ALFRED ALFRED'S Group Piano For Adults Student Book 1 (2nd Edition)

Alfred's Group Piano for Adults: Student Book 1 (2nd Edition)

An Innovative Method Enhanced with Audio and MIDI Files for Practice and Performance

By E. L. Lancaster and Kenon D. Renfrow
Piano Comb Bound
Book & CD-ROM
Item: 00-30368

The Second Edition of Alfred's Group Piano for Adults Book 1, includes updates inspired by numerous recommendations from group piano teachers and students. This book includes a CD-ROM containing both Audio and General MIDI Files of the 500+ accompaniments included in the text, each with an interesting and engaging arrangement coupled with the piano part. Designed for collegiate non-keyboard music majors with little or no keyboard experience, the easy-to-use text contains 26 units, each intended to be covered in one week, thus fulfilling two semesters or three quarters of study. Theory, technique, sight-reading, repertoire, harmonization, improvisation, and ensemble activities are taught thoroughly and consistently throughout the text. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. Book 1 is 360 pages.

Selected sight-reading examples from this book are available in the Piano Maestro app that's downloadable at Piano Maestro. Learn more about JoyTunes, the maker of Piano Maestro at JoyTunes.

Contents

• UNIT 1 KEYBOARD BASICS
• How to Sit at the Keyboard
• Basic Note and Rest Values
• The Keyboard
• Naming White Keys
• Octave
• Finding White Keys
• Dynamic Signs
• SUMMER NIGHT
• Sharp, Flat and Natural Signs
• Half Steps
• Whole Steps
• The Chromatic Scale
• The Staff
• The Treble Clef Sign
• The Bass Clef Sign
• The Grand Staff
• Time Signatures
• Tempo Marks
• Articulation
• Review Worksheet
• UNIT 2 INTERVALS AND OTHER KEYBOARD BASICS
• Intervals
• Eighth Notes, Eighth Rests, and Dotted Quarter Notes
• New Time Signature
• New Dynamic Signs
• Key Signatures
• MINIATURE WALTZ
• MINUET
• Review Worksheet
• UNIT 3 MAJOR FIVE-FINGER PATTERNS
• Major Five-Finger Patterns
• Major Triads (Chords)
• DANCE
• BRIGHT LIGHTS BOOGIE
• New Time Signature
• WALTZ (THE CHILDREN'S MUSICAL FRIEND)
• BARCAROLLE
• UNIT 4 MAJOR FIVE-FINGER PATTERN REVIEW
• Major Five-Finger Pattern Groups
• Sixteenth Notes
• LITTLE SCHERZO
• FORTY-FINGER ENSEMBLE
• Review Worksheet
• UNIT 5 MINOR FIVE-FINGER PATTERNS
• Minor Five-Finger Patterns
• Major and Minor Five-Finger Patterns
• Minor Chords
• Relative Minor Keys
• ETUDE
• ERIE CANAL
• UNIT 6 MINOR FIVE-FINGER PATTERN REVIEW
• Eighth-Note Triplets
• TOCCATINA
• PRELUDE (THE CHILDREN'S MUSICAL FRIEND)
• Review Worksheet
• UNIT 7 CHORD QUALITIES
• Augmented Chords
• Diminished Chords
• The Dotted Eighth Note
• TOPSY-TURVY
• UNIT 8 MAJOR SCALES IN TETRACHORD POSITION
• Tetrachords and the Major Scale
• Intervals of 6ths, 7ths and 8ths (octaves)
• The Damper Pedal
• DREAM ECHOES
• UNIT 9 MAJOR SCALES (GROUP 1) AND TRIADS OF THE KEY
• Playing Triads of the Key
• Playing Major Scales and Arpeggios
• MORNING SALUTE
• GERMAN DANCE
• Review Worksheet
• UNIT 10 MAJOR SCALES (GROUP 2) & TRIADS AND INVERSIONS
• Playing Triads of the Key
• Triads: First Inversion
• Triads: Second Inversion
• Triads: in All Positions
• Playing Major Scales and Arpeggios
• ETUDE
• UNIT 11 THE DOMINANT AND DOMINANT SEVENTH CHORDS
• Tonic and Dominant
• The V7 Chord
• MARCH
• Block Chords and Broken Chords
• UNIT 12 THE SUBDOMINANT CHORD
• Tonic and Subdominant
• MINUET IN F MAJOR
• Alberti Bass and Waltz Bass Accompaniment
• ODE TO JOY (SYMPHONY NO. 9)
• UNIT 13 PRIMARY CHORDS IN MAJOR KEYS
• MOONLIT SHORES
• Review Worksheet
• UNIT 14 MINOR SCALES IN TETRACHORD POSITION
• Minor Scales
• LITTLE FANTASY STUDY
• WAYFARING STRANGER
• UNIT 15 MINOR SCALES (GROUP 1) AND TRIADS OF THE KEY
• Playing Triads of the Key in Harmonic Minor
• Playing Harmonic Minor Scales and Arpeggios
• ALLEGRETTO
• Review Worksheet
• UNIT 16 PRIMARY CHORDS IN MINOR KEYS
• ETUDE
• UNIT 17 MINOR SCALES (GROUP 2) AND TRIADS OF THE KEY
• Playing Triads of the Key in Harmonic Minor
• Playing Harmonic Minor Scales and Arpeggios
• THE CUCKOO
• UNIT 18 MAJOR SCALES (GROUP 3) AND TRIADS OF THE KEY
• Playing Triads of the Key
• Playing Major Scales and Arpeggios
• DANCE
• Review Worksheet
• UNIT 19 THE II CHORD
• The ii Chord
• WALTZ
• UNIT 20 THE VI CHORD
• The vi Chord
• ECOSSAISE
• UNIT 21 THE III CHORD
• The iii Chord
• ETUDE IN C MAJOR
• DANCE
• UNIT 22 MINOR SCALES (GROUP 3) AND TRIADS OF THE KEY
• Playing Triads of the Key in Harmonic Minor
• Playing Harmonic Minor Scales and Arpeggios
• MOONLIGHT SONATA
• Review Worksheet
• UNIT 23 SEVENTH CHORDS
• Seventh Chords
• Inversions of Seventh Chords
• FULL MOON RISING
• PRELUDE IN SEVENTHS
• UNIT 24 OTHER SCALE STRUCTURES
• The Chromatic Scale
• CHROMATIC RAG
• The Whole-Tone Scale
• THE BEAR
• The Blues Scale
• UNIT 25 MODES
• Ionian Mode
• YANKEE DOODLE
• Lydian Mode
• Mixolydian Mode
• Aeolian Mode
• Dorian Mode
• JOHNNY HAS GONE FOR A SOLDIER
• Phrygian Mode
• UNIT 26 REVIEW
• ECOSSAISE
• Review Worksheet
• SUPPLEMENTARY SOLO REPERTOIRE
• SONG (THE FIRST TERM AT THE PIANO)
• THE SHEPHERD PIPES
• CANON
• SONATINA IN C MAJOR
• BAGATELLE
• THE CHASE
• GERMAN DANCE
• ETUDE
• RONDINO
• GERMAN DANCE
• MENUET IN D MINOR
• BURLESKE
• IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING (PEER GYNT SUITE)
• THE ENTERTAINER
• ALLEGRETTO
• ETUDE IN G MAJOR
• JUST STRUTTIN' ALONG
• PRELUDE NO. 1
• APPENDIX A: SCALE AND ARPEGGIO FINGERING CHARTS
• APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY
• APPENDIX C: LIST OF COMPOSITIONS (BY COMPOSER)
• APPENDIX D: LIST OF COMPOSITIONS (BY TITLE)
• Index

Series: Alfred's Group Piano for Adults
Author: E. L. Lancaster, Kenon D. Renfrow
Instrument: Piano
Format: Comb Bound Book & CD-ROM
Page Count: 360
Item Number: 00-30368
ISBN 10: 0-7390-5301-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-7390-5301-0
UPC: 038081330006