Alfred's Basic Piano Course: Lesson Book 6

This easy step-by-step method emphasizes correct playing habits and note reading through interval recognition. Level 6 concepts include: a review of major and minor triads; diminished and augmented triads; the diminished seventh chord; a special style of pedaling; the key of F-sharp Minor; the E Major scale; the key of C-sharp minor; the A-flat Major scale; thirty-second notes; and dotted sixteenth notes. This book also contains an important daily scale routine and a dictionary of musical terms. For reinforcement of each principle as it is introduced, supplementary material is carefully coordinated, page for page, at each level of instruction.

Songs include:

• Ay-Ay-Ay
• Shenandoah
• Barcarolle (Morovsky)
• Blue Rondo
• A Classy Rag
• Deep River
• Dry Bones
• Fascination (Marchetti)
• Festive Dance
• Fur Elise (Beethoven)
• Hungarian Dance
• Jazz Ostinato in C-sharp Minor
• La Folia (Theme and Variations)
• Menuet, French Suite No. 6 (Bach )
• Music Machine (Palmer)
• Prelude in D Minor (Clementi)
• Scherzo (Kabalevsky)
• Solfeggio (C. P. E. Bach)
• Theme from Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky)
• Toccata (Palmer)
• Variations on "Canon in D" (Pachelbel)
• Waltz Impromptu (Kullak)

UPC: 038081010250
ISBN: 9780739018606