- Level: Early Elementary
- Pages: 6 pages, 3 pages of music, cover included!
- Style: Restless and Flowing
- Bonus and Features: mp3 performance track; Black key; Hand positions pictured
- Format: PDF instant download
- Series: Finding Beautiful Places – Set 1, Set 2
Like fluttering leaves cascading down from a stately tree, Fluttering Foliage is a piece that brings wonder, satisfaction, and a sense of gentle focus.
This black-key piece (reading by finger number and direction of notes) is like taking a stroll in nature on a perfect, crisp autumn day – not hurried, or rushed, but happy to be alive and wandering freely.
What level is Fluttering Foliage?
Fluttering Foliage is an early elementary piece written on black keys. Three fingers play on white keys in a natural-feeling hand position. All fingerings are indicated. There is a bit of movement across the black keys in two sections throughout the piece, but in easily repeatable patterns that do not stray from the original hand position. The smallest note value is a quarter note, and the largest is a dotted quarter note. Dynamics are indicated, and include piano, crescendo and decrescendo, and ritardando.
The piece is written in triple meter, which gives it a feeling of constant movement. The damper pedal is held throughout the piece, which allows beginning students to sound mature without adding in the difficulty of true pedaling before they’re ready.
Bonus recording included!
Fluttering Foliage 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 Finding Beautiful Places Series:
Fluttering Foliage is part of the Finding Beautiful Places series that gives older students (like teens and adults) beautiful music that doesn’t make them sound like a child. This series is especially easy and helpful as hand positions are pictured, finger numbers are indicated on each note, and the hands are mostly on the black keys so finding the correct notes are easy. This series is made especially for teens and adults as is part of our Music Adults Love® and Music Teens Love® collection – beautiful, mature sounding music that doesn’t sound like it comes from a child’s method book.
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. Bittersweet Creek is part of this set.
- 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.
- 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?
Fluttering Foliage 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.
Dixie –
Fluttering Foliage is beautiful, and my 7-yr-old beginner loves playing it! As with so many of Wendy’s pieces, it provides opportunity for students to develop familiarity with the keyboard topography as they cross over from octave to octave. Also, they learn early on how to create that “Rainbow” with the hand that is crossing over with a loose and flexible wrist. My student will be playing this in our Fall Recital at the end of October!
Lisa K –
Fluttering Foliage is another piece that has become popular with a variety of student levels, and again – the sophistication and opportunity for pattern and technique work is wonderful. Parents have enjoyed hearing this one as well. Am sure it will make at least one appearance on our early November music party!
Kay S. –
This has unique, catchy pieces that my students love.
Ann Pepper –
Perfect for teaching by rote or reading or combination of the two. It has a lovely flow and both my adult and young students are enjoying playing it
Lori –
My students love playing Wendy’s pieces! I can use this piece from the very first lesson, teaching by rote, and helping students fall in love with making music at the piano.
Robin Steinweg –
I have five students who fell in love with Fluttering Foliage after they heard it. They’ve all mastered it. I have a problem, now. They all want to perform it at our fall recital!!! Maybe I can intersperse them throughout the program and say something like, “Another gust of wind came up–time for more Fluttering Foliage!” 😀