Author Description

Known for its richly diversified styles of repertoire and ensemble pieces and its abundance of creative materials, Contemporary Class Piano, Seventh Edition, includes the widest-ranging repertoire of solo and ensemble pieces available in any beginning piano text. Elyse Mach presents an abundant solo and ensemble repertoire--which includes classical pieces and folk, jazz, rock, pop, and blues tunes--providing ample opportunities for students to improvise, transpose, harmonize, and compose accompaniments.FEATURES OF THE NEW EDITION* Reorganized from six to ten units, the material is now more accessible for classroom use.* Twenty diverse new reading, repertoire, and ensemble pieces introduce students to music of various styles and levels of difficulty.* Unit 9 provides additional practice opportunities in interpreting chord symbols and harmonizing.* More score reading examples in three- and four-part settings provide reinforcement of chorale style reading.* Alto and tenor clef reading examples are introduced.* Two new appendices offer more help: Appendix B features vocal and instrumental accompaniments to help students further develop skills, and Appendix E offers a timeline and historical overview of the style and characteristics of music from the Baroque period through the 21st century.* Appendix A presents new material on transposing instruments.* New CD and MIDI disk icons in the text indicate track numbers for ease of reference.* "Practice Strategies" boxes give beginners helpful hints.* A "Classic Miniatures" section of excerpts contains original keyboard pieces written by master composers.* Worksheets appearing at the end of most chapters provide further practice opportunities.SUPPORT PACKAGE* A new in-text audio CD for students, which includes orchestrations by renowned composers Phillip Keveren and Jason Nyberg, presents selected pieces at both practice tempo and performance tempo.* A set of four MIDI disks--containing approximately 240 orchestration accompani