Music Study

Hymns can be found on the Bible Study page.

Master of Their Instruments

The best of the best in the last 100 years, from a survey of my music-loving friends.

Piano – Glen Gould, Lang Lang, Rachmaninoff, Herbie Hancock, Leonard Berstein, Dave Brubeck, Gershwin, Scott Joplin

Trumpet – Wynton Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Herseth

Cello – Yo Yo Ma

Violin – Itzak Perlman, Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Sarah Chang

Saxophone – John Coltraine, Charlie Parker, Wayne Shorter

Percussion – Neil Peart, Tito Puente, Keiko Abe, Vic Firth, Max Roach

Guitar – Villa-Lobos, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Andy McKee, Django Reinhardt, Segovia

Cajun – Marc Savoy

Ukulele – Jake Shimabukuro

Folk Songs

I Hear America Singing. I cannot emphasize how much we love this book and CD. The CD sat in our car’s player for about 4 years without being rotated! Classic American folk songs appropriate for kids, but performed at a high level and enjoyable for adults.

If you really want to dig into American folk, the best resource is Smithsonian Folkways.

Copywork for Folk Songs

Classical Music

The past few years I’ve simply created a playlist on my Amazon Music account with works from a certain composer, based loosely on Ambleside Online’s Composer Rotation Schedule.

By Period, on Naxos

Free online sheet music grouped by composer: MusOpen