A Journey in Music Reading
This 3-volume series presents an effective sequence for beginning music readers to experience the joy of reading and playing music at the keyboard. Each unit is divided into three parts: "Stop! Look! Learn!," in which new material is presented with follow-up written assignments, "Stop! Look! Play!," in which new material is used in simple playing examples, and "Destination," which uses folk songs and original music to offer many opportunities to "see and play" what has been presented in the learning part of the unit.
Each unit has a corresponding "Stop! Listen!" appendix in which the ear is trained to "hear" what has been "seen" on the printed page. The philosophical and psychological basis for the Music Road series is a natural extension of the Suzuki approach, yet teachers with traditional approaches find the books equally successful with their students.