Children's Piano Preliminary Course, Book 2

Author: Xianyi Jiang et al.
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: The second volume collects pieces that primarily focus on depicting children's life and interests, while also selecting one hundred and one tunes such as folk songs from China and abroad, and excerpts from world-famous compositions. This volume begins to emphasize the training of phrasing techniques, correctly mastering the "rise" and "fall" motions. Students learn how to play the beginning and ending phrases. In technical training, exercises include trills, double notes, same-note finger switching, octave jumps, and more. Students also start encountering polyphonic pieces, training the independence of both hands and learning to distinguish the different progressions of two voices. The key signatures increase from one sharp and one flat to four sharps and three flats. The note values also progress from eighth notes to sixteenth notes. This volume can be used by beginners for one semester or slightly longer, depending on the student's age and individual learning conditions.