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More Mastering Classic Favorites is a four volume series created for teachers, piano students and the amateur enthusiast and builds on the revolutionary approach to teaching folios introduced in the original six books included in Mastering Classic Favorites. Now with an instructional CD and available MIDI files, More Mastering Classic Favorites brings you more classic piano music literature in a solid multimedia package. Each book includes a new CD recording and a Master-Class performance with practice techniques explained by Sheftel and Lehrer. The series includes works by classical composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Handle, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Stravinsky and many others.
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"Building on the success of their first six volumes of Classic Favorites, Paul Sheftel and Phyllis Alpert Lehrer have expanded their collection with More Classic Favorites(thirty-one pieces by nineteen composers in Volume 1). The introductory pages include 'Observations and Suggestions' about practice preparations and valuable information about problem-solving techniques. Composer biographies precede the musical offerings and are unusually substantial for this early-intermediate level.
Along with some familiar favorites, students and teachers will delight in several new discoveries. My favorite pieces in the collection are a charming character sketch called 'Sunrise' by Gretchaninoff, the great Russian pedagogue, and 'Lento' by Stravinsky. A giant in the composer world, Stravinsky wrote very few pieces below the advanced level.
The companion compact disk not only gives artistic performances of each selection, but also introduces the student to Sheftel's and Lehrer's teaching styles. It is Sheftel's voice we hear as he gives three or four pointers about each piece, suggests appropriate tempo ranges and adds touches of his trademark offbeat sense of humor. Sheftel reminds the students who are somewhat bored with etudes, "Any more Czerny, and I'll call my attorney." With regard to tempo, he warns those who would opt for speed over control, "Play this piece as fast as you can but not as fast as you cannot."
While the composition selection is appealing, I would have preferred more two-page pieces-there are nine out of thirty-one. Overall, the book looks good, with clean engraving and minimal editing." --Suzanne W. Guy, American Music Teacher February/March 2005
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- PublisherCarl Fischer Music Publisher
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0825855950
- ISBN 13 9780825855955
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages48
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PL1215-More Mastering Classic Favorites, Book 1 (with CD)
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Carl Fischer, 2004
ISBN 10: 0825855950
ISBN 13: 9780825855955
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Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. includes cd. First edition. 46 p. More Mastering Classic Favorites is a four volume series created for teachers, piano students and the amateur enthusiast and builds on the revolutionary approach to teaching folios introduced in the original six books included in Mastering Classic Favorites. Now with an instructional CD and available MIDI files, More Mastering Classic Favorites brings you more classic piano music literature in a solid multimedia package. Each book includes a new CD recording and a Master-Class performance with practice techniques explained by Sheftel and Lehrer. The series includes works by classical composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Handle, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Stravinsky and many others. Seller Inventory # Alibris.0008308
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