Musical Development of the Child

Teaching through playing is not substitute for the patient, rigorous individual training that must go on if a child is to become a competent instrumentalist. So many learning processes and so many delicate and complex coordinations are involved in the first piano lesson that it is little wonder that children soon become discouraged.  If, however, the child’s first musical experiences are joyful, if in his musical play his rhythmic, aural and muscular responses are quickened, the child with...