The Non-Musician's Guide to Parenting a Piano Player

Author: Peter Walsh
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530391547
Category : Child musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
"The Non-Musician's Guide to Parenting a Piano Player is quite superb and full of important information that needs to be known by all parents" David Dubal American pianist, author, lecturer, broadcaster and teacher at The Julliard School, New York. "Recommended" Frances Wilson London based pianist, piano teacher, music and art reviewer under the nom de plume, The Cross-Eyed Pianist. "Peter Walsh has a fresh approach and a unique way of saying things that are thought provoking. An excellent piano resource, one which I highly recommend" Piano Discoveries, California. For the first time, an easy to follow, step by step guide that will leave you capable and confident overseeing your child's piano studies. Accounting for all levels of student, from the absolute beginner to the undergraduate, and written with a language accessible to the non-musician, The Non-Musician's Guide to Parenting a Piano Player covers the essential areas, including: . Finding the right piano . Choosing the right piano teacher . Creating an environment to maximise learning . Instilling motivation within your child . Recognising good, from bad practice habits . Improving your child's confidence with public performance

The Parents' Guide to Music

Author: David Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781089543558
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 103

Book Description
Suppose you're a parent who never had the opportunity to learn a musical instrument. You wish that your parents had made choices that led you to the piano, cello, or saxophone. Now you're determined to do better for your child. The only problem is you're not sure where to start. What instrument should your child learn? How does their brain develop differently when they start playing an instrument? How should they practice?THE PARENTS' GUIDE TO MUSIC turns the stress of all these questions into excitement and joy. This quick read will leave you confident about making the right choices for your child's music education. More importantly, you'll be delighted when you realize the depth of the musical world you're gifting to your child.

Raising Musical Kids

Author: Robert A. Cutietta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019994167X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Does music make kids smarter? At what age should a child begin music lessons? Where should you purchase an instrument? What should parents expect from a child's teachers and lessons? How can you get kids to practice? Raising Musical Kids answers these and many other questions as it guides parents through everything from assembling a listening library for kids, to matching a child's personality with an instrument's personality, to finding musical resources in your community. Knowing that children can—and often do—get most of their music education from their school, parent and educator Robert Cutietta explores the features and benefits of elementary and secondary school programs, and shows how parents can work with the schools to provide the best possible music program. Throughout the book, Cutietta emphasizes the joy of participating in music for its own sake. The first edition of Raising Musical Kids delighted and informed parents to equal degrees, and this fully-revised second edition is a book that parents everywhere will treasure as a complete road map for developing their child's musical abilities.

Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting

Author: Noël Janis-Norton
Publisher: Yellow Kite
ISBN: 1444729918
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
Simple strategies for a happier home and more cooperative kids. For children aged 3-13. Finally, a revolutionary programme that gives you simple steps to take the daily battles out of parenting. These strategies resolve one of parents' biggest frustrations: getting your children to listen and do what you ask, the first time you ask. When children are at their best, it is easy to get along with them and enjoy them. However, when they are defiant, argumentative or disrespectful, it is easy to get wound up, to argue back, threaten, nag or shout. If this sounds like the situation in your home too much of the time, then Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting is for you. When you use these strategies, not only will your children become more cooperative, but also more confident, self-reliant and considerate. Learning new skills like Preparing for Success, Descriptive Praise and the Never Ask Twice method can transform your relationship with your child in a short space of time and help bring the joy back into family life. Full of examples and real stories from parents, this book gives you clear step-by-step guidance to achieve Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting. These strategies work!

The Parent's Guide to Effective Practicing

Author: Nancy O'Neill Breth
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1476836272
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
(Educational Piano Library). This guide is a tool for parents to help their children build good practice habits. It brings together a variety of widely used practice tips, written in a way that is easy for children to understand. Parents who use this guide regularly, even if they have limited time or little knowledge of music, can greatly improve the quality of their children's practice sessions. When practicing is interesting and fun, children get good results and want to practice more.

Masterwork classics

Author: Jane Magrath
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739007549
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 52

Book Description
A progressive repertoire series designed to motivate students while allowing them to progress evenly and smoothly from the earliest classics toward intermediate literature. These pieces are from the standard classical literature, chosen to appeal both to teacher and student. Each volume comes with a corresponding CD. Recording artist Valery Lloyd-Watts studied at the Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Royal College of Music in London. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied with Paul Badura-Skoda. She co-authored the text Studying Suzuki Piano: More than Music, which was endorsed by Dr. Suzuki.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Parenting a Teenager

Author: Kate Kelly
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780028612775
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Offers advice on understanding and communicating with teenagers; discouraging drug and alchohol use; instilling healthy habits and work ethics; and preparing teens for life after high school

A Family Guide to Parenting Musically

Author: Lisa Huisman Koops
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197673619
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
"A Family Guide to Parenting Musically is a resource for families who want to make music a more meaningful part of their daily life. The guide is full of ideas about how to engage in musical parenting (doing things to help your child grow musically) and parenting musically (using music to achieve parenting goals). Designed for parents, grandparents, caregivers, and friends, this guide includes ages-and-stages chapters as well as chapters organized by musical activities and scenarios. Seventy activities offer families specific ways to explore the ideas that all humans are musical, music is important, and there are many ways to be musical. Based on the author's research and teaching with families and music over the last 20 years, as well as mothering her own four musical children, A Family Guide to Parenting Musically provides developmental information and research-based discussions in an easy-to-read format. The guide provides insights about using music to make parenting a little (or a lot!) easier, more fun, and more meaningful"--

The Music Parents' Survival Guide

Author: Amy Nathan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199369151
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
This book of parent-to-parent advice aims to encourage, support, and bolster the morale of one of music's most important back-up sections: music parents. Within these pages, more than 150 veteran music parents contribute their experiences, reflections, warnings, and helpful suggestions for how to walk the music-parenting tightrope: how to be supportive but not overbearing, and how to encourage excellence without becoming bogged down in frustration. Among those offering advice are the parents of several top musicians, including the mother of violinist Joshua Bell, the father of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the parents of cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and those of violinist Anne Akiko Meyers. The book also features advice from music educators and more than forty professional musicians, including Paula Robison, Sarah Chang, Anthony McGill, Jennifer Koh, Jonathan Biss, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, Marin Alsop, Christian McBride, Miguel Zen?n, Stephanie Blythe, Lawrence Brownlee, Kelli O'Hara, as well as Joshua Bell, Alisa Weilerstein, Wynton Marsalis, Anne Akiko Meyers, and others. The topics they discuss span a wide range of issues faced by the parents of both instrumentalists and singers, from how to get started and encourage effective practice habits, to how to weather the rough spots, cope with the cost of music training, deal with college and career concerns, and help young musicians discover the role that music can play in their lives. The parents who speak here reach a unanimous and overwhelming conclusion that music parenting is well worth the effort, and the experiences that come with it - from sitting in on early lessons and watching their kids perform onstage to tagging along at music conventions as their youngsters try out instruments at exhibitors' booths - enrich family life with a unique joy in music.

The Piano Handbook

Author: Carl Humphries
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879307271
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Enhanced by an audio CD of selected examples and pieces, a course in playing all major styles of piano covers a history of the instrument and offers progressive instruction in all areas of technique, including posture, fingering, pedalling, scales, and exercises.