Classroom Keyboard

This book is concise, practical, and has modular content that can be taught in several flexible formats. The introduction of one hundred musical elements is supported by three hundred activities.Ten core melodies and seventeen other authentic pieces are carefully sequenced in mostly fixed hand positions. The intervallic reading of melodic notation is emphasized. Melodic repetition and gradually more demanding accompaniments help students with divergent abilities to play successfully. Students with prior musical experience will find that this course introduces them to aspects of musicianship that will enhance their future efforts.
This book will facilitate meeting the Core Music Standards for grades 5 through 8, and the novice/intermediate Harmonizing Instruments Strand. It will help prepare students for the novice/intermediate Ensemble Strand, the proficient Composition/Theory Strand and the proficient Technology Strand. It will also facilitate introductory college instruction.

Patricia Melcher Bissell received BM and MM degrees in piano and composition from Peabody Conservatory and Yale University, and she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Bissell has been a keyboard class teacher at Gateway Community College in New Haven, CT since 2004, taught K-12 music in suburban and inner city schools, operated piano studios, and she was the floor exercise arranger/pianist for two U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastic Teams.

NOTATION
1
Musical Sound
White Key Names
The Keyboard
Octave and Middle C
Posture and Hands
C position
Playing Keyboards
Step, Skip and Repeat
Pitch Motion
2
Hand Positions
Changing Position
Playing Music
Composition One
3
Rhythm
Notes and Rests
Treble Clef and Staff
Beats and Notes
Lines and Spaces
Notated Pitch Motion
Playing Melodies
4
Time Signatures
Notes and Beats
Bass Clef and Staff
Beats and Notes
Stems & Grand Staff
Composition Two
5
Dots & Ties
Partial Measures
6
Shorter Notes and Rests
Composition Three
CHORDS
7
Overtones
Intervals
Notated Intervals
8
Chords
Notated Chords
Chord Progressions
9
Chord Structure
Chord Inversion
5 Fingers, 7 pitches
Improvised Endings
Composition Four
10
Lead Sheets
Composition Five
11
Chording Styles
Song Accompaniment
Rock Styles
F MAJOR
12
Half and Whole Steps
C Major Scale
Black Key Names
Notated Accidentals
Scales & The Blues
13
Transposition
Key Signatures
14
Scale Degrees
Chord Structure
Chord Inversion
Key Change
Composition Six
15
Chording Styles
Hand Changes
Partial Chords
16
Song Accompaniment
Composition SevenG MAJOR
17
Transposition
Key Signatures
18
Scale Degrees
Chord Structure
Chord Inversion
Ledger Lines
19
Dotted Quarter Notes
Composition Eight
20
Chording Styles
Song Accompaniment
21
Hand Changes
Expression
Composition Nine
MINOR
22
Major and Minor Chords
Chord Symbols
Scale Degrees
Key of C Chords
23
Three Pitch Chords
Any Triad, Any Key
Four Pitch Chords
Seventh Chords
Dominant Seventh
Basic Chord Types
Key of C 7th Chords
Altered Chords
24
Major and Minor Modes
Minor Chords
Scale Degrees
Harmonic Minor Scale
25
Perfect Fifths & Signatures
Circle of Fifths
Keys with Flats and Sharps
Composition Ten