Valentines Day Shades Of Sound : A Listening & Coloring Book For Pianists

Get your piano students listening to great classical music! The Shades of Sound Listening and Coloring Books are a great way to encourage students to listen to great piano and orchestral repertoire. Students of all ages will love coloring the fun pictures while listening to and learning from the music of the great composers. This Shades of Sound Valentines Day edition includes 16 pieces of romantic and love-themed piano and orchestral literature. Includes background and historical information on the pieces and the composers, and a beautiful full-page coloring page for each piece. My goal in creating this curriculum is to help piano students gain an interest in and a love and appreciation for great classical music. Aspiring pianists need to know the literature, hear the greats perform, and be inspired and excited by the great music that is available! Just as writers need to read, read, read, pianists need to listen! Through this fun curriculum, students will learn about the musical periods and the great composers and their works. Listening repertoire selected includes selections from the standard solo piano literature, as well as piano and orchestra literature and orchestral works. My hope is that students can add just 5-10 minutes of listening per day to their normal practicing. Listening to great music will change their understanding of music and will vastly increase their music history knowledge. It will excite and inspire them, encourage further study and listening, give them new pieces to add to their own repertoire wish list, infuse more great music into their lives, homes and families, and will boost their musicianship and expression to the next level. The Valentines Day Shades of Sound book includes 16 different pieces, including: Liebestraum No. 3 by Franz Liszt Etude No. 4, "Embraceable You" by Earl Wild String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters" by Leos Janacek Written on the Sky by Max Richter Romance Op. 24 No. 9 by Jean Sibelius Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt Romance, "O pourquoi donc" ("O Why?") by Franz Liszt Warum? ("Why?") Op. 12 No. 3 by Robert Schumann Romance Op. 28 No. 2 by Robert Schumann Romance Op. 21 Nos. 1 & 3 by Clara Schumann Romeo and Juliet Before Parting by Sergei Prokofiev Intermezzo Op. 118 No. 2 by Johannes Brahms My Funny Valentine, arranged for Piano Trio by Kenji Bunch Salut d'Amour by Sir Edward Elgar O mio babbino caro by Giacomo Puccini Ballade No. 4 by Frederic Chopin Students may use The Playful Piano - Valentines Day Listening Playlist to listen along with their book. The playlist is ordered to go right along with the book, and includes the optional "Further Listening" pieces as well.

• | Author: Jennifer Boster
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jan 24, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 38 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1984204025
• | ISBN-13: 9781984204028