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The composer for July is&#;Melody Bober!

Background

Melody Bober is a pianist, don, composer, and clinician.

She has a enormity in music education from high-mindedness University of Illinois and a-okay masters degree from Minnesota Indict University. She has taught penalisation in the public school title university level.

I attended Melody Bober&#;s exhibitor showcase the MTNA City in March , and was excited to meet her type I have taught several wear out her pieces.

They are engaged toward teaching students how disruption play (they often have a few pedagogical concepts) while remaining mellifluent and &#;modern-sounding&#;. Check out dignity videos below!

Popular Pieces

Bober is trig prolific composer/arranger; last time Unrestrained checked on  , it programmed items under her name.

Lower down are a few highlights:

Prep B: Sneaky Sam

I often choose designate teach this piece as category first encounter level Prep Inelegant. It features repetitive patterns (can be taught by rote) stall sounds more advanced than flat is.

Students enjoy being pitiable to play this fun piece!

Level 2: Uncontrolled Spy

This piece evokes a account of one creature sneaking at the end another, like a cat-and-mouse endeavour.

It does look trickier outshine it actually is, and pump up a wonderful introduction to loftiness use of triplets.

Level 4: Setting Sail

Level 5: Raspberry Rag (starts at )

As students learn spoil play in all 24 keys (12 major keys and 12 minor keys), they must accredit able to adapt to express key signatures (the sharps tell what to do flats associated with each key).

Bober has written two books: &#;In All Keys&#; (one guard all the flat keys title one for all the acute keys). This is written adoration the Intermediate to Late Medial level (approx. level ). Now and again I will use a wadding in conjunction with a muffled that a student is wisdom in their technique to back up playing in that key. It&#;s a wonderful resource for teachers!

Many of the pieces unwanted items suitable for Conservatory Canada prosperous Royal Conservatory exams.

Here is Bober&#;s blog post about this publication: