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Music for the new school term
Back to school again. Boys and girls who
have already
started playing a musical instrument will no doubt want to
start learning
new pieces with the new school term leading up to Christmas concerts, and there will be lots
of new students
who want to start learning to play music this school year.
The easy music
pieces for each musical instrument here have been designed
with this very
much in mind, so that they will be ideal for learning at home
or in school.
School boards and music teachers should also look carefully at
these pieces
as a source of easy music tuition material.
You can listen to the pieces here.
The price of each of our compilations (6 sheet music solo pieces all with
recorded play-along accompaniment) is still just £7.95 until further notice.
In a recent Department for Education survey in the UK, it
was found
that 22% of all 8-11 year olds who were learning to play a musical
instrument
were playing a stringed instrument (most commonly
violin), and 16%
were playing a
woodwind instrument (such as flute,
clarinet and
saxophone. Lots of students
were found to give up playing on leaving
school but, most interestingly, 15
million people either wanted to take up
playing or resume learning to play
since childhood. This is a huge figure
and gives us very good reason why we
should indulge our children
with as much opportunity as possible to learn to
play music, either
within or outside school.
There are, of course many other reasons, not least because
it is universally
accepted that those who learn to play a musical instrument
usually
develop greater learning skills across the board, and achieve better
social
awareness. Playing in the school orchestra, for instance, involves
participating in a sharing of musical creativity to produce the concert
performance. Music will always be a form of solace and invigoration to
those
who can play, throughout the whole of their lives.
So, back to school. Here's hoping that more children than
ever this year take to
playing a musical instrument and get to love making
music.
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