This bundle includes:
1. A digital PDF of the Teacher Resource Guide from the Teaching Music textbook
2. An mp3 recording of the work

Crystals was commissioned and premiered in 1985 by the Killingly (Connecticut) High School Band, John Kusinski, director.

It is a one- movement tone poem divided into four sections.

In each section, the music explores the sounds that might be associated with four different crystals (ice, jewels, cyanide, limestone).