Music Moves for Piano, Book 5 - Student edition

Composer(s): Marilyn Lowe; Edwin E. Gordon

Book 5 is a workbook for developing more advanced audiation skills while students learn increasingly difficult repertoire. New improvisation, music notation, and keyboard skills help students grow in musicianship. Lydian, Phrygian, Aeolian and Locrian tonalities are presented with their resting tones, characteristic tones, melodic cadences, and primary cadences. Combined meter and changing meter song arrangements and chants expand the understanding of meter. Students learn how to create variations using retrograde, inversion, diminution, and augmentation. 7th, 9th, and 11th chords are introduced as well as the chromatic mediant. Students learn to play in C-flat Major and A-flat Minor, E-flat Major and C Minor, and B-flat Major and G Minor. The online audio files include performances of the music,rhythm and tonal patterns for students to echo, and songs to sing.