Play and Play - Teacher's Edition

Play and Play Piano Book for Beginners" is for piano teachers and parents to show how to apply the Kodály Piano Teaching Method in easy and engaging exercises. Using game songs and folk songs, the piano teacher can have children and young beginners playing on the piano and keyboard on their very first lesson.

Diane Engle wrote Play and Play! based on the Kodály Piano Teaching Method, and over 30 years of teaching, both school music and piano, as well teaching piano teachers the Kodály Method. This well tested child developmental approach for learning to play the piano:

• Follows the way a child learns naturally in a step-by-step sequence for simple application,

• Relates to a child’s own physical and intellectual development for deep musical learning, and

• Progresses from activities through game to song to music symbols with ease and lots of fun!

Piano teachers teach students to become music readers and develop other important skills:

• Higher Order Thinking Skills
• Listening Skills
• Creativity
• Eye-Hand Coordination
• Social Skills
• Self Esteem

The piano music is taken from an extensive collection of children’s songs, folk songs from around the world, including American folk songs, game songs, art music, and the music of the classical masters. Each song has an illustrated color sheet that engages the student and makes the learning exciting, and helps the piano lessons go much easier for the piano teacher.

Play and Play! is fun, easy and the best way for piano teachers to teach children the piano!