The Musical Looking Glass: Note-Reading & Early Piano Fluency Through Singing, Guided Discovery, and Creative Play

The Musical Looking Glass is designed to build musical understanding for musicians of all instruments through solfege singing and piano keyboard fluency.

Novice musicians without a piano background face a variety of apparent puzzles:

- Why is B to C a half step, when F to G is a whole step?

- Why are there two note names between G and A, but only one note?

- How is an arpeggio the same as a chord? (And what exactly is a chord?)

The piano offers a visual clarity for understanding music theory which is unrivaled by any other instrument. Even a basic piano knowledge brings transparency to concepts such as note names, intervals, and chords. This understanding is essential for players of not only melody instruments - e.g. strings and winds - but also of other harmony instruments such as guitar.

In this method, young players journey into the heart of music as a language. Rather than confronting the math and memorization of traditional theory instruction, students enjoy a rich playground to explore sounds, discover the hidden relationships of melody and harmony, and begin speaking the language of music.

The Musical Looking Glass equips musicians of all ages for a lifetime of joyful and creative music-making.

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76 full-color pages 25 full-page illustrations