1st Edition
Developing Keyboard Skills Through Composition Inspired by Dances from Around the World
Introduction
Introductory Notes on Composition and Improvisation
Approaching Composition through Improvisation on a Given Theme
Preparing a Composition Plan
Practicing your Compositions
What Is Progress in this Approach
Is your Composition Original?
Introductory Notes on Pedagogy
Playing Position: Sitting at the Piano
Playing Position: Wrists, Hands, and Fingers
Economical Playing: Finger Activation and Wrist Movement
Dances:
Balkan Dance
Arabesque
Vals Venezolano
Tarantella
Dance from the Greeks Islands
Serbian Dance
Cypriot Dance
Hungarian Dance
Minimal Tango
Chinese Dance
Jamaican Dance
Romantic Samba
Kabuki
Cha-cha-cha
Dissonant Polka
Tinikling
Remembering the Irish Washerwoman
Charleston
Indlamu: South African Dance
Polynesian Dance
Appendix: Articulations and Pedaling Technique
Bibliography
Biography
Michalis Andronikou is a composer and musicologist currently residing in Calgary, AB. He holds a PhD in composition from the University of Calgary. He received his Bachelor’s and Integrated Master’s degrees in musicology from the Department of Music Studies, University of Athens, Greece. He has a Diploma in Classical Guitar, Clarinet and Music Theory from the Trinity College and the Royal Academy of Music, and a Diploma in Byzantine Music from the Argyroupolis Municipal Conservatory.
Katrina Estok is a pianist, piano teacher, and writer from Calgary, AB. She studied piano under Edwin Gnandt for four years and received her undergraduate degrees in music (BMus) and English (BA) in 2018. In 2020, she obtained her Master’s degree in musicology from the University of Oxford, where she received a distinction for her dissertation on Béla Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle.
