Description

'Playing Piano Is Fun' is a keyboard tutor series for beginners. It is designed to meet the developmental needs of children as they journey through the wonderful world of music. The tunes are specially composed by Alice Chua, and are based on the characters and subjects from the classic stories of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. The literary experience is translated into the language of music with the intention of awakening the musical interests of children.

'Playing Piano Is Fun' is a novel approach developed through the author’s practical experience derived from teacher-pupil interaction. The large music font size captures the students’ attention and helps them to focus. Meanwhile, pages are left intentionally without pictures to encourage students to further express their creativity by providing illustrations for the songs themselves. New elements are introduced incrementally and are incorporated progressively. Teacher’s accompaniment is encouraged to enhance the musical experience, thus inspiring and motivating students. Some suggestions for the enhancement of the teaching elements can be found inside the front cover. In addition to playing piano, this series’ unique approach includes listening, singing, transposing, harmonising, improvising and composing at an early stage.

Pages: 64 (+stickers)
Editions: Rhythm MP

Pages include:
Cheerful stickers simply for FUN as the series are called!

1. Title page and copyright notices
2. Foreword
3. About the Author
4. Dedication
5. Contents

Part One:
6. Space Notes in the Bass Clef
7. Stepping Up and Down The Looking-Glass
9. Skipping Up and Down The Looking-Glass
11. The Little Voice of Gnat
13. Rocking-Horse-Fly
15. Snap-Dragon-Fly
17. Bread-and-Butter-Fly

Part Two:
18. Higher C, D, E, F & G on the Treble Clef
19. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
21. Tweedledum’s ‘Nohow!’
22. Staccato
23. Tweedledee’s ‘Contrariwise!’
25. Tweedledum’s White Rattle

Part Three:
26. C, D, E, F & G on the Bass Clef
27. Music by Fiddles and Fiddle-Sticks
29. The Tricky Walrus
30. Repeat Sign
31. The Cheeky Carpenter
33. A Very Long Poem

Part Four: Chords & Intervals
34. C & G7 Chords
35. Dancing Baby Oysters
37. Waltzing Baby Oysters
38. F Chord
39. Baby Oysters Cha-Cha-Cha
40. Intervals
41. Trotting Baby Oysters

Part Five: Scales & Broken Chords
42. C Major
43. Scaling Up to Humpty Dumpty’s C House
44. Broken Chord of C Major
45. The Lion and the Unicorn
46. G Major
47. Scaling Up to Humpty Dumpty’s G House
48. Broken Chord of G Major
49. Messengers Haigha and Hatta
50. D Major
51. Scaling Up to Humpty Dumpty’s D House
52. Broken Chord of D Major
53. Ham-Sandwiches and Hay
54. F Major
55. Scaling Up to Humpty Dumpty’s F House
56. Broken Chord of F Major
57. Looking-Glass Cake