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Music is soul language.
It gives voice to the soul. It speaks directly to part of us that is most emotionally vulnerable. It evokes and provokes and invokes. In order to explore this language of the soul, the phenomenon of music, and to find a venue that would invite conversations of various sorts about music, we have collected a 'text set' of children's literature appropriate across the grades. These books could stimulate consideration about composers, the feel of music, the role of music in our lives, the different forms of music, the impact of performance, and so on.