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The Classic Piano Course Book 1: Starting to Play: The New Piano Course for Older Beginners »
Authors: Carol Barratt
ISBN-13: 9780825633256, ISBN-10: 0825633257
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Music Sales Corporation
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Carol Barratt
Book Synopsis
This new, user-friendly course means you can take up the piano at any age! Whether you're learning from scratch, or starting again, these three books will guide you gently into the pleasure of piano playing. You learn as you play. The course is based on familiar favorites from the classical repertoire, themes from opera and ballet, folksongs and blues, music by contemporary classical composers, and original pieces by Carol Barratt herself. The books include fascinating items of musical history and biography, an easy-to-follow introduction to the theory of music, and suggested listening to enhance your musical appreciation.
Table of Contents
| General Topics | ||
| Piano keyboard and musical alphabet | 4 | |
| Notation | 5 | |
| Sitting at the piano | 7 | |
| Hands: separately | 8 | |
| Hands: alternating | 14 | |
| Hands: together | 24 | |
| Dynamics | 11 | |
| Rests | 16 | |
| Tied notes | 17 | |
| Eighth notes | 19 | |
| Phrase-marks | 19 | |
| Dotted quarter notes | 21 | |
| Flats | 22 | |
| Half steps | 22 | |
| Sharps | 23 | |
| Chords | 26 | |
| Expression marks | 28 | |
| Whole steps | 33 | |
| Naturals | 35 | |
| Reading note groups - lines and spaces | 36 | |
| Moving out of hand positions | 39 | |
| Key signatures | 43 | |
| Leger lines | 44 | |
| Extending the hands | 46 | |
| Slurs | 49 | |
| Staccato | 52 | |
| Sustain pedal | 56 | |
| Dictionary of terms | 64 | |
| Pieces | ||
| Au Clair de la Lune French Shoo Shaggie Scottish | 9 | |
| Air des Bouffons French Largo Dvorak (arr.) | 11 | |
| Pick 'n' Mix C.B. | 12 | |
| Surprise Symphony Haydn (arr.) | 14 | |
| Tallis's Canon Tallis Barratt's Canon! C.B. | 15 | |
| (Resting!) On The Bridge At Avignon French | 16 | |
| When the Saints Go Marching In American | 17 | |
| Ode to Joy Beethoven (arr.) | 18 | |
| Din, Don Spanish Shepherd's Hey English | 20 | |
| Skye Boat Song Scottish | 21 | |
| Two Excerpts - Symphony No. 1 Brahms (arr.) | 22 | |
| Rigadoon Purcell (arr.) F[sharp] Workout C.B. | 23 | |
| First Study Czerny (arr.) | 25 | |
| Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes English | 26 | |
| Carefree John Turk Miserable Mary! C.B. | 27 | |
| Clog Dance English | 28 | |
| Gavotte Hook (arr.) | 29 | |
| Der Meyen Swiss | 31 | |
| Little Sonata Wilton | 32 | |
| Gavotte Handel (arr.) | 33 | |
| Raccoon Rag C.B. | 34 | |
| Mopstick Rag C.B. | 35 | |
| Bobby Shaftoe English | 39 | |
| Two-Part Invention C.B. | 40 | |
| L'homme Arme French | 41 | |
| Les Cinq Doigts Stravinsky | 42 | |
| Russian Dance Goedicke | 43 | |
| Duet - Monet's Garden C.B. | 44 | |
| Allemande Schein | 46 | |
| Poor Wand'ring One Sullivan (arr.) | 47 | |
| Scarborough Fair English | 48 | |
| Cradle Song Kabalevsky | 49 | |
| German Dance Schubert (arr.) | 50 | |
| Don Giovanni Mozart (arr.) | 51 | |
| Staccato Study Czerny | 53 | |
| La Traviata Verdi (arr.) | 54 | |
| Air in F Bach (attrib.) | 55 | |
| The Blue Danube J. Strauss II (arr.) | 57 | |
| Valse Chopin (arr.) | 58 | |
| Lullaby Brahms (arr.) | 59 | |
| Auld Lang Syne | 60 | |
| Swan Lake Tchaikovsky (arr.) | 61 | |
| Fur Elise Beethoven (arr.) | 62 |
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