Margaret Brandman's 'Contemporary Piano Method' is designed to equip the student with the necessary skills to play both Classical and Modern music with ease and understanding. The methodology incorporates a variety of progressive learning modalities, including the interval approach, harmonic understanding and multi-key performance. In this tertiary level of the method, students will expand their musical knowledge and playing skills into the realm of extended chord structures and jazz, polyphonic music from canon through to the two-part inventions of J.S.Bach, modal music and the realisation of figured bass. Applying the interval approach learned in the earlier levels of this series students learn to perform music in all clefs including C clef. The scope of the book covers the structure of music along with the topic of Root Progressions, tools for improvisation and much more. Throughout the book these tools are applied to help students successfully learn advanced pieces in a variety of styles.
Margaret Brandman's career in music as composer, pianist, music educator, arranger and writer on music education spans more than 45 years. Her compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles and voice receive both live and recorded performances internationally. Several albums of her works have been recorded by Parma Recordings in the Czech Republic and in Cuba, these include SENSATIONS, COSMIC WHEEL OF THE ZODIAC (song cycle) and the compilation album ABRAZO, which includes her suite 'Warm Winds in Havana' for Saxophone Quartet and percussion. She first studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and subsequently at the University of Sydney, where she majored in composition. In 1975 she was awarded a Bachelor of Music (Composition), having already acquired her Associate Performer degree and Teacher of Pianoforte Diploma. She has since also been awarded the F.Comp.ASMC,, F.Mus.Ed.ASMC., and L.Perf.ASMC degrees by the Australian Society for Musicology and Composition, Hon.FNMSM (UK), the Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy of the World Piano Teacher's Association. (Serbia). Over the years, Margaret Brandman has combined her compositional interests with her interest in accelerated learning techniques for music. She has authored and published a large range of music education materials. Selected awards include WPTA's 'Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy' for her DVD presentation 'The Geometry of the Piano and the Symmetry of the Hands' and World Forum's 'Distinguished Intellectual Contribution Award' for the continent of Australia for her performances and lectures at an international conference in the UK 2012.
Show moreMargaret Brandman's 'Contemporary Piano Method' is designed to equip the student with the necessary skills to play both Classical and Modern music with ease and understanding. The methodology incorporates a variety of progressive learning modalities, including the interval approach, harmonic understanding and multi-key performance. In this tertiary level of the method, students will expand their musical knowledge and playing skills into the realm of extended chord structures and jazz, polyphonic music from canon through to the two-part inventions of J.S.Bach, modal music and the realisation of figured bass. Applying the interval approach learned in the earlier levels of this series students learn to perform music in all clefs including C clef. The scope of the book covers the structure of music along with the topic of Root Progressions, tools for improvisation and much more. Throughout the book these tools are applied to help students successfully learn advanced pieces in a variety of styles.
Margaret Brandman's career in music as composer, pianist, music educator, arranger and writer on music education spans more than 45 years. Her compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles and voice receive both live and recorded performances internationally. Several albums of her works have been recorded by Parma Recordings in the Czech Republic and in Cuba, these include SENSATIONS, COSMIC WHEEL OF THE ZODIAC (song cycle) and the compilation album ABRAZO, which includes her suite 'Warm Winds in Havana' for Saxophone Quartet and percussion. She first studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and subsequently at the University of Sydney, where she majored in composition. In 1975 she was awarded a Bachelor of Music (Composition), having already acquired her Associate Performer degree and Teacher of Pianoforte Diploma. She has since also been awarded the F.Comp.ASMC,, F.Mus.Ed.ASMC., and L.Perf.ASMC degrees by the Australian Society for Musicology and Composition, Hon.FNMSM (UK), the Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy of the World Piano Teacher's Association. (Serbia). Over the years, Margaret Brandman has combined her compositional interests with her interest in accelerated learning techniques for music. She has authored and published a large range of music education materials. Selected awards include WPTA's 'Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy' for her DVD presentation 'The Geometry of the Piano and the Symmetry of the Hands' and World Forum's 'Distinguished Intellectual Contribution Award' for the continent of Australia for her performances and lectures at an international conference in the UK 2012.
Show moreMargaret Brandman's career in music as composer, pianist, music educator, arranger and writer on music education spans more than 45 years. Her compositions for orchestra, chamber ensembles and voice receive both live and recorded performances internationally. Several albums of her works have been recorded by Parma Recordings in the Czech Republic and in Cuba, these include SENSATIONS, COSMIC WHEEL OF THE ZODIAC (song cycle) and the compilation album ABRAZO, which includes her suite 'Warm Winds in Havana' for Saxophone Quartet and percussion. She first studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and subsequently at the University of Sydney, where she majored in composition. In 1975 she was awarded a Bachelor of Music (Composition), having already acquired her Associate Performer degree and Teacher of Pianoforte Diploma. She has since also been awarded the F.Comp.ASMC, F.Mus.Ed.ASMC., and L.Perf.ASMC degrees by the Australian Society for Musicology and Composition, Hon.FNMSM (UK), the Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy of the World Piano Teacher's Association. (Serbia). Over the years, Margaret Brandman has combined her compositional interests with her interest in accelerated learning techniques for music. She has authored and published a large range of music education materials. Selected awards include WPTA's 'Dip.E in Piano Pedagogy' for her DVD presentation 'The Geometry of the Piano and the Symmetry of the Hands' and World Forum's 'Distinguished Intellectual Contribution Award' for the continent of Australia for her performances and lectures at an international conference in the UK 2012.
" I must tell you, I learnt so much from your books and found them
so absolutely crammed full of juicy information! ...... You cover a
huge number of topics - and in terms of jazz harmony especially,
you start where so many of the puny, lukewarm tutors on the market
actually finish. I have a bulging collection of jazz tutors on my
bookshelf (one of my dreams has always been to gain some sort of
profficiency with improvising) - and I haven't found one yet, that
goes into the detail - from go to wo - the way your CPM books 3 & 4
do. The reading is at times dense and complex ....... but for the
serious jazz student and certainly for all teachers, it's truly a
one stop shop. I learnt heaps about the nomenclature of the altered
chords especially, about substitutions and extensions but more than
anything else, I appreciated your comments re which modes were most
appropriate over various chords. Again, I have looked up this
particular topic many times in other books, and although one can
always find the obligatory section on modes, rarely does the advice
extend to the level of detail that you get into. Anyway, again let
me say Wow and double Wow! It must be strange getting feedback on
achievements that you might well consider as "old hat" by now, but
there you have it. Your books have just been sitting on my shelves
for all this time - I didn't realise what I was missing. Where on
earth did you pick up all your jazz know-how? It is so
comprehensive and "connected" - it all ties together so well. I
would very much like to put myself into a time machine and regress
to the age of 10, and take up lessons with you. I would work so
hard, and needless to say - earn so many elephant stickers that
Oscar Peterson would run for cover at the very mention of my name.
The bitter truth is that I am now 50 and can just manage a simple
12 bar blues, so Oscar Peterson needn't look over his shoulder. I
must simply forget about fame and fortune, and contend with
methodically working through all the ideas in your books... Not
such a bad consolation prize, at all!"
Abe Cytonowski (2002)
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