The Music Moves curriculum is a piano method for the 21st century that builds on the Orff, Kodaly, Suzuki, and Dalcroze methods and applies Edwin E. Gordon's Music Learning Theory to the teaching of piano.
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What Students Will Learn
- To think about music in the context of a meter and a tonality
- To improvise, play by ear, transpose, and harmonize
- To sing and play - accompany singers and instrumentalists
- To perform with comfort and fluency in a variety of social settings
- To play with technical ease and freedom from muscular tension
- To listen to and perform music with understanding - students audiate
- To compose, arrange, read, and write music notation
- To become independent music thinkers
"Marilyn Lowe has brilliantly applied the profound Music Learning Theory of Edwin E. Gordon to create a new approach to piano study that ensures joyfulness, musicality, and an authentic connection to music making. This approach avoids many of the significant pitfalls of standard instruction. Music Moves for Piano focuses on developing the entire musician - the student's ability to sing, to move gracefully, to audiate musical substance with understanding, to make a palpable physical connection to music. And it does this in conjunction with a wise, systematic presentation of purely pianistic skills: keyboard knowledge, technique and body awareness, notation, and, initially, attractive folk literature. The series of books represents a monumental and inspired contribution to piano pedagogy, which will surely become the benchmark by which other methods, before and after, will be measured."
Seymour Fink, Professor Emeritus Binghampton University
Author of Mastering Piano Technique
