Nihao from Austria! Intermediate Piano pieces (ENGLISH/CHINESE)

Basic Ideas of Teaching, The AME Book Series

Essentials of AME teaching:
The AME contains all the important targets of a modern music education. This means for example the performing of repertoire, the improvisation, the score reading, the music theory and harmony, the culture education and new ideas in performing and presentation of music.

Multicultural teaching in all senses:
The AME follows the ideas in the curriculum of Austrian music schools to teach music as a holistic education with a poly-aesthetic understanding in different fields:

1. Different cultural learning and understanding of different arts. Painting, literature, architecture and historic stories helps to understand different styles of music
2. Personal interpretation of music including different sound experiences from the beginning of learning music.
3. Create own improvisations and compositions by using different ways of art: singing, making music, drawing and create stories.
4. Exploration of music and his background helps to form and develop a personal opinion about music and culture.

What's in the AME-Books:
The AME Book has the basic idea to give a special way for student and their teachers to learn the well-known famous music oft the European classic. We think, that learning piano is not only a getting known and a hard practice of basic technic skills with big effort. This only does not make a musician with an own personality. Responsible teaching gives the student the opportunity to be an interpreter, a performer and artist from the beginning of learning a instrument.

Taking this into consideration, it is necessary to explain the student the distinction of the famous compositions he should play. This can only done seriously by learning the historical, cultural and social background of the music. In this book we try to give the student paintings, paintings of buildings and persons and some small stories for understanding the music. A good artist education is an education of the personal senses, the intellect and the feelings of the student. This will give the student wide knowledge, motivation and enthusiasm.

In this book we lead the student through different periods; introduce some typical composers and their artist character. In the second part, we present some songs, from typical Austrian children’s songs, Christmas carols and some folk music, which melodies have also influenced classic composers.

This will help him to find a personal way of performing this music and will gives him the chance to grow up his self realization, which we think is an ultimate ambition in any music and artist education.