Around The World On 88 Keys Book 1

Piano students can enhance their musical imaginations by exploring new sounds through new places. Book 1 contains original piano solos that embrace the musicality, colors and rhythms of seven different cultures or regions: * Rocky Mountains (U.S.) * Istanbul, Turkey * Kingston, Jamaica * Kyoto, Japan * Chesapeake Bay (U.S.) * Buenos Aires, Argentina * Canary Islands (Spain) Each piece is preceded by two pages of "Sightseeing Facts," "Musical Map" practice sections, and "Creating the Mood" suggestions for each piece.

Piano students can enhance their musical imaginations by exploring new sounds through new places. Book 2 contains original piano solos that embrace the musicality, colors and rhythms of seven different cultures and regions: * The Grand Canyon (U.S.) * Plaza de Toros (Seville, Spain) * Bihar, India * Orinoco (South America) * Lake Geneva (Switzerland/France) * Moscow, Russia * Finnmark, Norway Each piece is preceded by two pages of "Sightseeing Facts," "Musical Map" practice sections, and "Creating the Mood" suggestions for each piece. The "Grand Canyon" and "Plaza de Toros" were selected for the Federation Festivals list 2011-2013.

Hidden within all of the 10 innovative piano solos in each volume are scales---sometimes ascending, sometimes descending---in one or both hands. What makes each book "Not Just Another Scale Book," however, is the accompanying CD that features wonderfully orchestrated background tracks. Book 1 features pieces written in both major and minor keys up to two sharps or flats. Book 2 has pieces written in major and minor keys using three to seven sharps. The pieces in Book 3 are written in major and minor keys using three to seven flats.

Celebrate "America's Highway" with Route 66, the latest fun-filled book from Alfred's Learning Link Series. The 8 original piano solos depict various stops along this famous route from Chicago to Los Angeles. The 2 pages preceding each piece are peppered with historical facts, "off the beaten path" stories about each state, as well as practice tips.

Includes favorite orchestral themes arranged for piano, along with information about the traditional symphony orchestra, its history, and biographical data on prominent composers and their best-known works.

Positioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction in tandem with more rarely explored travel narratives by women of the period who felt increasingly free to journey abroad and redefine themselves through travel. In an era when Western artists, writers, and musicians sought 'primitive' ideas for artistic renewal, Joyce E. Kelley locates a key similarity between fiction and travel writing in the way women authors use foreign experiences to inspire innovations with written expression and self-articulation. She focuses on the pairing of outward journeys with more inward, introspective ones made possible through reconceptualizing and mobilizing elements of women’s traditional corporeal and domestic geographies: the skin, the ill body, the womb, and the piano. In texts ranging from Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark to Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and from Evelyn Scott’s Escapade to Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage, Kelley explores how interactions between geographic movement, identity formation, and imaginative excursions produce modernist experimentation. Drawing on fascinating supplementary and archival materials such as letters, diaries, newspaper articles, photographs, and unpublished drafts, Kelley’s book cuts across national and geographic borders to offer rich and often revisionary interpretations of both canonical and lesser-known works.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Correlated to go along with the 12 units of the Accelerated Piano Adventures for the Older Beginner Lesson Book, this book provides valuable reinforcement of theory, concepts through writing, sightreading, and ear training activities.

Adult Piano Adventures is a comprehensive course in reading, playing, and listening to music. With its logical and effective approach to note-reading, Book One gives you the basic skills to play hundreds of melodies by the completion of the book. The enjoyment of familiar songs is a hallmark of Piano Adventures. You will find world-famous classic and popular melodies, as well as folk songs from around the world, jazz and blues favorites, and beloved spirituals. You will learn to play chords and gain an understanding of basic harmony while developing reading skills. - Publisher.