Folk Songs

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Can someone recommend me a good folk song collection for a young piano student with two years of study?

Thanks!

-- Linda (noname_poster@yahoo.com), October 22, 2002

Answers

It would be helpful to know what series your child is using and what level in the series. Children vary in their progress over two years.

-- Arlene Steffen (asteffen@fresno.edu), October 23, 2002.

Arlene,

She's playing quite a few songs from Encore (Alfred), Essential Keyboard Repertoire Vol. 1, Burgmuller's 25 Easy & Progressive Studies (25 Etudes), Op. 100... Basically, I'm looking for music that is a bit easier than those listed for her sight playing aside from what she's been assigned from her formal study.

Thanks in advanced.

-- Linda (noname_poster@yahoo.com), October 23, 2002.


"Leila Fletcher - Music Lessons Has Begun" is the book I use to train my students for sight reading. I do not use this as the main primer because the layout is quite unattractive for young children( black & white ) but this book has many SIMPLE, familiar tunes. As I said, I use this book to train sight reading and because the pieces are simple, I can also concentrate on teaching tone production, memorisation and etc... rather than concentrating on the complexity of the notes.

Hope this helps !

-- Kathy Kok (kathy.kok@danielspc.com.au), November 06, 2002.


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