Music education articles about piano teaching and music history


		Is it important to teach small children to read music notes and play piano? How piano learning can improve the intellectual development of your child? Read music education articles written by Hellene Hiner about history and new approaches to music and piano teaching.

Read the music education articles written by Hellene Hiner about history, the current state, and new approaches to the music and piano teaching.


		Soft Way to Mozart as a 'Table of Musical Elements' In music education 'TO BE or not to be' is REALLY about 'TO SEE or not to see'


		Language of our souls There is one odd paradox present in our world: while we are highly technically advanced, most of us are basically illiterate. There is an international language that is not taught in public schools, and the lack of which leads to ignorance and a loss of spirituality. This is the language of music. Imagine our planet governed by technically equipped but spiritually undeveloped people. I get scared even thinking of living in this world, don't you?..


		How traditional piano lessons cripple our children However, music education is still based on the blunders related to the ignorance of the most important psychological rules of human perception. This throws us back onto educational traditions from several centuries ago, and puts the mentality of contemporary people in danger. The errors of music pedagogy are not as innocent as we used to think them. They contribute to the low self-esteem and disappointment of our children, and kill the desire to study music at all. This is the real reason for the total music illiteracy of people. The cutting of budgets in public music education is the only material proof of the general catastrophe...