Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day, Let's Get Started, Book A (The FJH Pianist's Curriculum, A) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569399670 ISBN 13: 9781569399675

Publisher: Alfred Music, 2023

Synopsis

Designed to be accessible to young beginners, we've used larger fonts and added lyrics that appeal to kids. Each unit has a theme such as At the Park, Up in Space, or Creepy Crawly Things. Every day the student claps/counts two short rhythm lines, and sight reads two short pieces, and checks off a Did It! box. This carefully sequenced book starts with reading 2nds and 3rds from guide notes Middle C, Treble G, and Bass F; then adds the interval of a 4th in Unit 4. This new addition to the series guides students in a simple way to sight read with ease, accuracy and musicality.

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About the Author

Dr. Helen Marlais performance schedule includes concerts and pedagogical sessions throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Her travels abroad have included performing and teaching in S. Korea, Taiwan, Italy, England, France, Spain, Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Estonia, China, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, and Russia. Marlais has recorded on Audite, Gasparo, Stargrass and Centaur record labels. She has had performances broadcast regionally, nationally, and internationally, on radio, television, and the Internet. Her most recent recording with her husband, concert clarinetist Arthur Campbell, Music for Clarinet and Piano, was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards, one of the most prestigious distinctions available to classical musicians today. FonoForum, a leading European classical music magazine, writes: Seldom has one so clearly observed the bubbling substructure of the piano part of Schumann s Fantasy Pieces Op. 73 and, thereby, seldom have the Schumann pieces been played so elegantly and delicately. They continue with: Campbell s and Marlais playing is always exact, elegant, without excess. The beauty of this genuinely joint playing is so engaging that it seems to lack for nothing. Dr. Marlais dedication to pedagogy for the young is sincere and unwavering. One of the joys of her life has been creating materials to support piano teachers as they guide young musicians. Her series, the Succeeding at the Piano® method, Succeeding with the Masters®, The Festival Collection®, In Recital®, Sight Reading and Rhythm®, Write, Play, and Hear Your Theory®, and The FJH Contemporary Keyboard Editions®, among others, are published by the FJH Music Company. Her books have been translated into Korean, Taiwanese, and Chinese. She is the Director of Keyboard Publications for The FJH Music Company. Recipient of the Distinguished Contribution to a Discipline Award at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Helen teaches piano and directs the Piano Pedagogy Certificate program for undergraduate piano majors and professional piano teachers. She received her DM in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University and her MFA in piano performance from Carnegie Mellon University. She received her BM in piano performance from the University of Toledo and was their 2008 Outstanding Alumna in the Arts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1569399670
• ISBN 13: 9781569399675
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 999