Contemporary Class Piano

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

· 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.

· A teacher's manual with suggested lesson plans and teaching tips available at www.oup.com/us/classpiano

· Thirty-one new solo repertoire and sixteen new ensemble repertoire pieces (arranged for four to eight hands)

· Thirteen new songs to harmonize, six of which make up a new "Famous Themes" section, with favorites such as Für Elise and Liebestraum

· Eighteen new teacher accompaniments

· Easy-to-play arrangements of three patriotic songs in Appendix C

· Opportunities for students to experience aleatoric (chance) music in Unit 1