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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 favourites from the classical repertoire, themes from opera an ballet, folk-songs 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 tuition and theory work.
Course summary:
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-Saëns and Tchaikovsky. More theory points are incorporated, and you'll be playing the blues!
Contents
General Topics
Book 1:
- Piano keyboard and musical alphabet
- Notation
- Sitting at the piano
- Hands: separately
- Hands: alternating
- Hands: together
- Dynamics
- Rests
- Tied notes
- Quavers
- Phrase-marks
- Dotted crotchets
- Flats
- Semitones
- Sharps
- Chords
- Expression marks
- Tones
- Naturals
- Reading note groups - lines and spaces
- Moving out of hand positions
- Key signatures
- Ledger lines
- Extending the hands
- Slurs
- Staccato
- Sustaining pedal
Book 2:
- Tied quavers
- The major scale: C major
- G major scale
- Semiquavers
- Metronome mark
- More expression marks
- F major scale
- Triplets
- Dotted quavers
Book 3:
- The minor scale: A minor
- E minor scale
- Arpeggiando
- 6/8 time signature
- D minor scale
- Dotted quavers in 6/8
- Intervals and triads
- Chord symbols
- Bb major scale
- 'The Blues'
- 4/2 3/2 3/8
Contents of Pieces
Book 1:
- Au Clair De La Lune & Shoo Shaggie
- Air Des Bouffons & Largo
- Pick 'n' Mix
- Surprise Symphony
- Tallis' Canon & Barratt's Canon!
- (Resting!) On The Bridge At Avignon
- When The Saints
- Ode To Joy
- Din, Don & Shepherd's Hey
- Skye Boat Song
- Two Excerpts - Symphony No.1
- Rigadoon & F# Work-Out
- First Study
- Drink To Me Only
- Carefree John & Miserable Mary!
- Clog Dance
- Gavotte
- Der Meyen
- Little Sonata
- Gavotte
- Racoon Rag
- Mopstick Rag
- Bobby Shaftoe
- Two-Part Invention
- L'Homme Armé
- Les Cinq Doigts
- Russian Dance
- Duet: Monet's Garden
- Allemande
- Poor Wand'ring One
- Scarborough Fair
- Cradle Song
- German Dance
- Don Giovanni
- Staccato Study
- La Traviata
- Air In F
- The Blue Danube
- Valse
- Lullaby
- Auld Lang Syne
- Swan Lake
- Für Elise
Book 2:
- The Marriage of Figaru (Cherubino's Aria)
- Air
- Duet: Lavender's Blue
- Eighteenth-Century Gavotte & Twentieth-Century Gavotte
- All Through The Night
- Dance Of The Hours
- Constellation
- Teddington Blues
- The Entertainer
- Pick 'n' Mix
- German Dance
- Can-Can
- Gavotte II
- Study In Finger Velocity
- Scherzo
- Sailor's Hornpipe
- Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
- Minuet
- Lazy Haze
- The Blue Danube
- Country Gardens
Book 3:
- Sonatina
- Prelude
- La Donna è Mobile
- Waltz
- Sarabande
- First Loss
- Tambourin
- Funeral March Of A Marionette
- Vltava
- Morning
- Greensleeves
- Pick 'n' Mix Rhythms
- German Dance
- Variations On A Theme Of Haydn
- Treadmill Blues
- Frankie And Johnny
- Sarabande
- The Elephant
- Theme And Variations
- Unfinished Symphony
- Trepak
Item Details
Category: Piano Tutor BooksPublisher: Chester Music
Publisher's reference: CH61399
Our Stock Code: 1060287
Media Type: Paperback
