-free/Corbis, (English horn), Terry Wilson/
iStockphoto
December Snow (Nakai), Gr. K: Illustration: Kristen Sorra
Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) (Monahan, Stafford, Hotchkiss, Colin, and Underwood), Gr. 8: Photo: NASA/JPL/USGA
Entertainer, The (Joplin), Gr. 7: Photo: Frank Driggs Collection/Getty Images
Fall (Allegro) from The Four Seasons (Concerto No. 3 in F Major) (Vivaldi), Gr. K: Illustration: Ivanke & Lola
Fascinating Rhythm from Lady Be Good (Gershwin and Gershwin), Gr. 5: Photo: (trombone, bass) McGraw-Hill Companies,
(Fitzgerald) Keystone/Getty Images, (others) C Squared Studios/Getty Images
Flight of the Bumblebee, The (Rimsky-Korsakov), Gr. K: Photo: Corbis; Illustration: Nancy Gayle Carlson
Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Scruggs), Gr. 6: Photo: (resonator guitar) Digital Stock/Corbis, (acoustic guitar) Jules Frazier/Getty
Images, (others) McGraw-Hill Companies; Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Gloria from Mass for the Earth (Larsen), Gr. 7: Photo: (fish) Ingram Publishing/Fotosearch, (dog) Image Ideas, (cow) Imageshop/
Alamy, (sunset) ImageState Media, (coals) Paul Sisul/Getty Images, (fishing pole) Comstock Images/Alamy, (chestnuts) C Squared
Studios/Getty Images, (farm) David Frazier/Corbis, (bird) Kim Taylor/Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images, (cheetah) Martin Harvey/
Getty Images, (turtle) Ingram Publishing/AGE Fotostock, (honey, lemon) Burke/Triolo Productions/Getty Images, (diamond) Don
Farrall/Getty Images
Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah (Handel), Gr. 5: Photo: Kelly Cheng Travel Photography/Flickr/Getty Images
Hummingbird, A (Beach), Gr. K: Photo: McGraw-Hill Companies
In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (Grieg), Gr. 2: Illustration: Steve Cox
In the Mood (Garland), Gr. 4: Photo: (trombone, alto saxophone) McGraw-Hill Companies, (baritone sax) Comstock/Corbis, (others)
C Squared Studios/Getty Images
It Don’t Mean a Thing (Ellington), Gr. 6: Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
La canarie from Dances from Terpsichore (Praetorius), Gr. 4: Photo: (castanets, drum) C Squared Studios/Getty Images,
(tambourine, drum sticks) The McGraw-Hill Companies, (treble viol) Richard Booth/Lebrecht Music & Arts, (tenor viol) Victoria &
Albert Museum, London/Bridgeman Art Library, (bass viol) Julian Nieman/Alamy
La cumparsita (Rodriguez), Gr. 6: Photo: (bass) McGraw-Hill Companies, (bandoneon) Anna Ivanova/iStockphoto, (piano) Corbis,
(others) C Squared Studios/Getty Images
La lluvia (The Rain) (Hatfield), Gr. 2: Illustration: Christina Wald
Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas from Mother Goose Suite (Ravel), Gr. 1: Photo: (flute) C Squared Studios/Getty Images,
(xylophone) Photodisc/Getty Images, (others) McGraw-Hill Companies; Illustration: Mircea Catusanu
Liberty Fanfare (Williams), Gr. 7: Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Locomotion (Coltrane), Gr. 6: Photo: C Squared Studios/Getty Images
Los mariachis (Mariachi), Gr. 3: Photo: Tim Hawley/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images
Los trabajadores agricolas (The Farmers) from Estancia (Ginastera), Gr. 6: Photo: Photodisc/Getty Images; Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Moldau, The from Má Vlast (My Country) (Smetana), Gr. 5: Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Moon Mirrored in a Pool, The (Yanjun), Gr. K: Illustration: Daniel Griffo
Música indígena from Instantaneas Mexicanas (Ponce), Gr. 8: Photo: (flute, clarinet, bassoon) C Squared Studios/Getty Images,
(others) McGraw-Hill Companies
My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music (Rodgers and Hammerstein), Gr. 3: Photo: (package, mittens) C Squared Studios/
Getty Images, (strudel) John A. Rizzo/Getty Images, (bells) Photo Spin/Getty Images, (geese, snowflake) Chet Phillips/Getty Images,
(landscape) Digital Vision/Getty Images, (bridge) Eyewire/Photodisc/Getty Images, (schnitzel) Brian Hagiwara/FoodPix/Getty Images.
My Friend (Kibble and Kibble), Gr. 4: Photo: Brian Kennedy/Workbook Stock/Getty Images
Night Fight from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Dun), Gr. 6: Photo: (l) Jochen Schlenker/Robert Harding World Imagery/Getty
Images, (cl) Gari Wyn Williams/Alamy, (cr) Chase Jarvis/Riser/Getty Images, (r) Li Shaobai/TAO Images Limited/Alamy.
Nightingale, The (Liszt), Gr. 6: Illustration: Mark Roganski
No One Is Alone from Into the Woods (Sondheim), Gr. 8: Photo: Digital Vision/PunchStock
Ode to a Butterfly (Thile), Gr. 5: Photo: (mandolin) Corbis, (guitar) Jules Frazier/Getty Images, (Nickel Creek) Tim Mosenfelder/
Getty Images, (others) McGraw-Hill Companies
Oye como va (Puente), Gr. 5: Photo: (organ) JRC, Inc./Alamy, (timbales, guitar) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (duo) Ethan Miller/
Getty Images, (Santana) Adrees Latif/Reuters/Corbis
Packington’s Pound (Renaissance/anon.), Gr. 2: Photo: PhotoLink/Photodisc/Getty Images
Papagena! Papagena! Papagena! from The Magic Flute (Mozart), Gr. 2: Illustration: Virginia Allyn
Peaceful World (Mellencamp), Gr. 7: Photo: (1) Steve Skjold/Alamy, (2) Michael Newman/PhotoEdit, (3) Getty Images/Photodisc,
(4) Billy Hustace/Getty Images, (5) NY Daily News/Getty Images, (6) Brand X Pictures/PunchStock, (7) David Grossman/Alamy, (8)
Jeff Greenberg/PhotoEdit; Illustration: Andrea Champlin
People United Will Never Be Defeated, The (Ortega and Rzewski), Gr. 8: Illustration: Anni Betts
Pukaea (Coleman and Mohi), Gr. 2: Photo: (tl, bl) Brian Flintoff, tc (McGraw-Hill Companies), (bkgd) Lee/Photolink/Getty Images,
(others) C Squared Studios/Getty Images; Illustration: Janet Broxon
Radetzky March (Radetzky), Gr. K: Illustration: Mike Moran
Raga Malika (Indian Classical Music), Gr. 5: Photo: (l) Dinodia/AGEfotostock, (c) Photodisc/Getty Images (r) Jill Braaten/McGrawHill Companies; Illustration: Belgin K. Wedman
Rondo “alla turca” (Third Movement) from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331 (Mozart), Gr. 7: Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Russian Sailor’s Dance from The Red Poppy (Glière), Gr. 4: Illustration: Carlo Molinari
Sail Away (Mountain Folk Dance), Gr. 4: Photo: Robert Sisson/National Geographic Society/Corbis
Serenade No. 10 in B Flat Major, K. 361 (“Gran Partita”), Theme and Variations (Mozart), Gr. 4: Photo: (oboe, bass) McGraw-Hill
Companies, (basset horn) Courtesy Buffet Crampon, (bow) Corbis, others (C Squared Studios/Getty Images)
Seventeen Come Sunday from English Folk Song Suite (Vaughan Williams), Gr. 7: Photo: Photodisc/Getty Images
Shimmering Air (Saint-Denis), Gr. K: Illustration: Jago
Singing on the Fisherboats at Dusk (Chinese Folk Song), Gr. 1: Photo: (konghou) Courtesy, Joy Yu Hoffman, the Harpist;
Illustration: Sergio de Giorgi
Skeleton (York), Gr. 8: Photo: ImageSource/PunchStock
Stars and Stripes Forever, The (Sousa), Gr. 4: Photo: Corbis
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor (“Choral”), Fourth Movement (Beethoven), Gr. 5: Photo: (sky) DAJ/Getty Images, (soloists) Chris
Christodoulou/Lebrecht Music & Arts, (timpanis) McGraw-Hill Companies, (orchestra) Kelly-Mooney Photography/Corbis
Symphony No. 35, Fourth Movement (Haydn), Gr. 5: Photo: Vittoriano Rastelli/Corbis
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, First Movement (Mozart), Gr. 8: Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Washington, D.C. Reproduction number LC-USZ62-87246.
Three Little Birds (Marley), Gr. 8: Illustration: Micha Archer
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 39, Finale (“Gypsy Rondo”) (Haydn), Gr. 3: Photo: (fortepiano) Interfoto/Alamy, (others)
McGraw-Hill Companies; Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 11, Third Movement (Presto Leggiero) (Chaminade), Gr. 5: Photo: (bridge) Stockbyte/Getty
Images, (piano) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (others) McGraw-Hill Companies
Troika from Lieutenant Kijé Suite (Prokofiev), Gr. 3: Photo: (tambourine) Corbis, (trumpet, piccolo, French horn, flute, clarinet,
tuba, saxophone) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (others) McGraw-Hill Companies; Illustration: Virginia Allyn
Tuileries from Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky), Gr. 1: Illustration: Julissa Mora
Va Pensiero from Nabucco (Verdi), Gr. 6: Photo: (1) Robert Glusic/Getty Images, (2) Israel Ministry of Tourism www.goisrael.com,
(3) C Squared Studios/Getty Images, (4) Digital Vision/Getty Images, (5) Digital Vision, (6) Corbis, (curtains) McGraw-Hill Companies,
(bkgd) Franco Origlia/Getty Images
Variations on “Simple Gifts” from Appalachian Spring (Copland), Gr. 5: Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Volta from Dances from Terpsichore (Praetorius), Gr. 3: Photo: (t) Dover Publications, (bc) C Squared Studios/Getty Images,
(others) McGraw-Hill Companies
Wade in the Water (African American Spiritual/Hogan arr.), Gr. 5: Photo: (emancipated slaves) Library of Congress Prints &
Photographs Division [LC-DIG-cwpb_01005], (Tubman) Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division [LC-DIG-ppmsca-02909],
(slaves escaping) North Wind Picture Archives, (man hiding) Bettmann/Corbis, (painting) Bridgeman Art Library/Getty Images,
(Tubman and followers) National Geographic/Getty Images
Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky), Gr. 1: Illustration: Andrea Champlin
Waltzing Cat (Anderson), Gr. K: Illustration: Constanza Basaluzzo
What a Wonderful World (Weiss and Thiele), Gr. 8: Photo: (Earth) Image by Reto Stockli, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
Enhancements by Robert Simmon, (rainforest, giraffes) Digital Vision/PunchStock, (leaves, balloons, neighbors) Photodisc/
Getty Images, (rose, Masai, Earth) Brand X Pictures/PunchStock, (hugging tree, mother and son) Digital Vision/Getty Images,
(planting tree) PhotoAlto/Getty Images, (tree, rainbow) DAJ/Getty Images, (rollercoaster) Dynamic Graphics/SuperStock, (running)
Ingram Publishing/SuperStock, (sunset) Flickr/Getty Images, (stars) UVimages/amanaimages/Corbis, (pagoda) Adam Crowley/
Getty Images, (friends) Jeremy Woodhouse/Blend/Getty Images, (ferris wheel, mother and daughter) Photographer’s Choice/
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