The Color Collection

Print Book
$12.99 USD
9×12 paperback, 24 pages including cover and notes (17 pages of music)

eBook
$39.99 USD
Studio License – 8 1/2 x 11, 24 pages including covers and notes (17 pages of music)

Item number: ISMN:979-09001414-1-5 / NK-P902

“…these intermediate level pieces are sure to grab the imagination of lots of piano students!” ~ Natalie Weber, Music Matters blog, CA

Details:

Early to Late Intermediate (Levels 3 to 6)
Includes Rainbow Swirl (Level 8)
Expressive piano pieces to color your days
From impressionist to Latin, swing, blues and jazz
10 piano solos

As you explore the articulation, dynamics and key signatures in the pieces you will discover how music creates moods to express the way you feel
Music that inspires a love for the piano!

Contents, Score and Sound samples:

Orange Juice

Early Intermediate (Level 3)
Character Piece / Latin

Gray Day

Intermediate (Level 4)
Expressive / Impressionist / Jazz

Blue Train

Intermediate (Level 4)
Popular / Blues

Purple Mystery

Intermediate (Level 4)
Character Piece / Soundtrack style

Yellow Boots

Intermediate (Level 4)
Character Piece / Swing

Black Light

Intermediate (Level 5)
Expressive / Impressionist / Halloween

Green Shade

Late Intermediate (Level 6)
Expressive / Impressionist / Jazz

Red Line

Intermediate (Level 5)
Boogie / Jazz / Winter

White Drift

Late Intermediate (Level 6)
Expressive / Latin / Winter

Rainbow Swirl

Early Advanced (Level 8)
Expressive / Romantic / Impressionist

Express yourself! No matter who you are or how you feel there is a piece to capture your mood. The Color Collection offers many opportunities to explore how music can express the way you feel. Gray Day is “for slow days when you wear your pajamas all day,” and Yellow Boots is “for friends who splash in puddles of sunshine together.” This book is fast becoming a favorite of studio recitals and music festivals.

What people are saying…

“…I love your color book and hope to be passing on my student copy to someone this fall… The other copy, I’m keeping for ME ME ME!” ~ Libby, VA

“Thank you, Rebekah, for your delightful, imaginative melodies that have captured the essence of the feelings expressed in my book ‘I Feel Orange Today’.” ~ Patricia Godwin (author), BC

“One of my students is learning your Blue Train in the [Canadian National Conservatory of Music’s] Making Tracks, and enjoying it immensely.” ~ Peggy L’Hoir, SK

“…the music arrived and I love it…. I particularly loved “White Drift”, as did some of my intermediate level players who really go for the touchy feely sound.” ~ Heather, ON

“I discovered your book at an APTA conference several years ago here in Alberta. When I introduced your book and played some of the pieces, [my student’s] lights went on and he is enthusiastically practicing the first 3 pieces in the book as preparation for the Grade 2 CNCM performance exam next June.” ~ Andrea, AB

Click here for blogger Natalie Weber’s review of The Color Collection.

Blogger Natalie Weber weighs in on The Color Collection.

Click here for Valentyna Komisarenko’s review of The Color Collection.

The pieces in The Color Collection are technically challenging for the advised level. In fact, the 2-page length will not scare your students with the amount of memorization but will provide a chance to improve their dynamic interpretations, master various articulations, and work with a very sophisticated key signature.