With its highly attractive full-colour age-appropriate layout Poco Piano For Young Children encourages young children to take the first steps on a difficult but thoroughly rewarding journey. Together with the Music Theory for Young Children books the Poco Piano For Young Children series leads the child from the very beginning to grade 1 level. Poco Piano for Young Children includes exercises to help the child develop technique rhythm and reading and it involves the child in activities such as pasting colouring tracing circling and clapping. Book 1 introduces the child to thekeyboard staves clefs simple time signatures note values and rests. Reading encompasses notes to a 5th above and a 5th below Middle C. The notes A and E are introduced first played by a braced 3rd finger of each hand. This encourages free movement of the whole arm from the shoulder and develops a natural balanced hand position before the 5-finger position is gradually mastered. The first line of the treble stave and the fifth line of the bass stave are highlighted and further lines are similarly treated as the child learns more notes. Staccato slurs ties upbeats and repeat signs are all experienced in Book 1. Tempo and dynamic markings encourage musical playing and are in English in order to avoid knowledge overload .
SKU: BT.ALF009834304854
ISBN 9789834304850. English.
With its highly attractive, full-colour, age-appropriate layout, Poco Piano For Young Children encourages young children to take the first steps on a difficult, but thoroughly rewarding journey. Together withthe Music Theory for Young Children books, the Poco Piano For Young Children series leads the child from the very beginning to grade 1 level.
Poco Piano for Young Children includesexercises to help the child develop technique, rhythm and reading, and it involves the child in activities such as pasting, colouring, tracing, circling and clapping.
B ook 4 reinforces and revisesallconcepts learned in Books 1-3. It contains attractive repertoire in various styles and from different periods. Each piece has a comprehensive preparation section covering the musical, technical and structural matters which willbe encountered. The aim is to cultivate critical thinking and musical awareness in the student. As in previous books, the child is actively involved through the use of writing, colouring, tracing and pasting, thereby making thepreparation an enjoyable activity. The standard of the repertoire approaches that of Grade 1.
SKU: BT.ALF009834304846
ISBN 9789834304843. English.
Book 3 introduces the concepts ofkey,key signature, scales, triads, tones and semitones in a novel and exciting way: each key is a group of characters or objects with note-names (i.e. a band, a birthday party, a clothes-line with garments). Certain notes belong,while all other notes (accidentals) are outsiders. Transposition is a natural outcome of this concept, with a tune moving from one group to another. The child masters eight new notes (up to Treble High G and down to Bass Low F),which facilitates the playing of more adventurous repertoire. The semiquaver, semiquaver rest, dotted crotchet and dotted quaver are introduced, and tempo markings are now in Italian. As in the previous two books, ensemble-playingis encouraged.
SKU: BT.POCO9789834304836
ISBN 9789834304836. English.
SKU: BT.POCO9789834304829
ISBN 9789834304829. English.
