Adult All-in-One Course: Book 2

Alfred's Adult All-in-One Course #2

by Willard A. Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco

Alfred's Basic Adult All-in-One Course is designed for use with an instructor for the beginning student looking for a truly complete piano course. It is a greatly expanded version of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course that will include lesson, theory, and technique in a convenient, all-in-one" format. This comprehensive course features written assignments that reinforce each lesson's concepts, a smooth, logical progression between each lesson, a thorough explanation of chord theory and playing styles, and outstanding extra songs, including folk, classical, and contemporary selections. At the completion of this course, the student will have learned to play some of the most popular music ever written and will have gained a good understanding of basic musical concepts and styles. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. Alexander's Ragtime Band * Arkansas Traveler * Ballin' the Jack * The Battle Hymn of the Republic * Black Forest Polka * Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair * Bourlesq * Brahms Lullaby * Bridal Chorus from "Lohengrin" * Calypso Carnival * Canon in D (Pachelbel) * Chorale * Circus March * Danny Boy * Dark Eyes * Deep River * Divertimento in D * Down in the Valley * Etude (Chopin) * Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe) * Fascination * Festive Dance * For He's a Jolly Good Fellow * Frankie and Johnnie * Guantanamera * Hava Nagila * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * The Hokey-Pokey * The House of the Rising Sun * Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 * Introduction and Dance * La Bamba * La Donna E Mobile * La Raspa * Light and Blue * Loch Lomond * Lonesome Road * Love's Greeting * The Magic Piper * The Marriage of Figaro * Mexican Hat Dance * Morning Has Broken * Musetta's Waltz * Night Song * Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen * Olympic Procession * Overture from "Raymond" * Plaisir D'Amour * Polyvetsian Dances * Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 * The Riddle * Rock-a My Soul * Sakura * Scherzo * Solace * Space Shuttle Blues * The Streets of Laredo * Swingin' Sevenths * Tarantella * Theme from Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky) * Village Dance * Waltz in G Minor * Waves of the Danube * When Johnny Comes Marching Home * You're in My Heart."

Genres: Music, Reference, Nonfiction

144 pages, Plastic Comb

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Willard A. "Bill" Palmer (1917 – April 30, 1996) was an American music scholar, educator and composer.

Dr. Willard Palmer wrote nearly 800 published works, including an accordion method, several piano methods, a method for Hammond Chord Organ, a guitar method, hundreds of solo pieces and many choral works for the Alfred Music publishing company.

Reviews

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finished Adult All-in-One Course: Book 2 and honestly felt like I'd been left alone in a room with my own thoughts, which is not always a compliment. Palmer, Willard A. writes a man who moves back into his childhood bedroom at thirty-eight, and the scene where he finds his old school project taped to the closet door and just sits down on the floor is quietly wrecking. The pace crawls in the middle, and a couple of side characters wander in and out for no reason. Who this is for: readers who like soft, sad, honest stories. Who should pass: anybody who needs the plot to push forward.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honest take on Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, All-In-One, Level 2 w/CD [STUDENT EDITION]: I admire it more than I enjoyed it. Willard A. Palmer clearly put in the work, with a tight structure and a theme that actually pays off, but the tone is so cold and clinical that I had a hard time caring. The best stretch is the middle, where a single conversation changes everything. For readers who appreciate craft. If you read for feelings, you'll probably feel nothing.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honest take on Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, All-In-One, Level 2 w/CD [STUDENT EDITION]: I respect the ambition more than the execution. Palmer, Willard A. tries to cram a family saga, a mystery, and a love story into one book, and it works when it focuses, like in the harvest chapter where the whole town turns on one family. When it tries to do everything, the pace goes slack. For readers who like big, sprawling books. Skip it if you prefer tight, focused storytelling.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honest take: Adult All-in-One Course: Book 2 is a big, swingy, ambitious mess, and I had a blast. Willard A. Palmer tries a dozen things and about eight of them work. The ones that don't are easy to forgive. Great for readers who like a little chaos, skip if you want tidy.

[Rory Armstrong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Advancing on from book 1 covering yet more theory and loads more little tunes to learn and play (although not all of them are very interesting)

[dd ww · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is exactly what it says it is. All courses in one. It teaches style, harmony, and how to read music, all in one. You couldn't ask for a better way to learn music.

[Evelyn Repass · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 2011-1012 goal - play my way through this book.

[Danny Boltz]

nice

[Bank Nguyen]

good