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  • Arrorro Mi Nino (Sleep
  • Sleep
  • My Child)
  • Trumpets
  • Echo
  • Marching Ants
  • Mist
  • Stubborn And Cranky
  • Bedtime
  • Drizzle
  • Enigma
  • El Gallo Pinto (The Colorful Rooster)
  • The Sleepy Groundhog
  • Galloping On The Ranch
  • Hopscotch (Perfect And Augmented Fourths)
  • Tutu Maramba
  • Barcarolla (A Boatman's Song)
  • Sobre El Puente De Avignon (On The Bridge Of Avignon)
  • The Haunted Mansion
  • Bumpy Country Road
  • Boogie-woogie
  • Milonga In G Minor

Echoes, Pictures, Riddles, and Tales for Piano Solo by Martin Kutnowski. Edited by Helen Marlais. For piano. The FJH Contemporary Keyboard Editions. Contemporary. Elementary through Intermediate. Book. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc (FJ.J1009).

ISBN 1-56939-450-4. Contemporary.

Contents include: Arrorro Mi Nino (Sleep, Sleep, My Child), Trumpets, Echo, Marching Ants, Mist, Stubborn and Cranky, Bedtime, Drizzle, Enigma, El Gallo Pinto (The Colorful Rooster), The Sleepy Groundhog, Galloping on the Ranch, Hopscotch (Perfect and Augmented Fourths), Tutu Maramba, Barcarolla (A Boatman's Song), Sobre el Puente de Avignon (On the Bridge of Avignon), The Haunted Mansion, Bumpy Country Road, Boogie-woogie, Milonga in G minor, Tango in C minor.

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.

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        5 star rating

        Derek

        Location: from Seattle, WA

        Difficulty Level:
        Beginner

        March 5, 2009

        Very engaging and pedagogically sound

        This collection works very well with my beginner piano students. I use it as an inspired complement of Alfred, which is often too predictable (but methodical). The advantage is that Echoes can be treated as a collection of "art" music, like an easy and updated version of Schumann Op. 68...

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        Karen

        Location: from Westchester, NY

        Difficulty Level:
        Early intermediate

        November 4, 2006

        A great pedagogic resource

        I find that "Echoes..." is a very heterogeneous collection. Each piece proposes a unique challenge, distinct from the previous one. As another reviewer wrote, this collection should probably not be used alone as a single method, but, instead, parallel to other established method/s. The technical distance covered by the whole...

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        Robert

        Location: from Scarborough, ON

        Difficulty Level:
        Beginner

        November 1, 2006

        Creative and Engaging

        The book is great, with tenderness, variety, and plenty of humor. The pieces are very good pianistically. The collection does not work as a "method," however. Rather, it's more like a supplementary book, to be used alongside other didactic materials. I do recommend it.

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        Jeff

        Location: from Brooklyn, NY

        Difficulty Level:
        Early intermediate

        September 9, 2006

        Very imaginative

        Beautiful book; very useful material. Students get excited and engaged with the titles and images. Most pieces are relatively short and easy to put together pretty fast. The tango, the barcarolla, and the milonga are truly wonderful.

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        Claire

        Location: from Cleveland, OH

        Difficulty Level:
        Beginner

        March 7, 2006

        Very attractive collection

        The book is very good. In some pieces, the harmonic language is modern, while it's traditional in others. There are many popular rhythms, such as tango, milonga, barcarolla, boogie-woogie, etc. Fingerings are very clear and straightforward. Students like these pieces very much.

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