Ruth and Nayouki Taneda have taught music to children for more than 30 years. In this handbook, they show how it is possible to develop absolute pitch (also known as "perfect pitch") in preschool children, giving them a skill previously thought of as an innate privilege of only especially gifted musicians. The authors discuss the myths related to absolute pitch, and they describe the effects of absolute pitch on a child's musical upbringing. In the process, they present a new style of instrumental instruction.

Education for Absolute Pitch: A New Way to Learn Piano

Naoyuki Taneda

Ruth Taneda

Acoustic Learning, Inc.

We Hear and Play Volume 1

Christopher Aruffo

Arts & Photography

We Hear and Play Volume 2

Nayouki Taneda

The third piano instruction book of the We Hear and Play system.

We Hear and Play Volume 3

Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection 4: Poe on Poetry

Literature & Fiction

Edgar-Allan-Poe

Poetry

THE BLACK CAT: A man overcome by alcohol sinks into wild depravity, goaded by the haunting spectre of a murdered pet.  THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM: Imprisoned and subjected to extraordinary torments at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition, one man struggles to keep his sanity... and his life.  WILLIAM WILSON is drawn into a desperate struggle against a mysterious doppleganger intent on his destruction.  THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH: As his kingdom dies of a hideous plague, the Prince revels in his palace, sealed away from a gruesome fate. But is he as safe as he believes...? THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER: At his friend's dire pleading, a man braves a living tomb now beset by madness and unknowable disease. THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE: Blinded by the promise of wealth, a man commits the perfect murder... but how will he keep his secret when his own soul turns against him?

Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection 1-3: The Black Cat and Other Stories

MESSAGE FOUND IN A BOTTLE: The sole survivor of a sudden storm is trapped on a phantom freighter, doomed to an unknown destiny. THE OBLONG BOX: An ordinary voyage is cursed by its strange and mysterious cargo. Also includes: THE LIGHT-HOUSE THE OVAL PORTRAIT Total runtime 69 minutes.

Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection 6: Message Found In a Bottle/The Oblong Box

MESSAGE FOUND IN A BOTTLE: The sole survivor of a sudden storm is trapped on a phantom freighter, doomed to an unknown destiny.THE OBLONG BOX: An ordinary voyage is cursed by its strange and mysterious cargo.THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO: Inflamed by intolerable insult, Montresor enacts a gruesome revenge.THE PREMATURE BURIAL: A man who dreams of living death finds himself suddenly trapped within his worst nightmare.LIGEIA: In the shackles of an opium dream, a man struggles with the restless spirit of his deceased wife.ELEONORA:  In the glory of young love, a valley blooms with life.Also includesTHE LIGHT-HOUSETHE OVAL PORTRAIT

Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection 6-8: The Cask of Amontillado and Other Stories

Edgar Allan Poe Audiobook Collection 11-13: The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories

The purpose of this book is to show how to analyze metered verse. It is written especially for the student or actor who, tackling Shakespeare or other classical verse for the very first time, wants clear and direct instructions about what to do. Its content is designed to be a quick and simple explication of principles with which a reader can immediately begin analyzing verse.
 From this book, readers will learn how verse is constructed. The explanations given here are grounded in the natural law of equality, so that any reader may intuitively grasp the logic and sense of metered verse. Readers will learn how and why verse structure produces aesthetic effects.
 FOR STUDENTS AND ACTORS: This guide will help you analyze Shakespeare and other classical poetry. In these pages, you will find simple step-by-step instructions. For the novice who has never worked with classical poetry, this guide provides an essential foundation of knowledge. For a more experienced performer, its principles offer a new perspective to your ongoing work. Using this guide, you will be able to "scan" any verse with accuracy and confidence.
 FOR TEACHERS AND PROFESSIONALS: This guide can help your students learn scansion. Its approach to scansion is adapted from principles of verse set forth by Edgar Allan Poe and is supported by evidence from psycholinguistics and phonetic science. This guide's essential goal is to explain the rationale of verse-- why verse is structured the way it is. Poe's rationale is grounded in fundamental laws of human perception and natural principles of speech. You can adapt the rationale described here to help your students understand any approach to scansion.
 INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION: This second edition of Scansion Made Simple has developed out of practical application of the first-edition material. Students are using Scansion Made Simple to recite Shakespeare in the classroom, and the analyses at prescannedshakespeare.com have revealed certain rhythmical patterns which have required new scan-marks and new instructions. New explanations and discoveries arising from these applications are incorporated into this book.
 For student recitation, the relationship between punctuation, scansion, and recitation has been clarified, and a breath mark [ ] has been introduced to encourage thoughtful use of expressive pausing. Students should find it easier to speak verse more naturally.
 The scansion has new marks. Each of these new marks has been derived from rhythmic patterns observed across multiple Shakespearean texts, and all of them have been implemented on prescannedshakespeare.com.
 Not all of Shakespeare's blank verse is pentameter. The first edition of this book recognized Shakespeare's use of non-pentametric rhyming verse; however, the scans created for prescannedshakespeare.com have also found pairs of lines, within stanzas of blank verse, that are a length other than pentameter. These lines of unusual length always appear in pairs; therefore, because they are equal to each other, they maintain the principle of equality essential for rhythmical verse.
 The second edition of A Rational Guide to Verse: Scansion Made Simple provides a helpful guide, and a more-complete toolbox, for analyzing and reciting classical verse.

A Rational Guide to Verse: Scansion Made Simple, Second Edition

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