Mix Margaret Dylan Jones

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ISMN: 979-0-9009675-3-4. Fourth edition

CONTENTS
Most pieces are two pages

Ferrous Fanfare (triads, rhythm)           
Song of Shadows (easy pedal study, unison hands)

(expanded in Hymn To The Valley)

To Catch a Bee (moto perpetuo)
Hovea Air (L.H. triads, sophisticated harmony)

(expanded in Rainbows Over Hovea)

The Walking Ghost (easy pedal, whole-tone scale)
Prayer of the Swinging Mantis (rhythm, semitones)

(AMEB Prelim. exam syllabus)

Busy Insects (chromatic scale)
Moon Walk 1969 (easy pedal study)
Sara’s Bande (chord clusters, rhythm)
MiroriM (two-part)

PREFACE

These easy and delightful pieces will stimulate the imagination in both young students and older beginners. Their wide variety of style encompasses frequent use of the notes F sharp and B flat, which are usually the first black notes that a student needs to know. Common tasks are introduced in easy ways, such as the playing of triads or pedalling. Students of all ages will love the easy but engaging rhythms.

Prayer of the Swinging Mantis* (page 12) is still in the current piano exam syllabus of the Australian Music Examination Board (AMEB) for preliminary grade, as at 2018.

EASY  QUESTION  PROMPTS

Music teaching should involve a partnership between composer and teacher, and between these two and the student. Rather than try to "do everything" for the student and teacher, EASY QUESTION PROMPTS assist the creativity of both. The prompts are provided for the teacher as examples of ways to get the student thinking about the music.

“Compositional insights are only useful if you work them out yourself.  Question prompts are designed to engage a student’s mind, almost effortlessly, on the task of getting into the meaning and emotion of a piece but without providing all the answers.”

The use of  EASY  QUESTION  PROMPTS  makes learning easier, quicker, and a lot more fun. Often students give completely unexpected answers that are perfectly correct. Unexpected answers are marvellous—imagine the feeling of involvement and recognition a student feels when he or she finds something in the music which the teacher hadn’t thought of!

Each piece also has suggestions for practice.

*Prayer of the Swinging Mantis is also found in Australian Anthology Prelim To Grade 4, published in 2003 by Allans Publishing (Hal Leonard Australia), official publishers to the AMEB.

This A4 sized item is bound with sturdy covers and superior wire binding (not plastic combs).

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