Red Leaf Pianoworks

Ten Explorations for Young Pianists

Composer: John Burge
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Piano
Level: Elementary/Early Intermediate (Gr 1-4), Intermediate/Late Intermediate (Gr 5-7)

A collection of ten pieces ranging from Grades 1-8 that explores some of the more unusual approaches to composition such as polytonality, sympathetic reverberation, less traditional meters and clusters. John Burge used many of these pieces in the past as Quick Study repertoire for music festivals and as such, are put together in a logical fashion making them easy to teach, memorize and most importantly, fun to play. The set includes, "Dancing Scales" (RCM Grade 6 Etude List) and "Cluster Blues" (RCM Grade 8 List D).

Song List:

• No.1 - A Gentle Waltz
• No. 2 - Playing with Prisms
• No. 3 - High Fives
• No. 4 - Lonely
• No. 5 - Building Blocks
• No. 6 - Johann Phones Dmitri
• No. 7 - Parking an Octatonic Truck
• No. 8 - Dodge Ball
• No. 9 - Dancing Scales
• No. 10 - Cluster Blues