| Description |
1 score (71 pages) ; 31 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Physical Medium |
audio disc plastic metal 4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
audio disc digital optical 1.4 m/s stereo |
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audio disc CD audio |
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score |
| Medium of Performance |
piano 1 1 |
| Note |
"A tutor for the older beginner"--Cover. |
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Companion CD contains recordings of each piece plus accompaniments for play-along. |
| Contents |
The piano and its music -- Semiquavers -- Scales and arpeggios, hands together -- Minor keys -- A minor scale and arpeggio -- E minor and D minor scales and arpeggios -- New time signatures: 2/2, 3/2, and 3/8 -- A note on fingering -- Call and response exercises and improvisation -- Dotted quavers -- Triplets -- Playing at sight -- Two voices in one hand -- New rhythms in compound time -- Syncopation and swing -- Alberti bass -- Contrasts in touch between the hands -- D major scale, two octaves -- Other two-octave scales -- Moving around the keyboard -- A new time signature: 6/4 -- Developing your technique -- B flat major scale -- Less common time signatures: 5/4, 5/8, and 7/4 -- Time signature changes -- 'Drop and lift' slurs -- Chromatic notes -- Harmonic building blocks -- Adding chords to a melody -- More on pedalling -- G minor scale -- Demisemiquavers -- Double dots -- Arpeggios, two octaves -- More playing at sight -- Grace notes and ornaments -- New compound time signatures: 9/8 and 12/8 -- Modes -- E flat major and C minor scales and arpeggios -- A major scale and arpeggio -- Spread chords -- Improvising using swing rhythms -- More musical signs and Italian terms -- Visual index. |
| Performer |
CD: Alan Bullard, piano; Janet Bullard, speaker. |
| Language |
Staff notation. |
| Subject |
Piano -- Methods -- Self-instruction.
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Piano. |
| Genre/Form |
Methods (Music)
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Self-instruction.
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| Subject |
Recorded accompaniments (Piano)
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Recorded accompaniments (Piano) |
| Genre/Form |
Methods (Music) -- Self-instruction.
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Methods (Music)
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Scores.
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Scores.
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audio disc Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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audio disc Recorded accompaniments.
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Recorded accompaniments.
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Studies (Music)
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Studies (Music)
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Programmed instructional materials.
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Programmed instructional materials.
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| Subject |
Piano pedagogy.
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| Added Author |
Bullard, Alan, 1947- author, composer, arranger of music, instrumentalist.
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| Added Title |
Piano works. Book 2 |
| Note |
Subtitle on cover: a tutor for the older beginner |
| ISBN |
9780193360075 (paperback) |
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0193360071 (paperback) |
| Music No. |
LC 14383 Oxford University Press (CD) |
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14383 Oxford University Press (CD) |
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