Flowering Fields

• Level: Early Elementary
• Pages: 4 pages, 2 pages of music, cover included!
• Style: Relaxing
• Bonus and Features: mp3 performance track; First notes have note names in them to help find position and learn note names.
• Format: PDF instant download
• Series: Entering Beautiful Places – Set 1, Set 2

Much like lavender plants blowing in the spring breeze, Flowering Fields has a peaceful, hopeful sound. A gentle reminder that spring does come – whether it be literal spring, or a spring of hope after a difficult season in life. Older students especially will love the nuanced and mature sounds in this piece. It contains some pensiveness, but the feeling of hope comes out on top, something I’ve found to be true in my own life after a difficult season.

What level is Flowering Fields?

Flowering Fields is an elementary level piece. The smallest note value is a quarter note. The piece is written in F Major, but all accidentals are included (only B flat). Multiple registers are explored, but only at the end of the piece after the patterns have been played numerous times, making it the perfect piece for those who may feel nervous or unsure about playing in various octaves. 

The damper pedal is held throughout the entire piece. This gives the piece a mature sound, but the notes are carefully selected to avoid the sound becoming “mushy” with the damper held down the entire time. As with pieces in all the Entering Beautiful Places pieces, note names are written in for each note when it first appears. Then, are taken away when students have already been introduced to this note. 

Bonus recording included!

Flowering Fields comes with a bonus mp3 recording performed by Wendy Stevens. You are permitted to send this example performance track to your students to help them learn the piece.

More About the Entering Beautiful Places Series:

Flowering Fields is a part of the Entering Beautiful Places series that gives older students (like teens and adults) who are just learning to read music or just learning to play piano beautiful, mature sounding music. This series features only Music Adults Love® and Music Teens Love® – beautiful, mature sounding music that doesn’t sound like it comes from a child’s method book.

Entering Beautiful Places always includes note names the first time a note is used. This is helpful for students just learning to read or needing to become more fluent in reading music on the staff. However, those “helps” are taken away and students then process these helps in a way that assists the in learning the notes on staff.

The collections in this series include:

• Finding Beautiful Places 1 – EE (Early Elementary) Music on the black keys; For those with no prior piano experience
• Finding Beautiful Places 2 – EE (Early Elementary) More of the same kind of music as above.
• Entering Beautiful Places 1 – E (Elementary) Music for those who are transitioning to the white keys or who need to review their white key note names
• Entering Beautiful Places 2 – E (Elementary) More music for those transitioning from black to white keys. Flowering Fields is part of this set.
• In Beautiful Places – E (Elementary) Music for mid elementary students containing some across the bar line syncopation, but music that is still quite achievable and beautiful at this level
• Exploring Beautiful Places – LE (Late Elementary) Music for the late elementary pianist that contains eighth notes that are easy to feel and play.

What is the Studio License?

Flowering Fields is delivered digitally (through your email receipt) and is studio licensed. This means that you can print and use this for any student that you directly teach for your entire lifetime of teaching.