Harpsichord Method - Volume 1

Here is a complete harpsichord method for children and even all beginners! It was while teaching harpsichord in Education Action Zones (UK), or in Affirmative Action Areas (USA), that I noticed that a great effort still remained necessary to make the learning of this instrument accessible. The goal of this method is to favorize in a pleasant manner the learning and localization of the most commonly played notes, motor skills, as well as hand coordination and displacement by way of Basso Continuo, Diminutions, Articulations and Sight-reading. This project was born thanks to the pupils and their needs. It is the fruit of 12 years of planning and experimenting in real life situations. This approach parts from the standpoint that the beginning pupil has no previous musical knowledge.

Volume 1 of 10

Here, we are starting from nothing. It is the ABC's of music. The basics of learning and localizing notes are laid down, as well as the first steps in touch, hand coordination and displacement, motor skills, and articulation.

Contents:

• The Grand Staff
• Right Hand - Left Hand
• Little March
• Minuet for Three Fingers
• The Brook
• The Waterfalls
• Simple Pleasures
• The Mall
• The Belvedere
• Motor Skills Exercices
• The Bridge
• The Undergrowth
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• The Hamlet
• Morning Song
• Evening Song
• The Waves
• The Moor
• In the Mountains!
• 10 Fingers in a Blow
• Motor Skills Exercice
• The whole scale in early fingerings after Henry Purcell
• Gymnastics no.1 in C Position
• Gymnastics no.2
• Hills
• A Chase
• Coordination Exercise
• The Little Ducks
• The English Garden
• The Mirror
• Motor Skills Exercises
• The French Garden
• The scale in 2 octaves with early fingerings after Henry Purcell
• Canon in C Position
• Invertible Counterpoint in D Position
• Feeling Intervals
• Octaves: Left Hand
• Octaves: Right Hand
• Allegro Daniel Gottlob Türk
• Presto Daniel Gottlob Türk
• Polyphonic Playing
• Alterations
• Hanns ohne Sorgen Daniel Gottlob Türk
• Exercise for Finger Independance
• The Village Windmill
• Independence Exercises
• Choeur des statues Animées André Cardinal Destouches
• Independence Exercises
• Danse de Hercules oft Maticine Tielman Susato
• Independence Exercises
• Die Tonleiter Daniel Gottlob Türk
• Ein kleines Ballet Daniel Gottlob Türk
• Bourrée Cristoph Graupner
• Menuet N° 6 Leopold Mozart
• Articulated Dance inspired from Béla Bartok
• Thumbs Under and Other Fingers Over
• Pièce Jean Leclerc
• Fingers Up and Over
• Noël : Savez-vous, mon cher voisin Jean-François Dandrieu
• Held Notes
• Menuet Johann Krieger
• Held Notes
• Menuet en Rondeau Jean-Philippe Rameau
• Menuet en Rondeau Jean-Philippe Rameau
• Independence Exercise
• Localizing Notes