Pathways to Artistry: Technique, Book 1

Pathways to Artistry: Technique, Book 1
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 44
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457410598

After acquiring basic reading skills, students are ready to begin this innovative series designed to emphasize artistry in the early stages of piano study. The series introduces basic technical skills and expands the student's knowledge of style, form and artistic ideas. The Technique Book gives students a verbal vocabulary that describes the physical skills needed to play music artistically and with technical assurance.

Pathways to Artistry: Repertoire, Book 1

Pathways to Artistry: Repertoire, Book 1
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 36
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457419164

After acquiring the basic reading skills, students are ready to begin this innovative series designed to emphasize artistry in the early stages of piano study. The series introduces basic technical skills and expands the student's knowledge of style, form and artistic ideas. The Repertoire Book provides newly composed music which reviews the techniques being taught, and bridges the gap between early levels of method books and intermediate masterwork repertoire.

Pathways to Artistry: Technique, Book 2

Pathways to Artistry: Technique, Book 2
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 44
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457410604

Usable either as a method or with a method, this series introduces basic technical skills and expands the student's knowledge of style, form and artistic ideas. Technique Book 2 continues from Book 1, providing students with the physical skills needed to play music artistically and with technical assurance.

Pathways to Artistry: Technique, Book 3

Pathways to Artistry: Technique, Book 3
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 44
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457410611

Usable either as a method or with a method, this series introduces basic technical skills and expands the student's knowledge of style, form and artistic ideas.

Pathways to Artistry - Masterworks, Book 2

Pathways to Artistry - Masterworks, Book 2
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2008-12-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457433044

The 21 pieces in this collection represent some of the best miniature masterworks in piano literature. These pieces were carefully selected not only for their overall quality and musicality, but because they advance very logically from the five-finger position pieces that preceded them in Pathways to Artistry: Masterworks, Book 1. For maximum benefit, students should work through the skills that are comprehensively presented in Pathways to Artistry: Technique, Book 2. Titles: * Alpine Dance (Heinrich Wohlfahrt) * Bourée (Felix Le Couppey) * The Cuckoo (Eduard Horák) * English Gigue (Samuel Arnold) * Etude in A Minor (Ludvig Schytte) * Hopak (Alexander Goedicke) * The King’s Fanfare (William Duncombe) * Little Scherzo (Ludvig Schytte) * A Lovely Day (Daniel Gottlob Türk) * Melodic Etude, Op. 108, No. 12 (Ludvig Schytte) * Minuet in F Major, K. 2 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) * Playful Dances (Jacob Schmitt) * A Pleasant Morning (Jean Louis Streabbog) * Quadrille (Franz Joseph Haydn) * Rain (Nicolai Lyubarski) * Royal Trumpet March (Jeremiah Clarke) * The Shepherd’s Song (Nicolai Lyubarski) * Sonatina in C Major (William Duncombe) * Song from For Children (Béla Bartók) * Song without Words (Louis Köhler) * Trio (Anton Diabelli)

Pathways to Artistry: Repertoire, Book 3

Pathways to Artistry: Repertoire, Book 3
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 36
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457419188

After acquiring the basic reading skills, students are ready to begin this innovative series designed to emphasize artistry in the early stages of piano study. The series introduces basic technical skills and expands the student's knowledge of style, form and artistic ideas. The Repertoire Book provides newly composed music which reviews the techniques being taught, and bridges the gap between early levels of method books and intermediate masterwork repertoire.

Museum Masterpieces, Book 1

Museum Masterpieces, Book 1
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1470625040

In Museum Masterpieces, Book 1, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *American Gothic (Grant Wood) *Black Square and Red Square (Kazimir Malevich) *Carmencita (William Merritt Chase) *A Dash for the Timber (Frederic Remington) *L'étoile (The Star) (Edgar Degas) *Le fifre (The Fife Player) (Édouard Manet) *Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) *The Nut Gatherers (William-Adolphe Bouguereau) *Reeds and Cranes (Suzuki Kiitsu) *Senecio (Paul Klee)

Museum Masterpieces, Book 4

Museum Masterpieces, Book 4
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1470625075

In Museum Masterpieces, Book 4, composer Catherine Rollin has created musical expressions of some of the great works of art found in museums throughout the world. The paintings that inspired these pieces are beautifully displayed on a four-page color insert at the center of the book, along with historical notes about each painting. Titles: *At the Front (George Cochran Lambdin) *Dancers (Theo van Doesburg) *Dancers, Pink and Green (Edgar Degas) *Improvisation (Childe Hassam) *The Kiss (Gustav Klimt) *States of Mind: The Farewells (Umberto Boccioni) *Summer (Thomas Dewing) *Watson and the Shark (John Singleton Copley)

The Independent Piano Teacher's Studio Handbook

The Independent Piano Teacher's Studio Handbook
Author: Beth Gigante Klingenstein
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2008-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0634080830

(Educational Piano Library). This handy and thorough guide is designed to help the independent piano teacher in all aspects of running his/her own studio. Whether it be business practices such as payment plans, taxes, and marketing, or teaching tips involving technique, composition, or sight reading, this all-inclusive manual has it all! Topics include: Developing and Maintaining a Professional Studio, Finances, Establishing Lessons, Studio Recitals, Tuition and Payment Plans, Composition and Improvisation, Marketing, Communications with Parents, Make-up Policies, Zoning and Business Licenses, Teaching Materials and Learning Styles, The Art of Practice, Arts Funding, and many more!

Spotlight on Styles Collection

Spotlight on Styles Collection
Author: Catherine Rollin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1470622408

In the Spotlight on Styles Collection, 21 original pieces by Catherine Rollin are gathered in one book to serve as an introduction to the distinctive styles of Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Impressionist music. Each piece is accessible to the intermediate pianist and features elements that are stylistically characteristic of one of these four periods. Through this collection, students are offered a fulfilling musical experience as well as preparation for the study of the masterworks.