Class Piano Resource Materials

- by W. Daniel Landes

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Class Piano Resource Center

The Class Piano Resource Materials are a series of five progressively graded books which contain all the materials necessary for the comprehensive study of piano. Designed specifically for the study of Secondary Piano at the College level, these Class Piano Resource Materials cover a broad range of basic piano skills common to most college music curricula:

Repertory Scales Arpeggios Harmonizing melodies Improvisation Transposition Chord Study Open Score Reading 5-finger Exercises Chorales & Hymns Sight Reading

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The Class Piano Resource Materials are in five books:

Preparatory Level [Download a review copy]
Level I [Download a review copy]
Level II [Download a review copy]
Level III [Download a review copy]
Level IV [Download a review copy]

Also see Class Piano Lab Resources.

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Class Piano Resource Materials - Preparatory Level

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Goals for Class Piano Preparatory Level
Keyboard & Hand Orientation Chart
Fundamentals of Music Materials

REPERTORY:

Getting Started (Landes)
Square One (Landes)
Etudette #1 (Landes)
Etudette #2 (Landes)
Etudette 3 (Landes)
Fettucini (Landes)
Lightly Row (arr. Landes)
Hamburg (Mason)
Ode to Joy (arr. Landes)
Little Dance (Bartok)
St. Flavian
My Lord, What a Morning (Spiritual)
Imitation (Bartok)
Angel’s Song
Little Étude (Bartok)
Round Dance (Landes)
Romance (Secondo) (Diabelli)
Romance (Primo) (Diabelli)
Triads, Etc. (Landes)
Uncle Willie Gets Eccentric (Landes)
Tex Remembers the Good Times (Landes)
Debbie’s First Date Ends in Disaster (Landes)

Scales
Keyboard Scale Charts
Scales (in notation)
Scale Practice Log
Primary Triads
Block-Chord Cadences (Primary chords)
Procedures for Harmonizing Melodies
Melodies for Harmonization
Improvisation
Transposition
Exercises
APPENDIX 1: Triads in a scale
APPENDIX 2: Melodic Phrases
APPENDIX 3: Melodic Cadences
APPENDIX 4: Non-Chord Tones
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT CHART

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Class Piano Resource Materials - Level I

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Goals for Class Piano Level One

REPERTORY

Review from Preparatory Level:

My Lord, What a Morning
Little Étude
Round Dance
Triads, Etc.
Tex

Level I Repertory:

Dance (Kabalevsky)
Tallis’ Canon
Minuet in F (Mozart)
Swing Set (Arnn)
An Argument (Kabelevsky)
Ninety-Fifth (Wyeth’s Repository)
Hungarian Folk Song (Bartok)
Uncle Willie Is Up to His Old Tricks Again (Landes)
Folk Song (Bartok)
What Wondrous Love is This (arr. Landes)
German Dance (Beethoven)
The Revenge of Debbie (Landes)
The Entertainer (arr. Landes)
Cappriccio (Persichetti)

Block-Chord Cadences (Primary chords)
Procedures for Harmonizing Melodies
Melodies for Harmonization
Transposition and Sight Reading
Open Score Reading
Improvisation
Scales
Arpeggios
Scale and Arpeggio Practice Log
Exercises
Appendix 1: Triads in a Scale
Appendix 2: Melodic Phrases
Appendix 3: Melodic Cadences
APPENDIX 4: Non-Chord Tones
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT CHART

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Class Piano Resource Materials - Level II

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Goals for Class Piano Level Two

REPERTORY

Playing Soldiers (Rebikov)
Soldier's March (Schumann)
Burleske (Mozart)
March (Shostakovitch)
Waltz (Shostakovitch)
Prologue (Persichetti)
Exhortation (Wyeth's Repository)
Minuet in G (Bach)
Minuet in G Minor (Bach)
Sonatina (Attison)
Une Petit Chanson (Rhene-Baton)
Little Piano Piece, No. 2 (Schoenberg)
Simple Gifts (arr. Landes)
Dance (Bartok)
Debbie Visits a Disco (Landes)
Seventh Sun (Secondo) (Arnn)
Seventh Sun (Primo) (Arnn)
Gymnopedie I (Secondo) (Satie)
Gymnopedie I (Primo) (Satie)

Block-Chord Cadences (Primary chords; V7/V)
Procedures for Harmonizing Melodies
Melodies for Harmonization
Transposition and Sight Reading
Open Score Reading
Improvisation
Scales
Arpeggios
Scale and Arpeggio Practice Log
Exercises
Appendix 1: Triads in a Scale
Appendix 2: Melodic Phrases
Appendix 3: Melodic Cadences
APPENDIX 4: Non-Chord Tones
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT CHART

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Class Piano Resource Materials - Level III

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Goals for Class Piano Level Three

REPERTORY

Musette (Bach)
Little Prelude in C (Bach)
The Wild Horseman (Schumann)
Sonatina (Beethoven)
Waltz in B Minor (Schubert)
Arabesque (Burgmuller)
Russian Mellody (Khatchaturian)
Minors Aloud (Arnn)
Class Piano Blues (Landes)

PATRIOTIC SONGS/HYMNS/CHORALES

America (My Country, ’Tis of Thee)
America, the Beautiful (Ward)
National Anthem (Star-Spangled Banner)
NICAEA (Dykes)
PASSION CHORALE (Bach)
ST. THEODULPH (Teschner)
NUN DANKET (Crüger)
AZMON (Mason)
CANNONBURY (Schumann)
ST. ANNE (Croft)
CRUSADER'S HYMN (anon)

Block-Chord Cadences (Primary chords; Secondary Dominants)
Procedures for Harmonizing Melodies
Melodies for Harmonization
Transposition and Sight Reading
Open Score Reading
Improvisation
Scales
Arpeggios
Scale and Arpeggio Practice Log
Exercises
APPENDIX 1: Triads in a scale
APPENDIX 2: Melodic Phrases
APPENDIX 3: Melodic Cadences
APPENDIX 4: Non-Chord Tones
APPENDIX 5: Review of Improvisation Procedures
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT CHART

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Class Piano Resource Materials - Level IV

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Goals for Class Piano Level Four

REPERTORY

The Primrose (Peerson)
Little Prelude in C Minor (Bach)
Bagatelle (Beethoven
Minuet in G (Bach)
Sonatina in C Major (Clementi)
Toccatina (Kabalevsky)
Prelude in C Minor (Chopin
Peacherine Rage (Joplin)
A Valse for Vivian (Baker & Hanson/Landes)
Belmont Boogie (Landes)

PATRIOTIC SONGS/HYMNS/CHORALES

America (My Country, ’Tis of Thee)
America, the Beautiful (Ward)
National Anthem (Star-Spangled Banner)
NICAEA (Dykes)
PASSION CHORALE (Bach)
ST. THEODULPH (Teschner)
NUN DANKET (Crüger)
AZMON (Mason)
CANNONBURY (Schumann)
ST. ANNE (Croft)
CRUSADER'S HYMN (anon)

Block-Chord Cadences (Primary chords; Secondary Dominants)
Procedures for Harmonizing Melodies
Melodies for Harmonization
Transposition and Sight Reading
Open Score Reading
Improvisation
Scales
Arpeggios
Scale and Arpeggio Practice Log
Exercises
APPENDIX 1: Triads in a scale
APPENDIX 2: Melodic Phrases
APPENDIX 3: Melodic Cadences
APPENDIX 4: Non-Chord Tones
APPENDIX 5: Review of Improvisation Procedures
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT CHART

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Supplementary Materials

Interactive computer software (see mockup here) and internet resources are availalbe for those schools (classes) which have class piano labs equipped with computer workstations. In addition, schools which commit to the Class Piano Resource Materials books have access to the Class Piano Resource Center, an ONLINE website with additional resources coordinated with the series of books. For example, each repertory piece has a link with additional information such as COMPOSER, STYLE/PERIOD, MUSICAL TERMS EXPLAINED, PRACTICE TIPS, etc. See an example here.

The interactive software and internet resources are designed to be optional SUPPLEMENTARY RESORCES. The Class Piano Resource Materials (books) were originally designed and function as traditional Class Piano textbooks.

Also see CLASS PIANO LABS.

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