Classroom Keyboard

This book will facilitate meeting the Core Music Standards for grades 5 through 8, and the novice/intermediate Harmonizing Instruments Strand.

Patricia Melcher Bissell received BM and MM degrees in piano and composition from Peabody Conservatory and Yale University, and she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. Bissell has been a keyboard class teacher at Gateway Community College in New Haven, CT since 2004, taught K-12 music in suburban and inner city schools, operated piano studios, and she was the floor exercise arranger/pianist for two U.S. Women's Olympic Gymnastic Teams.

NOTATION 1 Musical Sound White Key Names The Keyboard Octave and Middle C Posture and Hands C position Playing Keyboards Step, Skip and Repeat Pitch Motion 2 Hand Positions Changing Position Playing Music Composition One 3 Rhythm Notes and Rests Treble Clef and Staff Beats and Notes Lines and Spaces Notated Pitch Motion Playing Melodies 4 Time Signatures Notes and Beats Bass Clef and Staff Beats and Notes Stems & Grand Staff Composition Two 5 Dots & Ties Partial Measures 6 Shorter Notes and Rests Composition Three CHORDS 7 Overtones Intervals Notated Intervals 8 Chords Notated Chords Chord Progressions 9 Chord Structure Chord Inversion 5 Fingers, 7 pitches Improvised Endings Composition Four 10 Lead Sheets Composition Five 11 Chording Styles Song Accompaniment Rock Styles F MAJOR 12 Half and Whole Steps C Major Scale Black Key Names Notated Accidentals Scales & The Blues 13 Transposition Key Signatures 14 Scale Degrees Chord Structure Chord Inversion Key Change Composition Six 15 Chording Styles Hand Changes Partial Chords 16 Song Accompaniment Composition SevenG MAJOR 17 Transposition Key Signatures 18 Scale Degrees Chord Structure Chord Inversion Ledger Lines 19 Dotted Quarter Notes Composition Eight 20 Chording Styles Song Accompaniment 21 Hand Changes Expression Composition Nine MINOR 22 Major and Minor Chords Chord Symbols Scale Degrees Key of C Chords 23 Three Pitch Chords Any Triad, Any Key Four Pitch Chords Seventh Chords Dominant Seventh Basic Chord Types Key of C 7th Chords Altered Chords 24 Major and Minor Modes Minor Chords Scale Degrees Harmonic Minor Scale 25 Perfect Fifths & Signatures Circle of Fifths Keys with Flats and Sharps Composition Ten