Music for Little Mozarts – Music Lesson Book 1

Description

Lesson Book 1 is pre-reading. Concepts taught are: How to sit at the piano; Correct hand position; High and low; Loud and soft (forte and piano); Keyboard topography; Bar line and measure, Quarter, half, whole notes and rests; and Repeat signs. The first pieces in the book are played on the black keys. Later in the book, C D E for the RH and C B A for the LH (Middle C position) are taught with letter notes (the name of the note is written inside the note head).

Characters introduced: Mozart Mouse, Beethoven Bear, and Elgar E. Elephant.

Table of contents:

• Beethoven Bear and Mozart Mouse and the Musical Argument
• How to Sit at the Piano and Curve Your Fingers!
• Low Sounds
• High Sounds
• Moving Up the Keyboard
• Moving Down the Keyboard
• Loud Sounds
• Soft Sounds
• Left Hand Finger Numbers
• Right Hand Finger Numbers
• 2 Black Keys
• Quarter Note
• Bar Lines
• Left Hand Walking
• Right Hand Marching
• 3 Black Keys
• Quarter Rest
• A Bear’s Song
• A Mouse’s Melody
• E – I – E – I – O!
• On MacDonald’s Farm
• Rockin’ Pony Ride
• Down We Go
• Finding D on the Keyboard
• The D Song
• Finding C on the Keyboard
• The C Song
• Mozart Mouse’s First Minuet
• Half Note
• Nap Time
• Finding E on the Keyboard
• The E Song
• Music Friend Waltz
• Half Rest
• A Three-Note Symphony
• Lost Teddy Bear
• The C Song, Again!
• Finding B on the Keyboard
• The B Song
• The Elephant Song
• Whole Note
• Bright Stars
• Finding A on the Keyboard
• The A Song
• Rainy Day
• Whole Rest
• Little Dance
• Off to Bed
• Concert Day
• Invitation