Piano for the Developing Musician

by Hilley, Martha; Freeman Olson, Lynn

• ISBN13: 9780534517786
• ISBN10: 0534517781
• Format: Spiral Bound
• Copyright: 2001-09-14
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

This text is aimed at music majors who must pass a piano proficiency examination before graduating. Every chapter is tightly structured around skills that majors must know. Hilley's expert pedagogical approach takes full advantage of Olson's original music (written especially for this text), and the book aggressively pursues its musical goals. Together, the authors have created a compelling and consistent text that synthesizes keyboard skills, music theory, and creativity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Chapter

1. Intervals

2. Pentascales

3. Root Position Triads

4. Extended Use of Intervals, Pentascales, and Triads/Dominant Seventh

5. Chord Shapes/Pentascales with Black-Key Group

6. Scalar Sequences/Modal Patterns/Black-Key-Group Major Scales

7. White-Key Major Scale Fingerings/Blues Pentascale and the 12-Bar Blues

8. White-Key Minor Scale Fingerings/Diatonic Harmonies in Minor

9. The ii-V7-I Progression

10. Secondary Dominants/Styles of Accompanying

11. Harmonic Implications of Common Modes

12. Diatonic Seventh Chords in Major and Minor/Secondary Seventh Chords

13. Altered/Borrowed Triads

14. Altered Seventh Chords/Extended Harmonies (Ninth, Thirteenth)

Glossary

Index of Titles

Index of Composers