Texts
Please purchase the appropriate text by the 1st class:
Tuesday, September 8
- PCL 101-102:
Note: Keyboard Musicianship, Book One is now in its 9th edition.
We will adopt only this edition in the Fall 2009 semester.
Keyboard Musicianship: Group Piano for Adults, Book One
by James Lyke, Tony Caramia, Reid Alexander, Ron Chioldi, and Geoffrey Haydon, 2009.
ISBN 978-1-58874-844-7
(CD Included)
With the 9th edition, we welcome new co-author Dr. Ronald Chioldi who currently teaches at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma. Dr. Chioldi earned his DMA degree at the University of Illinois.
The 9th edition has been extensively revised. New and attractive compositions by Tony Caramia and Celine Bussieres-Lessard appear throughout the book. Dr. Reid Alexander has selected many new Baroque, Classic and Romantic pieces to round out the repertoire sections in each chapter. Additions to technical studies and musicianship work have been re-worked and expanded by Dr. Chioldi and the sight reading and transposing sections have been extensively added to by Dr. Lyke.
In addition, Dr. Lyke has arranged many new accompaniments, ensemble pieces, and American song repertoire. The harmonization sections in each chapter have also undergone some revision in an attempt to teach various styles of accompaniment and increase harmonic knowledge. The holiday music section in the Appendix has been expanded with the addition of lead sheets and several new arrangements by Dr. Lyke, Professor Caramia and Dr. Haydon. Dr. Haydon has recast the CD/MIDI tracks in a newer format.
Keyboard Musicianship, Book One promotes all-around musicianship at the keyboard. Students who complete this first year (two-semester) text should be able to use the piano as an aid in their life long work with music, e.g, studying scores, accompanying beginning level students on their instruments, improvising, realizing lead sheets where only melodies and chord symbols are given including both traditional and jazz harmony, using the body in a very natural way while playing and so on.
American popular music is used extensively in solo and ensemble arrangements. This provides a balance to classical repertoire and introduces the great American songwriters to piano students. Solo and ensemble arrangements of tunes by George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern etc. appear throughout the book.
- PCL 103-104:
Keyboard Musicianship: Group Piano for Adults, Book Two
by James Lyke, Tony Caramia, Reid Alexander, and Geoffrey Haydon, 2004.
ISBN 1-58874-332-2; (CD included)
Keyboard Musicianship: Piano For Adults, Book Two provides a comprehensive set of materials for college music majors who are enrolled in second year piano courses. It integrates the study of repertoire and technic with practical piano skills such as sight reading, transposing, harmonizing both folk and popular melodies, playing useful chord patterns, analyzing musical structures, and improvising.
The eight chapters start with examples and a review of traditional and jazz harmony, then move quickly into new elements that are introduced through a variety of musical activities. Technical work is woven throughout the various chapters and suggested quiz topics appear at the end of each chapter.
PCL 105-106:
- Please purchase the Scale Book by the 1st class:
Friday, September 4
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Title: The Brown Scale Book Summary: This essential resource includes all major and minor scales, triads, arpeggios, dominant sevenths, and chromatic scales organized by key. Publisher Frederick Harris Music