Piano for Pleasure A Basic Course for Adults (with CD-ROM),9780534519629

Piano for Pleasure A Basic Course for Adults (with CD-ROM)

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780534519629
ISBN10: 0534519628
Format: Spiral Bound w/CD
Pub. Date: 2001-09-17
Publisher(s): Schirmer
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Summary

This text is an accessible, thorough introductory text for beginning pianists. The authors present vital keyboard skills in a smooth, carefully calibrated progression that makes students feel comfortable learning to play the piano. By the end of the first chapter, students can play three simple pieces-a Hilley arrangement of "Amazing Grace," and two songs written especially for this text by Lynn Freeman Olson. Subsequent chapters build students' confidence by offering a consistent synthesis of keyboard skills, music theory, and creativity. Olson's original and appealing musical selections consistently compliment Hilley's mastery of pedagogy and pacing. As a result, students learn difficult piano skills as they experience the excitement of playing old favorites.

Table of Contents

1. Listening/Dynamics/Black Keys
2. Simple Note Values/Key Names/Black Key Groups
3. Meter Signatures/Rests/Line and Space Notes/Steps and Skips/Seconds and Thirds
4. Recap
5. Treble and Bass/Grand Staff/Fourths and Fifths/Half Steps and Whole Steps/Sharps and Flats
6. Dotted Rhythms/Phrases
7. Upbeats/Major Pentascales
8. Recap
9. Extensions/Triads/Leger Lines
10. Syncopation/Sixths, Sevenths, Eighths/Major Scales/ Key Signatures
11. Scale Fingering/Primary Chords/Harmonizing/Transposing
12. Recap
13. Chord Inversions/Guitar Symbols
14. Sixteenth Notes/Interval Quality/Dominant Sevenths
15. Compound Meter/Key Triads
16. Recap
17. Triplets/Primary Chords in Minor
18. Holiday Repertoire
19. Supplementary Repertoire
Appendices: Major Keys
Major Scales
Minor Scales
Indices of Titles and Composers

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