Children's Piano Preliminary Course (Volume 2) with Disc

Author: Wang Yaping
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: The second book collects pieces primarily focused on depicting children's life and emotions, while also including one hundred and one songs such as folk music from China and abroad, and excerpts from world-famous compositions. This book begins to emphasize training in phrase playing, correctly mastering the "rise" and "fall" movements, teaching students how to play the beginning and ending phrases. In technical training, exercises include trills, double notes, finger substitution for the same pitch, octave jumps, and more. Students also start encountering polyphonic pieces, training hand independence and learning to distinguish between different melodic lines in 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 book can be used by beginners for one semester or longer, depending on the student's age and individual learning conditions.