New music right from the start
Experimenting on and with the whole piano is the aim of the booklet with new playing techniques for children by Ji-Youn Song.
Under the title My piano - all the way - at the beginning the pianist, piano teacher and concert organist Ji-Youn Song presents 15 character pieces and exercises with new playing techniques for piano. Through her own intensive involvement with new music, the author has discovered through teaching children how beneficial it can be, especially at the beginning, to work with experimental music-making techniques. In the carefully written foreword, it is expressed that it is very important to her to make the awareness of arcs of tension and proportions, but also the development of graphic notation and the experience of basic musical phenomena such as high-low, long-short, loud-quiet tangible and understandable through gestures and physical movements.
With the spelling of the title, Ji-Youn Song indicates her intention to play with the pupils on and with the whole piano from the very beginning, to give free rein to the desire to experiment and thus to enable essential experiences in personal and musical terms. A video recording made by children can be accessed for all pieces via a QR code. The author also provides valuable tips on additional educational literature and suitable compositions by Cage, Cowell, Lachenmann, Dinescu and others.
The famous quote from Rumi comes to mind spontaneously: «Beyond right and wrong lies a place. That is where we meet.»
Ji-Youn Song: My piano - completely - at the beginning, character pieces and exercises with new playing techniques, BA 10879, € 16.95, Bärenreiter, Kassel
