Tina and Tobi Music Notebook No. 1

The Musical Success Program for Children!

With Tina & Tobi, children find music through play: this guiding idea led more than thirty years ago to the first program for early childhood music education and is more relevant today than ever. Through play, children best develop their musical and social abilities, train their listening, sight and rhythmic movement, and experience form and color, language and sound.

Painting Music...

The workbooks provide space for painting to music and for graphic notation. The progressively finer line systems lay the foundation for learning and age-appropriate practice of musical notation. Designed specifically for use and the heavy wear on children's hands, the entire material is carefully and sturdily produced.

Achieve Success Through Play

• Singing and instrumental music-making
• Improvisation
• Ear training through engagement with natural and environmental sounds, and with early and contemporary music of all genres
• Introduction to graphic notation, standard notation and basic musical concepts
• Movement exercises in free play or with play materials (e.g. hoops, games, balls)
• Painting and drawing as playful precursors to writing
• Speech and language development exercises; engagement with everyday life situations (e.g. road traffic, natural phenomena, the home)

From Idea to Program

The Tina & Tobi author team turned this idea into a program that lets children discover their musical abilities almost effortlessly. Drawing on extensive practical experience, new pedagogical findings and developments are continuously integrated into the early education program. In this way, more and more children discover music, social skills and a richer life with Tina & Tobi.

What's New?

• All content has been updated
• Extensive supplementary material for flexible lesson planning
• Completely new illustrations
• Clear layout
• Lesson units adapted to 60 minutes
• Environmentally friendly materials have been preferred
• Texts follow the rules of the new orthography

What Remains?

• Children discover music through play
• Teachers continue to teach using the proven concept

More than one million children have taken their first steps into the realm of music with Tina & Tobi. Today, 50,000 enthusiastic boys and girls learn and play each year at hundreds of music schools with the program of the Association of German Music Schools (VdM).