Schaum Piano Course, D Book - Level 4

D – The ORANGE Book – Level 4

New Edition of this Favorite Method is Revitalized with

• Delightful Contemporary Illustrations in Full Color

• Charming Music and Practical Pedagogy

• Easy-to-Teach – Gradual, Logical Progression

Time-Tested Middle-C Approach to Note Reading

Clever Titles and Lyrics with Gentle Humor

– Music Appreciation stories
– Key Signature Drills -- Music Dictionary
– Quiz Pages Help Organize Review

New Concepts at This Level:

• Harmonic Minor Scales
• Chromatic Scale – Polyphonic Music
• Polytonality – Three-Staff Reading

Contents:
Page:
3 - Sight Reading Drills: Major key signatures
4/5 - Theme and variations: Reuben and Rachel In Society
6 - Natural accents in 6/8 time: A Harvest Melody (Beethoven)
7 - Spanish music: El Caballero (Moszkowski)
8/9 - Reading 3 staffs: Garden of the Stars (Saint-Saens)
10/11 - Viennese waltz form: The Waltz King (Strauss)
12 - American song: There's Music In the Air (Root)
13 - Study for weaker fingers: Three Blind Mice
14/15 - How to practice blocking chords: The Bird Bath
16/17 - Music and politics: Two Military Heroes
18 - Minor scales -- Harmonic minor scale patterns
19 - Key of A minor: The Masked Horseman (Schumann)
20 - Key of G minor: The District Attorney (Rachmaninoff)
21 - Key of E minor: In the Hall of the Mountain King (Grieg)
22 - Phrasing pattern: The Isle of Ecalpon (Streabbog)
23 - Piano Quiz No. 1
24/25 - Scale passage playing: In An Eighteenth Century Flower Garden (Mozart)
26 - Staccato in 6/8 time: Pals of the Saddle (Von Suppe)
27 - Polyphonic music: Two Tunes At Once
28 - The Round and the Canon: Smitty's Ditty and Main Street After Dark
29 - Another type of polyphonic music: Bobcat Boogie
30/31 - Early polyphonic piece: The Cuckoo (Daquin)
32 - Left hand alone: Southpaw Serenade
33 - Characteristic music: March of the Lions
34/35 - Singing tone: The Swan (Saint-Saens)
36 - Polytonality, a modern sound: Henry's Hennery
37 - Expression in music: Moonlight and Orchids (Lemare)
38/39 - Plantation spiritual: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
40 - One-finger pedal study: Waltz For the Index Finger (Weber)
41 - Chromatic scale: The Hornet
42/43 - Black key study: Rhapsody in Orange
44 - Chord study: Mountain Grandeur
45 - Piano Quiz No. 2
46 - Scale fingering charts
47 - Certificate of Promotion
48 - Music Dictionary

Written and arranged by John W. Schaum
Published by Alfred Publishing
This Book is Level 4 (Intermediate)