Download or read book More than Music Lessons written by Merlin B. Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning music educator Merlin B. Thompson invites today’s teachers to link their teaching with notions of humanity and create success by building on what students naturally bring to their own musical journey. Filled with over fifty practical and inspirational teaching tips, More than Music Lessons is a must-read for every genre of music studio teacher: vocal/instrumental, academic, traditional, individual/group, Suzuki, exam-based, and online. A four-part framework gets right to the heart of the matter: Parents - understanding the complexity of parental involvement and students’ home life Practicing - an adventure in autonomy, fluency, purpose, relatedness, reflection, and listening Projects - amplifying students’ musical persona with non-performance projects. Character - engaging students’ inborn authentic character to ensure meaningful musical participation Grounded in research yet enriched with real-life experiences and frequently asked questions, More than Music Lessons offers a comprehensive view of student-centered teaching, where teachers share rather than direct students’ musical explorations. This book provides resources for teachers who work with diverse student demographics and sheds light on how teachers may thoughtfully incorporate students’ sense of self, personal and world views, culture, individuality, and spirituality as anchors for their unfolding and unique musical journeys. More than Music Lessons will help studio teachers support and inspire their students for a lifetime of genuine and joyful music making.
Download or read book Music Lessons for Children with Special Needs written by T. M. Perry and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using music as a medium for communication and development between teacher and pupil, rather than as a subject to be learned, this book responds to the problems of presenting music to children with special needs. It provides a simple and accessible programme of work, allowing the teacher to choose from an array of different lessons.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Piano Pedagogy written by Merlin B. Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can piano teachers successfully foster student participation and growth from the outset? How can teachers prepare and sustain their influential work with beginner student musicians? This book presents answers to these questions by making important connections with current music education research, masters of the performance world, music philosophers, and the author’s 30-year career as a piano pedagogy instructor in Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. It investigates the multilayered role piano teachers play right from the very beginning – the formative first four to five years during which teachers empower students to explore and expand their own emerging musical foundations. This book offers a humane, emancipatory, and generous approach to teaching by grappling with some of the most fundamental issues behind and consequences of studio music teaching. More experiential than abstract and cerebral, it demonstrates how teaching beginner piano students involves an attentiveness to musical concerns like our connection to music, learning to play by ear and by reading, caring for music, the importance of tone and technique, and helping students develop fluency through their accumulated repertoire. Teaching beginner students also draws on personal aspects like independence and authenticity, the moral and ethical dignity associated with democratic relationships, and meaningful conversations with parents. Further, another layer of teaching beginners acknowledges both sides of the coin in terms of growth and rest, teaching what is and what might be, as well as supporting and challenging student development. In this view, how teachers fuel authentic student musicians from the beginning is intimately connected to the knowledge, beliefs, and values that permeate their thoughts and actions in everyday life. Fundamentals of Piano Pedagogy stands out as a much-needed instructional resource with immense personal, practical, social, philosophical, educational, and cultural relevance for today’s studio music teachers. Its humanistic and holistic approach invites teachers to consider not only who they are and what music means to them, but also what they have yet to imagine about themselves, about music, their students, and life.
Download or read book Blue Moon Bassoon written by Amanda Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2022-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blue Moon Bassoon Songbook is a collection of diverse folk and classical melodies arranged for bassoon. With a wide variety of styles and familiar pieces, this book will take the beginning bassoonist from their first notes to their first orchestral excerpts. Arranged and designed by a professional bassoonist, each chapter builds essential techniques with tips and tricks throughout.
Download or read book Music Lessons written by Stephanie Stein Crease and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing guidance for parents who want their children to enjoy learning to play a musical instrument, this resource teaches parents the best ways to encourage children's musical talents. Key guidance is provided for the trickiest hurdles of all: helping children learn how to practice and navigating their impulse to quit by encouraging them to take pride in their progress despite the frustrations of the learning process. Commonly taught methods--including Suzuki, Kodaly, Dalcroze training, and the Orff approach--and instrument selection are discussed in detail, as are tips for choosing the right teacher. Up-to-date resources and references for youth orchestras, national and regional organizations, outreach programs, and school advocacy organizations, and supplementary materials for various ages and stages of ability, are provided.
Download or read book Music Lessons written by Bob Wiseman and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Wiseman believes most things in life are universal or, as Lauryn Hill says, everything is everything. Bearing in mind that advice, Wiseman writes about finding the link between music and daily life, like what is common between Mary Margaret O’Hara, hiding around the corner with the lights turned off in order to record herself and his 5-year-old insisting he stop hurrying to her dance lesson and marvel at the fluff ball she is blowing toward the ceiling. Each entry is unique and compellingly written, but the themes throughout — on improvisational music, life lessons, and conflict — are ubiquitous.
Download or read book Music Lessons written by Norbert Putman and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of iconic recording involving Norbert Putman
Download or read book Studying Suzuki Piano More Than Music written by Carole Bigler and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1999-12-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive coverage of what the Suzuki approach embodies, this book should be considered a requirement in the home of every piano teacher and student. Eight of the 14 chapters lay the foundation for understanding Suzuki's Mother Tongue Approach, its procedures and its benefits. The authors have given their ideas of what it takes to be a Suzuki teacher, how to structure an effective lesson, what to cover in those first lessons and how to do it. Using more than 400 musical examples, the teaching points and the interpretation of the seven volumes of music are presented. In addition, some alternate fingerings are suggested and places where the Suzuki edition departs from the original edition are noted.
Download or read book Franklin s Music Lessons written by Paulette Bourgeois and published by Kids Can Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Level 2 first reader, youngsters will identify with Franklin has he struggles with his first piano lessons.
Download or read book Every Good Boy Does Fine A Love Story in Music Lessons written by Jeremy Denk and published by Picador. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A uniquely illuminating memoir of the making of a musician, in which renowned pianist Jeremy Denk explores what he learned from his teachers about classical music: its forms, its power, its meaning - and what it can teach us about ourselves. In this searching and funny memoir, based on his popular New Yorker article, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. Life is difficult enough as a precocious, temperamental, and insufferable six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey. But then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico, far from classical music’s nerve centers, and he has to please a new taskmaster while navigating cacti, and the perils of junior high school. Escaping from New Mexico at last, he meets a bewildering cast of college music teachers, ranging from boring to profound, and experiences a series of humiliations and triumphs, to find his way as one of the world’s greatest living pianists, a MacArthur 'Genius,' and a frequent performer at Carnegie Hall. There are few writers working today who are willing to eloquently explore both the joys and miseries of artistic practice. Hours of daily repetition, mystifying early advice, pressure from parents and teachers who drove him on – an ongoing battle of talent against two enemies: boredom and insecurity. As we meet various teachers, with cruel and kind streaks, Denk composes a fraught love letter to the act of teaching. He brings you behind the scenes, to look at what motivates both student and teacher, locked in a complicated and psychologically perilous relationship. In Every Good Boy Does Fine, Denk explores how classical music is relevant to 'real life,' despite its distance in time. He dives into pieces and composers that have shaped him – Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms, among others – and gives unusual lessons on melody, harmony, and rhythm. Why and how do these fundamental elements have such a visceral effect on us? He tries to sum up many of the lessons he has received, to repay the debt of all his amazing teachers; to remind us that music is our creation, and that we need to keep asking questions about its purpose.
Download or read book Leila Fletcher s Music Lessons Have Begun written by Leila Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everyone s Guide to Instrumental Music Lessons written by Ronald J. Poorman and published by Universal Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides parents, teachers, & students of music through the maze of starting & successfully advancing through instrumental music lessons. This invaluable aid to parents offers information on how to obtain FREE or low priced instruments through the schools, instrument care & repair & much more. It gives teachers a lesson outline to follow & serves as printed reinforcement that they can recommend to students & parents to supplement lesson books. Dr. James M. Thurmond, founder of the U. S. Armed Forces School of Music & Prof. Emeritus Lebanon Valley College says, "...the book delineates everything from the correct approaches to parent-music-teacher relations to methods of teaching, purchase & care of instruments, music department organization, etc. for music students & their parents to know....its study will be beneficial for those who are committed to the support of the teaching of music in our educational institutions." John H. Thyhsen, Prof. of Music, Glassboro State College, & Principal Trumpet Philadelphia Opera, & Philadelphia Pops Orchestra directed by Peter Nero, says, "....I recommend this text to every teacher of music, parent, & music education student."
Download or read book The Accidental Conductor written by Ban Sheng Toh and published by ARMOUR PUBLISHING PTE LTD. This book was released on 2010 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Parent s Guide to Music Lessons written by Heather Milnes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enjoyment that comes from the ability to play a musical instrument must be one of the most valuable gifts that a parent can bestow upon a child. It can also be one of the most challenging gifts to give as it takes years of emotional and financial investment with, quite likely, more than a few tears and tantrums along the way (and that's just the parents!). Children and their mentors need great staying power and a vision of what will be possible not just next week or next term, but in many years hence. A Parent's Guide to Music Lessons will guide you through the all of the knotty problems and questions you might encounter if your child is taking music lessons. With the cost of this book being very likely less than you will be paying for 30 minutes tuition it makes sense to invest a little now in order to get the most out of your long term venture.
Download or read book More than Music written by Lawrence English and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pink Floyd tapped into the deep roots people have in philosophy, psychology, religion, literature, and history, and their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon continues to appeal to people after almost fifty years. This book explains how the album evokes and resonates with so many cultural chords in all of us. "More Than Music is a rigorous examination of one of the most enduring records of all time, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon. Analyzing the album from many different avenues, the book provides clear correlations of the music and lyrics to many aspects of human culture, from ancient times to the present. Each song is examined line by line to show how the album evokes and ties together themes from myriad philosophical, mythological, psychological, religious, historical, literary, and other cultural sources. The book shows how William James and Carl Jung, Ecclesiastes and Kierkegaard, D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot, Horace and Orwell, Jesus and Buddha, Beethoven and Strauss, William Blake and Jean-Paul Sartre, The Beatles and Gilbert and Sullivan resonate throughout The Dark Side of the Moon. They are among the most powerful sources of who we are and why. Coming to see how the album knits together so many diverse elements into a seamless whole, the interplay of many factors that make up society is illuminated. This book will give readers a new way of looking at how the factors of philosophy, religion, psychology, mythology, literature and poetry, history and politics derive meaning and depth from each other. Readers will never listen to The Dark Side of the Moon the same way, but they’ll never look at the underlying factors the same way again, either.
Download or read book Little Music Lessons for Kids Lesson 1 written by Tatiana Bandurina and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Funny story about a Staff and the Treble Clef author begins a series of Little Music Lessons for Kids. The main "teacher" in this and all the other 10 lessons is a musical puppy, who lives in a musical family and knows a lot of unforgettable stories. A musical puppy and cute pictures in this lesson are sure to attract the attention of your child. And if you want to move the content of a lesson in real life, for this purpose, the author has made a step by step instruction guide at the end of the lesson for parents. It is written so simply that you do not need any musical education! You will also learn how to help your child practice with pleasure and consolidate the new knowledge. For children from three to nine years old.
