Essential Keyboard ﾉtudes: 100 Early Intermediate to Late Intermediate Studies, Comb Bound Book (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781470627409)

This essential collection of 100 piano 騁udes is divided into 15 units that survey the technical challenges at the early intermediate, intermediate, and late intermediate levels. The early units review technical issues that students experience at the elementary levels, such as five-finger patterns and articulations. The later units introduce more difficult technical challenges that prepare students for advanced repertoire, such as playing ornamentation, octaves, and large chords. Each unit contains between five and ten 騁udes written by master composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods. Within each unit, the 騁udes are arranged in order of difficulty. Each piece appears in its original form; notes have not been added or removed. The composers' original dynamics, tempo marks, phrase indications, and articulations have been preserved. Ornamentation is realized in footnotes. Added measure numbers provide easy reference, and editorial suggestions for fingering and pedaling have been provided. A concise foreword discusses technique at the intermediate levels. Two indexes are included: one by unit and technical skill, and another by level and composer.

Unit listing: Five-Finger Patterns * Articulation * Coordination between the Hands * Scales * Triads, Inversions, and Broken Chords * Double Notes * Left-Hand Development * Velocity * Arpeggios * Finger and Hand Independence * Repeated Notes * Accompaniment Patterns * Ornamentation * Octaves * Four- and Five-Note Chords.

Titles: Alla Tarantella (from 12 ﾉtudes), Op. 39, No. 2 (MacDowell) * ﾉtude in A Minor (Arabesque") (from 25 Easy and Progressive Studies), Op. 100, No. 2 (Burgm?ler) * ﾉtude in B-flat Major (from 25 Melodious Studies), Op. 108, No. 10 (Schytte) * ﾉtude in C Major (from Practical Method for the Pianoforte), Op. 249, No. 65 (Kler) * ﾉtude in F Major (from The First Steps of the Young Pianist), Op. 82, No. 39 (Gurlitt) * ﾉtude in G Major (from 25 Elementary Studies), Op. 176, No. 20 (Duvernoy) * ﾉtude in D Minor ("Warrior's Song") (from 25 Melodic Studies), Op. 45, No. 15 (Heller) * ﾉtude in G Minor (from Training of the Left Hand), Op. 89, Book II, No. 6 (Berens) * Exercise in C Major (from ﾉtude for the Pianoforte), Op. 39, No. 1 (Cramer) * Little ﾉtude (from Album for the Young), Op. 68, No. 14 (Schumann) * Maria (romanza sin palabras) (from Six Expressive Studies) (Granados) * Menuetto (from First Term at the Piano), Sz. 53, No. 16 (Bart) * and many more. 152 pages. Comb-bound."

Author: Albert Mendoza
ISBN-10: 147062740X
ISBN-13: 9781470627409
Publisher: Alfred Music
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2015
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 11.70h x 9.10w x 0.40d