Let's Go Solo!, Book 3.(Book review)

Let's Go Solo!, Book 3, by David Karp. The FJH Music Company Inc. (Westport Business Park, 2525 Davie Rd., Ste. 360, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33317), 2006. 24 pp. $5.50. Late Intermediate.

Composer David Karp's Let's Go Solo, Book 3, is an eclectic collection of eight pieces in an array of compositional styles. The collection is aptly recommended for the late-intermediate level and could serve as a wonderful catalyst to the development of musical personality. The diversity of styles includes impressionistic, jazz, nocturne, contemporary and Broadway ballad.

Though nothing exceeds the technical demands of an intermediate-level student, the collection does assume a comfort level with the entire range of the keyboard. Most left-hand figures are in open position sometimes ranging over a tenth. Such passages, however, involve shifts of hand position and do not present difficulties for small hands. The right hand also indulges freedom of range and, in addition to encompassing larger intervals, is often required to move seamlessly from register to register. Chords of three or more notes ...