Want your children to learn to appreciate the beauty, peace, and simplicity of nature? Then pass these values on to your kids with music. Music is a powerful tool for expressing ideas and values. Dont let the only music your children hear come from pop tunes on the radio. Enroll your children in music lessons such as the piano to expose them to a tradition of values that will last them a life time.

Musicians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries composed music adapted from traditional folk songs portraying the sights and sounds of rural life and nature. These modern pieces were well remembered by the growing middle class of concert goers. Composers wanted to be remembered for their music with accessible music that was simpler in form and easy to recall. Beethovens Pastoral Symphony is an example.

Children have always enjoyed playing folk songs because the words and melodies are easy for them to remember and sing. Plus the values and ideas they express feed the souls of young children with calming thoughts of nature and simplicity. Here are examples of the folk tunes young children in piano lessons can learn to play in their first or second year.

Home on the Range

Simple Gifts

Shenandoah

Puff the Magic Dragon

All through the Night

Lavenders Blue

Country Gardens

Down by the Riverside

Home Sweet Home

Shepherds Song (from Beethovens Sixth Symphony)

Enroll your children in piano lessons and youll be giving them the power of music to fill their souls and protect their hearts musical values theyll remember for a life time. Plus piano lessons are valuable for young children as they help them learn key reading and math skills, learn to set goals, learn to be persistent, and learn how to take responsibility for their success. Dont let the only music your children hear come from pop tunes on the radio. Enroll them in music lessons such as the piano to expose them to a tradition of values that will last them a life time.