Poco Piano for Young Children Book 3

With its highly attractive, full-colour, age-appropriate layout, Poco Piano
for Young Children encourages young children to take the first steps on a
difficult, but thoroughly rewarding journey. Together with the Music Theory
for Young Children books, the Poco Piano for Young Children series leads the
child from the very beginning to grade 1 level.

Poco Piano for Young Children includes exercises to help thechild develop
technique, rhythm and reading, and it involves the child in activities such as
pasting, colouring, tracing, circling and clapping.

Book 3 introduces the concepts of key, key signature, scales, triads, tones
and semitones in a novel and exciting way: each key is a group of characters
or objects with note-names (i.e. a band, a birthday party, aclothes-line with
garments). Certain notes belong, while all other notes (accidentals) are
outsiders. Transposition is a natural outcome of this concept, with a tune
moving from one group to another. The child masters eight new notes (up to
Treble High G and down to Bass Low F), which facilitates theplaying of more
adventurous repertoire. The semiquaver, semiquaver rest, dotted crotchet and
dotted quaver are introduced, and tempo markings are now in Italian. As in the
previous two books, ensemble-playing is encouraged.