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The Harmonious Child: Every Parent's Guide to Musical Instruments, Teachers and Lessons.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
The Harmonious Child: Every Parents Guide to Musical Instruments, Teachers and Lessons, by Beth Luey and Stella Saperstein. Ten Speed Press/Celestial Arts (P.O. Box 7123, Berkeley CA 94707), 2003. 166 pp. $12.95.
If you ever have wished you had an all-inclusive guide to help answer parents' questions about teachers, lessons and instruments, this is the book for you. The Harmonious Child is an excellent resource for parents that provides information about a variety of subjects.
This book was written as a joint effort between a teacher and parent, Beth Luey and Stella Saperstein. Luey's daughter studied piano with Saperstein, who emigrated from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1979. In the book's preface, Saperstein tells how she evolved from the style of teaching she had experienced in Russia, into a more flexible music teacher, while still offering students at all levels and abilities the same dedication and expertise.
The book includes chapters about why children should study music, the best time to begin music study, choosing the right instrument and teacher for your child and the frequently pondered question: "Do music lessons make children smarter?" The authors do a great job of including very important and beneficial information about a wide variety of instruments and their accessibility for children, including piano and other keyboard instruments, string instruments, voice, woodwinds, brass and percussion. Information also is provided about the instruments themselves, how much musical experience the child should have prior to beginning that ...
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...experts in their fields, the editors admirably delineate revealing connections between seemingly divergent chapters and topics. Beth Luey and Richard Abel's bibliography in their chapter on book history (6-10), for example, anticipates insights and resources...
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...Cordelia Candelaria, Chair of the Department of Chicana/o Studies; Nancy Gutierrez, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs; Beth Luey, Director of the Scholarly Publishing Program; Noel Stowe, Chair of the Department of History; and David Young, Dean of...
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...communication officials further claim that multiple submissions are "ethically unacceptable by virtually all scholars."(1) Beth Luey notes that some journal editors view multiple submission as so serious a sin that they report it to the chairperson of the...
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...essays reprinted from Book Research Quarterly are American and write largely from an American perspective. One of the editors, Beth Luey, sets out the issues that the book seeks to address in her very useful introduction 'The Impact of Consolidation and Internationalization...
