Frances Clark.

About Frances Clark

Frances Oman Clark was an American pianist, pedagogue, and academic who authored, co-authored and edited many widely used piano method books, most notably The Music Tree series. Her 1955 publication, Time to Begin, introduced the concept of teaching music reading by pattern recognition, thus pioneering the "intervallic method," which "revolutionised" the teaching of music reading. Clark used the principles of other pedagogy fields by "teaching students how to learn" and applied them to piano for the first time.