Keys to Stylistic Mastery teaches the basic principles of the five stylistic periods (Baroque; Classical; Romantic; Impressionist and Contemporary) to piano students. The pieces were chosen to provide a helpful transition from method books to the classics. Composer Dennis Alexander has written at least one piece in the style of each period. Information about each style period; listing selected composers; keyboard instruments and typical forms; precedes the music from that period. Brief biographies of all composers represented are included.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. For me; its once or never. Let me kiss you.By AcoCapturing the spirit of a young man on the verge of losing himself in his stung and strung emotions; Vincent in Brixton succeeds as a suggester; an appetizer of sorts; a brief encounter with van Gogh-before painting; before madness.It is a slight read; an hours worth; and dabbles healthily into not only van Goghs nature; or his appreciation for melancholy; but others attraction to it as well.Having lived in London already; Vincent is moving; on a whim; into the boarding house of Ursula Loyer; a widower who runs the house and a school with her young daughter Eugenie. Sam Plowman is the other boarder; fledgling artist and would be competition for Eugenie.But the story turns up a notch when it takes an surprising turn; and gets into the meat of what van Gogh was about; a man unafraid of himself; to let flow his feelings and impulses. As his heart was forming; so was his art. This was a time before he was painting and in the play he first begins to find an emotional value in drawing. His appreciation for empty chairs; rain-soaked vagabonds and beaten up boots only appears after his life; lead in part by his vaunting emotional state; ceases being bourgeois-interested; and his heart breaks.Vincent in Brixton is an illumination of a different man; with a different soul. Before Holland; loneliness; addiction and obsession and a revolution in expression immortalized him; he was a drifter like many others; following his heart and come what may...