Contemporary Piano Method Book 3 - Brandman, Margaret Susan

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Biographie:
Margaret Brandman's career in music as composer, pianist, music educator, arranger and writer on music education spans more than 45 years. Her compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles and voice receive both live and recorded performances internationally. Several albums of her works have been recorded by Parma Recordings in the Czech Republic and in Cuba, these include SENSATIONS, COSMIC WHEEL OF THE ZODIAC (song cycle) and the compilation album ABRAZO, which includes her suite 'Warm Winds in Havana' for Saxophone Quartet and percussion. She first studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and subsequently at the University of Sydney, where she majored in composition. In 1975 she was awarded a Bachelor of Music (Composition), having already acquired her Associate Performer degree and Teacher of Pianoforte Diploma. She has since also been awarded the F.Comp.ASMC,, F.Mus.Ed.ASMC., and L.Perf.ASMC degrees by the Australian Society for Musicology and Composition, Hon.FNMSM (UK), the Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy of the World Piano Teacher's Association. (Serbia). Over the years, Margaret Brandman has combined her compositional interests with her interest in accelerated learning techniques for music. She has authored and published a large range of music education materials. Selected awards include WPTA's 'Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy' for her DVD presentation 'The Geometry of the Piano and the Symmetry of the Hands' and World Forum's 'Distinguished Intellectual Contribution Award' for the continent of Australia for her performances and lectures at an international conference in the UK 2012.

Sommaire:
Margaret Brandman's 'Contemporary Piano Method' is designed to equip the student with the necessary skills to play both Classical and Modern music with ease and understanding. The methodology incorporates a variety of progressive learning modalities, including the interval approach, harmonic understanding and multi-key performance. In this tertiary level of the method, students will expand their musical knowledge and playing skills into the realm of extended chord structures and jazz, polyphonic music from canon through to the two-part inventions of J.S.Bach, modal music and the realisation of figured bass. Applying the interval approach learned in the earlier levels of this series students learn to perform music in all clefs including C clef. The scope of the book covers the structure of music along with the topic of Root Progressions, tools for improvisation and much more. Throughout the book these tools are applied to help students successfully learn advanced pieces in a variety of styles....