"gale" wrote in message
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"Chookie" wrote in message
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Tonight, as we sat down to dinner, DS suddenly said, "The song about the
bird?"

"The Lark Ascending" had just started playing on the radio. We last
heard
it
about a week ago, when I had told him it was about a bird.

DS is not quite 32 months :-0

I thought it was a fluke when he identified Dvorak's "Song to the Moon"
a
few
months ago. (At least it's easy to tell him about birds and moons -- he
wanted to know what "E lucevan le stelle" was about yesterday. He's
definitely Too Young To Know!)

So -- do I start saving for the piano now?


violin. it's lovely to hear how much he enjoys what you enjoy!

Sounds like there's a timbre preference growing there . At his age, I'd
recommend group music classes like Kindermusik or Musicgarten (or those held
at community centers, without the franchise name), for at least a few years
before starting private lessons.

Actually, what this means is that you're giving a good environment for music
appreciation to grow. And since preferences seem to be set very young,
you're creating someone who, while he may or may not BE a musician, probably
will have a lifelong love for classical music, at least programmatic songs.

There is a really nice children's video version of "The Magic Flute" which
many of my younger kids find enthralling.

Other good classical works with nice stories:
Pictures at an Exhibition (most are explainable, and the sections are short)
The Animals
Peter and the Wolf
In the Hall of the Mountain King
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