Karen Marshall, Heather Hammond
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.
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