Maia (5 years old) and Camelia

Hello, everyone!

We were sight-reading the album “My First Piano Pieces” when we came across a little “gem”, called “A Hen”, written by N. Lyubarski. We instantly fell in love with the so melodic and nice to the ears piece, so I wasn't surprised to hear that Maia wanted to learn it. At the beginning it seemed easy to play, but we soon realized how this piece is perfect for those who need to practice on coordination and rhythm: both hands are in treble clef, so the child needs to squeeze all fingers in a rather small perimeter, and even alternate from time to time, right hand with left hand when playing “sol”.
This is the way Maia interprets it (I hope the rhythm is correct):



And these are the music dictation videos (made for right and left hand):





Music appreciation:
Since the protagonist of our song this week is a hen, we went through the book “Listen to the Birds” (which I presented in a previous post, at page 6 of our diary), and the book “Carnival of the Animals”, written by Camille Saint-Saëns.



In this last one, we find four tracks that were of interest for us these days: “Hens and Roosters”, “Cuckoo in the woods”, “Birds”, and “Swan”.



I highly recommend these books as introduction into the magical land of classical music!
And another recommendation would be the “Classical Baby Music Show”, which I exposed Maia ever since she herself was a baby:



I was so curious to see if now, after these 3 and a half months of piano she recognizes pieces she hears in the video. And wow, how she began yelling with joy when she heard “Morning Mood”, or Tchaikovsky, Bach and Camille Saint-Saëns with his “Aquarium”.

Happy learning, everyone!

camelia1902 wrote: Oh, Natalia, we live in Romania, that is Eastern Europe ((. It is so, so far away from you .

Don't worry about it! Thanks a lot! You are so kind!
My oldest daughter's God Father is also Romanian. He is a Priest in our Church. And we sing "Christ has risen" and read The Gospel in Romanian every Easter This language is very good for melodies!

Wow, Natalia, this is so great. Thank you so much for sharing this!
Have a nice day! Hugs from Maia and I !

Thank you so much, dear Hellene for the advice!!!

Yes, we heard of "staccato" when we learnt Bach's "Musette", and I felt like adding it to "A Hen", too, but wasn't really sure where exactly .

Oh, about writing rhythm I haven't read anything, yet. If it is not too much to ask, I'll appreciate a little help.

We were planning to go, again, through all Theory Theater' videos before the recital .

Have a wonderful day!

camelia1902 wrote: [...] and I felt like adding it to "A Hen", too, but wasn't really sure where exactly .

A Hen: