The Music Tree: Keyboard Literature, Part 4


Book Description

Keyboard Literature is an exciting new collection of original keyboard works from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries representing all musical periods, forms, types, and styles.




The Music Tree: Student's Book, Part 2B


Book Description

The Music Tree series continues the development of complete musicianship by providing the beginner with delightful and varied repertoire. The pupil learns a variety of idioms encompassing folk, jazz and pop. The creativity of the students is emphasized since they are given musical segments to rearrange, transpose, complete or to use as the basis for a new composition. Technical aspects are also addressed including greater facility, blocked intervals and chords, and more hands together playing. Guided training steps are used to encourage intelligent practice skills.




The Music Tree: Student's Book, Part 1


Book Description

The Music Tree series continues the development of complete musicianship by providing the beginner with delightful and varied repertoire. The pupil learns a variety of idioms encompassing folk, jazz and pop. The creativity of the students is emphasized since they are given musical segments to rearrange, transpose, complete or to use as the basis for a new composition. Technical aspects are also addressed including greater facility, blocked intervals and chords, and more hands together playing. Guided training steps are used to encourage intelligent practice skills.




The Music Tree Keyboard Literature


Book Description

Music Tree Part 3 now offers a new accompaniment series that includes audio CDs and MIDI disks as well as an educational software program to excite and motivate piano students! The audio CDs include two performances of each selected piece: solo part with an orchestrated accompaniment and orchestrated accompaniments alone. The MIDI disks can be used in any MIDI keyboard that has a disk drive or with a personal computer -- control the tempo, transpose to a different key, add a metronome click, and much more. Level 3 also includes a special computer software program called Home Concert 2000 Special Edition(tm) from TimeWarp Technologies. This program shows the student's part on the computer screen, "turns pages" automatically, adjusts tempo and dynamics to match the student's playing (if the keyboard is connected to the computer), and includes many other educational features.




Preparatory Piano Literature: Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics


Book Description

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Includes a CD of Accompaniments. Contents include: Allegretto (Kohler) * Ancient Dance (Praetorious) * Circle Dance (Beyer) * Country Ride (Kohler) * Echoes (Kohler) * Five-Note Sonatina (Bolck) * The Hero's March (Vogel) * In an Old Castle (Beyer) * Little March (Turk) * Melody (Beyer) * Ponies (Low) * Sonatina (Wilton).




Supplementary Solos, Level 2


Book Description

These supplementary collections provide that indispensable aspect of any keyboard curriculum, musical 'dessert'—music in lighter popular styles and a variety of rich, diverse character pieces. Effective antidotes to lagging student interest, the pieces are primarily recreational in nature, but also promote rhythmic and technical development.




The Music Tree: Keyboard Literature, Part 3


Book Description

An exciting new collection of keyboard gems from 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, designed as a companion volume for Music Tree 3. The pieces are by the great masters from each period who wrote music easy enough for students at this level. All are original keyboard works, selected to provide a well-rounded diet of musical periods, forms, type and styles, all in pieces with sure-fire student appeal.




Contemporary Piano Literature, Book 1


Book Description

The Contemporary Piano Literature series includes a selection of music written for children by Bartók, Gretchaninov, Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Scott, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. In addition, the books contain pieces composed specifically for this series by Ross Lee Finney, David Kraehenbuehl, Douglas Moore, Elie Siegmeister, Alexandre Tansman and Alexander Tcherepnin. Short biographies and portraits help make composers come alive for the student. None of the music is so far in the vanguard that it is difficult to enjoy or understand.




Keyboard Musician for the Adult Beginner


Book Description

Here is a complete repertoire and textbook for the older or adult beginner. Starting with material appropriate for the first lesson, it moves rapidly through discoveries, music and activities equivalent to The Music Tree and Levels 1 and 2. On completing the book, the student is ready for Level 3 of the Clark Library. The book provides quantities of music, all of it selected or composed to appeal to the older student -- Studies (introducing each of 65 new subjects), Repertoire (155 solos and duets), Accompanying and Transposing (62 melodies to accompany and to transpose to all major and minor keys), Sight Reading (107 one-line pieces that review each of the new discoveries and teach sight reading skills). In addition, the 22 units in 208 pages include: Technical Exercises, Rhythm Exercises, Written Work and Improvising. A Glossary at the end defines all new signs and terms introduced throughout the book.




The Bear and the Piano


Book Description

This best-selling tale of exploration and belonging, which won the Waterstones Childrens Book Prize 2016, Illustrated Book Category, is now available in board book.