Louise Goss Knihy

Focusing on complete musicianship, this series offers beginners a diverse repertoire that includes folk, jazz, and pop music. It encourages creativity by allowing students to rearrange, transpose, and compose new pieces from provided segments. Technical skills are developed through exercises targeting greater facility, blocked intervals, chords, and playing with both hands. Guided training steps promote intelligent practice habits, making it a comprehensive approach to music education.

Focusing on 20th-century composers, this volume of the Contemporary Piano Literature series showcases vibrant solos from notable figures like Bartók and Shostakovich, many of which were commissioned for the Frances Clark Library. Alongside the music, informative biographies and engaging portraits provide insight into the composers' lives, making it an enriching resource for students of all ages.

Designed to support the six levels of core piano materials, this series serves as a technical foundation for students. It uniquely addresses and systematically prepares learners for the technical challenges found in the piano repertoire associated with each level, ensuring a thorough understanding and mastery of skills.

Focused on fostering complete musicianship, this edition of "The Music Tree" series offers beginners a diverse repertoire that includes folk, jazz, and pop music. It emphasizes student creativity by allowing them to rearrange, transpose, or complete musical segments, encouraging original compositions. Additionally, it addresses technical skills such as playing blocked intervals and chords, and promotes hands-together playing. Guided training steps are incorporated to develop intelligent practice habits, making it a comprehensive resource for budding musicians.

Focusing on comprehensive musicianship, this series offers beginners a diverse repertoire that includes folk, jazz, and pop. It promotes creativity by allowing students to rearrange, transpose, and complete musical segments, fostering original compositions. Additionally, it addresses technical skills such as blocked intervals, chords, and coordinated playing. Guided training steps are incorporated to enhance intelligent practice habits, making the learning process engaging and effective.

The series serves as a foundational resource in the Frances Clark Library, meticulously structured to address the technical challenges faced by piano students at six distinct levels. Each book offers thorough and systematic guidance tailored to the repertoire corresponding to the student's skill level, ensuring comprehensive preparation for mastering piano techniques.

Time to Begin Activities is colorful, cheerful and a delight for students to complete either at the lesson or at home. Activities reinforce reading, rhythm and theory introduced in Time to Begin. Each unit includes at least one game-like activity. As students near the grand staff, note names direction and intervals become an integrated activity.

Time To Begin, the cornerstone of the Music Tree series, is a unique and highly effective approach to beginning piano instruction. Starting with off-staff notation, it leads the student to reading direction and intervals, and climaxes with the discovery of the Grand Staff. Also included is a carefully designed program of rhythm, technic and creative work. The cassette features electronic renditions of the music: it offers the accompaniment alone, or both the student's and teacher's parts. The Teacher's Handbook is an invaluable tool. This volume contains essays regarding how students learn, on technic, and how rhythm is presented. Teaching aspects are discussed, and suggestions are offered for each unit of the book.