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Contemporary Collage: Music of the 21st Century, Volume 1, Book 1.(Children's review)(Book review)

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* Contemporary Collage: Music of the 21st Century, Volume 1, Book 1, compiled and edited by Helen Marlais. The FJH Music Company Inc. 2007. www.fjhmusic.com; 32 pp. (800) 262-8744. $5.95. Elementary.

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This is the first volume of a series that piano teachers will want to have in their libraries. One could think of it as a 21st-century version of Frances Clark's Contemporary Piano Literature. Helen Marlais, editor of the series, commissioned the works, as Clark did many of the pieces in her collection, to add accessible modern literature to the standard teaching repertoire.

The pieces in the first volume are similar in difficulty to easier works in Kabalevsky's 24 Pieces for Children, Op. 39 (Levels 1-2 according to the grading system set forth in Jane Magrath's Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature). Composers include Timothy Brown, Emma Lou Diemer, Martin Kutnowski, Dimitar Ninov, Kevin Olson, Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee and Wynn-Anne Rossi. Biographies of the ...

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