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		<title>Shades of Sound: American Holidays Bundle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This bundle includes <strong><a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-listening-coloring-book-america">Shades of Sound: America</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-listening-coloring-book-thanksgiving">Shades of Sound: Thanksgiving</a></strong> for one low price!

Get your piano students listening to great classical music!

The Shades of Sound Listening and Coloring Books are a great way to encourage students to listen to great piano and orchestral repertoire. Students of all ages will love coloring the fun pictures while listening to and learning from the music of the great composers.

The Thanksgiving book focuses on Thanksgiving repertoire for solo piano as well as for orchestra. It includes 9 pieces to listen to by composers such as MacDowell, Liszt, Beethoven, Ives, Copland and more! These great works are all about pilgrims, American Indians, pilgrimages, harvest seasons, holiday memories and gratitude.

Celebrate the Fourth of July with seventeen exciting pieces of classical music. Explore works by composers such as Copland, Ives, Barber, Brubeck, Gershwin, Debussy, Tchaikovsky and more! From musical fireworks to marching bands to American folk tunes, this collection has it all!

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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The Thanksgiving Shades of Sound book includes 8 different pieces, including:</strong></p>
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<li>AD MDCXX, from Sea Pieces by Edward MacDowell</li>
<li>Piano Sonata No. 3 by Alberto Ginastera</li>
<li>Selections from Annees de Pelerinage by Franz Liszt</li>
<li>Indianisches Tagebuch by Ferruccio Busoni</li>
<li>Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland</li>
<li>Thanksgiving and Forefathers’ Day by Charles Ives</li>
<li>Harvest Hymn by Percy Grainger</li>
<li>String Quartet No. 15 by Ludwig van Beethoven</li>
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<p><strong>The America Shades of Sound book includes 17 different pieces, including:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel</li>
<li>Philadelphia Sonata #1 by Reinagle</li>
<li>Excursions by Barber</li>
<li>Fireworks by Debussy</li>
<li>Maple Leaf Rag by Joplin</li>
<li>Variations on America by Ives</li>
<li>Study No. 20 by Ives</li>
<li>The Fourth of July by Ives</li>
<li>The Things Our Fathers Loved by Ives</li>
<li>They All Sang Yankee Doodle by Brubeck</li>
<li>Fanfare for the Common Man by Copland</li>
<li>Rodeo: Hoe-Down by Copland</li>
<li>3 Preludes by Gershwin</li>
<li>American Sonata by Siegmeister</li>
<li>Overture for an American by Mayer</li>
<li>1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky</li>
<li>The Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa, arr. Wilberg</li>
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		<title>Shades of Sound Listening &#038; Coloring Book: America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2019 16:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Get your piano students listening to great classical music!

The Shades of Sound Listening and Coloring Books are a great way to encourage students to listen to great piano and orchestral repertoire. Students of all ages will love coloring the fun pictures while listening to and learning from the music of the great composers.

Coloring while listening to the music is advantageous because it engages three different types of learning –aural, visual and tactile –and it is something that all ages can enjoy!

Celebrate the Fourth of July with seventeen exciting pieces of classical music. Explore works by composers such as Copland, Ives, Barber, Brubeck, Gershwin, Debussy, Tchaikovsky and more! From musical fireworks to marching bands to American folk tunes, this collection has it all!

<a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?p=7850" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Read more about how and why this curriculum works!</span></a>

<em>Digital download, 65 pages.</em>

Also available in two Bundle Deals: <strong><a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-american-holidays-bundle">Shades of Sound: American Holidays</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-holiday-bundle">Shades of Sound: Holidays</a></strong>.]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My goal in creating this curriculum is to help piano students gain an interest in and a love and appreciation for great classical music.</p>
<p>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! Through this fun curriculum, students will learn about the musical periods and the great composers and their works. Listening repertoire selected includes selections from the standard solo piano literature, as well as solo piano and orchestra literature and orchestral works.</p>
<p>My hope is that students can add just 5-10 minutes of listening per day to their normal practicing. 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.</p>
<p><strong>The America Shades of Sound book includes 17 different pieces, including:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel</li>
<li>Philadelphia Sonata #1 by Reinagle</li>
<li>Excursions by Barber</li>
<li>Fireworks by Debussy</li>
<li>Maple Leaf Rag by Joplin</li>
<li>Variations on America by Ives</li>
<li>Study No. 20 by Ives</li>
<li>The Fourth of July by Ives</li>
<li>The Things Our Fathers Loved by Ives</li>
<li>They All Sang Yankee Doodle by Brubeck</li>
<li>Fanfare for the Common Man by Copland</li>
<li>Rodeo: Hoe-Down by Copland</li>
<li>3 Preludes by Gershwin</li>
<li>American Sonata by Siegmeister</li>
<li>Overture for an American by Mayer</li>
<li>1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky</li>
<li>The Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa, arr. Wilberg</li>
</ul>
<p>Students may use <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKSdXm0-3z5vEahz7xAuxKEDZF8-Qy5SE"><strong>The Playful Piano – Shades of Sound: America</strong></a> playlist to listen along with their book. The playlist is ordered to go right along with the pieces in the book.</p>
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		<title>Shades of Sound: Holiday Bundle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 23:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Get <strong>all SIX</strong> Holiday Shades of Sound: Listening &#38; Coloring Books for one amazing price!

Includes studio licensed copies of <strong><a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-coloring-book-halloween">Shades of Sound: Halloween</a>, <a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-listening-coloring-book-thanksgiving">Shades of Sound: Thanksgiving</a>, <a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-listening-coloring-book-christmas">Shades of Sound: Christmas, </a><a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-listening-coloring-book-new-years-day">Shades of Sound: New Year's Day</a>, <a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-listening-coloring-book-valentines-day">Shades of Sound: Valentines Day </a></strong>and<strong> <a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?product=shades-of-sound-listening-coloring-book-america">Shades of Sound: America</a>!</strong>

<a href="https://www.theplayfulpiano.com/?p=7850" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Read more about how and why this curriculum works!</span></a>

<em>Digital download, 254 pages. $75 Value!</em>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Get your piano students listening to great classical music!</p>
<p>The Shades of Sound Listening and Coloring Books are a great way to encourage students to listen to great piano and orchestral repertoire. Students of all ages will love coloring the fun pictures while listening to and learning from the music of the great composers.</p>
<p>Coloring while listening to the music is advantageous because it engages three different types of learning –aural, visual and tactile –and it is something that all ages can enjoy!</p>
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		<title>Forte Fireworks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This lesson plan includes everything you need to teach a super fun and hands-on one-hour class all about loud and soft in music, with the patriotic theme of “Forte Fireworks!”

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<em>50 pages, digital download</em>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We loved writing and teaching this lesson and hope you and your students enjoy it as well! Children will enjoy learning and singing about loud and soft in music to Handel’s <em>Music for the Royal Fireworks</em>; will enjoy a fun dynamics matching game; will march in their own loud and soft instrument parade; will be introduced to John Philip Sousa’s <em>Stars and Stripes </em>Forever; will learn to play a pre-staff notation piece on the piano; will compose their own piece using forte and piano notes; will be introduced to Tchaikovsky’s <em>1812 </em>Overture; will go on a magical musical adventure to a fireworks show; and will have fun learning all about dynamics through song, play, movement, listening and art.</p>
<p>Children in our Mighty Musicians music classes will experience and learn about music through listening, singing, movement and play, and will also use their newfound knowledge to work on their basic piano skills. Students will also learn about the great composers and their music, and have the opportunity to do some composing themselves! This class is appropriate for children who have taken the Early Explorers class, have had some piano or music experience, or for those who may not have had a class in the past but are eager to learn and get a jumpstart into music!</p>
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