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How to Get Your Child to Practice ... Without Resorting to Violence
By Cynthia Richards
This book deals with the traps and pitfalls, the benefits and success techniques that enable parents to make the most of their child's musical experience while building parent/child relationships.
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The Complete Musician - Violin Book One
By Cynthia Richards and Jerry Jaccard
A unique, new teaching method implementing the philosopy of
Zoltán Kodály
in an American approach to
beginning violin study. Folk tunes are used to train the musician in the child and then to transfer that training to the violin.
"...the psychological procedure of our whole music-making is faulty – it must be inverted ... So far it is the fingers that have run ahead, with the head and the heart running after them. The way of the true musician is the opposite: he starts with the head and the heart and from there directs the fingers, the larynx, or whatever instrument. It is because they do not go about it in this way that so many of our pianists play mechanically."
Kodály in Bónis, F. (1964) The selected writings of Zoltán Kodály. New York: Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., p. 163.
A Teacher's Guide is included as an appendix.
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The Complete Musician - Violin Book Two
By Cynthia Richards and Jerry Jaccard
A unique, new teaching method implementing the philosopy of
Zoltán Kodály in an American approach to beginning violin study. Folk tunes are used to train the musician in the child and then to transfer that training to the violin.
Continues from Book One.
A Teacher's Guide is included as an appendix.
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The Complete Musician - Violin Book Three
By Cynthia Richards and Jerry Jaccard
A unique, new teaching method implementing the philosopy of
Zoltán Kodály in an American approach to beginning violin study.
Continues from Book Two.
A Teacher's Guide is included as an appendix.
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The Complete Musician - Cello Book One
By Cynthia Richards, Jerry Jaccard
and Monica Call
A unique, new teaching method implementing the philosopy of
Zoltán Kodály in an American approach to beginning cello study. Folk tunes are used to train the musician in the child and then to transfer that training to the cello.
This book is adapted from The Complete Musician - Violin Book One, using the same approaches and tunes but modified to accommodate technical aspects of the cello. .
A Teacher's Guide is not yet available for the cello book.
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The Complete Musician - Cello Book Two
By Cynthia Richards, Monica Call and Jerry Jaccard
This volume, which runs parallel to Violin Book Two, continues the learning process started
in Cello Book One. BRAND NEW! Just compiled for Intermuse, 2008.
A Teacher's Guide is not yet available.
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