Special offer. Contemporary Class Piano
Special offer. Contemporary Class Piano
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Known for its richly diversified styles of repertoire and ensemble pieces and its abundance of creative materials, Contemporary Class Piano, Ninth Edition, includes the widest-ranging repertoire of solo and ensemble pieces available in any beginning piano text. Elyse Mach presents an abundant solo and ensemble repertoire-which includes classical pieces and folk, jazz, dance, and blues tunes-providing ample opportunities for students to improvise, transpose, harmonize, and compose accompaniments.
Contents
- Unit 1: Keyboard Basics
- Unit 2: Intervals and Playing Melodies in Other Positions
- Unit 3: More Five-Finger Patterns and the Drone Bass
- Unit 4: Playing in Different Registers
- Unit 5: Key Signatures
- Unit 6: Major and Minor Triads
- Unit 7: The Dominant Seventh Chord
- Unit 8: The Subdominant Chords and Changing Five-Finger Positions
- Unit 9: Major Scales and Easy Pieces with Block-Chord Accompaniments
- Unit 10: Easy Pieces Using Various Accompaniment Patterns
- Unit 11: Intervals Within the Scale and Chord Inversions of Triads and Seventh Chords
- Unit 12: Minor Scales
- Unit 13: Secondary Chords (ii, iii, and vi)
- Unit 14: Modes and Scale Forms
- Unit 15: Tonality and Atonality: Exploring Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Music Styles
- Unit 16: Twenty-Five Piano Classics
- Unit 17: Supplementary Melodies to Harmonize
- Appendix A: Score Reading
- Appendix B: Vocal and Instrumental Accompaniments
- Appendix C: Major and Harmonic Minor Scales and Arpeggios
- Appendix D: Three Patriotic Song Arrangements
- Appendix E: Performance Terms and Symbols
