Cengage Advantage Books: The Piano Advantage: Concise Introduction for Beginners (with CD-ROM) - Softcover

Lindeman, Carolynn A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495001260 ISBN 13: 9780495001263

Publisher: Schirmer, 2005

Synopsis

CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: THE PIANO ADVANTAGE with accompanying CD-ROM is the perfect introduction to the piano for the adult beginner! Brief, inviting, and inexpensive, this music text provides you with the tools you need to learn to play the piano. Use the handy, pull-out keyboard chart to easily learn your way around the keyboard. Study aids such as Playing Tips, Key Terms, Key Signs and Composer Notes appear throughout the text and encourage immediate understanding and application. A wide variety of adult-oriented piano music is included and nearly all of the musical selections in the text are included on the practice CD.

About this title

About the Author

Carolynn A. Lindeman (B.M., Oberlin College, DMA, Stanford University) is Professor of Music Emerita at San Francisco State University and past president of MENC: The National Association for Music Education. Active as a speaker and clinician, she has given presentations throughout the United States and in Canada, Europe, Southeast Asia, Mexico, Israel, and South Africa. Dr. Lindeman is the author of The Piano Advantage: A Concise Introduction for Beginners (Thomson/Schirmer, 2006), coauthor of The Musical Classroom: Backgrounds, Models, and Skills for Elementary Teaching, 7th ed. and the compiler of Women Composers of Ragtime (a piano folio). She has published more than fifty articles in professional journals and served as series editor for sixteen publications (MENC, 1995�2003) related to implementing and assessing the National Standards for Music Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schirmer
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0495001260
• ISBN 13: 9780495001263
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 160