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SKU: AP.98-J1001
1. Composed by Stan Applebaum. Edited by Helen Marlais. Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. The FJH Contemporary Keyboard Editions. Contents include: a "tone poem," a "gentle" aria, a "prelude in miniature," and Bitonality: "dancing around" in the Aeolian mode. You will find this collection of over 30 pieces a delight to play again, and again (once your ear becomes accustomed)! Contemporary. Book. The FJH Music Company Inc #98-J1001. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc (AP.98-J1001).ISBN 9781569393505. UPC: 674398213900. English.
Soon you will be hooked on 20th century piano sounds with Stan Applebaum's amazing miniatures! These short pieces utilize the full range of the piano and allow the student to sense different kinds of emotions --- dramatic as well as introverted. The volume includes a "tone poem," a "gentle aria," a "prelude in miniature," and a bitonal miniature: "dancing around in the Aeolian mode." You will find this collection of over 30 pieces a delight to play again and again!
About FJH Contemporary Keyboard Editions
The FJH Contemporary Keyboard Editions is a series that focuses on the best contemporary music for keyboard of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. These collected works by some of today's leading art-music composers will expand a student's concept of rhythm, harmony, sound, and texture. While the composers invited to write for this series use a colorful palette of contemporary techniques and textures, they were selected for their strong musical voices, which ensure that the ultimate goal of musical communication is never lost.
Too often, both students and teachers get discouraged with contemporary compositions because of their avant-garde sound. This series addresses that concern by providing excellent music which is both contemporary and intuitively musical. Contemporary performance practices such as depressing keys silently, cluster sounds, pedal effects, knocking on the keyboard, contemporary harmonies, jazz idioms, bitonality, modes, mixed and changing meters, and 12-tone techniques challenge the student to listen for new rhythmic gestures and tonal colors and expand their interpretive capacity.
While expanding students' horizons, this series helps to confirm and reinforce the musical and technical concepts they are learning in their other repertoire. The natural musicality present in each of these pieces demands the same kind of careful attention that we expect from the standard canon of repertoire.
This series is carefully leveled into the following categories: elementary, intermediate, early advanced, and advanced. Each of the works has been selected for its artistic as well as its pedagogical merit.