Piano 101: Book 2 - Popplers Music
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This comprehensive approach to functional musicianship at the keyboard includes varied repertoire, theory, technique, sight-reading, harmonization from lead sheets, ear training and ensembles. Great for college non-music majors, continuing education classes, music dealer in-store programs and group piano classes at the middle and high school levels. Book 2 contains 15 units each with a variety of repertoire, exercises, unit review worksheets and an assignment page.

SKU
00-14591
Composer
Lancaster & Renfrow
Voicing
Piano
Manufacturer
ALFRED
Barcode
038081169910
ISBN 10
0739002570
ISBN 13
9780739002575

  • Unit 1: Major and Minor Five-Finger Patterns and Triads (Review)

  • Did You Know? Famous Pianists

  • Major Five-Finger Patterns

  • Minor Five-Finger Patterns

  • Triads (Chords)

  • Duet: Polka

  • Dance

  • Unit 2: Keys of C Major and A Minor

  • Did You Know? George Frideric Handel and Domenico Scarlatti

  • The C Major Scale

  • The C Major Arpeggio

  • The Primary Chords in C Major

  • The Key of A Minor (Relative of C Major)

  • The A Harmonic Minor Scale

  • The A Minor Arpeggio

  • The Primary Chords in A Minor

  • Go Down, Moses

  • Lead Sheet: Morning Has Broken

  • Unit 3: Keys of F Major and D Minor

  • Did You Know? Opera and Musical Theatre

  • The F Major Scale

  • The F Major Arpeggio

  • The Primary Chords in F Major

  • Auld Lang Syne

  • The Key of D Minor (Relative of F Major)

  • The D Minor Arpeggio

  • The Primary Chords in D Minor

  • Unit 4: 6/8 Time Signature

  • Did You Know? Franz Joseph Haydn

  • A New Time Signature (6/8)

  • Scherzo

  • Ensemble: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

  • Unit 5: Keys of G Major and E Minor

  • Did You Know? Symphony Orchestra

  • The G Major Scale

  • The G Major Arpeggio

  • The Primary Chords in G Major

  • Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

  • The Key of E Minor (Relative of G Major)

  • The E Minor Arpeggio

  • The Primary Chords in E Minor

  • Alexander's Ragtime Band

  • Review Worksheet

  • Unit 6: Key of D Major

  • Did You Know? Ludwig van Beethoven

  • The D Major Scale

  • The D Major Arpeggio

  • The Primary Chords in D Major

  • Turkish March

  • Unit 7: Triads and Inversions

  • Did You Know? The Piano Sonata

  • Triads: First Inversion

  • Triads: Second Inversion

  • Triads: All Positions

  • Naming Triads and Inversions

  • Etude

  • Alberti Bass Accompaniment

  • Unit 8: Augmented and Diminished Triads

  • Did You Know? Franz Schubert

  • Augmented Chords

  • Playing Major and Augmented Chords

  • Diminished Chords

  • Playing Minor and Diminished Chords

  • Lead Sheet: Just a Closer Walk

  • Theme from Symphony No. 9

  • Eighth-Note Triplets

  • Etude

  • Unit 9: Sixteenth Notes

  • Did You Know? Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann

  • Sixteenth Notes

  • Theme from Rondo a Capriccio

  • Dotted Eighth Notes

  • Duet: Andante cantabile

  • Unit 10: Seventh Chords

  • Did You Know? Franz Liszt

  • Seventh Chords

  • Playing Seventh Chords

  • St. Louis Blues

  • Review Worksheet

  • Unit 11: Inversions of Seventh Chords

  • Did You Know? Sergei Rachmaninoff

  • Inversions of Seventh Chords

  • Sand Castles

  • Lead Sheet: Greensleeves

  • Unit 12: Syncopation and Ragtime

  • Did You Know? Ragtime and Scott Joplin

  • Syncopated Notes

  • Ragtime Dance

  • Unit 13: Key of B-flat Major

  • Did You Know? Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel

  • The B-flat Major Scale

  • The B-flat Major Arpeggio

  • The Primary Chords in B-flat Major

  • La Cucaracha

  • Ensemble: In the Good Old Summer Time

  • Unit 14: Key of G Minor

  • Did You Know? Jazz and Popular Music

  • The Key of G Minor (Relative of B-flat Major)

  • The G Minor Arpeggio

  • The Primary Chords in G Minor

  • In the Hall of the Mountain King

  • Lead Sheet: Scarborough Fair

  • Unit 15: Review

  • Did You Know? Music Technology

  • Just Struttin' Along

  • Review Worksheet

  • Supplementary Solo Repertoire

  • Burleske

  • Rondino

  • Ragtime Rondino

  • Hava Nagila

  • Silent Night

  • Piano Concerto No. 2

  • A Pleasant Morning

  • Menuet in G Major

  • Liebestraum

  • Sonatina in C Major

  • The Entertainer

  • Prelude in C Major

  • Spinning Song

  • Appendix A: Teacher's Examples (Ear Training)

  • Appendix B: Scale and Arpeggio Fingering Charts

  • Appendix C: Glossary

  • Appendix D: List of Compositions

  • Index

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