Jul 11 – 14 2011
Music Reading 1: How to Introduce Music Reading

In these courses the instructor will demonstrate, through examples and teacher participation, a natural approach to music reading where the children learn by absorbing and by “doing”. As Dr Suzuki discovered, children have an amazing ability to learn through their senses. Music reading and theory, apparently very rational subjects, can be introduced in exactly the same way.

The instructor will show how children can be guided to see the written score and hear it. Learning music reading in the Suzuki style means that musical notation will grow naturally out of the children’s playing abilities and not treated as a separate subject, allowing the children’s discovery of the written language to evolve directly from their own experiences.