Helen Marlais
Pianist, Pedagogue, Pedagogical author.
This book will become a cherished collection for your students or adult pianist. The attractive arrangements are suitable for performance or personal times of reflection with titles such as: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah; All Creatures of Our God and King; Amazing Grace; and more. There are ten solos and two equal-part duets carefully...
Intuitive Journeys is a late intermediate through advanced collection of piano solos that invites students to explore the emotional messages behind the notes written on the page. Students are encouraged to use their instincts and imagination to create their own musical experience, and enjoy the process of self-discovery.
Outside the Box is a unique collection containing ten pieces that experiment with contemporary compositional techniques, altering such elements as melody, harmony, and form to create a completely new sound. Students will learn interesting ways to create new sounds and have fun playing music that is definitely “Outside the Box!” TABLE OF CONTENTS: Pandiatonicism –...
Flip through the pages of Ninov’s Piano Album and they will introduce you to a gallery of musical pictures. You will “see” the sparrow leaping among the branches; you will “feel” the melancholy of autumn with its golden leaves falling; and you will “hear” the mischievous gossip spreading around the neighborhood. Ninov has always been...
This two-volume collection of preludes contains short character pieces with a wide range of emotional expression and a wide range of technical demands from intermediate to advanced. The performer may decide to program these preludes as single pieces or in groupings in any order. While written in part as pedagogical exercises, these preludes are beautifully...
Book 6 of Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day® reinforces previous skills and adds new skills such as reading sixteenth-note rhythms in several different keys and includes combinations of rhythms such as an eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes and a dotted eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes. Also introduced are diminished triads,...
You will find refreshing repertoire for your Late Intermediate students in this book. Seven complete sonatinas written by Diabelli, Schmitt, Clementi, Chrétien, Gurlitt, Spindler and Agnesi comprise Book 5. Interesting text pages describe the evolution of music from the Baroque through Romantic period, and specific notes about the composer and each movement provide background and...
The pieces included in Book 5 will challenge and propel your students forward towards advanced repertoire, as well as provide students with the necessary literature to obtain a command of pianistic technique. Book 5 will develop their unique sense of artistry and interpretation, and an overall control and personalized understanding of the standard repertoire. Some...
New concepts are: Major, Perfect and minor intervals; 9/8 time signature; sixteenth and eighth note combinations; primary and secondary triads; dominant 7ths; transposition; compositional techniques of repetition, sequence, and imitation; and non-harmonic tones (passing and neighbor). Complimentary download of ear-training examples and answer key is available online. Contains several musical analyses and a final test.
Book Six of In Recital® with Christmas Favorites reinforces concepts such as rhythmic patterns of dotted eighth notes, triplets, and sixteenth notes; pieces in simple, compound, and mixed meters, ornamentation consisting of grace notes and trills. Technical challenges encompass one- and two-octave scales, octaves, rolled chords, and hand-over-hand configurations. A delightful inclusion in this volume...
