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Cover of Before Music, showing joyful kids making music
A man crafts an instrument out of stones taken from the river
Text: a page on how found objects become instruments. A woman creates an instrument out of a sea shell
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Cover of Before Music, showing joyful kids making music
A man crafts an instrument out of stones taken from the river
Text: a page on how found objects become instruments. A woman creates an instrument out of a sea shell

Before Music : Where Instruments Come From

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Author: Annette Bay Pimentel

Illustrator: Madison Safer

From award-winning author Annette Bay Pimentel comes an oversize nonfiction picture book exploring how music and musical instruments are made—across time and around the world

Music doesn’t come out of nothing.
It always starts somewhere . . . 
with something . . . 
with someone.
 
Discover how music is made in this survey of musical instruments from around the world. Organized by material—from wood to gourds to found objects and more—Before Music marries a lyrical core text with tons of informational material for curious readers.