The Intermediate Pianist Book 2

Contents

• Getting started
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Style
• 1 Introducing ragtime
• Repertoire: The Entertainer (Joplin)
• Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)
• Chromatic and flat-key scales
• 2 Exploring the polka
• Repertoire: Pistachio Polka, Polka (Glinka)
• Quick learn: Peasant’s Song, Melodie, Variations on a Folk Tune
• Transposition
• 3 Story-telling in music
• Quick learn: A Spooky Situation, Wondrous Wizard
• Recital piece: Grandma Tells a Ghost Story (Kullak)
• 4 Ballads and nocturnes
• Quick learn: Study
• Repertoire: Upon Reflection
• Sharp-key scales and simple and compound time
• 5 Playing reggae
• Quick learn: Go for It!
• Repertoire: QI Theme (Duet) (Goodall)
• Intervals
• 6 Getting to know gospel
• Quick learn: Grace
• Repertoire: Gospel Medley (Duet)
• Recital piece: Sonatina in C major (Clementi)
• 7 Waltz and 54 time
• Quick learn: Lively Five
• Quick learn: Waltz (Schubert)
• 8 Baroque dance suites
• Repertoire: Allemande (Beethoven)
• Courante (Kirchhoff)
• Sarabande (Handel)
• Jigg (Sheeles)
• Recital piece: Round ‘O’ (Purcell)
• 9 Playing pop piano
• Repertoire: Highway to Home
• 10 Concert pieces
• Quick learn: Daphne
• Recital piece: Gavotte (Handel)
• Recital piece: Menuett in F (Mozart)
• Recital piece: Old French Song (Tchaikovsky)
• Quick learn: Where Have You Been, Little Lamb? (Bartók)
• Recital piece: Tambourin (de Gambarini)