1st Edition

Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician

By Cole Burger Copyright 2022
410 Pages 177 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

410 Pages 177 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

410 Pages 177 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician provides undergraduate music majors in class piano courses with the techniques and fundamentals they need to flourish into independent, versatile musicians who play with confidence and sensitivity. Organized by skill (rather than level), the topics sequenced in this textbook offer endless flexibility for instructors while guiding students in a... Read more

PART I – Skills / 1. Keyboard Theory / 2. More Keyboard Theory – Scales, Broken Chords and Arpeggios, and Choral Warmups / 3. Sightreading and Transposition / 4. Harmonization / 5. Improvisation / 6. Blues Improvisation / 7. Chorales / 8. Score Reading / 9. Accompaniment / PART II – Repertoire / 10. Solo Repertoire / 11. Duet Repertoire / 12. Ensemble Repertoire

Biography

Cole Burger is associate teaching professor of class piano and piano pedagogy in the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University.