Vladimir Nikolaev - Russian School of Piano Playing 1a

• A Round Dance (arr. Nikolaev)
• A Russian Song (Dunayevsky)
• Autumn
• Autumn Song (Vasilyev-Buglai)
• Birds (Petrova)
• Bird's House (Rauchverger)
• Byelorussian Folk Song
• Children's Dance (arr. Dobrogorskaya)
• Cockerel
• Corn-flower
• Counting Magpies
• Crane (Krasyev)
• Cuckoo
• Ding-Dong
• Do Not Fly, Nightingale
• Exercise
• Folk Song (Sorokin)
• Folk Song (Tchaikovsky)
• Georgian Folk Song
• Guardsmen
• Hullo!
• Hungarian Folk Song
• In My Little Garden
• In the Shadow of the Hill
• Jolly Ganders
• Latvian Folk Song
• Little Cossack
• Little Shepherd
• Melody
• Melody Study (Vasilyev)
• My Field
• My Little Cow
• On the Hill
• On the Ice (Krasyev)
• On the Lawn
• Our Land (Kabalevsky)
• Peter's Song (arr. Ulanova)
• Piece (Weckerlin)
• Pussy-cat
• Rabbit
• Rabbit in the Garden
• Rain
• Raven (Rauchverger)
• River Visla
• Shade (Kalinnikov)
• Silver Sledges (Yordansky)
• Song
• Spring Song
• Step by Step
• Story (Alebyev)
• Study (Gnyesina)
• Study (Humbert)
• Study (Lyubarsky)
• The Amateur Angler (arr. Ulanova)
• The Goat with Horns
• The Green Meadow
• The Little Shepherd
• The Shepherd's Pipe
• The Wind Blew on the Sea (Krasyev)
• The Woodcutter
• The Young Girl Walked in the Pine Forest (Salyutrinskaya)
• Tra-la-la
• Ukrainian Folk Song
• Under a Green Apple Tree
• We Sowed Wheat
• Which of us is Clever? (Aleksandrov)
• Winter (Aleksandrov)
• Winter's Past (Metlov)
• Yugoslav Folk Song (arr. Kondratyev)

"This is a tutor that gets on with the task of teaching the basics of piano playing without wasting paper and ink on fripperies.

At the end of it, the pupil:

*has learned a wide range of rhythmic patterns,
*can read the pitches on the treble part of the piano fluently,
*has begun to read the notes on the bass staff,
*has learned at least 7 keys including E major and
*can play several scales.

It encourages the pupil to memorize as much as possible and to pick out well known tunes in a variety of keys.

This tutor is, however, harder work for the teacher and it is helpful if a parent can be present at some of the earlier lessons especially for young children."

Rating:11/11/2005By: Suzanne J Webber

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