Cengage Advantage Books: The Piano Advantage: Concise Introduction for Beginners (with CD-ROM) / Edition 1

by Carolynn A. Lindeman

Overview

CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: THE PIANO ADVANTAGE with accompanying CD-ROM is the perfect introduction to the piano for the adult beginner! Brief, inviting, and inexpensive, this music text provides you with the tools you need to learn to play the piano. Use the handy, pull-out keyboard chart to easily learn your way around the keyboard. Study aids such as Playing Tips, Key Terms, Key Signs and Composer Notes appear throughout the text and encourage immediate understanding and application. A wide variety of adult-oriented piano music is included and nearly all of the musical selections in the text are included on the practice CD.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780495001263
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	02/24/2005
Series:	Thomson Advantage Series
Edition description:	Spiral, Fold-out Keyboard
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Carolynn A. Lindeman (B.M., Oberlin College, DMA, Stanford University) is Professor of Music Emerita at San Francisco State University and past president of MENC: The National Association for Music Education. Active as a speaker and clinician, she has given presentations throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Israel, and South Africa. Dr. Lindeman is the author of The Piano Advantage: A Concise Introduction for Beginners (Thomson/Schirmer, 2006), coauthor of The Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching, 7th ed. and the compiler of Women Composers of Ragtime (a piano folio). She has published more than fifty articles in professional journals and served as series editor for sixteen publications (MENC, 1995 2003) related to implementing and assessing the National Standards for Music Education.

Table of Contents

1. Learning the Keyboard Basic. 2. Reading and Performing Rhythm. 3. Reading and Performing Pitch. 4. Reading from The Grand Staff. 5. Performing Dotted and Tied Notes. 6. Creating Chord Accompaniments to Melodies. 7. Discovering the 12-Bar Blues. 8. Introducing Upbeats and Incomplete Measures. 9. Accompanying Melodies with Two Chords. 10. Playing Major Scales and Chords. Extending the Challenge. Appendix A: Selected Musical Terms and Signs. Appendix B: Rhythm Notation. Appendix C: Selected Major Scales and Key Signatures. Appendix D: Selected Primary Chords in "Piano Position." Appendix E: Answer Key for Unit Reviews. Glossary. Subject Index. Music Index.