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(Music Sales America). You can take up the piano at any age with this complete, user-friendly course by Carol Barratt. Whether you're starting from scratch, or starting again, this course has been designed to guide you gently into playing simple tunes from day one. Containing familiar favorites from the classical repertoire, themes from opera and ballet, folksongs and blues, plus music by contemporary classical composers. Including fascinating items of musical history and biography, an easy-to-follow introduction to the theory of music, and suggested listening to enhance your musical appreciation. Free dummy keyboard included for silent practice, group teaching, and theory work. Book 1: Starting to Play-You'll soon be playing more than 40 piano pieces and exercises. Book 1 introduces the keyboard, the musical alphabet, terms and signs, as well as note values and time signatures. Book 2: Building Your Skills - More than 20 piano pieces for you to play, ranging from "The Entertainer" to "The Blue Danube," plus more information on music theory, expression marks, and terms and signs. Book 3: Making Music - You will play over 20 piano pieces, including music by Verdi, Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Saint-Saens, and Tchaikovsky. More theory points are incorporated, and you'll be playing the blues!
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780825633287 |
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Publisher: | Music Sales America |
Publication date: | 12/01/2004 |
Pages: | 128 |
Product dimensions: | 9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 0.29(d) |
Table of Contents
General Topics | ||
Book 1 | ||
Piano keyboard and musical alphabet | 4 | |
Notation | 5 | |
Sitting at the piano | 7 | |
Hands: separately | 8 | |
Hands: alternating | 14 | |
Hands: together | 24 | |
Dynamics | 11 | |
Rests | 16 | |
Tied notes | 17 | |
Eighth notes | 19 | |
Phrase marks | 19 | |
Dotted quarter notes | 21 | |
Flats | 22 | |
Half steps | 22 | |
Sharps | 23 | |
Chords | 26 | |
Expression marks | 28 | |
Whole steps | 33 | |
Naturals | 35 | |
Reading note groups - lines and spaces | 36 | |
Moving out of hand positions | 39 | |
Key signatures | 43 | |
Leger lines | 44 | |
Extending the hands | 46 | |
Slurs | 49 | |
Staccato | 52 | |
Sustain pedal | 56 | |
Book 2 | ||
Tied eighth notes | 72 | |
The major scale: C major | 74 | |
G major scale | 79 | |
Sixteenth notes | 82 | |
Metronome mark | 83 | |
More expression marks | 84 | |
F major scale | 86 | |
Triplets | 88 | |
Dotted eighth notes | 92 | |
Book 3 | ||
The minor scale: A minor | 98 | |
E minor scale | 102 | |
Arpeggio | 105 | |
6/8 Time Signature | 106 | |
D minor scale | 108 | |
Dotted eighth notes in 6/8 | 112 | |
Intervals and Triads | 116 | |
Chord Symbols | 117 | |
B[flat] major scale | 119 | |
Blues | 120 | |
4/2 3/2 3/8 | 122 | |
Contents of Pieces | ||
Book 1 | ||
Au Clair de la Lune & Shoo Shaggie | 9 | |
Air des Bouffons & Largo | 11 | |
Pick 'n' Mix | 12 | |
Surprise Symphony | 14 | |
Tallis's Canon & Barratt's Canon! | 15 | |
(Resting!) On The Bridge At Avignon | 16 | |
When the Saints Go Marching In | 17 | |
Ode to Joy | 18 | |
Din, Don & Shepherd's Hey | 20 | |
Skye Boat Song | 21 | |
Two Excerpts - Symphony No. 1 | 22 | |
Rigadoon & F# Workout | 23 | |
First Study | 25 | |
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes | 26 | |
Carefree John & Miserable Mary! | 27 | |
Clog Dance | 28 | |
Gavotte | 29 | |
Der Meyen | 31 | |
Little Sonata | 32 | |
Gavotte | 33 | |
Raccoon Rag | 34 | |
Mopstick Rag | 35 | |
Bobby Shaftoe | 39 | |
Two-Part Invention | 40 | |
L'homme Arme | 41 | |
Les Cinq Doigts | 42 | |
Russian Dance | 43 | |
Duet - Monet's Garden | 44 | |
Allemande | 46 | |
Poor Wand'ring One | 47 | |
Scarborough Fair | 48 | |
Cradle Song | 49 | |
German Dance | 50 | |
Don Giovanni | 51 | |
Staccato Study | 53 | |
La Traviata | 54 | |
Air in F | 55 | |
The Blue Danube | 57 | |
Valse | 58 | |
Lullaby | 59 | |
Auld Lang Syne | 60 | |
Swan Lake | 61 | |
Fur Elise | 62 | |
Book 2 | ||
The Marriage of Figaro (Cherubino's Aria) | 64 | |
Air | 65 | |
Duet - Lavender's Blue | 66 | |
Eighteenth-Century Gavotte & Twentieth-Century Gavotte | 68 | |
All through the Night | 69 | |
Dance of the Hours | 70 | |
Constellation | 71 | |
Teddington Blues | 72 | |
The Entertainer | 73 | |
Pick 'n' Mix | 76 | |
German Dance | 78 | |
Can-Can | 80 | |
Gavotte II | 81 | |
Study in Finger Velocity | 83 | |
Scherzo | 84 | |
Sailor's Hornpipe | 85 | |
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen | 87 | |
Minuet | 89 | |
Lazy Haze | 90 | |
The Blue Danube | 91 | |
Country Gardens | 93 | |
Book 3 | ||
Sonatina | 94 | |
Prelude | 95 | |
La Donna E Mobile | 96 | |
Waltz | 101 | |
Sarabande | 102 | |
First Loss | 104 | |
Tambourin | 105 | |
Funeral March of a Marionette | 108 | |
Vltava | 109 | |
Morning | 110 | |
Greensleeves | 113 | |
Pick 'n' Mix Rhythms | 114 | |
German Dance | 115 | |
Variations on a Theme of Haydn | 119 | |
Treadmill Blues | 120 | |
Frankie and Johnny | 121 | |
Sarabande | 122 | |
The Elephant | 123 | |
Theme and Variations | 124 | |
Unfinished Symphony | 126 | |
Trepak | 127 |
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