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Performance offers students an opportunity to apply what they have learned in Lessons. The variety of folk songs, familiar tunes, original music, and classical literature is ideal for use in recitals...

The Standard of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method Books 1 & 2 combine a strong performance-centered approach with music theory, music history, ear training, listening, composition, improvisation, a...

This thorough method gently leads the student, step-by-step, through basic keyboard fundamentals, reinforced by related artwork and activities. Multi-key reading is introduced gradually throughout the...

Each book contains parallel theory instruction, correlated unit-by-unit with the materials in the corresponding Piano Lessons book. Writing, playing, and ear-training drills isolate and reinforce conc...

An excellent beginner book that provides reading work in Middle C and C major five-finger positions. Introduces music fundamentals such as the keyboard, rhythm, and notation. The tonic chord carefully...

Theory and Technic provides parallel theory and technic instruction correlated with the Traditional Primer. Writing and playing drills reinforce musical concepts, and exercises are included to develop...

Features music of Bach, Clementi, Kabalevsky, Mendelssohn, and Bastien, with additional pieces of Purcell, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Haydn, Elmenreich, Grieg, Schumann, and Khachaturian. Emphasizes orname...

Emphasizes exercises in major and minor keys. Also works with key signatures, intervals, scales, augmented and diminishes triads, triads of major and minor scales, dominant seventh chords, and cadence...

Provides a nice balance between studying musical forms and continuing work in scales and triads. Also presents figured bass, modulation (secondary dominant), musical textures, and music terms.

Provides expanded work with intervals, scales, triads, musical forms, figured bass, modulation, and musical textures. Also includes a comprehensive presentation of ornamentation.

Contains exercises and etudes for improving facility in phrasing, scales, broken chords, rotation, hand position shifts, double notes, and chromatic scales. Represents works of composers such as Czern...

Presents studies for developing wrist staccato, repeated notes, trills, and part playing skills. Includes works by Berens, Czerny, Duvernoy, Gurlitt, Kohler, and the Bastiens.

New presentations include arpeggios, turn studies, and double third studies. In addition to original etudes and exercises, there are works by Burgmuller, Czerny, Heller, and Kohler.

Twelve original Jane Smisor Bastien solos that serve as superb multiple-key sight reading or recital materials.

Ten original solos by Jane Smisor Bastien explore a wide range of key centers.

Ten Jane Smisor Bastien originals, including a miniature 'Suite in Baroque Style.'

The title says exactly what this is ... including specialized training with duets written especially for this book, and chapters about the choral accompanist, the art song, orchestral reductions, inst...