“Twelve Magical Musical Masters” is a book containing the stories of twelve well-known classical composers. Each page features an illustration and a short bio that encourages the reader to press a button to hear the accompanying music.
I received a copy of this book for review and am happy to add it to my bookshelf in my living room/waiting room area for students to peruse.
The twelve composers included are:
- Vivaldi
- J.S. Bach
- Mozart Continue reading “Book Review: Twelve Magical Musical Masters”
I recently found out about a great resource by Bobbie Rastall, a piano teacher from Maryland. Bobbie has an online database that allows teachers to search for a title or composer and see a list of which classical anthologies for students contain that piece of music. What a great resource!
Just a quick post to announce the randomly selected winner of 
For the past six months, I have been working on a new resource to help piano teachers compose and improvise with their students. I am going to give you the full scoop on the new resource soon, but I wanted to introduce the resource with this article discussing how composition can be used in the private piano lesson. Update: the new “Composition & Improvisation Prompts for Piano” eBook is now available 
Classroom music educators are taught and encouraged to be music advocates, especially when music programs are in danger of being cut due to budget restraints. Regardless of your stance on the inclusion of music education in public schools, Independent Music Teachers are certainly advocates of music in general, and perhaps also for the rest of the arts.