Contemporary Piano Method Book 4 - Brandman, Margaret Susan

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Résumé :
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. Book 4 is the most advanced level of the method. The material in this book expand students' musical knowledge and playing skills into the realm of extended chord structures, chord voicings and jazz progressions, plus chord figuring and how to realise a figured bass at the keyboard. This level of the Contemporary Piano Method continues the study of polyphonic music including a three-part invention and a Prelude and Fugue by J.S.Bach. The book explores the various compositional resources of Western music of the Twentieth Century and beyond. 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 both classical and contemporary styles, plus understand and perform jazz chord progressions and learn about music outside of the western music tradition, for instance the sound of Indonesian or Japanese music. It also features original compositions by the author who is also an established contemporary composer of works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choir and solo voice, and piano.

Biographie:
Margaret Brandman's career in music as composer, pianist, recording artist, music educator, arranger and writer on music education spans more than 45 years. She has combined her compositional interests with her interest in accelerated learning techniques for music. Margaret has composed a large range of pieces for a variety of instruments and voice which have been released on several CD's produced by Parma Recordings USA. Her concert works for piano, voice, chamber ensembles and orchestra receive both live performances and international airplay on a regular basis. Margaret is writer and publisher of many music education materials in her contemporary series of education materials, which range from books for junior students, to text books for high school and tertiary study. Her catalogue contains over 100 published books and compositions. At the time of writing, she is continuing her career as composer, recording artist, performer, and music educator.

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. Book 4 is the most advanced level of the method. The material in this book expand students' musical knowledge and playing skills into the realm of extended chord structures, chord voicings and jazz progressions, plus chord figuring and how to realise a figured bass at the keyboard. This level of the Contemporary Piano Method continues the study of polyphonic music including a three-part invention and a Prelude and Fugue by J.S.Bach. The book explores the various compositional resources of Western music of the Twentieth Century and beyond. 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 both classical and contemporary styles, plus understand and perform jazz chord progressions and learn about music outside of the western music tradition, for instance the sound of Indonesian or Japanese music. It also features original compositions by the author who is also an established contemporary composer of works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, choir and solo voice, and piano. ...