Listening & Coloring for Valentines Day
Just in time for Valentines Day is my newest release in the Shades of Sound: Listening & Coloring Books series! I had so much fun creating this resource and choosing a selection of romance and love-themed piano and orchestral literature.
If you are not familiar with my other listening & coloring books, let me tell you a little bit about this series! I created this series because I have found that many piano students are not listening to classical music, and they don’t “like” classical music – at least that’s what they think! There is this disconnect and lack of excitement that often comes when students are assigned classical repertoire, simply because they are not familiar with it, and they have not had the chance to gain an appreciation of it. That is my goal with this series – to help our students grow to love and appreciate the great classical music that is out there!
Aspiring pianists need to know the literature, hear the greats perform, and be inspired and excited by the great music that is available! Just as writers need to read, read, read, pianists need to listen! With my listening and coloring books, students are given some background information on the piece and the composer. Then they get to color the beautiful illustrations as they LISTEN to the music! It’s that simple. The great thing about this curriculum is that it takes hardly any time out of the students’ lesson time to help your students start to learn about the great music. My hope is that students can add just 5-10 minutes of listening per day to their normal practicing. Think of all of the great music they will be exposed to with just 5 minutes per day!
You can also use this book as a great activity for a group class – print out the selected pieces you would like to teach your students about, read through the background information together and then they get to color as they listen! Students of all ages and levels will LOVE to listen and color as they learn about the great music out there.
Listening to great music will change their understanding of music and will vastly increase their music history knowledge. It will excite and inspire them, encourage further study and listening, give them new pieces to add to their own repertoire wish list, infuse more great music into their lives, homes and families, and will boost their musicianship and expression to the next level.
