More than Music Lessons

More than Music Lessons
Author: Merlin B. Thompson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2022-02-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1538164051

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.

Blue Moon Bassoon

Blue Moon Bassoon
Author: Amanda Pierce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780999421451

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.

Private Music Lessons

Private Music Lessons
Author: Colleen M. Conway
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2019-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781733228701

This book is for any music teacher working with elementary, middle school, and high school students in a private lesson setting. Materials for this text have been developed over 30 years of private teaching and have specifically been piloted with undergraduate and graduate music performance students at the University of Michigan, as they work to improve their teaching methods with their own private students.

Franklin's Music Lessons

Franklin's Music Lessons
Author: Paulette Bourgeois
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Franklin (Fictitious character : Bourgeois)
ISBN: 9781553371724

In this Level 2 first reader, youngsters will identify with Franklin has he struggles with his first piano lessons.

Studying Suzuki® Piano: More Than Music

Studying Suzuki® Piano: More Than Music
Author: Carole Bigler
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1999-12-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457403491

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.

Lessons from a Street-wise Professor

Lessons from a Street-wise Professor
Author: Ramon Ricker
Publisher: Soundown Inc
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 098286390X

"Lessons from a Street-Wise Professor" sheds light on what every successful musician knows but most music schools don't teach--that a musician, regardless of instrument or specialty, is a small business and with that comes the need for entrepreneurial savvy.

Music Lessons

Music Lessons
Author: Norbert Putman
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781618500908

History of iconic recording involving Norbert Putman

Music Lessons

Music Lessons
Author: Bob Wiseman
Publisher: ECW Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020-07-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1770415122

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.

What to Listen For in Music

What to Listen For in Music
Author: Aaron Copland
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-02-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1101513144

Now in trade paperback: “The definitive guide to musical enjoyment” (Forum). In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestions that will bring readers a deeper appreciation of the most viscerally rewarding of all art forms.

Piano Lessons

Piano Lessons
Author: Noah Adams
Publisher: Delta
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1997-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0385318219

Piano Lessons is Noah Adams's delightful and moving chronicle of his fifty-second year--a year already filled with long, fast workdays and too little spare time--as he answers at last a lifelong call: to learn to play the piano. The twelve monthly chapters span from January--when after decades of growing affection for keyboard artists and artisans he finally plunges in and buys a piano--through December, when as a surprise Christmas present for his wife he dresses in a tuxedo and, in flickering candlelight, snow falling outside the windows, he attempts their favorite piece of music, a difficult third-year composition he's been struggling with in secret to get to this very moment. Among the up-tempo triumphs and unexpected setbacks, Noah Adams interweaves the rich history and folklore that surround the piano. And along the way, set between the ragtime rhythms and boogie-woogie beats, there are encounters with--and insights from--masters of the keyboard, from Glenn Gould and Leon Fleisher ("I was a bit embarrassed," he writes; "telling Leon Fleisher about my ambitions for piano lessons is like telling Julia Child about plans to make toast in the morning") to Dr. John and Tori Amos. As a storyteller, Noah Adams has perfect pitch. In the foreground here, like a familiar melody, are the challenges of learning a complex new skill as an adult, when enthusiasm meets the necessary repetition of tedious scales at the end of a twelve-hour workday. Lingering in the background, like a subtle bass line, are the quiet concerns of how we spend our time and how our priorities shift as we proceed through life. For Piano Lessons is really an adventure story filled with obstacles to overcome and grand leaps forward, eccentric geniuses and quiet moments of pre-dawn practice, as Noah Adams travels across country and keyboard, pursuing his dream and keeping the rhythm.