Bärenreiter Wenn das Notenhuhn ein Ei legt …

Bärenreiter Wenn das Notenhuhn ein Ei legt ... is a child-oriented beginner's school for piano and presents an optimal compromise between a classical approach and pedagogical elements. Beginners get started with the black keys, while musical notation is introduced after a while of playing. The focus is particularly on rhythmic playing, so that children are given a feeling for pulse and meter, because this in particular is the key to successful, impressive music-making.

The content is taught in a practical way using playing pieces in the form of new compositions by the author, as well as children's and folk songs from all over the world and small blues, boogie and dance pieces. In the end, the up-and-coming pianists will be able to play pieces in the range of two octaves, to lead the hands parallel and opposite and to play simple melodies with accompaniment. In addition, they are able to over- and underplay, are familiar with changes of position, and have practiced scales. Music theory knowledge now includes note reading and knowledge of note values and musical symbols.

The edition is rounded out with appealing illustrations that incorporate chickens and woodpeckers into the notation of melodies and rhythms in a way that is easy to understand.

Contents:

• Introduction
  
• Preface
  
• The Piano
  
• Rhythm language and rhythm gestures
  
• First orientation on the keyboard
  
• The keyboard
  
• The fingering
  
• The fingers explore the black keys
  
• Playing pieces on black
  
• keys
  
• Sound painting: how the animals move
  
• The note values (quarter, half, whole and dotted half)
  
• Rhythm poems
  
• The beat
  
• Playing pieces on black and white keys
  
• Sound painting: Tatü tata
  
• Introduction to musical notation
  
• The notes
  
• The tonal range g-f1
  
• Playing pieces according to notes
  
• "Mirror notes
  
• Rhythm poems
  
• The dynamics: forte and piano
  
• Sound painting: In the mountains
  
• The clefs
  
• The f-g1 tonal space
  
• Pieces in the 5-note space
  
• The rests
  
• Rhythm poem
  
• Sound painting: ringing bells
  
• The eighth note
  
• Rhythm poems
  
• Playing pieces with eighth notes
  
• The (quarter) upbeat
  
• The articulation: legato and staccato
  
• Plays with articulation
  
• Sound painting: voices in the rainforest
  
• Extension of the tonal space (d-h1)
  
• The tonal space e-a1
  
• Plays in the extended tonal space
  
• The transposition signs and the auxiliary lines
  
• Transposition to other keys
  
• The overtie
  
• The tonal space d-h1
  
• Extension of the rhythmic notation
  
• The dotted rhythm
  
• Rhythm poem
  
• Playing pieces with dotted quarter notes
  
• Crescendo and decrescendo
  
• Sound painting: getting louder and softer with four notes
  
• The glissando
  
• The fermata
  
• Extending the tonal space (c-c2)
  
• The tonal space c-c2
  
• Playing pieces in the range of 2 octaves
  
• Extension of the rhythmic notation: The eighth bar, the syncopation and the sixteenths
  
• Rhythm poems
  
• Extension of the playing technique
  
• Change of positions
  
• The silent finger change
  
• Sound painting: In the open
  
• Superset and subset
  
• The scale
  
• Playing pieces in changing hand positions