The Musical Looking Glass

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>The Musical Looking Glass is designed to build musical understanding for musicians of all instruments through solfege singing and piano keyboard fluency.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Novice musicians without a piano background face a variety of apparent puzzles:</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>• Why is B to C a half step when F to G is a whole step?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>• Why are there two note names between G and A but only one note?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>• How is an arpeggio the same as a chord? (And what exactly is a chord?)</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>The piano offers a visual clarity for understanding music theory which is unrivaled by any other instrument. Even a basic piano knowledge brings transparency to concepts such as note names intervals and chords. This understanding is essential for players of not only melody instruments - e.g. strings and winds - but also of other harmony instruments such as guitar.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>In this method young players journey into the heart of music as a language. Rather than confronting the math and memorization of traditional theory instruction students enjoy a rich playground to explore sounds discover the hidden relationships of melody and harmony and begin speaking the language of music.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>The Musical Looking Glass equips musicians of all ages for a lifetime of joyful and creative music-making.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>ALL INSTRUMENTS</span></p><p></p><p>76 full-color pages | 25 full-page illustrations</p>