Highly acclaimed for its creative approach to beginning piano, Contemporary Class Piano presents materials in an engaging manner and in a logical progression of difficulty. Easily accessible to students with no prior music or keyboard experience, the book offers a well-rounded and abundant solo and ensemble repertoire--including classical pieces and folk, jazz, rock, pop, and blues tunes--with ample opportunities for students to improvise, transpose, harmonize, and compose accompaniments. New to the sixth edition BL FREE TO INSTRUCTORS UPON ADOPTION: Packaged separately from the text, a set of four MIDI disks--containing approximately 200 orchestration accompaniments prepared by renowned composer Phillip Keveren--that can be used in class. These accompaniments motivate students to practice and complete their assignments more readily. BL A teacher's manual with suggested lesson plans and teaching tips available at www.oup.com/us/classpiano BL Thirty-one new solo repertoire and sixteen new ensemble repertoire pieces (arranged for four to eight hands) BL Thirteen new songs to harmonize, six of which make up a new "Famous Themes" section, with favorites such as Für Elise and Liebestraum BL Eighteen new teacher accompaniments BL Easy-to-play arrangements of three patriotic songs in Appendix C BL Opportunities for students to experience aleatoric (chance) music in Unit 1

Preface UNIT 1. Keyboard Basics Keyboard Posture Finger Numbers Basic Note Values The Keyboard The Major Five-Finger Pattern Dynamics Reading Notes Intervals Keeping Time Slur and Phrase Markings Key Signature Transposition Eighth Notes and Eighth Rests Drone Bass Repertoire Improvisation Harmonization Sightreading Studies Technical Studies Rhythmic Studies Ensemble Pieces Worksheet Review UNIT 2. The Five-Finger Pattern Playing in Different Registers Tempo Markings More Dynamic Markings Dotted Quarter Notes Accidentals Slurs Parallel Motion 6/8 Time Identifying Flat Key Signatures Change of Dynamics Contrary Motion Major Triads Five-Finger Studies and Triads in Major The Minor Five-Finger Pattern Minor Triads Five-Finger Studies and Triads in Major and Minor More Tempo Markings Pieces Using Major and Minor Triads The Dominant Seventh Chord Block-Chord Accompaniments with I and V6/5 Music Chord Symbols Five-Finger Melodies with Letter-Name Chord Symbols for I and V6/5 Chord Accompaniments The Subdominant Chord Cadences The Circle of Fifths and Major Key Signatures Pieces with I-IV6/4-V6/5 Accompaniments Five-Finger Melodies with Letter-Name Chord Symbols for I, IV6/4, and V6/5 Chord Accompaniments Changing Five-Finger Positions Repertoire Improvisation Creative Music and Harmonization Sightreading Studies Rhythmic Studies Technical Studies Ensemble Pieces Worksheet Review UNIT 3. Pieces with Easy Accompaniments Major Scales Major Scales in Tetrachord Position Major Scales with Fingerings for Both Hands Together Scale Studies in Clusters Triads on Major-Scale Degrees Intervals of a Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth (Octave) Extending the Five-Finger Position Sixteenth Notes and Sixteenth Rests The Dotted Eighth Note Musical Forms: AB and ABA Melodies with Letter-Name Chord Symbols for I, IV6/4, and V6/5 Chords Broken-Chord Accompaniment Patterns Arpeggio Accompaniment Patterns Syncopation The Damper Pedal Other Accompaniment Patterns Secondary Chords Intervals Within the Scale Melodic Lines with Intervals Chord Inversions The Damper Pedal (Indirect Pedaling) Hymn Style Augmented and Diminished Triads Repertoire Improvisation Creative Music and Harmonization Sightreading Studies Rhythmic Studies Technical Studies Ensemble Pieces Worksheet Review UNIT 4. Tonality and Atonality Minor Scales Minor Key Signatures Natural Minor Scales in Tetrachord Positions Harmonic Minor Scales i-iv6/4-i-V6/5-i Chord Progression Parallel Major and Minor Scales Other Scale Forms (Modes) The Chromatic Scale Jazz Pandiatonicism The Whole-Tone Scale Bitonality Atonality Innovative Notations Quartal Harmony Repertoire Bitonal Improvisation Sightreading Studies Ensemble Pieces Worksheet Review UNIT 5. Letter-Name Chord Symbols Letter Names of I, IV, and V7 Chords Melodies with Letter-Name Chord Symbols Famous Themes Strumming Accompaniments Arpeggio Accompaniments Major and Minor Seventh Chords Letter-Name Chord Chart Ensemble Pieces UNIT 6. Twenty-Four Piano Classics 1. Rameau, Tambourin 2. Schein, Allemande 3. Corelli, Sarabande 4. Krieger, Minuet in A Minor 5. Witthauer, Gavotte 6. Telemann, Gigue 7. Mozart, L., Burleske (from Notebook for Wolfgang) 8. Haydn, Gypsy Dance (Trio) 9. Bach/Ricci, Risoluto 10. Mozart, W.A., Minuet in C 11. Beethoven, German Dance 12. Schumann, Melody (from 43 Piano Pieces for the Young, Op. 68) 13. Rebikoff, The Bear 14. Bartok, Springtime Song (No. 2 from For Children, Vol. 1) 15. Kadosa, Homage to Bartok 16. Kabalevsky, A Conversation (Op. 39, No. 7) 17. Hovhaness, Moon Dance (No. 2 from Mountain Idylls 18. Starer, Evens and Odds 19. Gillock, Autumn Is Here 20. Hartsell, Moonlit Shores 21. Mier, Sneaky Business 22. Tingley, Dreamscape 23. Tingley, Early Spring APPENDIX A. Score Reading Three-Part Texture Four-Part Texture APPENDIX B. Major and Harmonic Minor Scales in Two Octaves Major Scales in Two Octaves Harmonic Minor Scales in Two Octaves APPENDIX C. Three Patriotic Song Arrangements 1. Carey, America 2. Bates/Ward, America the Beautiful 3. Key/Smith, The Star-Spangled Banner APPENDIX D. Performance Terms and Symbols Title Index Composer Index Subject Index

Elyse MachProfessor of Music, Northeastern Illinois University

"The sixth edition of Contemporary Class Piano has expanded repertoire, additional harmonizations in a variety of styles, and MIDI accompaniments....A new teacher's manual on the Internet has sample lesson plans, assignments, and teaching tips for each unit that will help experienced teachers and newcomers to the profession. Mach shares additional teaching ideas through the units in sections titled Postscript Notes. Four MIDI disks with accompaniments written and performed by Phillip Keveren are available to class piano teachers from the publisher at no cost. The professional orchestrations are clever and an added attraction for teachers looking for a new college class piano text. With the additional material, extra teaching resources, and flexible format, the revised edition of Contemporary Class Piano is a welcome publication and an excellent choice for adult group piano teachers."--Mary Beth Molenaar, Music Academy, Northwestern University (in Clavier magazine, May/June 2004)