NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER.  PRODUCT EXPECTED NOVEMBER 15, 2025. The Musical Looking Glass: Note-Reading & Early Piano Fluency Through Singing, Guided Discovery, and Creative Play The Musical Looking Glass, by Hollie Thomas & Elise Winters, builds musical understanding for musicians of all instruments through solfege singing and piano keyboard fluency.  Novice musicians without a piano background face a variety of apparent puzzles: Why is B to C a half step, when F to G is a whole step? Why are there two note names between G and A, but only one note? How is an arpeggio the same as a chord? (And what exactly is a chord?) The piano offers a visual clarity for understanding music theory which is unrivaled by any other instrument. Even a basic piano knowledge brings transparency to concepts such as note names, intervals, and chords. This understanding is essential for players of not only melody...

The new, revised Lines & Spaces book is a note-reading companion for the Kaleidoscopes series for violin, viola, or cello. This second edition of this book is focused on treble, alto, and bass clef note-reading. Sight-singing using moveable-do solfege, which used to be included in Lines & Spaces, is now contained in The Musical Looking Glass. . Lines & Spaces complements the comprehensive musical foundation students build inside The Musical Looking Glass series, which emphasizes piano fluency, moveable-do solfege, guided discovery, harmonic understanding, and creative play. Together, these resources create a cohesive approach to developing musical literacy and instrumental proficiency. . Key features: Alphabetic Note Names: Students transfer the alphabetic note names learned on piano to their string instrument. Their fluency with the asymmetry of natural note names (such as the whole step between F-G versus the half step between B-C) helps them capably navigate the fifth-based organization of string instruments with confidence. Pattern...