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Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 1, second edition, and Alfred's Group Piano for Adults: Teacher Handbook, Book 1.(Book Review)
Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 1, second edition, and Alfred's Group Piano for Adults: Teacher Handbook, Book 1, second edition, by E. L. Lancaster and Kenon D. Renfrow. Alfred Publishing Company, Inc. (16320 Roscoe Blvd., Ste. 100, P.O. Box 10003, Van Nuys, CA 91410), 2004. 360 pp. $44.95 (teacher edition: 72 pp. $9.95).
The second edition of Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, maintains the clear organization and ease of use that characterized this text since its inception, while expanding sight reading and harmonization, adding playing by ear and introducing scales and arpeggios by similar fingering groups.
Teachers of the second edition will immediately observe that thirty units have been reduced to twenty-six, allowing more time for review and testing. Two chapters on modes are consolidated into one, and the assignment pages for student notes are frequently shortened.
With a reduction in chapters, one immediately asks, "Have my favorite items been deleted?" To allay those fears, only eight pages reduce the text. There still are forty-six solo repertoire works, with the one-third ratio of educational composers or arrangements (sixteen to be exact) maintained. Teachers may note that five pieces by Kabalevsky are removed, but will welcome the lesser-known works of Beyer, Schytte and Couperin in reading and solo sections. Before Playing and While Playing comments now precede all solo repertoire, providing valuable practice and analysis guidelines and interpretive ...
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