Contents are: Principles of Study and Guidance * Basic Technique * Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star: Variations and Theme (Shinichi Suzuki) * Lightly Row (Folk Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * Song of the Wind (Folk Song) * May Song (Folk Song) * Allegretto (M. Giuliani) * Perpetual Motion (Shinichi Suzuki) * Rigadoon (H. Purcell) * Are You Sleeping, Brother John? (Folk Song) * French Folk Song (Folk Song) * Tanz (J. Führman) * Tanz (J.C. Bach) * With Steady Hands (F. Longay) * Meadow Minuet (F. Longay).

Time To Begin, the cornerstone of the Music Tree series, is a unique and highly effective approach to beginning piano instruction. Starting with off-staff notation, it leads the student to reading direction and intervals, and climaxes with the discovery of the Grand Staff. Also included is a carefully designed program of rhythm, technic and creative work. The cassette features electronic renditions of the music: it offers the accompaniment alone, or both the student's and teacher's parts. The Teacher's Handbook is an invaluable tool. This volume contains essays regarding how students learn, on technic, and how rhythm is presented. Teaching aspects are discussed, and suggestions are offered for each unit of the book.

Shinichi Suzuki has been described as a humanitarian as well as an educator and musician. While a young man, he observed that children absorbed their spoken language based on their environment. This led him to adapt his teaching of music to the same method, that which is called the Mother Tongue Approach. Through listening to the sound of music, very young children soon imitate the tones they hear. Suzuki believes that talent is not inherited, but is a product of environment, and that every child can perform music just as he has learned to speak, if the proper teaching approach is used. Revised in 1995, The Man and His Philosophy contains many new photos, some of them depicting the many "firsts" in the Suzuki world, such as Dr. Suzuki with his first students, plus much more. This is a complete history of the Suzuki movement, in words and pictures, from its beginnings to the present day.

Identifies the scriptural references for the wording, imagery, and themes in Bach's 200 surviving church cantatas. Offers line-by-line translations, and summarizes the religious or literary themes of each text within the specific context of the cantata as a whole. Includes numerous indexes of movement summaries, chorale stanzas (including those appearing more than once), scriptural quotations and strict paraphrases, librettists, and first performance dates, with indexes of cantatas in chronological and liturgical order. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Contents are: Für Elise, Wo O59 (L. van Beethoven) * Arabesque from 25 Easy and Progressive Studies, Op. 100, No. 2 (F. Burgmüller) * By the Limpid Stream from 25 Easy and Progressive Studies, Op. 100, No. 7 (F. Burgmüller) * Sonatina in F Major from Zwei Leichte Sonaten No. 2, Kinsky-Halm, Anh. 5 (Allegro assai, Rondo: Allegro) (L. van Beethoven) * Old French Song from Album for the Young, Op. 39, No. 16 (P.I. Tchaikovsky) * Prelude in C Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. I, BWV 846 (J.S. Bach) * Invention No. 1 from Two-Part Inventions (J.S. Bach) * Sonata No. 48, Hob. XVI/35 (Allegro con brio, Adagio, Finale: Allegro) (J. Haydn) * Siciliano from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 11 (R. Schumann) * First Loss from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 16 (R. Schumann).