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- Herausgeber: Faber Music Limited
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021
This is the full eBook version of A piece a week Piano Grade 4 in fixed-layout format. A piece a week Piano Grade 4 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.
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Improve your sight-reading!
A piece a week
Grade 4
Paul Harris
My thanks to Lesley Rutherford and Tom Dent at Faber Music,and to Jean Cockburn, Andrew Eales, Ann Priestley and FloraTzanetaki for help and inspiration!
© 2018 by Faber Music LtdBloomsbury House
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Music setting by Donald Thomson
Cover and text designed by Susan Clarke
Printed in England by Caligraving Ltd
All rights reserved
ISBN10: 0-571-54056-2
EAN13: 978-0-571-54056-3
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Contents
Stick insect jig 6
Galaxies, star clusters and black holes 7
Haydn comes to tea 8
The old monastery in the mist 9
Grasses swaying in the evening wind 10
Strictly sequins 11
Hustle & bustle 12
Baroquing chair 13
Masterspy on a mission 14
Daytime TV 15
Dinosaur alert 16
Drifting 17
A biscuit 18
Q box pro 19
A hint of Einaudi 20
Deep blue sea 21
Egyptian adventure 22
Pop song 23
Au revoir 24
Secret agent TX9 chasing the villain 25
Blackpool rock 26
Nocturne Parisienne 27
Humoresque 28
Agent TX9 plotting the next move 29
The Bronx NYC 30
Neptune 31
The big number 32
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Introduction
Why?
One of the main reasons why so many young pianists can’t sight-readis simply because they don’t spend enough time actually looking at,and processing, notation. It’s not uncommon to spend many weeks(perhaps even longer) learning just one or two pieces. The pieces arereally learnt by ear and tactile memory – the notation becomes moreof an aide-memoire, symbols that nudge kinaesthetic memory.
So we need to encourage pupils to spend more time literally lookingat notation! That’s the purpose of this book of pieces. It’s a one-a-week or, at most, one-every-two weeks collection of pieces that willbe especially useful when a pupil is moving towards a grade exam.
Not actually sight-reading
These pieces are not to be sight-read: the idea is to learn one pieceeach week so that pupils are constantly having to process newnotation in a comfortable time frame. They have to actually LOOK atnew music more often and so will become less nervous and moreable to deal with it. It will begin to take the fear and panic out ofreading and notation.
Standard
Each piece is significantly easier than the appropriate grade piece.Each is built on a different (and interesting) pianistic idea, sitscomfortably under the hands and has lots of repetition.
Presenting the piece
When setting pupils off to work at a piece, should you play it tothem first? In general, encourage them to work out the ideas forthemselves. It’s okay to play a few bars, but try to avoid playing thewhole piece – it’s amazing what many pupils will pick up by ear!
Practice
It’s important that pupils practise these pieces regularly – every day,ideally – so that they are regularly reading notation. A new piece eachweek for 27 weeks before an exam will make a huge difference.
Ingredients
Each piece is based on a small number of ideas – simple rhythmsand note patterns – but have quite a number of dynamics and othermarkings: these are very important. Pupils very rarely manage toinclude dynamics and other markings in exams. This takes practiceand these pieces will give them that opportunity!
