Building Room 1, Alternative Image Scores by Continuum Music: A Pedagogical Framework for Musical Learning

By Sarnia de la Maré

Building Room , Alternative Image Scores by Continuum Music, is not a method book, nor a syllabus.
It is an invitation to view the act of music making differently.

This book introduces a visual, non-linear approach to musical learning-one that prioritises perception, agency, and recognition over correction and repetition. Through a series of image-based scores, reflective essays, and gentle guidance, offer musicians a way to encounter music as structure, pattern, density, contrast, and motion.

Designed for educators, composers, performers, and self-directed learners, the Continuum Approach supports improvisation, composition, and deep listening across ages and abilities. The framework is especially suited to visual thinkers, neurodivergent learners, and those who have felt constrained by traditional notation or outcome-driven pedagogy.

Rather than asking What note comes next?, this book asks:
What do you see?
What do you feel?
What do you recognise?

Inside, you will find:

Visual scores intended to be interpreted, not solved

Essays exploring perception, control, contrast, density, and form

Guidance for tutors working across age groups, abilities, and settings

A foundations-level framework that supports autonomy and musical confidence

Part of the The Continuum Approach to Music, a developing pedagogical framework that extends beyond the page into scores, studies, recordings, and companion materials.

Building Rooms are for musicians who think in pictures-and for those ready to trust what they see.
Other volumes cover traditional music scores, techniques and wellbeing for creative musicians and teachers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GFHGSFJ6
• ISBN13: 9798242966505
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"