from the Music Reading Department of the Winter 2005 issue

Supplementary photographs to the article
What steps do you assign for
the process of sight-reading?

Editor: Craig Sale

To see photographs from LeAnn Halvorson's article, click here

 

Additional photographs for
Meg Gray's article

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Meg Gray and student Erin Stephens discuss reading issues in a piano etude:

 

Kyrstin and Erin Stephens practice sightreading an ensemble piece:

 

 

Biography

Meg Gray joined the music faculty of Lincoln University of Missouri in the fall of 2000 as professor of piano and class piano. She also maintains an independent piano studio and is active in MTNA. Dr. Gray holds graduate degrees in piano performance and pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma where she studied with E.L. Lancaster, Jane Magrath, Edward Gates and Digby Bell.  

 


Additional photographs for
LeAnn Halvorson's article

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Two students are playing blue "Pre-Staff Melody Shape Cards" in different step-wise hand positions:

 

This student is naming, placing, and playing the "Staff to Key Recognition" flash cards:

 

The students in the next two photos are playing the pink "2nds-5ths Melody Shape Cards" in many different 5 finger patterns:

 

 

Biography

LeAnn Halvorson has taught piano for 26 years. She has a one-year Certificate in Piano Pedagogy, and an Associate Degree in Commercial Art from Valley City State University, Valley City, N.D. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Piano Performance, and Level One Orff Certification from the University of Mary, Bismarck, N.D. Her music publishing company, Music Perceptions (www.musicperceptions.com), has been in business since 1990.  

 

 

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