and Teaching Activities. Par BARDEN CHRISTINE H. / KOWALCHYK GAYLE / LANCASTER . The Rhythm Ensembles and Teaching Activities Book is designed for teachers of Music for Little Mozarts. It includes eight rhythm ensembles featuring pieces accompanied by one or two rhythm instruments. By studying these ensembles, students learn to identify rhythm patterns. Teaching activities focus on three areas---r…

Fun with Music FriendsT Coloring Books feature a story extension of the curriculum, for motivation when away from home or traveling, or to engage a younger sibling in a pretend music class.

Par BARDEN CHRISTINE H. / KOWALCHYK GAYLE / LANCASTER . The Rhythm Speller Book 3 reinforces rhythm skills based on the concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Book 3. Each page of the Rhythm Speller Book has two activities---a rhythm-writing activity and a rhythm-reading activity. The written activities reinforce note values and counting through coloring, circling, drawing, or matching. The rhyth…

Par BARDEN CHRISTINE H. / KOWALCHYK GAYLE / LANCASTER . The Rhythm Speller Book 4 reinforces rhythm skills based on the concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Book 4. Each page of the Rhythm Speller Book has two activities---a rhythm-writing activity and a rhythm-reading activity. The written activities reinforce note values and counting through coloring, circling, drawing, or matching. The rhyth…

Lesson Book 1 is pre-reading. Concepts taught are: How to sit at the piano- Correct hand position- High and low- Loud and soft (forte and piano)- Keyboard topography- Bar line and measure, Quarter, half, whole notes and rests- and Repeat signs. The first pieces in the book are played on the black keys. Later in the book, C D E for the RH and C B A for the LH (Middle C position) are taught with let…