When the music chicken lays an egg ...
Piano School for Children
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Eike Wernhard
When the music chicken lays an egg ...
Piano School for Children

Eike Wernhard
When the music chicken lays an egg ...

Piano School for Children

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Description:

  • Language: German
  • Pages: 127
  • Release: 29.09.2025
  • Rubric: Methods
  • Genre: Children's Songs
  • ISMN: 9790006637423
This piano school follows a classical approach and yet sets its own pedagogical accents. The introduction is made via the black keys, without notation on staves. Notation is only introduced after the first playing experiences, starting from middle C, so that the two staves can be perceived as a unit.

Special importance is attached to developing a sensual feeling for musical pulse and meter: A rhythmic language in connection with movement patterns ("body percussion"), rhythm poems and finally the underlaying of many pieces with original lyrics lay the foundation for a rhythmic playing that can be experienced holistically. The optional teacher accompaniments also pursue this goal and at the same time awaken the joy of making music together. The repeatedly inserted "sound paintings" encourage the children to improvise according to pictorial guidelines and with the help of musical motifs.

At the end of the volume, the pupils have basic musical and pianistic skills: they read notes and play pieces within two octaves, know the accidentals, the note values up to the sixteenth note as well as the most important musical symbols, they play with both hands together in parallel and contrary motion as well as melodies with simple accompaniments, they are familiar with changing positions, have practiced over- and under-pitching and have made their first acquaintance with scales.

All this is conveyed through pieces of the most varied character and musical expression; these include new compositions by the author as well as children's and folk songs from all over the world and little blues, boogie and dance pieces (e.g. waltzes and samba)

And last but not least, Frauke Bahr illustrates with her charming and original illustrations what chickens and woodpeckers have contributed to the development of the notation of melodies and rhythms. Her watercolors bring the animal figures to life and stimulate children's imaginations.


Eike Wernhard
can look back on many years of artistic and teaching experience, most recently as a professor of piano at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. He has also emerged as a music writer and has written contributions to reference works and a monograph on Clara Haskil.