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Part One |
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Introducing the music staff
Measures and bar lines
The time signature
Beginning hand positions
Rests
Notes on the Treble and Bass staves
Duration to the eighth
Note stem direction
The elements of music
The science of sound
About the piano
Sharps, flats and naturals
Half and whole steps
Musical terms and dynamic symbols
Leger notes |
Part Two |
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Intervals
Key signatures
Musical phrasing
The diatonic scale
Building major scales
Dotted notes
Intervals of the major scale
Meter including compound and irregular times
Grace notes
1st & 2nd endings, repeat bars
Triads of the major scale
The metronome
Italian terms
Composition analysis
Preparing for performance |
Part Three |
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Relative note values to the sixteenth
Inversions of the triad
Recognizing key signatures
Major and perfect intervals
Triplets
Enharmonic note equivalents and enharmonic scales
Minor, augmented and diminished intervals
Double sharps and double flats
Primary and secondary triads
Minor, augmented and diminished triads
Cadences
Wind and stringed instruments
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Electronic Instruments
Interview with a prodigy |
Christmas Favorites |
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As with Gladness,
O Little Town of Bethlehem,
Away in a Manger,
O Come, O Come Emmanuel,
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,
O Come All Ye Faithful,
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
The First Noel
Good King Wenceslas
Once in Royal David’s City
Joy to the World
Silent Night
We Three Kings
Angels We Have Heard on High
What Child is This
Angels From the Realms of Glory
O Holy Night |
Hymns |
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Faith of Our Fathers
The King of Love
Praise to the Lord
Amazing Grace
Joyful Joyful
Come Thou Almighty King
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Jesus Thou joy of Loving Hearts
All Creatures of Our God and King
For the Beauty of the Earth
When Morning Gilds the Skies
Abide with Me
My Faith Looks Up to Thee
O Sacred Head now Wounded
Lord Jesus Think on Me
Nearer My God to Thee
Fairest Lord Jesus
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A Progressive Christmas (CD) |
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- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- O Come, O Come Emmanuel
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- Joy to the World
- Away in a Manger
- Christmas Concerto (Joanne Jolee)
- Variation on a Theme by Scarlatti
- Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Once in Royal David’s City
- Jesus, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
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