In Recital - Throughout The Year (With Performance Strategies): Volume Two - Boo

Beskrivning

In Recital – Throughout The Year is a series that focuses on fabulous repertoire, with musically engaging pieces by leading FJH composers and arrangers. This series of books is carefully levelled to ensure that goals are attainable, which is essential in motivating students. Providing excellent teaching material, these books address the strengths and weaknesses of students, with progressive discussions by Dr. Helen Marlais on the art of performance and an analysis of performance strategies.

The pieces presented in these books provide repertoire for the entire year, including pieces for Halloween and Christmas, as well as arrangements of famous classical themes, with original solos and duets.

The accompanying CD includes demonstrations of the pieces presented in this book, allowing the student to develop their interpretive skills.

Volume Two – Book 2 is suitable for Elementary pianists and covers many basic principles, including:

Basic notes and their corresponding rests, such as quarter, half, dotted half, and whole notes

Playing tied notes, legato and staccato articulations, accents, upbeats, a few chords, blocked intervals, and five-finger hand positions

Practicing moving up and down the keyboard as well as use of the pedal to create a larger sound

Reinforcing basic musical terminology and symbols, such as crescendo, decrescendo, ritardando, fermata, mf, mp, forte, piano, loco, D.C. al fine, and D.S. al Coda

Use of basic keys – C, F, A minor, D minor, and C minor (with accidentals instead of key signatures).

Innehåll
Mist In The Moonlight [Greenleaf, Elizabeth W.]
Scarecrow Scherzando [Leaf, Mary]
The Japanese Koto [Goldston, Christopher]
Traffic Jam [Olson, Kevin]
Waltz (Serenade For Strings) [Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich]
We Three Kings Of Orient Are [Hopkins, John Henry Jr.]
Wild Dance [McLean, Edwin]
Winter Festival [Bober, Melody]
You're a Grand Old Flag [Cohan, George M.]