The Music Teacher's Companion


Book Description

"This is the essential handbook for instrumental and singing teachers, relevant for working at home or in schools, full-time or part-time, teaching individuals or groups. It contains advice, information and pragmatic solutions to teaching problems. It deals with the quality of teaching and learning, such as monitoring achievement, motivation and progress. It discusses concepts and strategies that have often been unquestioned during years of teaching, and includes ideas that may surprise and challenge. It also contains forms for lesson plans, pupil profiles, termly overviews and attendance registers. It will invigorate, broaden and stimulate all aspects of music teaching and will help teachers to give their best to their pupils."--Publisher description.







An Intermediate Performance Companion for Pop Studies 1


Book Description

An Intermediate Performance Companion For Pop Studies 1: The WunderKeys Essential Piano Collection is composed for students working in a traditional level 3 method book and contains piano solos in the keys of C, Am, G, Em, F, and Dm. With this book, piano teachers can: Break free from boring piano performance books Stop their endless online search for sheet music, and Feel confident knowing that they are using a collection of developmentally-appropriate music that will be a smash hit with their intermediate piano players. With every turn of the page, your students' passion for the piano will grow as they explore classical pop piano pieces inspired by Mozart, Beethoven and more, thundering Celtic solos and cool original pop repertoire. How can we be so sure this book will capture the attention of your intermediate piano players? Because it is a collection of WunderKeys' greatest intermediate hits! Every piece in this book is teacher and teen approved. To create the perfect lesson experience for your intermediate piano players, our most popular piano pieces from the last decade have been reworked to create a leveled repertoire collection for use alongside our book, WunderKeys Intermediate Pop Studies For Piano 1 (also available on Amazon). The 15 piano pieces in An Intermediate Performance Companion For Pop Studies 1 are: My Tomorrow, The Grøndahl Session, Fearless At Fintown, The Notebook Session, The Sonata Session, Sea O'Malley (formerly Keeva's Theme), The Awakening, Faelan Rising, The 620 Session, Rohan's Return, The Night Session, Keeva Rising, Running In The Night, The Sonatina Session, and The Semplice Session (formerly K.Track 545). An Intermediate Performance Companion For Pop Studies 1 is the music that teens want and teachers need. Get it for your intermediate players today.




Professional Piano Teaching, Volume 2


Book Description

This second volume of Professional Piano Teaching is designed to serve as a basic text for a second-semester or upper-division piano pedagogy course. It provides an overview of learning principles and a thorough approach to essential aspects of teaching intermediate to advanced students. Special features include discussions on how to teach, not just what to teach; numerous musical examples; chapter summaries; and suggested projects for new and experienced teachers. Topics: * teaching students beyond the elementary levels * an overview of learning processes and learning theories * teaching transfer students * preparing students for college piano major auditions * teaching rhythm, reading, technique, and musicality * researching, evaluating, selecting, and presenting intermediate and advanced repertoire * developing stylistic interpretation of repertoire from each musical period * developing expressive and artistic interpretation and performance * motivating students and providing instruction in effective practice * teaching memorization and performance skills




A Piano Teacher's Legacy


Book Description

Richard Chronister was one of the pedagogy greats of his time. During the last forty years of the 20th century, he was a driving force for better piano teaching and better training of piano teachers. His influence reached from large universities to small independent studios, and his name was linked with both the most basic principles and the most recent research. His accomplishments were legendary. He started the first university degree program in piano pedagogy, served on six different faculties, and developed a new piano method. He was co-founder of the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and the founder and editor of Keyboard Companion magazine. All his professional life he asked searching questions, such as: How can I build on children's innate love of music? How can I teach so that my students keep learning, practicing and making music? How can I teach my students to become independent learners? What can I apply to my teaching from discoveries of the past and of my own time? How can I become an acute observer of what my students are doing? And of what teachers whom I observe are doing? And of what I am doing as a teacher? This compendium contains Chronister's best answers to these questions and many more. They come from his articles, addresses and lectures. Whether speaking or writing, his style is always lucid, informal and engaging. He never pretends to have the final answer, and invited his audience to consider his advice and reach their own conclusions. This book deserves a place in the library of every serious piano teacher!




A Companion to Michael Haneke


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A Companion to Michael Haneke is a definitive collection of newly-commissioned work that covers Haneke's body of work in its entirety, catering to students and scholars of Haneke at a time when interest in the director and his work is soaring. Introduces one of the most important directors to have emerged on the global cinema scene in the past fifteen years Includes exclusive interviews with Michael Haneke, including an interview discussion of The White Ribbon Considers themes, topics, and subjects that have formed the nucleus of the director's life's work: the fate of European cinema, Haneke in Hollywood, pornography, alienation, citizenship, colonialism, and the gaze of surveillance Features critical examinations of La Pianiste, Time of the Wolf, Three Paths to the Lake and Caché, amongst others




WunderKeys Intermediate Pop Studies for Piano 1


Book Description

WunderKeys Intermediate Pop Studies For Piano 1 is jam-packed with pop-infused piano studies. Get ready for a cool workout in the keys of C Major, A Minor, G Major, E Minor, F Major, and D Minor as your students turn technical exercises into powerful pop music. As piano students get older, traditional method books become less and less appealing. Teenagers are eager to skip skill-building exercises to get to the music. After all, technical exercises rarely appeal to the musical tastes of teens. But skipping over scale practice, rhythm work, improvisation, and sight reading hampers their musical development, slows their progress and, ultimately, leaves them frustrated. This inevitably leads to a lose-lose situation for piano teachers: allowing teens to skip technical exercises delays their progress while forcing teens to play technical exercises creates frustration. So, we decided to turn this struggle into a win-win! With WunderKeys Intermediate Pop Studies For Piano 1: A Pop-Infused Lesson Companion To Reinforce Scales, Chords, Triads, and Left-Hand Patterns, we've created a resource that transforms exercise-based repertoire into motivating pop piano studies. Your teen students will become skillful players because they want to practice exercise-based repertoire not because they have to practice exercise-based repertoire. The first 10-15 minutes of their lessons will be transformed from "sit and drill" to "make awesome music" as your teens gain comfort in a variety of key signatures and internalize the fingering patterns and hand shapes needed to become fluent intermediate pianists.




Piano Companion(R): Lesson Book - Level One


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The complete, all-in-one lesson book for the beginning student. After introductory lessons, each lesson includes instruction in musical concepts, hand positions, technical exercises, recital pieces, and theory exercises. The first five lessons in this book introduce the basic concepts of the hands, the keyboard, and reading music. Lessons six through seventeen guide the student through all major and minor keys with the introduction of musical concepts, hand positions, technical exercises, recital pieces, and theory exercises. The goal of the Piano Companion(R) series is to prepare the piano student to play the music of the masters as soon as possible. This lesson book is offered as an introductory course to be used by students of all ages with the assistance of a qualified piano teacher or for self-directed study. Students with previous piano instruction may use this course as a refresher. The pace at which the student progresses depends on the time and effort invested by the student, and will be greatly influenced by the level of support offered by family and friends. Above all, the student should keep in mind that music is an expression of the soul to be enjoyed by all. So, enjoy the musical journey!