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Piano Pedagogy Materials and the Piano Curriculum of Dr. Tinka Knopf de Esteban
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The Piano Curriculum Guide: Handbook, Chart, Scale Cards,
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Liszt:
50 Adapted Technical Exercises
Tinka Knopf de Esteban
Cat.#10112
$25.00
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These materials will help the teacher organize a solid curriculum for his/her piano students. It
provides valuable information about preparing students through the various levels of study by
recognized pedagogue Tinka Knopf de Esteban. Dr. Knopf was associate dean at the Peabody Conservatory
and she currently is the pedagogical consultant to the Conservatori Professional de Music I Dansa de
les Illes Baleares in Spain. The Piano Curriculum Chart is meant to cover piano literature starting
with the first works after the traditional beginning method books. The levels: Learner, Transition,
Intermediate, Advanced, and Pre-Conservatory are designed to cover a program of study based on the
technical and theoretical demands of the literature. The Piano Curriculum Guide includes a guide on
how to use the chart which is an attractive wall or desk chart that outlines the curriculum at each
level. Dr. Knopf has adapted the Liszt Technical Exercises so that they are accessible to students and
teachers who are using the curriculum chart. Each exercise is correlated with the appropriate level of
literature. The scale cards and guide teach scales in integrated relationships of theory and harmonic
structure as used in the compositional patterns in the piano literature outlined in the chart. Dr.
Knopf has managed to integrate all of these elements into a package that will surely become a standard
teaching tool for piano teachers. We are proud to publish her work.
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• Liszt: 50 Adapted Technical Exercises is included in its entirety in the Piano Curriculum Guide.
Additional copies for students (#10113) are sold separately for $6.00
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Guía del Currículum de Piano: Aplicación Práctica de La Carta del Currículum de Piano
Dr. Tinka Knopf de Esteban
Cat.#10143
$25.00
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The Piano Curriculum Guide has now been translated into Spanish. La Carta del Currículum de Piano,
hubicada al final del libro, está diseñada como un guión práctico para la enseñanaza de la literatura
del piano. La Carta del Currículum de Piano está destinada a cubrir toda la literatura del piano
comenzando con las primeras obras que prosiguen los métodos tradicionales para principiantes
entendiendo que los conceptos iniciales pianísticos han sido aprendidos. La sección de literatura,
ordenada por período histírico, está presentada en una secuencia estructurada de enseñanza.
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• La sección de literatura, ordenada por período histírico, está presentada en una secuencia
estructurada de enseñanza.
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Liszt: 50 Adapted Technical Exercises
Tinka Knopf de Esteban
Cat.#10113
$6.00
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Franz Liszt was not only an extraordinary pianist, but also a pedagogue who
wrote volumes of exercises to develop technique and the physical elements needed to perform the complex
literature of the Romantic composers. The Adapted exercises have been arranged according to progressive
difficulty in a teaching order. They are programmed to fit the requirements listed under the Technical section
of the Piano Curriculum Chart. Included is a chart which lists all the rhythmic patterns utilized by Liszt.
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• A pedagogical source for the teaching of the physical exercises of Liszt
• Five-finger positions, scale drills, double notes, arpeggio studies, four note chord fingerings,
diminished 7ths, extensions, broken octaves, repeated octaves, chromatic octave scales, octave scales
with alternating hands, broken chord configurations.
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Sonatinas for the Learners Level
edited by Tinka Knopf de Estaban
Cat.#10114
$9.00
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A collection of thirteen works with pedagogical comments meant as a guide for learning each work for
use in conjuction with The Piano Curriculum Guide. It includes the following composers: William
Duncombe, Jeremiah Clarke, Thomas Attwood, Leopold Mozart, E. Gayrhos, Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, James Hook,
Muzio Clementi, Matthew Camidge, Albert Biehl, Tobias Haslinger, Johann Anton André. "There are many
valid collecions of sonatinas available. The purpose of this collection is to consolidate into one
place the initial works for the study of sonata form. These are the sonatinas listed under the Classical
period in the Piano Curriculum Chart. When I established the teaching order, it was with the idea of
presenting a growth pattern in the formal and technical structure of the first classical works leading
to sonata form. The technical control for these works is to be found in the Technique section of the
Piano Curriculum Chart. This would indicate that the scale passage work would require no more than one
octave scales, triads of three notes unless presented as a broken chord, and limited facility. The
order of works was based on the structure of the form." Tinka Knopf de Esteban.
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• For use in conjuction with The Piano Curriculum Guide.
• The purpose of this collection is to consolidate into one place the initial works for the study
of sonata form.
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Sonatinas for the Transition Level
edited by Tinka Knopf de Esteban
Cat.#10119
$25.00
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The purpose of this edition is to present a growth pattern in the study of sonatinas which picks up
where the Learners Level Sonatinas stopped and culminates in the full sonata form found in the
Intermediate Level in the Piano Curriculum Chart. This collection has been subdivided into five groups
of works with each group representing a step up in difficulty. Group 1 contains two review works plus
two easier sonatinas: C Major Op. 36 #20 by Alezanger Gedike; C Major by Tobias Haslinger, #6 in D
Major by Matthew Camidge, C Major by Theodore Latour. Group 2 contains some double note fingering and
a few four note broken chords. They are in a variety of styles and utilize orchestral and operatic
influences. The works are: C Major by I. J. Pleyel, G Major Op. 168 #2 by Anton Diabelli, G Major by
Franz Anton Rosetti, C Major Op. 112 #1 by W. A. Muller, G Major by Beethoven. Group 3 has some new
formal structures: F Major Op. 40 by Beczwarzowsky, G Major Op. 20 by Johann Dussek, G Major by
Theodore Latour, G Major by Louis Kohler, F Major by Beethoven. Group 4 has more complicated finger
passage work, extended scale passages, more ornamentation, and greater length. The works are: F Major
Op. 36 #4 by Clementi, C Major Op. 55 #1 by Kuhlau, G Major H. XVI #11 by Haydn, G Major Op. 151 #1 by
Diabelli, C Major Op. 168 #3 by Diabelli. Group 5 contains 1 Classical C Major Op. 55 #3 by Kuhlau,
and one Romantic work, Sonata for the Young Op. 118a #1 by Robert Schumann.
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• Picks up where the Learners Level Sonatinas stopped and culminates in the full sonata form
found in the Intermediate Level in the Piano Curriculum Chart
• This collection has been subdivided into five groups of works with each group representing a
step up in difficulty.
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Baroque Works for the Learner's Level
Dr. Tinka Knopf de Esteban
Cat.#10123
$7.00
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The works contained in this volume correspond to the Baroque works listed on the Piano Curriculum
Chart. Dr. Knopf gives teaching suggestions for each work, and there are extensive preface notes
included. At the end of this book, Dr. Knopf includes a very helpful four week plan as to the various
ways to teach these pieces.
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• Late beginner
• Menuet in G, Gm, G, Dm, F, Musette in D, March in D, G, Aria in Dm, four study versions of Menuet in G.
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Baroque Works for the Transition Level
Dr. Tinka Knopf de Esteban
Cat.#10139
$8.00
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The next important step in learning to play contrapuntal works is to expand the point of imitation.
The teaching purpose of this volume is to facilitate the future study of the Bach Two Part Inventions
by working through a few of the more difficult minuets and the Short Preludes and Fugues. The teaching
order in this volume has been designed to develop the control of the horizontal flow of the line
through the points of imitation before introducing the highly structured subjects and countersubjects
of an invention or a fugue.
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• Intermediate
• Menuets Cm, G, Am, March in Eb, Short Preludes #1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 2 sample realizations,
blocking devices in chordal structures and learning points of imitation.
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Baroque Works for the Intermediate Level
Contrapuntal Learning Skills
Dr. Tinka Knopf de Esteban
Cat.#10156
$15.00
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The Bach Two Part Inventions in this collection were chosen in order to
present a mini course in learning Baroque two-voiced contrapuntal style using a series of graded Inventions.
The eight Inventions are presented in order of difficulty: clear entrance of the subject-Inventions 1, 8, and 4;
subject enters with the countersubject-Inventions 6, 14, and 13; and clear entrances with ornamentation-Inventions
9 and 7. Each piece has a study guide, practicing suggestions, sample analysis, and an unedited invention from the
Gesellschaft Edition of Bach's works. There is a sample Invention with a color-coded outline of the work included
with the book.
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• Intermediate
• Inventions #1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14.
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Necessary Theory and Harmonization Skills for the Piano Student
Elizabeth Manduca
Cat.#10157
$18.00
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Book One - Major Keys. This text sets out to give the student, through many exercises, a solid
foundation in scales, arpeggios, chords in every major key-all inversions, harmonization of folk tunes
in both solos and ensembles, and creative composition drills. Chapter 1 gives the major scales and
arpeggios for one and two octaves, all chords and inversions in each major key, fingering tricks and
chord exercises. The chord progressions I IV V I and I vi ii V I are printed with the student finding
all the common tones. A composition exercise follows each series of chords. The secondary dominant is
given with all of its inversions. A folk song or well-known song follows with sample bass parts and the
student is instructed to finish writing in bass lines or block accompaniments. In some cases, the
student needs to create the tune based on the harmonic progression. Every major key is included. A
chord chart is included listing the major, minor, diminished, augmented triads, major seventh, minor
seventh, half and full diminished and augmented seventh chords in all keys. The Tunes to Harmonize
chapter contains eight folk songs written in the key of C. The student transposes the tune to another
key and harmonizes it. A page of examples of harmonizations is included. The chapter that follows
contains five more tunes but with more harmonic variety. The Harmonic Analysis chapter contains 7
classical piano pieces. The student is instructed to label the chords and functions, know what chord
tones and non-chord tones are, and analyze the cadential structure. The ensemble chapter contains five
ensembles partially written out with specific instructions as to how the student needs to create either
a harmony part, bass line or new melody part. The secondary dominants chapter contains 7 songs that
contain secondary dominants. The student has to label the chords based on a given sample, write in the
functions, create bass lines and harmony parts, write new melodies over the given progression and make
an arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner.
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• Intermediate
• A chord chart is included listing the major, minor, diminished, augmented triads, major seventh,
minor seventh, half and full diminished and augmented seventh chords in all keys.
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Successful Studio Teaching
Alison S. Barr and Elizabeth Manduca
Cat.#10012
$15.00
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Used by students at such schools as the Eastman School and New England Conservatory, this text is
ideal for both the piano pedagogy student as well as the established teacher. Included are many
exercises in the areas of Image: the studio teacher's image, professional credentials, teaching styles,
studio environment; Economics: economic stability, income goalsetting, general financial planning;
Public relations: advertising, zoning, communication, studio philosophy and policies, professional
development; and Organization: market research, curriculum scheduling, billing and collection, fee
setting, outreach. The section entitled The Studio at Work includes templates of forms that can be
copied for use by the teacher.
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• Ideal for both the piano pedagogy student as well as the established teacher.
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