{"product_id":"contemporary-class-piano","title":"Contemporary Class Piano","description":"Highly acclaimed for its creative approach to beginning piano, Contemporary Class Piano presents materials in an engaging manner and in a logical progression of difficulty. Easily accessible to students with no prior music or keyboard experience, the book offers a well-rounded and abundant solo and ensemble repertoire--including classical pieces and folk, jazz, rock, pop, and blues tunes--with ample opportunities for students to improvise, transpose, harmonize, and compose accompaniments.\n\nNew to the Enhanced Edition:\n* Incorporates thirty-five new reading, repertoire, and ensemble pieces in various styles and levels of difficulty\n* Introduces a new \"Classic Miniatures\" section--featuring excerpts of original keyboard pieces written by master composers--that allows students to enjoy and play a broad mix of representative classical pieces early on in their keyboard study\n* Adds six new melodies at the end of Unit 5 that give students more opportunities to practice interpreting chord symbols and harmonizing folk songs, symphonic themes, and other styles, using a variety of accompaniment patterns\n* Each book is packaged with a free CD containing orchestration accompaniments to twenty-eight of the new pieces prepared by composer Jason Nyberg (in both practice and performance tempos) for students to use on their own.\n* FREE TO INSTRUCTORS UPON ADOPTION: In addition toa set of four MIDI disks--which are packaged separately from the text and contain approximately 200 orchestration accompaniments prepared by renowned composer Phillip Keveren--a new MIDI disk with accompaniments for twenty-eight of the additional pieces in the enhanced edition has been created by composer James Nyberg for in-class use. These accompaniments motivate students to practice and complete their assignments more readily.\n* A teacher's manual with suggested lesson plans and teaching tips for the first semester of study is available at www.oup.com\/us\/classpiano.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0195342771\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.0195342771.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Mach, Elyse\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Plastic_comb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: It's been through some chapters of life! Expect visible wear—creases, notes, highlights, maybe even a splash of water here and there. Perfect for readers who love a book with history.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52785328554271,"sku":"PKV.0195342771.A","price":10.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/0195342771-0.jpg?v=1786813157","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/contemporary-class-piano","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}