Functional Skills for Pianists addresses the need for a comprehensive anthology of musical examples in a wide variety of styles (Baroque through Modern) for keyboard majors (performance, pedagogy, collaborative pianists), keyboard principals (music education, music therapy, music business, church music, liberal arts majors), and composition/theory students. Its Topical structure allows teachers the freedom to design lessons that meet varied abilities and needs of students. It is Comprehensive on two levels: 1) it includes introductory guidelines on fundamentals followed by numerous examples that are sequenced from beginning through advanced levels and 2) while it covers the development of skills found in beginning texts, it extends to more demanding sight reading material and substantive sections on figured bass realization and jazz/popular music harmonization. Currently, there is not a book on the market that covers such a wide variety and range of functional keyboard skills.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Functional Skills for Pianists offers teachers, for the first time, a textbook that includes enough examples for students to practice and develop the skills they need." - Courtney Crappell, University of Houston This is a singular resource that covers all keyboard skills, and it is appropriate for advanced pianists." - Sara Marie Ernst, University of South Carolina I find the comprehensive nature of this textbook compelling. The textbook aligns well with my curriculum for teaching functional skills to pianists, and it would be wonderful not to have my students juggling multiple resources and showing up to class with the wrong resource in hand. I am particularly excited about the inclusion of rudimentary instruction in realizing figured bass, which is a topic for which it is difficult to find good practice materials." - Brenda Wristen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Höhe: 279 mm
Breite: 216 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-19-085504-8 (9780190855048)
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Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication and Professor of MusicDean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication and Professor of Music, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Professor of Piano and Director of the School of MusicProfessor of Piano and Director of the School of Music, Ohio University
Professor of Keyboard Studies and Director of Piano PedagogyProfessor of Keyboard Studies and Director of Piano Pedagogy, Bob Jones University
