Music Theory For Young Children - Book 1: Theory

Ying Ying Ng's Music Theory For Young Children series is a fun and novel way to teach children the fundamentals of music theory. Young players will explore and learn about staves clefs note identification time-signatures key-signatures note-values and rest-values. Child centered the books in the Music Theory For Young Children series use clear and simple instructions appealing illustrations and a variety of self-motivating exercises such as tracing colouring and pasting (includes stickers)

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 4 reinforces and revises allconcepts 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 will be 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 the preparation an enjoyable activity. The standard of the repertoire approaches that of Grade 1.

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 3 introduces the concepts of key 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-playing is encouraged.

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?.

This book is designed as a workbook to teach theory specifically relevant to the viola at a level that is attainable and challenging yet fun for young children. It is intended to build confidence and solidify the relationshipbetween theory and playing. Children will enjoy the drawing and coloring activities in the book while developing the fundamentals of viola theory at the same time. The book can be used to teach beginners the basics of theory oreven to refresh musicians who might need a small review of viola theory. No matter who uses this book it will give a strong foundation to viola theory and through this understanding will foster a greater love of playing. Conceptscovered in this book include: learning the parts of the viola learning about line and space notes learning musical symbols and how to draw music.

This booklet is designed for young children. Developed after several years of teaching and research it aims to present the essential concepts of music theory.

Theory has never been so easy! Chester's Easy-Peasy Theory by Carol Barratt gives young children a real sense of enjoyment as they begin to learn the language of music. The worksheets are carefully graded to take intoaccount the development of pupil's reading and writing skills. They can be used alongside any instrumental lessons or methods and are suitable for young beginners aged 5 years and upwards.