Let’s Get Started
Let’s Chant
At-Home Activity
Put on an at-home performance for friends, family members, or even a group of stuffies. Play some of your favorite pieces from Keyboard Games Book A, tell a music story, or create a new piece in the moment.
Let’s Sing
Let’s Listen
“The Whale Shark”
From Keyboard Games Book A, pg. 28
Description:
- Dynamics: Loud
- Tempo: Slow
- Meter: Duple (Du-de Du-de)
- Piano Keys Used: Middle note of the three black keys and a set of two black keys
- Keyboard Register: High
- Hands: Alternating hands
- Technique: Alternating arm movement and hands-together movement
Note: Remember that, as you listen to music at home, you can encourage creative movements. Use a variety of freely continuous flowing movements and less free more pulsated movements. Make different body parts “dance” or move in circles. Move like a particular animal (kitten, sloth, caterpillar) or like you’re in a particular mood (happy, mad, excited).
Bonus!
Continue to make creative changes (play it high or lower, faster or slower, change the order of the keys, or add an introduction, ending, or new phrases) to pieces you have learned and are reviewing at home! And keep doing at-home performances for your family, friends, and stuffy audiences.
From the Author
Marilyn Lowe (author of the Music Moves for Piano series):
Marilyn Lowe, who taught piano for more than 40 years, has used her experiences and knowledge to create a non-traditional piano method based on Edwin E. Gordon’s theories of audiation. Other influences include the techniques and theories of Carl Orff, Shinichi Suzuki, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Zolran Kodaly, and Dorothy Taubman.
Lowe used this approach successfully with her students for more than 20 years. Her academic credits include degress in liberal arts and piano from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a master’s degree in piano from Indiana University in Bloomington. Lowe completed additional graduate study in organ and music theory at Indiana University.
She would like to express appreciation to her former music teachers: Nadia Boulanger, Murray Baylor, Walter Robert, and Menahem Pressler.