EARLY INTERMEDIATE BOOK 0 iano Solos in 0 Styles Melody Boer What could e more exhilarating than receiving the score of a perfect 0 Olympic athletes, as ell as competitors in sports, dance, and music, strive for those high marks. In fact, e all ork to achieve perfection in the activities e enjoy. Wouldn t it e onderful to find a resource that offers pianists a chance to shine at any level solos in all styles and from all periods of music history that promote technical skills and offer the dream to succeed in performance Introducing A erfect 0, Book, a collection of solos designed to promote musical excellence for the early-intermediate pianist. I chose a favorite teaching piece from the four stylistic periods Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary. I then rote six original pieces in jazz, lues, ragtime, Latin, allad, and shostopper styles. These 0 solos provide students ith technical challenges as ell as expressive opportunities for musical groth in mood, rhythm, melody, harmony, form, articulation, and dynamics. You do not have to e an Olympic hopeful to achieve a perfect 0, ut you might feel like one as you practice and perform these selections! Contents Araesque............................. 0 Blue Sky Rag...8 Cool Cats... Minuet in D Minor...6 Sassy Sama... Snake Charmer Blues...0 Sonatina in C Major...8 Spring Storm... The Village Maidens... Winter Memories...6 Best ishes for successful music making, No part of this ook shall e reproduced, arranged, adapted, recorded, pulicly performed, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted y any means ithout ritten permission from the pulisher. In order to comply ith copyright las, please apply for such ritten permission and/or license y contacting the pulisher at alfred.com/permissions. Copyright 0 y Alfred Music All rights reserved ISBN-0: 0-790-98-X ISBN-: 978-790-98-
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