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Item number: ISMN:979-09001464-1-0 / NK-P907

Details:

  • Late Elementary to Intermediate (Levels 1 to 4)
  • Multiple styles from impressionist to jazz and blues
  • 10 Piano solos
  • In composing these elementary to late elementary pieces my goal was to create sounds I loved making at the piano when I was young
  • In fact, the final piece of this collection was the second piece I ever composed, probably at the age of eight

Contents, Score and Sound samples:

Orange Sunset

  • Elementary (Level 1)
  • Expressive / Impressionist
 

Grrrreen Dino

  • Elementary (Level 2)
  • Popular / Jazz / Walking Bass
 

Yellow River

  • Late Elementary (Level 3)
  • Folk / Pentatonic / Black Keys
 

White Frost on My Window

  • Elementary (Level 2)
  • Expressive / Latin / Winter
 

Little Blue Engine

  • Elementary (Level 3)
  • Popular / Blues
 

Purple Balloon on a Ribbon

  • Late Elementary (Level 2)
  • Expressive / Impressionist
 

Gray Kitten

  • Early Intermediate (Level 4)
  • Folk / Pentatonic
 

Red Racecar

  • Late Elementary (Level 3)
  • Popular / Disco / Jazz
 

Black Horse

  • Early Intermediate (Level 4)
  • Expressive / Impressionist
 

Kaleidoscope Colors

  • Elementary (Level 1)
  • Expressive / Pentatonic / Black Keys
 

From gorgeous character pieces to the blues, from black-key pentatonic to disco, this collection has it all! In composing these elementary to late elementary pieces my goal was to create sounds I loved making at the piano when I was young. In fact, the final piece was the second piece I ever composed, probably at the age of eight.

What people are saying…

This book contains a variety of appealing elementary to late elementary pieces, contrasting in character and style. The collection equips the piano teacher with a number of contemporary attention-grabbing pieces for everyday practice or an annual recital indeed. ~ Valentyna Komisarenko, Ottawa, ON

Grrrreen Dino is the most impressive and loved piece of The Color Collection Jr. My students adore the simple jazzy left-hand movement, cool right-hand passages, and patterned structure of the piece. Surely, a 32-measure piece, that looks so complicated at first, is, in fact, easy to teach by rote-reading. ~ Valentyna Komisarenko, Ottawa, ON

Purple Balloon on a Ribbon is one of the most visually powerful and attractive pieces of The Color Collection Jr. Include imaginative prep work in your lesson plan and your students will love learning the piece. All in all, delicate melodic movement in half and quarter notes, framed with half-note chord movement in the left hand will awake avid artistry and encourage emotional performance. ~ Valentyna Komisarenko, Ottawa, ON

Orange Sunset is a captivating and fragile impressionistic piece that will fuel your student’s imagination and fascinate with the integrity of flowing melodic passages and beautiful harmonic sections. Not only this piece is 13 measures long, but also it can be taught by reading and rote memorization. The mixture of the dynamics makes this piece a valuable tool in developing the young pianists’ artistry. ~ Valentyna Komisarenko, Ottawa, ON

Valentyna Komisarenko of Start Piano Studio reviews The Color Collection Junior

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The Color Collection Junior:

Book – add to cart

Print Book$12.99 USD
9×12 paperback, 20 pages including cover and notes (14 pages of music)

eBook – add to cart

eBook$39.99 USD
Studio License – print for students you directly teach

eSheets for each piece available via my shop