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A group of resourceful kids start "solution-seekers.com," a website
where "cybervisitors" can get answers to questions that trouble
them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas,
the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the
prophecies of the Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S"
words that reveal a "spectacular story!" With creative characters,
humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Files is a children's
Christmas musical your kids will love performing.
Known for its richly diversified styles of repertoire and ensemble
pieces and its abundance of creative materials, Contemporary Class
Piano, Ninth Edition, includes the widest-ranging repertoire of
solo and ensemble pieces available in any beginning piano text.
Elyse Mach presents an abundant solo and ensemble repertoire-which
includes classical pieces and folk, jazz, dance, and blues
tunes-providing ample opportunities for students to improvise,
transpose, harmonize, and compose accompaniments.
(Keyboard Instruction). Legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has
long been devoted to the education of piano students. In this book
he offers dozens of pieces designed to empower the student, whether
novice or classically trained, with the technique needed to become
an accomplished jazz pianist.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Consists of carefully selected
repertoire from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern
periods. Contents include: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36, No. 1, by
Clementi * Rondo for Four Hands, by Diabelli * Ballade, by
Burgmuller * Spinning Song, by Ellmenreich * Avalanche, by Heller *
Wild Rider, by Schumann * and many other selections.
for organ
This collection of 30 titles includes preludes, postludes, and
other music for services and concerts. All pieces can be played
effectively on a one-manual organ with appropriate stops. This is
the first book in a progressive series.
Features pieces (about Grades 1-3 standard).
Joining the Dots is designed to improve students' skills in reading
music at sight, enabling them to perform new music with confidence.
The books feature short, creative exercises which help students to
develop their ability to read music more quickly and easily, both
in exams and when learning new pieces. They're perfect for use
during lesson time or individual practice! The series covers the
requirements for ABRSM's sight-reading tests at each of Grades 1 to
8. Each book includes: * Key Features - help the student
familiarise themselves with the keys at each grade * Workouts -
warm up and technical exercises help establish basic hand shapes
and finger patterns within each key * Transpose - encourage a
confident sense of key and develop skills in reading by shape *
Make Music - build confidence in creative and imaginative work, and
develop musical ideas and aural skills through simple improvisation
exercises * Read and Play - work through examples and practice how
to approach sight-reading in the exam: read the title, work out the
rhythm, find the notes and play the music!
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Gestures
(Paperback)
Vilem Flusser; Translated by Nancy Ann Roth
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Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilem
Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their
being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He
reconsiders familiar actions--from speaking and painting to smoking
and telephoning--in terms of particular movement, opening a
surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve
meaning. A gesture may or may not be linked to specialized
apparatus, though its form crucially affects the person who makes
it.
These essays, published here as a collection in English for the
first time, were written over roughly a half century and reflect
both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to
phenomenological thought. Defining gesture as "a movement of the
body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no
satisfactory causal explanation," Flusser moves around the topic
from diverse points of view, angles, and distances: at times he
zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement such as taking a
photograph, shaving, or listening to music; at others, he pulls
back to look at something as vast and varied as human "making,"
embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass
manufacturing. But whatever the gesture, Flusser analyzes it as the
expression of a particular form of consciousness, that is, as a
particular relationship between the world and the one who
gestures.
(Willis). Containing a selection of first chart songs, the pieces
in this book are ideal for pupils reaching Part Two, Part Three or
Part Four of the Easiest Piano Course. As well as reinforcing basic
technique they also help to develop musicality and increase the
enjoyment of learning. Songs include: The Climb * Eye of the Tiger
* Grenade * Hallelujah * Love Story * Poker Face * Viva La Vida *
and more.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Contents: The First Noel * Go, Tell It
on the Mountain * Jingle Bells * O Christmas Tree * Pat-a-Pan *
Silent Night * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Christmas Music
Calendar.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Good sightreading ability is a necessary
skill for the developing musician. The Accelerated Sightreading
Book 2 builds confident readers as students play musical variations
based on their Lesson Book pieces. Theory activities help students
focus on key concepts: eighth note and dotted quarter note rhythms,
major and minor five-finger scales, intervals through the 6th, plus
one-octave scales and primary chords in the keys of C, G, and F
major.
(Piano Instruction). Expand your keyboard knowledge with the
Keyboard Lesson Goldmine series The series contains four books:
Blues, Country, Jazz, and Rock. Each volume features 100 individual
modules that cover a giant array of topics. Each lesson includes
detailed instructions with playing examples. You'll also get
extremely useful tips and more to reinforce your learning
experience, plus two audio CDs featuring performance demos of all
the examples in the book 100 Blues Lessons includes 12-bar blues,
8-bar blues, 16-bar blues; right-hand fills, left-hand patterns;
stylings of the great blues pianists; chord voicings; dominant 7th
chords, dominant 9th chords; and much more
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