Resources For Parents
Why music?
Studies show that children who have musical training show different brain development and improved memory over the course of a year, compared to children with no musical training.
Music is inherently enjoyable. It allows for creativity and individual expression. Students involved in school music groups like choir, band, or orchestra learn cooperation and communication skills. In these groups, everybody plays and everybody’s part is important.
It has often been said that tomorrow’s problems will be solved not by people who know the most, but by people who can think the most creatively. The study of music, whether in a school band, orchestra, or choir, in a private lesson, or just for fun, is exactly the ticket for nurturing your child’s creativity and beginning them on a journey of satisfying musical expression that can last a lifetime.
Here is a collection of music resources for parents of musicians of any age.
Lori Supinie
President
Senseney Music, Inc.
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Am I Musical Bk/CD Features: If you've ever wondered about the music potential of your child or yourself, the music audiation games are for you! No formal education is necessary. These games are fun to play and, at the same time, objectively reveal a general estimate of musical potential of children and adults. Using the game sheets and a pencil, the participant listens to the included CD and answers questions about the music. Use the games as a fun learning activity and to discover your musical strengths and weaknesses. Or give this game to a friend who insists (probably wrongly) that they have no musical talent! Written by the world's foremost expert in the study of music aptitude and beautifully illustrated, this book makes a great gift for a friend or yourself. Table of Contents:
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An Early Start In Music At Home Features: An Early Start in Music at Home is ideal for parents to use at home. A fun collection of 22 wonderful songs for babies, toddlers and infants aged 0-5 years with lyrics and movement suggestions. The accompanying CD provides a demonstration of each song and a backing track to sing along to. The songs explore topics that are appropriate for this age group, such as the body, animals, the seasons and the daily routine. The songs and actions have been carefully designed to stimulate language development, coordination, memory and rhythmic responses.
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Awakening Newborns Children And Adults To The World Of Audiation Text Features: Parents and expectant parents are the best teachers of unborn, newborn, and young children, followed by other relatives and music teachers. The sooner children learn, the more they retain throughout life. This book, written by Edwin E. Gordon, perhaps the world's principal researcher and thinker in music education: * Describes appropriate early music guidance and clarifies trhough modeling how it can be put into play by parents and teachers. * Details in one document how to smoothly make the musical transition from preganancy to early childhood music to school music in a practical and valid manner. This resource is organized in six parts: 1) the introduction, 2) a guide for pregnant women, 3) instructions for parents and other adults, 4) suggestions for early childhood teachers and parents, 5) resources for elementary school music and classroom teachers, and 6) an explanation of relevant research and a summary of Dr. Gordon't Music Learning Theory. A helpful glossary of words and concepts concludes this book. Professor Gordon includes music examples throughout, and on the accompanying CD he demonstrates tonal patterns, rhythm patterns, songs, and chants. Parents, early childhood teachers, and classroom instructors will all benefit from this resource that thoroughly explores the way newborns and young children best learn music. Table of Contents:
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Babies Make Music Teacher/CD Features: This wonderful book allows Moms and Dads to help develop musical skills while spending special time with their babies! Lynn Kleiner, master educator, has written over 30 songs and activities that are fun and easy to do at home or in a learning center classroom environment. Table of Contents:
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Babies Make Music Teachers Features: This wonderful book allows Moms and Dads to help develop musical skills while spending special time with their babies! Lynn Kleiner, master educator, has written over 30 songs and activities that are fun and easy to do at home or in a learning center classroom environment. Table of Contents:
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Diamond In The Sky Text Features: Diamond in the Sky is a children's book on the life of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. It is written for the thousands of children (and their parents) who study the Suzuki® Method of learning music. This book describes Dr. Suzuki's life in clear, chronological order, and includes anecdotes and historical information that bring him to life in a real world. Diamond in the Sky is written for a 4th-6th grade reader, or can be used by parents to read aloud to younger children. Table of Contents:
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Footlight Dreams Features: For many young people, the most intense performing experiences they may have are as part of a cast in a musical or play. Or, they may fall in love with a Broadway or touring production to the extent that they jump headlong into the pursuit of such a dream without the necessary planning and thought that should accompany this big decision. Still, others may have more advanced training and background but holes remain in their knowledge of what it will take to be successful in the business. Veteran actor and educator David Ladd has created a practical guide for performers, teachers and parents to help the decision-making process for aspiring performers as they contemplate their futures in the theatre. Drawing on his experience as a singer/dancer/actor, including a sabbatical year in New York where he chronicled his challenges and successes, Ladd presents the full range of information a student would need before setting their sights on a music theatre career, including interviews from professional actors detailing the significant obstacles to success in the field, statistics on costs of housing, transportation and training, and the audition/casting process for a new, non-Equity performer. The final section of the book guides the reader as he/she explores their own career options, with thought-provoking questions, journaling opportunities and career resources, making this chapter especially useful for teachers working one-on-one with students or in the classroom. It's not an easy path, but if performing is your passion, pursue it with an open mind and listen to your heart - the successes can be glorious!
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Hey Mom Listen To This Text Features: Hey Mom! Listen to This! is a soup-to-nuts guide for parents as they enrich their child's life with music. Starting with early-childhood Kindermusik, the book covers everything from strings, winds, and choral music to piano, guitar, drums, and ethnic instruments, presenting parents with information and options for renting or buying an instrument, selecting a private teacher, and finding performing ensembles for their child. The book continues past a child's high school graduation, with suggestions for continued musical experience for those not pursuing a music degree as well as educational and career options for those interested in making their living in music. Written in a conversational style and packed with comments from professional musicians and music teachers, the guide presents musical options available to parents and their children at every stage of their education, offering specific information on such topics as keeping children motivated to practice and helping them deal with performance nerves. By giving parents the tools to help their child find success and enjoyment in music, this book gives parents confidence that they are making informed decisions for and with their child for the best possible musical experience.
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Kids Make Music Twos and Threes Teacher Features: This wonderful book allows Moms and Dads to help develop musical skills in their 2-3-year olds while sharing special time with their children! Lynn Kleiner, master educator, has written about 30 songs and activities that are fun and easy to do at home or in a learning center classroom environment. Many photographs are included that explain the lessons at a glance. Table of Contents:
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Kids Make Music Twos And Threes Teacher/CD Features: This wonderful book allows Moms and Dads to help develop musical skills in their 2-3-year olds while sharing special time with their children! Lynn Kleiner, master educator, has written about 30 songs and activities that are fun and easy to do at home or in a learning center classroom environment. Many photographs are included that explain the lessons at a glance. Table of Contents:
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Music Notes Chart Features: This trifold introductory music chart starts by first asking, “What is Music?" and is then divided into four sections: Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, and Musical Terms and Directions. Clear musical graphics and concise definitions make Music Notes a handy reference for understanding both basic and necessary terminology. Table of Contents:
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Parents Guide To Effective Practicing Text Features: This guide is a tool for parents to help their children build good practice habits. It brings together a variety of widely used practice tips, written in a way that is easy for children to understand. Parents who use this guide regularly, even if they have limited time or little knowledge of music, can greatly improve the quality of their children's practice sessions. When practicing is interesting and fun, children get good results and want to practice more. Table of Contents:
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Parents Guide To Piano Text Features: This helpful booklet, in question and answer format, offers practical suggestions to parents who are starting their child in piano lessons. In addition to advice on selecting a piano, finding the right teacher, and helping beginners practice, there are thoughts on recitals, contests, and festivals. A great help to teachers in disseminating basic information to parents! 
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Parents Guide To String Instrument Study Text Features: This essential parent's guide is packed with practical information and encouragement. Sample topics: * How to provide a "musically charged" environment. * What is talent? * The parents role: financial, practical and psychological aspects. * Introduction to the string family of instruments. * How to choose a teacher. * Types of instruction - the Suzuki method and others. * How to choose an instrument. * To rent or buy? * How to care for an maintain the instrument ... and much more! Table of Contents:
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Piano Students Guide To Effective Practicing Text Features: Students are genuinely surprised when things go wrong in a lesson. They don't realize that they only half-listen while practicing. When they do notice a problem, they simply play the passage over and over (cementing in the mistakes) and hope for the best. That's what most students call practicing. The Piano Student's Guide to Effective Practicing shows the student how to save time and build good practice habits. It helps the student solve specific problems with 58 concise practice tips - clearly-explained drills and tactics for mastering challenging passages. Printed on heavy-coated stock for durability, the Guide is designed to be kept on the music desk for quick reference by the student when problems occur in daily practice. Practice tips are categorized to address issues of accuracy, balance, clarity, continuity, coordination, comfort, evenness, expression, fingering, rhythm and speed. The tips work for students at all stages and ages, including adults! Table of Contents:
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Play Less Hurt Text Features: Making music at any level is a powerful gift. While musicians have endless resources for learning the basics of their instruments and the theory of music, few books have explored the other subtleties and complexities that musicians face in their quest to play with ease and skill. The demands of solitary practice, hectic rehearsal schedules, challenging repertoire, performance pressures, awkward postures, and other physical strains have left a trail of injured, hearing-impaired, and frustrated musicians who have had few resources to guide them. Playing Less Hurt addresses this need with specific tools to avoid and alleviate injury. Impressively researched, the book is invaluable not only to musicians, but also to the coaches and medical professionals who work with them. Everyone from dentists to orthopedists, audiologists to neurologists, massage therapists and trainers will benefit from Janet Horvath's coherent account of the physiology and psyche of a practicing musician. Writing with knowledge, sympathetic insight, humor, and aplomb, Horvath has created an essential resource for all musicians who want to play better and feel better. Table of Contents:
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Raising An Amazing Musician Text Features: Essential reading for parents wanting to know more about bringing music into the life of their child, this book is packed with expert advice on practically everything from birth right through to early adulthood. Helpful advice is included on: music-making with the very young; recognizing and encouraging musicality; choosing the right instrument; getting the most out of music lessons; encouraging practice; public performance; and music exams. Whatever the stage of learning, this book will help parents and guardians to make the right decisions and to enrich their child's experience of music as an enjoyable, life-enhancing activity. Table of Contents:
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Society And Musical Development Features: As renowned educator Edwin E. Gordon writes, "Music is considered a special mark of humanity." Indeed, our ability to make music helps to define what it is to be human. Yet the study of how we acquire musical skills, and the emphasis music has in our schools, is often given short shrift. Why In this remarkable book, Dr. Gordon imagines conversations about music and music learning from the perspective of composers and conductors, professors and deans, school music teachers...even the parent and the bureaucrat. In Dr. Gordon's view, everyone in our society has a role to play in the value we give music and musicianship. And yet as central as music is, the best of intentions sometimes result in the de-emphasis of music in our schools—another paradox. This illuminating book is a great step forward in understanding our own roles in the great paradoxes of music and music education. And only through understanding these roles can we hope to change society...and ourselves.
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Suzuki Parents Diary Or How I Survived My First 10,000 Twinkles Text Features: What is it like to be a Suzuki parent? Morris gives a humorous and realistic view of what being in Suzuki is like. Table of Contents:
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Suzuki Violinist Text Features: A comprehensive guide to the Suzuki violin literature containing many illustrations. Widely used internationally by both teachers and parents, this newly revised edition contains musical examples which have been inserted for all of the suggested exercises for ease of reference. In addition, an entirely new chapter has been added called "Practice Can Be Fun" which includes material from speeches the author has given at institutes to children, parents and teachers. There are stories on practicing which can be read to children. Table of Contents:
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