Real Repertoire Studies Grades 4-6 by Christine Brown

Real Repertoire Studies Grades 4-6 by Christine Brown

Offers an introduction to the original works by the great study writers, from Clementi to Bartok for intermediate pianists (Grades 4-6). This title provides technical training and plenty of musical interest. It includes helpful background notes on the composers.

These books cherry-pick from the wide and illustrious bank of revered studies known to all piano teachers and (sometimes) loved by the students who have had them prescribedWhat makes these books invaluable is the fact that all the laborious spade-work of sorting the wheat from the chaff has been done by someone else (that someone being Christine Brown). The goal, as Ms Brown makes plain in her foreword, is to ally the technical and musical, not merely to sift the grittier specimens from the likes for Czerny, Heller, Burgmuller, Bartok, Dunhill, Cramer, Clementi and others. Thus the intermediate student gets to experience the best of the pedagogical material to hand, and yet I'd wager that if the title Studies were to be traded for something like 'Classic Melodies' not many youngsters would balk (or notice, frankly) because the music is so, well, musical. An imaginative, inexpensive ... album encouraging an exploration of ever-relevant teaching and learning material.

Piano Professional, Spring 2009

The selection covers many technical aspects while always displaying a wide variety of musical interest....Any teachers having to prescribe a few studies for busy schoolchildren, who now find themselves with minimal practice time, could not do better than consult these excellent collections. Great value for money!

Piano Journal, Winter 2008

Two volumes (Grades 4 to 6 and 6 to 8) with specially selected material suited to the grade level. which provide technical challenges as well as musical validity and interest. Including pieces from the likes of Czerny, Bartok and Heller, these books combine to build essential technical skills and repertoire.

MI pro Magazine, May 2008

Brown, Christine: - Christine has been a person-centred practitioner for 20 years; she works privately as a counsellor/psychotherapist and supervisor and as a trainer at LC&CTA.

LC&CTA, a private counsellor training organisation, was co-founded by Christine and Juanita Harriot in 2007 with the support of Dame Ruth Silver when the Counsellor Training department at Lewisham College was disbanded. Over the years Christine has trained and supervised over 300 practitioners, and has worked with a diversity of clients from all walks of life.

Christine and Juanita have encouraged their students to participate in research and LC&CTA students have been successfully selected to present Research Posters at the BACP National Research Conference for seven consecutive years; winning two Conference Research Awards. Her own research work has focused on 'The Other Characteristic'/'Relational Depth' and she has presented four research papers at national level.

Christine has a chequered history, much of which she shares in this book to experientially example person-centred theory. She lived in Germany for six years and in her late twenties she back-packed across three continents, settling in Nepal for a year; her encounters with human difference has greatly increased her love of diversity and varied cultures in all their manifestations.

With Juanita and their team of associates, Christine is dedicated to providing access to quality practitioner training to students from all backgrounds. She profoundly believes that a counsellor's practical ability to process and be an effective practitioner are of far greater importance than his or her ability to academically demonstrate an understanding of theory; however, she does not underestimate the importance of the latter, especially in relation to clinical practice.

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ISBN 13	9780571526048
ISBN 10	0571526047
Title	Real Repertoire Studies Grades 4-6
Author	Christine Brown
Series	Real Repertoire Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber Music Ltd
Year published	2008-01-22
Number of pages	32
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.