Teaching Resources
Are You Bored Enough to Practice?
By Joanne Burrows
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$25.00
20 solo piano pieces for Intermediate to Advanced Grades - Grades 4-6.
Each piece offers a number of technical challenges to assist students with classical and modern repertoire.
Each work may be used in a number of different ways to suit student development. For example:
Studies to work on and develop the student skills and musicianship
Quick Learn Pieces- learn and memorise one each week
Sight Reading Exercises
Performance Pieces
Grade 4: Dissonance Delight; Showing Off; Bored Enough Blues.
Grade 5: Funk Hole; Attitude Adjustment; Wasting Time Waltz; Funky Rumba Blues
Grade 6: Pentatonic Procrastination; Tarantella Tantrum; White Heather
Composed 2015
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ISMN 9790720151700
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Australian Women Composers' Piano Anthology
By Various Composers
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$50.00
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Download samples - The Adventurous Platypus - sheet music and audio - Farewell - sheet music and audio - Reflections in the Still Water - sheet music and audio - Aslant a Brook - sheet music and audio - Section 32 - sheet music and audio - Red Sky at Dawn- sheet music and audio - Raindrops - sheet music and audio - Triptych 3rd Movement - sheet music and audio - Soliloquy - sheet music and audio - Remnant - sheet music and audio - The Seduction of Andalucia - sheet music and audio - Retro Rag - sheet music and audio - The Night Ship - sheet music and audio - Anywhere - sheet music and audio - Music from a Quiet Place - sheet music and audio
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Grades 4 - Dip.Century Volume I
By Larry Sitsky
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$25.00
The order of pieces is there not just for progression of difficulty, but for variety, challenge, inspiration as well. At one stage, the composer did sit down with one or more teachers and arrived at a purely subjective grading for each piece. As the composer claims, it will always be contentious, but at least indicates roughly the intent behind the ordering of the collection. Volume I includes mostly pieces for Prep - Level I. See Volume II.
Composed 1990
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ISMN 9790720171714340
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Century Volume II
By Larry Sitsky
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$30.00
These volumes address a serious artistic repertoire for beginning players, not just classical repertoire simplified. The only main-stream composer who has taken on such a task was Bartok with his MIKROKOSMOS, which gave the young pianist serious repertoire as well as drawing heavily on the folk-music sources which were close to Bartok's heart and compositional world. The order of pieces included is not just for progression of difficulty, but for variety, challenge, inspiration as well. As the composer claims that this will always be contentious, it at least indicates roughly the intent behind the ordering of the collection. Volume two includes mostly pieces for Levels 1 to 4. (55 pieces in Volume II mainly - Levels 2/3- 5)
Composed 1990
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Century Volume III
By Larry Sitsky
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$35.00
These volumes address a serious artistic repertoire for beginning players, not just classical repertoire simplified. The only main-stream composer who has taken on such a task was Bartok with his MIKROKOSMOS, which gave the young pianist serious repertoire as well as drawing heavily on the folk-music sources which were close to Bartok's heart and compositional world. The order of pieces included is not just for progression of difficulty, but for variety, challenge, inspiration as well. As the composer claims that this will always be contentious, it at least indicates roughly the intent behind the ordering of the collection. Volume III includes mostly pieces for Levels 3/4 to 8/AMusA.
Composed 1990
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Making My Own Music
By Joanne Burrows
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$28.00
61 exercises in this collection for easy keyboard improvisation.
A resource book for practicing chords, fillers and improvisation using chord charts. It is a wonderful thing to be able to sit at the piano and make music. Improvising is like writing a letter or short story. Everyone can improvise, so encourage students not to be afraid to try and focus on enjoying the process rather than the product. Improvising is not about finding the next Bach, Mozart or Oscar Peterson, it is about freedom to make music. Remind students that simple is great and their ideas have merit.
Making My Own Music provides a simple step-by-step process with suggested activities for the teacher and student to use to develop improvisation skills. The material can be used in the sequence given, or as the teacher and student choose. The exercises and repertoire in the book have been used very successfully with students of all ages from the very young to adult. For younger students with small hands make adaptations to the given ideas, for example: use two note chords instead of three.
The preface outlines the many ways the examples may be used and re-used as new skills are acquired. The unexpected of adding improvisation to each lesson and weekly practice at home significantly increases student motivation to play each day. Once students are at the piano, improvising and creating, it seems the scales, studies and pieces are practiced as well.
Compiled 2014
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Miriam Hyde Piano - album
By Miriam Hyde
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$50.00
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- Grey Foreshore - sheet music and
- audio sample
- Concert Waltz for LH - sheet music
- To a Skylark - sheet music
- Ear-Rings from Spain - sheet music
- Memories of a Happy Day - sheet music
- Pauline - sheet music
- Wet Night on the Highway - sheet music
ISMN 9790720133799
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Miriam Hyde Piano Volume II - album
By Miriam Hyde
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$70.00
All works are available as individual purchases online.
Sheet music samples:
- Elegy
- Lengthening Shadows
- Poem for RH
- Rhapsodic Study for LH
- Ivy Leaves
- Intermezzo for LH
- Grey Foreshore
- A River Idyll and audio
- Kaleidoscope
- The Ring of New Bells and audio
- Ear-Rings from Spain
- Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda
- Memories of a Happy Day
- Pauline
- Prelude in F minor
- Prelude in F# minor
ISMN 9790720133799
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Miriam Hyde Piano Volume III - album
By Miriam Hyde
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$75.00
All works are available as individual purchases online.
Sheet music samples
- The Vine Trellis
- Lullaby for Christine
- Wet Night on the Highway
- To a Skylark
- Drought-stricken Grasses and audio
- Divertimento
- Firewheel
- Burlesque
- Brownhill Creek in Spring and audio
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Miriam Hyde Piano Volume IV - album
By Miriam Hyde
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$75.00
One of two special collections of pieces for solo piano for Diploma levels.
All works are available as individual purchases online
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ISMN 9790720172453
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Piano Grades
By Australian Composers
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$0.00
- Early - Pre-preliminary to grade 4
- Intermediate - grades 5 - 7
- Advanced - grades 7 - 8
- Diploma and above - AMus, LMus, Professional
Additional works are available from the catalogue that are not included in these lists.
Preliminary Grade Piano Technique
By Lorna Menzies-wall
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$10.00
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There may be several reasons why we wish to play the piano – to have fun, to give pleasure to others, or to show what we can do. As we grow older, we realise the importance of paying due regard to the intentions of the composer, and the creation of the most beautiful TONE or the most appropriate effects by the control of TOUCH. This is often called TECHNIQUE. Our goal should always be to achieve the ultimate effect with least effort. The cultivation of certain basic skills cannot begin too soon. Following are some simple exercises which will make the playing of the earliest pieces most effective. They cover: Finger control and legato touch A balanced arm and staccato Thumb preparation for scales Two hand coordination for mixed touch Balanced tone between two hands Phrasing action in a two note slur Mixed touch in the fingers of one hand Balanced tone in the fingers of one hand – voicing. Created 2015 |
ISMN 9790720151281
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