Description
Coloring while listening to music helps students to focus on the music and experience it in a creative and engaging way. The Shades of Sound Listening & Coloring Books are a music history and music appreciation curriculum that aims to help introduce students to classical music. Playlists are included, accessible by QR code, so students can read about the composer and the music, listen to the music and color the accompanying coloring pages. Fun for music students in private or group settings, as well as music lovers of all ages!
The Winter Shades of Sound book includes 14 different pieces, including:
- The Snow is Dancing by Claude Debussy
- Footsteps in the Snow by Claude Debussy
- Winter Wind Etude by Frederic Chopin
- The Four Seasons: Winter by Antonio Vivaldi
- Recomposed: Winter by Max Richter
- Improvisation on Winter by Gabriela Montero
- Winter Fairy by Sergei Prokofiev
- Troika from the Lieutenant Kije Suite by Sergei Prokofiev
- The Skater’s Waltz by Emile Waldteufel
- Prelude and Fugue in C minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Passaggio by Ludovico Einaudi
- Elegy for the Arctic by Ludovico Einaudi
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Randall Thompson
- Before Spring by Emma Lou Diemer
Students may use The Playful Piano – Shades of Sound: Winter playlist to listen along with their book. The playlist is ordered to go right along with the pieces in the book. Watch a preview of the book here.
The Christmas Shades of Sound book includes 20 different pieces, including:
- In Dulci Jubilo from the Christmas Tree Suite by Liszt
- Pastorale from the Christmas Oratorio by Bach
- Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring by Bach/Hess
- Farandole from L’arlesienne Suite #1 by Bizet
- Christmas Sonatina by Reinecke
- Elegy #4 by Busoni
- The Adoration of the Magi by Respighi
- Winter Sonatina by Rowley
- Christmas Concerto by Corelli
- Ave Maria by Schubert/Liszt
- Sleigh Bells in the Snow by Gillock
- Diversions by Dello Joio
- Nuit de Noel by Busoni
- Sheep May Safely Graze by Bach/Petri
- Carol Symphony by Hely-Hutchinson
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky
- Trepak by Tchaikovsky
- Arabian Dance by Tchaikovsky
- Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky
- Hallelujah Chorus by Handel
Students may use The Playful Piano – Christmas Listening Playlist to listen along with their book. The playlist is ordered to go right along with the book, and includes the optional “Further Listening” pieces as well.
Features of Shades of Sound: Nutcracker –
- Each movement of the ballet is featured on a page that tells what is happening in the story, some behind the scenes information about the music and the composer, and what to listen for in the music.
- Students can rate the piece from 1 to 5 and write what they liked about it. Other arrangements and versions of the piece are listed, and a QR code takes you to a playlist of the original music plus other versions of the piece.
- There is also a playlist at the beginning of the book with just the original Nutcracker music that you can listen to straight through.
- Each piece has a coloring page to accompany it. Included in total are 30 beautiful coloring pages (with smaller elements to color on most other pages as well).
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