The exciting pieces in these collections are designed to entertain, reinforce and enhance the important music and technical skills being studied during the early levels. Students will develop their own magical imaginations with the repertoire contained in this series.

Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography—issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past —Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion. "A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the idea of New Age Music—that music can promote spiritual well-being—from the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper."—Kyle Gann, Village Voice "An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music."—Peter Burke, NOTES "Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book."—Anne Lake Prescott, Studies in English Literature

A new ribbon appears as Mama Bird teaches Baby Bird each note of the scale.

Young readers can sing along with Po as she sings a magical song that changes everything around to her favorite color, red.

Presents six stories about Airy Fairy, a student at Fairy Gropplethorpe's Academy for Good Fairies who always gets everything wrong and keeps getting into trouble as she tries to best her enemy, Scary Fairy, and succeed at magic.

Everyone knows that learning is easy and comes naturally when we’re having fun! Magic Music on the Guitar is a vibrant fresh approach to learning guitar. It's a bright fantasy and magic themed comic book so it’s fun to read and follow. It's also in delicious harmony with your child’s individual learning style to motivate them. To discover improvement easily. So they can achieve phenomenal results quickly! Using lots of examples they can play along to, it shows your child how to read and write music and play riffs; how to achieve a clear understanding of the relationships between notes, chords and scales...and sharps and flats too. It shows them different types of chords and how to remember them and even how to write their own songs! It's a valuable reference for classroom tuition as well as private home learning environments. It also follows closely the requirements of the National Curriculum for music education in UK schools.