Tag Archives: early childhood

Babies and Music

By joy (admin) | Published: 25 March 2010
Check out this interesting news article, reporting about a research study done on babies and their response to rhythm versus speech.  Here’s the summary from another site reporting on the same research: Human infants are born to dance, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Psychologists from the United Kingdom [...]
Posted in Current Events, Early Childhood Music, Resources / Links, Rhythm, Topics in Teaching Piano | Also tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Early Childhood Online Resources

By joy (admin) | Published: 19 March 2010
I’ve been digging around online lately, looking for early childhood music resources.  (Yes, I’m sorry – I’m still on this kick!) Look what I found!  TONS of great links: Songs / Sheet Music MakingMusicFun.com – free printable sheet music with lyrics of all kinds of children’s songs Kididdles.com – free printable sheet music, lyrics, with corresponding [...]
Posted in By Student's Level, Early Childhood Music, Games, Ideas, Resources / Links, Studio Class / Group Lessons | Also tagged , | 2 Comments

Teaching 2-Against-3 Using Movement

By joy (admin) | Published: 18 March 2010
In answer to a question a received last week, I thought I’d talk a little bit more about teaching 2 against 3, as I had mentioned in a post about teaching music through movement. To tell you the truth, I have not needed to teach 2 against 3 very often so far, and when I [...]
Posted in Advanced Level, Beginners/Elementary Level, By Student's Level, Early Childhood Music, For During the Lesson, Ideas, Improving as a Teacher, Intermediate Level, Rhythm, Studio Class / Group Lessons, Topics in Teaching Piano, piano camps | Also tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Music & Movement: Inseparable!

By joy (admin) | Published: 11 March 2010
One of the reasons I’ve been considering offering early childhood music classes is because I am a firm believer in the strong relationship between music and movement.  As an undergrad, I took two semester of Dalcroze Eurhythmics which I found incredibly useful.  We learned movements that fit different meters and learned to respond expressively to [...]
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Early Childhood Music Classes

By joy (admin) | Published: 9 March 2010
Lately, I’ve been considering offering pre-piano music classes for children and their parents — someday, when I have a private studio in my home again (Right now, I teach piano privately through my university’s community music school.).  My goal in providing these classes someday is to better prepare young children (think ages 0-5, especially) for [...]
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