Keys to Stylistic Mastery, Book 3

Description

Keys to Stylistic Mastery teaches the basic principles of the five stylistic periods (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist and Contemporary) to piano students. The pieces were chosen to provide a helpful transition from method books to the classics. Composer Dennis Alexander has written at least one piece in the style of each period. Information about each style period, listing selected composers, keyboard instruments and typical forms, precedes the music from that period. Brief biographies of all composers represented are included.

Contents:
• Album Leaf (by Claude Debussy)
• The Blacksmith (by Samuel Maykapar)
• Bourrée (by Johann Philipp Kirnberger)
• Cantabile in B-Flat Major (by Frédéric Chopin)
• Chinese Dragon Festival (by Dennis Alexander)
• Deux Rigaudons (by Jean-Philippe Rameau)
• Fughetto (by Domenico Zipoli)
• Hungarian Dance (by Hugo Reinhold)
• Intrada in C Major (by Christoph Graupner)
• Menuett (by Johann Wilhelm Hässler)
• Minuet (by Domenico Scarlatti)
• Night Song (by Dennis Alexander)
• Pajaro Triste (by Federico Mompou)
• Pentatonic Tune (by Béla Bartók)
• Prelude (by Maurice Ravel)
• Rêverie (by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
• Sacy (by Heitor Villa-Lobos)
• Sarabande in D Minor (by Dennis Alexander)
• Scherzo in D Minor (by Cornelius Gurlitt)
• Sonatina in B-Flat Major (by Anton Diabelli)
• Sonatina in G Major (by Johann Anton André)
• Theme and Variations in D Major (by Dennis Alexander)
• Toccata Chromatica (by Dennis Alexander)
• Toccata in E-Flat Major (by Johann Ludwig Krebs)
• The Village Maidens (by Béla Bartók)