Chua Alice - Playing Piano is Fun, Book 2

'Playing Piano Is Fun' is a keyboard tutor series for beginners. It is designed to meet the developmental needs of children as they journey through the wonderful world of music. The tunes are specially composed by Alice Chua, and are based on the characters and subjects from the classic stories of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. The literary experience is translated into the language of music with the intention of awakening the musical interests of children.

'Playing Piano Is Fun' is a novel approach developed through the author’s practical experience derived from teacher-pupil interaction. The large music font size captures the students’ attention and helps them to focus. Meanwhile, pages are left intentionally without pictures to encourage students to further express their creativity by providing illustrations for the songs themselves. New elements are introduced incrementally and are incorporated progressively. Teacher’s accompaniment is encouraged to enhance the musical experience, thus inspiring and motivating students. Some suggestions for the enhancement of the teaching elements can be found inside the front cover. In addition to playing piano, this series’ unique approach includes listening, singing, transposing, harmonising, improvising and composing at an early stage.

Pages include: 
Cheerful stickers simply for FUN as the series are called! 

1. Title page and copyright notices 
2. Foreword 
3. About the Author 
4. Dedication 
5. Contents 

Part One: 
6. Space Notes in the Bass Clef 
7. Stepping Up and Down The Looking-Glass 
9. Skipping Up and Down The Looking-Glass 
11. The Little Voice of Gnat 
13. Rocking-Horse-Fly 
15. Snap-Dragon-Fly 
17. Bread-and-Butter-Fly 

Part Two: 
18. Higher C, D, E, F & G on the Treble Clef 
19. Tweedledum and Tweedledee 
21. Tweedledum’s ‘Nohow!’ 
22. Staccato 
23. Tweedledee’s ‘Contrariwise!’ 
25. Tweedledum’s White Rattle 

Part Three: 
26. C, D, E, F & G on the Bass Clef 
27. Music by Fiddles and Fiddle-Sticks 
29. The Tricky Walrus 
30. Repeat Sign 
31. The Cheeky Carpenter 
33. A Very Long Poem 

Part Four: Chords & Intervals 
34. C & G7 Chords 
35. Dancing Baby Oysters 
37. Waltzing Baby Oysters 
38. F Chord 
39. Baby Oysters Cha-Cha-Cha 
40. Intervals 
41. Trotting Baby Oysters 

Part Five: Scales & Broken Chords 
42. C Major 
43. Scaling Up to Humpty Dumpty’s C House 
44. Broken Chord of C Major 
45. The Lion and the Unicorn 
46. G Major 
47. Scaling Up to Humpty Dumpty’s G House 
48. Broken Chord of G Major 
49. Messengers Haigha and Hatta 
50. D Major 
51. Scaling Up to Humpty Dumpty’s D House 
52. Broken Chord of D Major 
53. Ham-Sandwiches and Hay 
54. F Major 
55. Scaling Up to Humpty Dumpty’s F House 
56. Broken Chord of F Major 
57. Looking-Glass Cake 

Part Six: Concert Pieces 
58. Shaking and Waking (Duet) 
60. The King’s Memorandum Book (Duet) 
62. Manuscript 

Pages: 64 (+stickers)
Language: English
Editions: Rhythm MP