24 Character Preludes by Dennis Alexander + CD piano solos
| Publisher | ALFRED PUBLISHING CO.,INC. |
| Genre: |
classical & sacret
music for music school |
| Arrangement: | piano |
| Cast: | solo |
| Difficulty: | Intermediate |
| Format: | book + CD |
Parameters
| Product code: | 20752 |
| Composer: | Alexander, Dennis |
| No. of songs: | 24 |
| Pages: | 39 |
| Language: | English |
| Size: | 23 x 30 cm |
| UPC: | 038081195162 |
| ISBN: | 9780739023419 |
| Weight: | 172 g |
Audio examples
Songlist (24)
- Melancholy Evening
- Dreamcatchers
- Bravissimo!
- Castle in the Mist
- Celestial Lullaby
- Corps de Ballet
- Fleeting Spirits
- Gymnastic Extravaganza
- Jubilato
- Longing
- Morning Glories
- On Majestic Peaks
- Opening Act
- Petite Nocturne
- Regrets
- Smoldering Blues
- Solemn Decree
- Sunshower
- Thunderflash!
- Timeless
- The Village Piper
- Warm Embrace
- Whirlwind
- Zigzag
Product description
This collection of preludes in all major and minor keys contains a wealth of pedagogical challenges for the late intermediate to early advanced level students. Each prelude is designed to explore one or more pianistic problems, and serves as excellent preparatory repertoire for the more complex character pieces of the great masters of the 19th and 20th centuries. The sounds of Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin, Prokofieff or Copland are echoed in the pieces in this collection. Dennis Alexander has recorded beautiful solo renditions of all 24 pieces on a correlated compact disc, which is packaged with each book in a convenient vinyl slip-pocket. The recordings are ideal for students to listen at home for performance modeling and for quick teaching reference as you assign selections.
Dennis Alexander (*1947) is a successful and popular American composer who has earned an international reputation as one of North America's most prolific and popular composers of instructional piano music for students of all levels. For 24 years he was a professor of piano performance and piano pedagogy at the University of Montana. He retired in 1996 and has been mainly composing music ever since.
