Author Description

Music Moves for Piano is a new piano method for the 21st century that builds on Orff, Kodaly, Suzuki, and Dalcroze and applies Edwin E. Gordon's Music Learning Theory to the teaching of piano. Music Learning Theory is the same as Gordon's "theories of audiation" and is a sequential learning process that guides students to hear music with understanding. The music learning process is similar to the language learning model of: listen, speak/perform, think/improvise, read and write. This piano method can be used for beginning and transfer students of all ages and levels. The purpose of Music Moves for Piano is to help students learn how to audiate and how to play the piano. This method provides a solid foundation for developing music literacy. Supplemental solo repertoire, first learned by rote then from notation, is essential for learning with this piano method and for individualizing instruction. Supplemental repertoire should be selected by the teacher. In Music Moves for Piano, students learn to: Improvise, play by ear, transpose, and harmonize; Compose, arrange, read, and write music notation; Sing and play -- accompany singers and instrumentalists; Perform with comfort and fluency in a variety of social settings; Play with technical ease and freedom from muscular tension; Listen to and perform music with understanding -- students audiate; Think about music in the context of a meter and a tonality; Become independent music thinkers. Music Moves for Piano: Is based on research; Is versatile and adaptable -- appropriate for all ages; Helps students to learn music as an aural art -- "sound before sight"; Builds lifetime skills through movement, chanting, and singing; Is creative -- students make music from the beginning; Develops the entire musician; Internalizes improvisation and audiation skills. - Publisher.