The Belgian composer Nicholas Lens presents extremely varied etudes, exercises and simple phrases with wonderfully telling titles from poetry and everyday world for children and adults. For the most part the studies are tonal and simple and have no constructed line. They are not based on any educational concept but leave the musical dramatization to the pupils and teachers: 'Notes and rhythms are just notes and rhythms, they do not have that many rules, they do not have any pretension, they are ...

• Dance of paradise birds
• When death calls us to dance
• Dad, how old was Rimbaud when he knew he was gay?-Well...
• Clara-Lane and her girlfriend dance in front of the house at the Clos des Chênes. There is much joy. But one of the cobblestones of the street is not well put
• Lulu notes that another dog is interested in her
• The woman of stone weeps white tears. It snows in St Martens-Bodegem
• Sometimes my brain thinks faster than I do
• I know a girl who's in love with 2 boys...!-But no! A...