In my elementary piano education, most of the works for young student were either easy renditions of Baroque and Classical era, or pieces which were created more for the purpose of exercising my fingers and bowing technique than for their musical qualities. Compositionally, these are hardly groundbreaking, but I wanted to create works that enabled students to understand nuance - to learn the difference between playing the notes and playing music. For Grade 1 – 3.5 string students.