Contemporary Piano Method Book 1A

by Margaret Susan Brandman

Overview

Margaret Brandman's 'Contemporary Piano Method' Book 1A is designed to equip the student with the necessary skills to play both Classical and Modern music with ease and understanding. The methodology is multi-sensory: aural, visual and tactile.
The course incorporates a variety of progressive learning modalities which speed up the learning process namely the simplified interval approach, colour-coding and multi-key learning using pictorial patterns to facilitate scale and key understanding. In this book these modalities are implemented in order to simplify the learning of music in five major keys C, G, D, A and E.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780949683526
Publisher:	Jazzem Music
Publication date:	02/20/2017
Series:	Contemporary Piano Method
Pages:	70
Product dimensions:	8.27(w) x 11.69(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Margaret Brandman's career in music as composer, pianist, music educator, arranger and writer on music education spans more than 45 years. Her compositions for orchestra and chamber ensembles and voice receive both live and recorded performances internationally. She first studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and subsequently at the University of Sydney, where she majored in composition. In 1975 she was awarded a Bachelor of Music (Composition), having already acquired her Associate Performer degree and Teacher of Pianoforte Diploma. She has since also been awarded the F.Comp.ASMC, F.Mus.Ed.ASMC and L.Perf.ASMC degrees by the Australian Society for Musicology and Composition, Hon.FNMSM (UK), the Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy of the World Piano Teacher's Assocation. (Serbia). Over the years, Margaret Brandman has combined her compositional interests with her interest in accelerated learning techniques for music. She has authored and published a large range of music education materials. Selected awards include WPTA's 'Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy' for her DVD presentation 'The Geometry of the Piano and the Symmetry of the Hands' and World Forum's 'Distinguished Intellectual Contribution Award' for the continent of Australia for her performances and lectures at an international conference in the UK 2012.

Editorial Reviews

I highly recommend Margaret Brandman's Contemporary Piano Method as a very broad foundation for piano and keyboard study. It is devised and written with logic and filled with clear explanations by a composer/performer who well understands the need for strong reading skills, an open ear and enquiring mind for how music works !'

David Grisdale -teacher, Central Coast NSW

'Once you have taught by Margaret Brandman's intervallic approach along the keyboard pathways it becomes part of you. It is the simplest, quickest, most logical and effective method of teaching reading from there on. It is also very helpful in teaching transposition and improvisation. '

Robyn Watts -teacher, Dural NSW

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