Contemporary Class Piano

by Mach, Elyse

• ISBN13: 9780195166880
• ISBN10: 0195166884
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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

Author Biography

Elyse Mach is Professor of Music at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She has given concerts throughout Europe and the United States, appearing as a piano soloist with the NBC Symphony and the Netherlandische Philharmonic Broadcasting Orchestra. She has written nine books on piano and pianists and has been a contributing music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. She is active as a consultant, clinician, master class teacher, and frequent adjudicator. The first recipient of the Board of Governors Universities Distinguished Professor Award, she has guest lectured at Northwestern, Yale, The Juilliard School, and many other institutions.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Keyboard Basics	1	(86)
Keyboard Posture	2	(2)
Finger Numbers	4	(1)
Basic Note Values	4	(3)
The Keyboard	7	(5)
The Major Five-Finger Pattern	12	(3)
Dynamics	15	(5)
Reading Notes	20	(2)
Intervals	22	(3)
Keeping Time	25	(3)
Slur and Phrase Markings	28	(8)
Key Signature	36	(1)
Transposition	37	(1)
Eighth Notes and Eighth Rests	38	(12)
Drone Bass	50	(2)
Repertoire	52	(1)
Improvisation	53	(9)
Harmonization	62	(2)
Sightreading Studies	64	(4)
Technical Studies	68	(1)
Rhythmic Studies	69	(2)
Ensemble Pieces	71	(12)
Worksheet Review	83	(4)
The Five-Finger Pattern	87	(154)
Playing in Different Registers	87	(2)
Tempo Markings	89	(1)
More Dynamic Markings	89	(3)
Dotted Quarter Notes	92	(4)
Accidentals	96	(3)
Slurs	99	(3)
Parallel Motion	102	(1)
6/8 Time	103	(4)
Identifying Flat Key Signatures	107	(4)
Change of Dynamics	111	(5)
Contrary Motion	116	(3)
Major Triads	119	(1)
Five-Finger Studies and Triads in Major	119	(7)
The Minor Five-Finger Pattern	126	(2)
Minor Triads	128	(1)
Five-Finger Studies and Triads in Major and Minor	129	(7)
More Tempo Markings	136	(1)
Pieces Using Major and Minor Triads	136	(4)
The Dominant Seventh Chord	140	(3)
Block-Chord Accompaniments with I and V6/5	143	(1)
Music Chord Symbols	144	(5)
Five-Finger Melodies with Letter-Name Chord Symbols for I and V6/5 Chord Accompaniments	149	(2)
The Subdominant Chord	151	(4)
Cadences	155	(1)
The Circle of Fifths and Major Key Signatures	156	(2)
Pieces with I--IV6/4--V6/5 Accompaniments	158	(16)
Five-Finger Melodies with Letter-Name Chord Symbols for I, IV6/4, and V6/5 Chord Accompaniments	174	(2)
Changing Five-Finger Positions	176	(7)
Repertoire	183	(1)
Improvisation	184	(11)
Creative Music and Harmonization	195	(8)
Sightreading Studies	203	(9)
Rhythmic Studies	212	(3)
Technical Studies	215	(3)
Ensemble Pieces	218	(17)
Worksheet Review	235	(6)
Pieces with Easy Accompaniments	241	(136)
Major Scales	241	(1)
Major Scales in Tetrachord Position	242	(5)
Major Scales with Fingerings for Both Hands Together	247	(5)
Scale Studies in Clusters	252	(2)
Triads on Major-Scale Degrees	254	(1)
Intervals of a Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth (Octave)	255	(1)
Extending the Five-Finger Position	256	(7)
Sixteenth Notes and Sixteenth Rests	263	(4)
The Dotted Eighth Note	267	(6)
Musical Forms: AB and ABA	273	(3)
Melodies with Letter-Name Chord Symbols for I, IV6/4, and V6/5 Chords	276	(2)
Broken-Chord Accompaniment Patterns	278	(6)
Arpeggio Accompaniment Patterns	284	(6)
Syncopation	290	(5)
The Damper Pedal	295	(3)
Other Accompaniment Patterns	298	(3)
Secondary Chords	301	(9)
Intervals Within the Scale	310	(2)
Melodic Lines with Intervals	312	(5)
Chord Inversions	317	(6)
The Damper Pedal (Indirect Pedaling)	323	(3)
Hymn Style	326	(2)
Augmented and Diminished Triads	328	(2)
Repertoire	330	(1)
Improvisation	331	(12)
Creative Music and Harmonization	343	(7)
Sightreading Studies	350	(8)
Rhythmic Studies	358	(3)
Technical Studies	361	(3)
Ensemble Pieces	364	(9)
Worksheet Review	373	(4)
Tonality and Atonality	377	(80)
Minor Scales	377	(2)
Minor Key Signatures	379	(1)
Natural Minor Scales in Tetrachord Positions	380	(4)
Harmonic Minor Scales	384	(4)
i--iv6/4--i--V6/5--i Chord Progression	388	(6)
Parallel Major and Minor Scales	394	(3)
Other Scale Forms (Modes)	397	(10)
The Chromatic Scale	407	(4)
Jazz	411	(2)
Pandiatonicism	413	(2)
The Whole-Tone Scale	415	(2)
Bitonality	417	(2)
Atonality	419	(2)
Innovative Notations	421	(4)
Quartal Harmony	425	(2)
Repertoire	427	(1)
Bitonal Improvisation	428	(2)
Sightreading Studies	430	(6)
Ensemble Pieces	436	(17)
Worksheet Review	453	(4)
Letter-Name Chord Symbols	457	(32)
Letter Names of I, IV, and V7 Chords	458	(1)
Melodies with Letter-Name Chord Symbols	459	(7)
Famous Themes	466	(2)
Strumming Accompaniments	468	(4)
Arpeggio Accompaniments	472	(2)
Major and Minor Seventh Chords	474	(6)
Letter-Name Chord Chart	480	(2)
Ensemble Pieces	482	(7)
Twenty--Four Piano Classics	489	(32)
Rameau, Tambourin	490	(1)
Schein, Allemande	491	(1)
Corelli, Sarabande	492	(1)
Krieger, Minuet in A Minor	493	(1)
Witthauer, Gavotte	494	(1)
Telemann, Gigue	495	(1)
Mozart, L., Burleske (from Notebook for Wolfgang)	496	(1)
Haydn, Gypsy Dance (Trio)	497	(1)
Bach/Ricci, Risoluto	498	(1)
Mozart, W. A., Minuet in C	499	(1)
Beethoven, German Dance	500	(1)
Schumann, Melody (from 43 Piano Pieces for the Young, Op. 68)	501	(1)
Rebikoff, The Bear	502	(1)
Bartok, Springtime Song (No. 2 from For Children, Vol. 1)	503	(1)
Kadosa, Homage to Bartok	504	(2)
Kabalevsky, A Conversation (Op. 39, No. 7)	506	(1)
Hovhaness, Moon Dance (No. 2. from Mountain Idylls)	507	(1)
Starer, Evens and Odds	508	(1)
Gillock, Autumn Is Here	509	(1)
Hartsell, Moonlit Shores	510	(2)
Mier, Sneaky Business	512	(2)
Tingley, Dreamscape	514	(3)
Tingley, Early Spring	517	(4)
APPENDIX A Score Reading	521	(6)
Three-Part Texture	521	(3)
Four-Part Texture	524	(3)
APPENDIX B Major and Harmonic Minor Scales in Two Octaves	527	(10)
Major Scales in Two Octaves	528	(4)
Harmonic Minor Scales in Two Octaves	532	(5)
APPENDIX C Three Patriotic Song Arrangements	537	(6)
Carey, America	538	(1)
Bates/Ward, America the Beautiful	539	(1)
Key/Smith, The Star-Spangled Banner	540	(3)
APPENDIX D Performance Terms and Symbols	543	(4)
Title Index	547	(4)
Composer Index	551	(4)
Subject Index	555