Product Description
The
River at the End of Day
By Colin
Kirkpatrick
This
is a collection of fifteen delightful elementary piano pieces on the pastoral theme
of the river. Youngsters are sure to enjoy these tuneful pieces, crafted especially
for the young learner. They are ideal for young beginners, but of course could
be used with beginners of all ages. More experienced students will find them
ideal and enjoyable s sight-reading exercises or to develop the useful skill of
transposing at sight.
The colorful
pieces are arranged in approximate order of difficulty, so you can feel free to
pick and mix according to the needs of the students. The first few pieces use
only quarter notes (crotchets), half notes (minims) and whole notes
(semibreves). Afterwards, note values are introduced gradually. Each piece
takes up just one page and every piece includes some information about the
music. Sometimes the information raises questions such as how short a staccato
note should be. In several of the pieces, the student is encouraged to make
musical decisions.
Many
fingering suggestions are included and while articulations are omitted from the
first few pieces theyre later introduced gradually. Phrasing is omitted from
the first nine pieces on the grounds that most beginner students have enough to
cope with. You might like to introduce the concept of phrasing in the earlier
pieces if your student can handle the music without difficulty. The audio
sample contains recordings of the following pieces: (1) Quiet Waters,
(2) Drifting, (3) At the Riverbank, (7) Song of the Water Gypsy,
(14) Childrens River Song and (15) Round Dance.
The
composer, Colin Kirkpatrick studied at Londons Royal College of Music and
followed a career in music education. He was a High School Music Director for
about fifteen years and later became a Music Education Adviser, with the added
responsibility for training teachers and directing the instrumental teaching
service. He has published a great deal of music and his publishers include
Boosey & Hawkes, Novello, Paxton, Schott, Oxford University Press, Chester,
Belwin Mills and Intrada (Netherlands). His music has been performed and
broadcast all over Europe as well as in Japan, Thailand, Australia and the USA.
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