The Classical Piano Method: Method Book, Book 2
The basics of technique, playing and practicing + CD
The Classical Piano Method is for complete beginners or those returning to he piano. The volumes are clearly laid out, progressing in small, manageable steps, giving helpful tips on technique, playing and practising.
- Intervals up to an Octave
- Changing Hand Positions
- Passing under, crossing over
- Major and Minor Scales
- Perfect Cadences and Chord Inversions
- Dominant Seventh Chord
- Two-Part Writing in the RH
- Triplets
- 6/8 Time
- Sixteenth Note/Semiquaver, Dotted Eighth Note/Quaver
- Circle of Fifth
Contents
SUMMARY OF BOOK 1
LESSON 1
Treble Clef in Both Hands
At Play / con moto, tranquillo
Exercise
LESSON 2
Fifth or Sixth? / Sixth, marcato,
That Sound is so
Allegretto
Finger Fitness 1 / Seventh, Octave Transposition Sign
Waltz / sforzato, vivace
LESSON 3
Intervals from a Second to an Octave
Finger Fitness 2
Andante grazioso / grazioso
LESSON 4
Repetitions / Jingle Bells
William Tell / D. S. al Fine
Fanfare Minuet
Theory Check 1
LESSON 5
Mirror-Image Cs, to Help with Reading
Music-Reading Tip
Oh, I C
LESSON 6
Passing Under, Passing Over
Little Melodic Exercise
German Dance / German Dance
Swan Lake / espressivo, a tempo
LESSON 7
Major Scales
C Major Scale, C Major Triad
Finger Fitness 3
Cancan / Cancan
Further Accompaniment Patterns to the Cancan / Alberti Basses
LESSON 8
Major Triads
Primary Triads in C Major / Tonic (I), Subdominant (IV), Dominant (V)
Perfect Cadence in C Major / Cadence
Inversions
Four-Part Perfect Cadence in C Major
Chord Changes
Theory Check 2
Elementary Study / diminuendo, rinforzato
LESSON 9
Dominant Seventh Chord (V7)
Perfect Cadence in C Major with Dominant Seventh Chord
The Little Pianist
The Blue Danube
Variations on a Theme / Variation
LESSON 10
Two-Part Writing in the Right Hand
Come Together / adagio
Humming Song
Theory Check 3
LESSON 11
Triplets
Sonatina in C Major
LESSON 12
Minor Scales
A Minor Scales, Natural A Minor Scale, A Minor Triad
Finger Fitness 4 / Finding the Relative Minor Quickly
Harmonic A Minor Scale
Melodic A Minor Scale
Finger Fitness 5
Gavotte / Gavotte, alla breve
Alla turca
LESSON 13
Sixteenth note (Semiquaver)
Finger Fitness 6
The Young Pianist’s First Steps
Arabian Air
LESSON 14
Triads in A Minor
Cadence in A Minor with Inversions
Dominant Seventh Chord in A Minor
Cadence in A Minor with Dominant Seventh Chord
Theory Check 4
Arabesque
LESSON 15
Releasing the Hands
Little Study
Finger Fitness 7
LESSON 16
G Major Scale, G Major Triad
Finger Fitness 8
Minuet in G Major
LESSON 17
Syncopation
Land of Hope and Glory
LESSON 18
E Minor Scales (natural, harmonic, melodic), E Minor Triad
Finger Fitness 9
6/8 Time
The Moldau
LESSON 19
F Major Scale, F Major Triad
Finger Fitness 10
Dotted Eighth Note (Dotted Quaver)
Finger Fitness 11
Toreador Song
Piano Concerto No. 21
LESSON 20
D Minor Scales (natural, harmonic, melodic)
Finger Fitness 12
Quick Decision / tenuto
Theory Check 5
Für Elise
Prelude in C Major
THEORY CHECK SOLUTIONS
THEORY REVIEW
GLOSSARY
FURTHER REPERTOIRE
CD TRACK LISTING
KEYBOARD NOTATION SYSTEM
