Succeeding with the Masters(R), Classical Era, Volume One (Succeeding with the Masters, 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569393702 ISBN 13: 9781569393703

Publisher: Alfred Music, 2023

Synopsis

A collection of 26 graded repertoire pieces by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. It provides a complete overview of the musical characteristics of the Classical Era in an easily comprehensible manner. Students learn practice strategies, musical concepts, and general characteristics of the era as they explore delightful pieces by the great composers. A companion CD of complete performances and practice strategies is provided. Contents include: By Haydn: German Dance No. 8 in G Major; German Dance No. 1 in G Major; Minuet in C Major; German Dance in F Major; German Dance in C Major; German Dance in B flat major; Minuet in B flat Major; Minuet and Trio in F Major; Dance in B flat major. By Mozart: Minuet in F; Minuet in C K. 6; Minuet in C; Air; Minuet in F K. 2; Andante and Maestoso; Minuet and Trio K. 1; Allegro Moderato; Allegro K. 3. By Beethoven: German Dance in C Major; Ecossaise in G Major; Country Dance No. 2 in D Major; Ecossaise in E flat Major; Country Dance No. 1 in D Major; Minuet and Trio in G Major; German Dance in G Major; Country Dance in D Minor.

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About the Author

Helen Marlais' active performance schedule includes solo and collaborative concerts throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Her travels abroad have also included performing and teaching at some of the world's leading conservatories and festivals in Italy, France, Hungary, Turkey, Lithuania, and China. She has performed with members of the Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Grand Rapids, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Beijing National Symphony Orchestras. Dr. Marlais is recorded on Gasparo and Centaur record labels, and has had numerous collaborative performances broadcast regionally, nationally and internationally, on radio, television, and the Internet with her husband, clarinetist, Arthur Campbell. She is the Director of Keyboard Publications for The FJH Music Company, and has performed and given workshops at local, state, and national music teachers conventions. She serves on two national committees, the National Piano Performance and Pedagogy Committee and the Piano Pedagogy Curriculum National Task Force, and her articles can be read in Keyboard Companion, The American Music Teacher, and Clavier magazines. Dr. Marlais is an Associate Professor of Piano at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI, where she directs a comprehensive piano pedagogy program and coordinates all of the group piano programs. She also hosts an annual piano pedagogy conference, featuring nationally and internationally recognized clinicians and performers. She received her DM in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University and her MM in piano performance from Carnegie Mellon University. She has also held full-time faculty piano positions at the Crane School of Music, S.U.N.Y. at Potsdam, Iowa State University, and Gustavus Adolphus College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1569393702
• ISBN 13: 9781569393703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 999