Succeeding with the Masters, Romantic Era, Volume Two

Within Succeeding with the Masters® Romantic Era Volume Two comes the intermediate through early-advanced pieces by Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky and Chopin. As with all of the books in Succeeding with the Masters® Dr. Marlais presents each work within the context of its social and historical time. Valuable practice strategies for each piece help teachers guide their students in developing the correct technique and musical style. Just listen to your students take off when they realize that they can play pieces by the greatest composers who have ever lived. Students want to succeed and when they succeed with the masters they know that they havedone something special. There is no better motivator!

Late Elementary through Early Intermediate.In this book teachers and students will discover a wealth of excellent repertoire by the master composers from the Baroque Classical and Romantic eras. This book as in all of the Succeeding with the Masters books contains valuable information about the specific characteristics of each era practice strategies and a full-performance and narrated CD.There are fun-filled activities that help students learn about each time period. Upon completion of this book students will be ready for Succeeding with the Masters - a series dedicated to the authentic keyboard works of the Baroque Classical Romantic andTwentieth-Century masters.

Compiled and edited by Helen Marlais Succeeding with the Masters is a series dedicated to the authentic keyboard works of Baroque Classical Romantic and 20th Century masters.This series provides a complete and easily accessible method for learning and performing the works of the masters. Each book presents the works in historical perspective for the student and provides the means and the motivation to play these pieces in the correct stylistic musical and technical manner. The easily understandable format of practice strategies and musical concepts make this series enjoyable for both students and teachers.To ensure authenticity all of these pieceshave been extensively researched. Teachers will find a wealth of excellent repertoire that can be used for recitals festivals competitions and state achievement testing. Many of these original compositions may be new to you while others will be familiar. This series brings together an essential and comprehensive library of the pedagogical repertoire of the great composers.Succeeding with the Masters: Classical Era - Volume Two is a groundbreaking collection of 23 graded repertoire pieces by Haydn Mozart and Beethoven.

Compiled and edited by Helen Marlais Succeeding with the Masters is a series dedicated to the authentic keyboard works of Baroque Classical Romantic and 20th Century masters.This series provides a complete and easily accessible method for learning and performing the works of the masters. Each book presents the works in historical perspective for the student and provides the means and the motivation to play these pieces in the correct stylistic musical and technical manner. The easily understandable format of practice strategies and musical concepts make this series enjoyable for both students and teachers.To ensure authenticity all of these pieceshave been extensively researched. Teachers will find a wealth of excellent repertoire that can be used for recitals festivals competitions and state achievement testing. Many of these original compositions may be new to you while others will be familiar. This series brings together an essential and comprehensive library of the pedagogical repertoire of the great composers.Succeeding with the Masters: Baroque Era - Volume One is a groundbreaking collection of 22 graded repertoire pieces by J.S. Bach G.F. Handel and D. Scarlatti.

Succeeding with the Masters-The Festival Collection is a series of eight books designed to give students and teachers a great variety of fabulous repertoire from the Baroque Classical Romantic and 20th/21st Centuries. The series is carefully levelled from elementary through advanced repertoire. These pieces are true crowd pleasers and will showcase students' technical and musical abilities. Each level covers the gamut of your repertoire needs from works that showcase power and bravura to pieces that develop a students' sense of control and finesse. Having a wide selection of works with pedagogically-correct levelling will help make your repertoire selections easier and your students'performances more successful.Each book includes access to online recordings of all the corresponding works to guide students in their interpretation. The editing in the scores reflects these performances. While the performances are consistent with the editing in the books and vice versa they also demonstrate an appropriate degree of interpretive license. This will help to instil an appreciation for accurate performances while nurturing a sense for stylistically appropriate interpretive license.The Festival Collection is a companion to the Succeeding with the Masters series - a series which provides the student with practice strategies and valuable information about the musical characteristics of each era. The Festival Collection expands the repertoire selection with numerous additional top-drawer pedagogical works in a wide array of styles and with different musical and technical demands. There is no duplication of repertoire between these two series and all the pieces presented in both series are motivational and exciting for students to learn as well as for teachers to teach!

Succeeding with the Masters-The Festival Collection is a series of eight books designed to give students and teachers a great variety of fabulous repertoire from the Baroque Classical Romantic and 20th/21st Centuries. The series is carefully levelled from elementary through advanced repertoire. These pieces are true crowd pleasers and will showcase students' technical and musical abilities. Each level covers the gamut of your repertoire needs from works that showcase power and bravura to pieces that develop a students' sense of control and finesse. Having a wide selection of works with pedagogically-correct levelling will help make your repertoire selections easier and your students'performances more successful.Each book includes access to online recordings of all the corresponding works to guide students in their interpretation. The editing in the scores reflects these performances. While the performances are consistent with the editing in the books and vice versa they also demonstrate an appropriate degree of interpretive license. This will help to instil an appreciation for accurate performances while nurturing a sense for stylistically appropriate interpretive license.The Festival Collection is a companion to the Succeeding with the Masters series - a series which provides the student with practice strategies and valuable information about the musical characteristics of each era. The Festival Collection expands the repertoire selection with numerous additional top-drawer pedagogical works in a wide array of styles and with different musical and technical demands. There is no duplication of repertoire between these two series and all the pieces presented in both series are motivational and exciting for students to learn as well as for teachers to teach!

Succeeding With The Masters-The Festival Collection is a series of eight books designed to give students and teachers a great variety of fabulous repertoire from the Baroque Classical Romantic and 20th/21st Centuries. The series is carefully levelled from elementary through advanced repertoire. These pieces are true crowd pleasers and will showcase students' technical and musical abilities. Each level covers the gamut of your repertoire needs from works that showcase power and bravura to pieces that develop a students' sense of control and finesse. Having a wide selection of works with pedagogically-correct levelling will help make your repertoire selections easier and your students'performances more successful. Each book includes access to online recordings of all the corresponding works to guide students in their interpretation. The editing in the scores reflects these performances. While the performances are consistent with the editing in the books and vice-versa they also demonstrate an appropriate degree of interpretive license. This will help to instill an appreciation for accurate performances while nurturing a sense for stylistically appropriate interpretive license. The Festival Collection is a companion to the Succeeding with the Masters series - a series which provides the student with practice strategies and valuable information about the musical characteristics of each era. The Festival Collection expands the repertoire selection with numerous additional top-drawer pedagogical works in a wide array of styles and with different musical and technical demands. There is no duplication of repertoire between these two series and all the pieces presented in both series are motivational and exciting for students to learn as well as for teachers to teach!