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Developing Keyboard Skills Through Composition Inspired by Dances from Around the World

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-041-22420-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungstermin: 17.08.2026
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. August 2026

Developing Keyboard Skills Through Composition Inspired by Dances from Around the World merges pedagogy with improvisation to help students achieve piano proficiency while actively engaging in the creative process. Unlike conventional piano methods, this approach empowers learners through composition and improvisation, making students’ learning journey both practical and artistically fulfilling.

The book includes twenty carefully crafted dances and etudes inspired by folk traditions from around the world. Each piece serves as both a technical study and a window into diverse musical cultures—from Balkan rhythms to Latin American patterns, Asian pentatonic explorations to African polyrhythms. This international suite expands musical vocabulary beyond Western idioms while building essential keyboard skills. Developing Keyboard Skills Through Composition Inspired by Dances from Around the World will be of particular appeal to music students in universities who are looking to attain their piano proficiency requirements, but also may be of interest to pianists outside the academy who are either self-taught or wish to expand their creative process through improvisation.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781041224204
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-041-22420-4
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Erscheinungstermin: 17.08.2026
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2026
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 430 g
  • Seiten: 148
  • Format (B x H): 178 x 254 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Introductory Notes on Composition and ImprovisationApproaching Composition through Improvisation on a Given ThemePreparing a Composition PlanPracticing your CompositionsWhat is Progress in this approachIs your Composition Original?Introductory Notes on PedagogyPlaying Position: Sitting at the PianoPlaying Position: Wrists, Hands, and FingersEconomical Playing: Finger Activation and Wrist MovementDances: - 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