This book is intended to serve as a core text for piano-teaching courses. This is also a great reference for teachers at all levels. It examines various piano-teaching theories for various levels of experience and ability. There is also information on piano competitions and the professional and business aspects of piano teaching, a consideration of leading contemporary pianists, presentations of model lessons, and some notes on electronic instruments.Contents: (Main headings only)Part 1: Keyboard teaching as a professionPart 2: How learning takes placePart 3: The elementary studentPart 4: The intermediate studentPart 5: Professional preparationPart 6: CompetitionsPart 7: Historical overview of keyboard pedagogyPart 8: Contemporary thoughtsAppendixes

The Well-Tempered Keyboard Teacher

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MacH, Elyse

Uszler, Marienne

Music

Schirmer Books

"... an introduction to the keyboard designed for college students who are enrolled in a class piano course, whether or not they are music majors and whether or not they have any prior keyboard experience."--Preface.

Contemporary Class Piano

Harcourt College Pub.

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 abundantsolo 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.

Oxford University Press

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.

Contemporary Class Piano, 5/e, offers a creative, diverse approach to beginning piano. Colleges and universities throughout the country have found success with Elyse Mach's carefully constructed, step-by-step technique. The text balances the classical works of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, with a contemporary repertoire that includes jazz, rock, improvisation, and avant-garde pieces. More than sixty repertory pieces are new to this edition, including an increased number of pieces designed to let students enjoy immediate success. New and expanded sightreading in all major keys, teacher accompaniments, and teacher/student ensembles offer additional keyboard enrichment. Worksheets have been added to the end of the first four units to aid students in the mastering of techniques and skills.

Contemporary Class Piano, 5th Edition

Wadsworth/Thomson Learning

Highly acclaimed for its creative approach to beginning piano, Contemporary Class Piano presents materials in an engaging manner and in a logical progression of difficulty. Easily accessible to students with no prior music or keyboard experience, the book offers a well-rounded and abundant solo and ensemble repertoire--including classical pieces and folk, jazz, rock, pop, and blues tunes--with ample opportunities for students to improvise, transpose, harmonize, and compose accompaniments. New to the sixth edition · FREE TO INSTRUCTORS UPON ADOPTION: Packaged separately from the text, a set of four MIDI disks--containing approximately 200 orchestration accompaniments prepared by renowned composer Phillip Keveren--that can be used in class. These accompaniments motivate students to practice and complete their assignments more readily. · A teacher's manual with suggested lesson plans and teaching tips available at www.oup.com/us/classpiano · Thirty-one new solo repertoire and sixteen new ensemble repertoire pieces (arranged for four to eight hands) · Thirteen new songs to harmonize, six of which make up a new "Famous Themes" section, with favorites such as Für Elise and Liebestraum · Eighteen new teacher accompaniments · Easy-to-play arrangements of three patriotic songs in Appendix C · Opportunities for students to experience aleatoric (chance) music in Unit 1

Designed for non-music majors who want to learn piano "for the fun of it," Learning Piano: Piece by Piece is also ideal for courses in class piano and for individual instruction. This concise and user-friendly book presents materials in an engaging manner and in a logical piece-by-piece progression of difficulty. Offering a rich and well-rounded solo and ensemble repertoire, it enables students to master basic keyboard skills--through the study of fresh, appealing, and easy-to-play arrangements of both traditional and newly created pieces--and provides them with ample opportunities to improvise, transpose, and harmonize. By encouraging students to play music from different time periods, genres, and cultures, Learning Piano: Piece by Piece also inspires musicality and creativity. FEATURES * Uniquely diverse and global repertoire: Learning Piano: Piece by Piece contains a wealth of musical compositions, from classical (Baroque through the twentieth century) to folk, blues, jazz, boogie, and rock, all in interesting arrangements. It features music that is heard and played around the world, in the United States, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Russia, China, Japan, South America, Mexico, and the Middle East. The nine ensemble pieces include such favorites as "Amazing Grace" and Pachelbel's "Canon in D." An entire unit is devoted to twentieth-century pieces. * Accessible yet creative instruction: Laid out in an easy-to-follow, piece-by-piece format, the text also integrates numerous fun exercises, like improvising in various styles--pentatonic (creating music reminiscent of Chinese and Japanese tunes), open-fifth "new age," 12-bar blues, and Dorian mode (jazz style). * Two CDs packaged free with each book, containing almost 100 original orchestrations by renowned composer Phillip Keveren (in both practice and performance tempi) for students to use on their own. These orchestrations are also available on MIDI disks for adopting instructors to use in class. * Marginal icons in the text direct students to the appropriate track with the orchestration accompaniment on the CDs. * "Practice Strategies" sections throughout give students the opportunity to practice theory and techniques immediately after they are introduced in the text. * "On Another Note" boxes provide interesting historical information on the piano, musical styles, and composers, as well as learning tips from performing artists. * An Instructor's Manual containing suggested lesson plans will be available online.

Learning Piano: Piece by PieceIncludes 2 CDs

Highly acclaimed for its creative approach to beginning piano, Contemporary Class Piano presents materials in an engaging manner and in a logical progression of difficulty. Easily accessible to students with no prior music or keyboard experience, the book offers a well-rounded and abundant solo and ensemble repertoire--including classical pieces and folk, jazz, rock, pop, and blues tunes--with ample opportunities for students to improvise, transpose, harmonize, and compose accompaniments. New to the Enhanced Edition: * Incorporates thirty-five new reading, repertoire, and ensemble pieces in various styles and levels of difficulty * Introduces a new "Classic Miniatures" section--featuring excerpts of original keyboard pieces written by master composers--that allows students to enjoy and play a broad mix of representative classical pieces early on in their keyboard study * Adds six new melodies at the end of Unit 5 that give students more opportunities to practice interpreting chord symbols and harmonizing folk songs, symphonic themes, and other styles, using a variety of accompaniment patterns * Each book is packaged with a free CD containing orchestration accompaniments to twenty-eight of the new pieces prepared by composer Jason Nyberg (in both practice and performance tempos) for students to use on their own. * FREE TO INSTRUCTORS UPON ADOPTION: In addition toa set of four MIDI disks--which are packaged separately from the text and contain approximately 200 orchestration accompaniments prepared by renowned composer Phillip Keveren--a new MIDI disk with accompaniments for twenty-eight of the additional pieces in the enhanced edition has been created by composer James Nyberg for in-class use. These accompaniments motivate students to practice and complete their assignments more readily. * A teacher's manual with suggested lesson plans and teaching tips for the first semester of study is available at www.oup.com/us/classpiano.

Known for its richly diversified styles of repertoire and ensemble pieces and its abundance of creative materials, Contemporary Class Piano, Seventh 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, rock, pop, and blues tunes--providing ample opportunities for students to improvise, transpose, harmonize, and compose accompaniments. FEATURES OF THE NEW EDITION * Reorganized from six to ten units, the material is now more accessible for classroom use. * Twenty diverse new reading, repertoire, and ensemble pieces introduce students to music of various styles and levels of difficulty. * Unit 9 provides additional practice opportunities in interpreting chord symbols and harmonizing. * More score reading examples in three- and four-part settings provide reinforcement of chorale style reading. * Alto and tenor clef reading examples are introduced. * Two new appendices offer more help: Appendix B features vocal and instrumental accompaniments to help students further develop skills, and Appendix E offers a timeline and historical overview of the style and characteristics of music from the Baroque period through the 21st century. * Appendix A presents new material on transposing instruments. * New CD and MIDI disk icons in the text indicate track numbers for ease of reference. * "Practice Strategies" boxes give beginners helpful hints. * A "Classic Miniatures" section of excerpts contains original keyboard pieces written by master composers. * Worksheets appearing at the end of most chapters provide further practice opportunities. SUPPORT PACKAGE * A new in-text audio CD for students, which includes orchestrations by renowned composers Phillip Keveren and Jason Nyberg, presents selected pieces at both practice tempo and performance tempo. * A set of four MIDI disks--containing approximately 240 orchestration accompaniments prepared by composers Phillip Keveren and Jason Nyberg--motivates students to practice and complete their assignments more readily. This set is available free to adopters. * The Instructor's Companion Website (www.oup.com/us/classpiano) will offer suggested lesson plans, teaching tips, and full track listings for the in-text CD and Instructor MIDI disks.

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The Well-Tempered Keyboard Teacher

Contemporary Class Piano

Contemporary Class Piano

Contemporary Class Piano

Contemporary Class Piano

Contemporary Class Piano, 5th Edition

Contemporary Class Piano

Learning Piano: Piece by PieceIncludes 2 CDs

Contemporary Class Piano

Contemporary Class Piano