Name: Shades of Sound Listening &amp; Coloring Book: Summer
SKU: SS-014
Availability: InStock

Shades of Sound Listening & Coloring Book: Summer

$15.00

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.

Coloring while listening to the music is advantageous because it engages three different types of learning –aural, visual and tactile –and it is something that all ages can enjoy!

This volume of the series focuses on music for the summer season. With musical examples by composers from the baroque era through modern day, this book has a variety of styles and genres, including romantic overtures, piano rags, jazz opera arias, baroque orchestral works, piano fantasias, improvisations and barcarolles, light orchestral works, piano trios and more. Visit a musical world full of enchanted fairies, cotton fields, gorgeous sunsets, blazing heat and summer thunderstorms. I hope you enjoy this book!

Digital download, 68 pages.

**Now includes temporary license to email individual PDF’s (included) to students who you teach remotely during the coronavirus outbreak**

Description

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 solo 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 Summer Shades of Sound book includes 17 different pieces, including:

Summer Song by Agathe Backer-Grondahl
The Four Seasons: Summer by Antonio Vivaldi
Recomposed: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons – Summer by Max Richter
Improvisation on Summer by Gabriela Montero
June: Barcarolle by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
August: The Harvest by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Felix Mendelssohn
Fantasia on “The Last Rose of Summer” by Felix Mendelssohn
Summer Fairy by Sergei Prokofiev
Midsummer Nocturne by Aaron Copland
The Seasons: Summer by John Cage
The Land: Summer by Elizabeth Maconchy
Russian Summer by Judith Lang Zaimont
Peacherine Rag by Scott Joplin
Beau Soir by Claude Debussy
Summer Skies by Leroy Anderson
Summertime by George Gershwin

Students may use The Playful Piano – Shades of Sound: Summer playlist to listen along with their book. The playlist is ordered to go right along with the pieces in the book.