***Winner of Best Print Resource 2018 at the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence***
The Intermediate Pianist books by Heather Hammond and Karen Marshall have been specifically written to help students progress through the tricky intermediate stages of learning the piano. Through carefully chosen repertoire, quick studies, key technical information and musicianship activities, students will develop the skills that they require. Note-reading will be improved, technique developed and a greater understanding of style and music theory will be gained.
The Intermediate Pianist Book 3 is suitable for Grade 5 level pianists and forms part of the Piano Trainer series.
Contents:
Getting started: What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? (Trad.)
1 Riffs and ostinato: Modes
Quick learn: The Italian Bagpipers (Gounod)
2 Latin dance styles
Repertoire: Blue-sky Bossa
Rumba Rhythmique,
Samba
Augmented and diminished intervals
Keys with five sharps and flats
Quick learn: Summer Cha-cha
3 Theme and variations
Repertoire: Chaconne (Handel)
Exploring different bass lines
Recital piece: Andantino (Haydn)
Dominant and diminished sevenths
Quick learn: Flat-key Study
4 Music for television, film and music theatre
Repertoire: The Flower Duet (Delibes)
Recital piece: Allegretto from Symphony No.7 (Beethoven)
Quick learn: Don't Dilly Dally (Trad.)
5 Mazurkas and Romanticism
Repertoire: Mazurka (Tchaikovsky)
Recital piece: Gypsy Serenade (Duet)
6 Exploring impressionism
Quick learn: Dorian's Dance
Repertoire: Gymnopédie No.3 (Satie)
7 Looking at minimalism
Chords, cadences and figured bass
Repertoire: Nuovi Inizi
Recital piece: Two-part Invention (JS Bach)
8 Introducing fugues
Quick learn: Frugal Fugue
Repertoire: Fugue in G minor (Telemann)
9 All about ornaments
Quick learn: Ornament Olympics
Recital piece: Spinning Song (Ellmenreich)
10 Concert pieces
Quick learn: La Bourbonnaise (Couperin)
Recital piece: The Fall of the Leafe (Peerson)
Quick learn: Allegretto (Mozart)
Recital piece: Prelude in C minor (Chopin)
Quick learn: Summer Jazz Waltz
This piano course has been specifically written to help students progress through the tricky intermediate stages of learning the Piano. Through carefully chosen repertoire, quick studies, key technical information and musicianship activities, students will develop the skills that they require. Note-reading will be improved, technique developed and a greater understanding of style and music theory will be gained. The Intermediate Pianist Book 3 is suitable for Grade 5 level pianists and forms part of the Piano Trainer series. This series was the winner of the 2018 Music Teacher Awards for Excellence Best Print Resource