Directory of new music and instructional materials

American Music Teacher, August-Sept, 2002

Accolade Press

6303 Homestake Pl.
Bowie, MD 20720
(301) 464-6969
bbuck@ccconline.net
Free catalog available.

Remembering, by Mary Ann Parker. This is a set of five pieces for solo piano. Pieces are contrasting in style and mood, appealing to the more mature, late intermediate student. 16 pp. Intermediate. $5.

A Day at the Beach, by Mary Ann Parker. This set of pieces with appealing titles is for younger students and lies well under the hand with good contrast of tempo. 11 pp. Easy. $5.

A Collection of Favorites--A, by Mary Ann Parker. This set of seven studio favorites presents necessary technical skills imbedded in well-written repertoire pieces. 18 pp. Easy. $5.

A Collection of Favorites--B, by Mary Ann Parker. This set of eight pieces includes three for left hand alone, with a good mix of tempi and style. Intermediate. $5.

My Violin Book, by Mary Ann Parker. The fourteen pieces in this collection are all open-string and first position, designed to enable the beginning student to sound good from the start. Each is enhanced by piano accompaniment (available on cassette). Easy. 23 pp. and 14 pp. Set of two books, $10; parts, $5; cassette, $5.

Sight Player--A, by Mary Ann Parker. A book of one-line sight-playing exercises, covering C, G and F major, A- and D-minor five-finger patterns and thumbs on middle C. A few eighth notes (no eighth-note rests) are used. 28 pp. Easy. $5.

Alfred Publishing Inc.

16320 Roscoe Blvd., Ste. 100
Van Nuys, CA 91410
(818) 891-5999
or (818) 892-2452 (customer service)
Fax (818) 892-9239
customerservice@alfredpub.com
www.alfred.com
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Top Hits/Solo Books (Book and CD), Levels 1A-4, by Sharon Aaronson, Dennis Alexander, Christine H. Barden, Tom Gerou, Martha Mier and George Peter Tingley; MIDI orchestrations by Greg Plumblee. Quality full-length CD recordings of featured pop music titles are now available with each book. Students will play right along with a professional-sounding band. This is a sure way to make practicing more fun for students and piano lessons more rewarding. Published by Hal Leonard Corporation Exclusively distributed by Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. 24-32 pp. Intermediate. $16.95 each.

Music for Little Mozarts: Music Recital Book, Books 1 and 2, by Christine H. Barden, Gayle Kowalchyk and E. L. Lancaster. Motivational music reinforces performance concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Books of this series, including an all-new story about Beethoven Bear, Mozart Mouse and the Magical Music Book. It also provides extra material for students who move quickly in group lessons. Book 1, 24 pp.; Book 2, 32 pp. Easy. Book 1, $5.95; Book 2, $6.95.

The First Book for Pianist Series: Bach; Beethoven; Chopin; Mozart (Book and CD), by Willard A. Palmer. A scholarly series from the Alfred Masterwork Library, this contains the most accessible works of the great composers packaged with a professional CD recording of each title in the book. Works are presented in their original form. 24 pp. Intermediate. $9.95.

Alfred's Basic Piano Library: Patriotic Books, Levels 1A-2, by Dennis Alexander, Tom Gerou, Gayle Kowalchyk and E. L. Lancaster. These books correlate with the grade levels used in Alfred's Basic Piano Library Lesson Books. Easy-to-master arrangements of popular and classic patriotic melodies are featured with lyrics. 16-24 pp. Easy. $5.95 each.

Essential Keyboard Duets, Volumes 1 and 2, by Gayle Kowalchyk and E. L. Lancaster. Offering a variety of repertoire originally written for the piano duet medium, these volumes have pieces spanning from classical to modern. Many contain primo and secondo parts of equal difficulty. More than sixty duets, with brief biographies of the composers, are in each volume. Intermediate. 160 pp. $15.95 each.

Greatest Hits for Adults, Books 1 and 2 (Book and CD), by Sharon Aaronson, Dennis Alexander, Christine H. Barden, Tom Gerou, Martha Mier and George Peter Tingley; MIDI orchestrations by Greg Plumbee. These fresh arrangements of popular tunes are specifically for the adult student. Quality full-length disc recordings of featured titles are available with each book. Correlated page-by-page with the popular Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, titles come from Broadway, movies, television and popular standards. Published by Hal Leonard Corporation Exclusively distributed by Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. 48 pp. Intermediate. $17.95.

Major Scale Picture Workbook, by Glenna Battson. This visual approach to learning major scale patters includes a scale picture dictionary for quick reference. Students follow a worksheet format designed to help them discover, then remember, scale notes and fingerings. It also is great for students needing a fresh approach to reviewing scales. 40 pp. Intermediate. $7.50.

Burgmuller, Czerny and Hannon, by Ingrid Jacobson Clarfield. This book contains the most popular and useful etudes of these composers, placed in an order to provide a step-by-step approach to building a secure technique, resulting in solid musicianship. Each unit is organized according to difficulty and emphasizes different aspects of technique and musicianship. 64 pp. Intermediate. $8.95.