Description
Repertoire and experience are recognized by all skilled teachers and profes sors as being essential factors in developing their students' musical abilities and skills. Pupils spending many months studying one or two pieces can get bored and stale. However, if they were to learn a larger number of pieces, they would be likely to benefit a great deal more as well as get a sense of variety and satisfaction.
Teachers and students who follow a course of plano tuition connected to an examination system often find it troublesome to search for suitable music books that deal with the precise level at which they are working. They often find it necessary to buy several books only to discover that they learn only one or two pieces in each. Thus incurring unnecessary extra cost.
Plano Music Through the Ages is a special edition of plano repertoire music designed to deal with this problem. It offers, in a convenient package, a collection of pieces covering different styles and periods of music for students at certain levels. This edition also contains some information about the music, composer and background, together with some performance hints and sugges tions for a number of the pieces.
The collection is divided into several volumes, each addressing a particular level or grade. The background information in the earliest stages is kept simple. The aim is to introduce the music, its composer and style to the pupil. The information is progressive, so that higher levels will get more information. The books will include aspects of musical developments over the centuries, together with features of the main musical styles. At appropriate places, references, in the form of illustrations and notes will be made to other cultural developments so that the student can absorb a little of the atmosphere in which his piece was written.
