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High School Musical.(Book review)
High School Musical, by the Walt Disney Music Company. Hal Leonard Corporation (7777 W. Bluemound Rd., P.O. Box 13819, Milwaukee, WI 53213), 2005. 62 pp. $12.95.
The nine songs in Hal Leonard's High School Musical book (after the recent Disney movie) are written by several composers, and the songs are imaginative and appealing. However, it has also been frustrating for a couple of my students who bought the music since there is nothing "easy" about the Easy version. I will review the Big-Note version, which is easier than the Easy version.
The constant syncopation throughout every song places this music out of reach even for talented "Big-Note" beginning students. Some pieces such as "Bop to the Top" contain phrases in which almost every note is syncopated.
Harmonically, the songs are often naked and occasionally downright strange. In one section of "Start of Something New," I counted 11 "add 2" chords in a row, even though there were no 3s or 5s present anywhere to help support the added 2. Another ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, High School Musical.(Book review)