The Church Musician presents a step-by-step approach to the fundamentals of music through the use of familiar and new sacred music. Additional supplementary materials include Repertoire, Theory, and Hymn Playing books. Along with basic music theory fundamentals, students learn many familiar songs. Titles: * I've Got the Joy, Joy, Joy * Jesus Loves Me * Praise Him, Praise Him * Holy, Holy, Holy * I'll Be a Sunbeam * Jesus Shall Reign * and many more
The CHURCH MUSICIAN REPERTOIRE books supplement and reinforce music fundamentals. They are designed to be used with THE CHURCH MUSICIAN, however, they may be used with any piano course or library. Each book in this series presents standard hymns, some music of the masters and original solos, which have been carefully selected and edited for gradual progress.
The Church Musician, Level 1 expands on major concepts and skills taught at the Primer Level. The 5-finger approach using Middle C position, C Major 5-finger position, G Major 5-finger position, and F Major 5-finger position is presented in a fresh, musically appealing way using familiar and new sacred music. Students are introduced to all the notes of the grand staff, elementary chord playing, eighth notes, transposition, and technic exercises. Musicianship is built through the use of dynamics, coloristic experimentation with the pedal, and motivating and exciting pieces. Titles: * God Is So Good * Give Me Oil in My Lamp * He Is Lord * Now the Day Is Over * When I Survey the Wondrous Cross * Amazing Grace * Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus * Near to the Heart of God * Now Thank We All Our God * Christ the Lord Is Risen Today * Go Tell It on the Mountain and many more hymns of faith. Harmonically interesting teacher duet parts are featured for many of the hymns.
The Church Musician, Level 2 expands on major concepts and skills taught at Level One. A position-based approach using the Keys of C Major, G Major, F Major, D Major, and A Major is presented in a fresh, musically appealing way using familiar and new sacred music. Students are introduced to all notes of the Grand Staff up to high A, I, IV, and V chords with inversions, eighth notes, transposition, and technic exercises. Musicianship is built through the use of dynamics, coloristic experimentation with the pedal, and motivating and exciting pieces. Titles: * Jesus Lover of My Soul * Oh, How I Love Jesus * Jesus Saves * Near to the Heart of God * More Love to Thee * I Love Thy Kingdom, Lord * Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow * Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus * All Hail the Power * Wonderful Words of Life * Almost Persuaded * Jesus Shall Reign * Take Time to be Holy * Over the River and Through the Woods * Joy to the World * Scale and chord exercises, and technic studies
This manual gives musicians and other performers practical insights on every aspect of performance. Through real life examples and pre-performance exercises, Gordon also offers detailed and workable suggestions for solving the issues and problems associated with live performance.
The Piano Repertoire books are written to supplement and reinforce the music fundamentals that the student is learning at this level of advancement. They may be used with any piano course or library. The books of the Primer Level and Levels 1 & 2 present familiar folk songs and original solos. Folk songs are used at this early beginning level to give the student materials that he is familiar with and which he will enjoy playing for himself and his friends. This wealth of folk music gives him reading experience, develops musical taste, and acquaints him with folk lore of other countries. Level 3 is a collection of melodies of famous composers.
The Piano Repertoire books are written to supplement and reinforce the music fundamentals that the student is learning at this level of advancement. They may be used with any piano course or library. The books of the Primer Level and Levels I & II present familiar folk songs and original solos. Folk songs are used at this early beginning level to give the student materials that he is familiar with and which he will enjoy playing for himself and his friends. This wealth of folk music gives him reading experience, develops musical taste, and acquaints him with folk lore of other countries. Level III is a collection of melodies of famous composers.
A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. He illuminates the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, and Debussy. He analyzes the breathtaking techniques of Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Arthur Rubinstein, and Van Cliburn, and he gives musicians including Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Vladimir Horowitz the opportunity to discuss their approaches. Isacoff delineates how classical music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride, boogie, bebop, and beyond, through Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Charlap. A Natural History of the Piano distills a lifetime of research and passion into one brilliant narrative. We witness Mozart unveiling his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet; European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush; Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother who had lost her child; Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. Here is the instrument in all its complexity and beauty. We learn of the incredible craftsmanship of a modern Steinway, the peculiarity of specialty pianos built for the Victorian household, the continuing innovation in keyboards including electronic ones. And most of all, we hear the music of the masters, from centuries ago and in our own age, brilliantly evoked and as marvelous as its most recent performance. With this wide-ranging volume, Isacoff gives us a must-have for music lovers, pianists, and the armchair musician.
