Giovannni Andreani Piano Development L6 Paperback Book

Piano Development (PD) is, throughout the PMP Development Areas, the main framework around which all other Development Areas orbit it has been conceived to help piano teachers achieve a profound view of their students improvements while guiding them throughout the higher levels of piano playing. PD is divided into a first set of 20 levels and the student should be working on two different and consecutive levels at the same time. The general complexity expressed at each level of PD does not have to be comparable to the difficulty of other areas simultaneously studied, especially if related to repertoire. Indeed, the student may find him/herself studying a repertoire piece that is much more difficult than is expressed by the level required in PD. At this level all melodic lines are played by one hand at the time with no superimposition of a second melody or any other kind of melodic structure. Very rarely a second voice is added, like in no. 42, or at the endings of nos. 10, 11, 14, 17, 22, 28, 30, 32, 34, 38, 39, 44 and 47 nos. 27 and 50 require playing two voices within one hand. When the second voice is written with smaller notes it may not be played at all. Some piecese will be played exclusevely with one hand while others will require the use of both hands in this case the melody will pass from one hand to the other a dotted line connecting the melody through the two staves will help visualizing the correct melodic outline. A melodic line passing from one hand to the other... | Giovannni Andreani Piano Development L6 Paperback Book