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Contents
An American Song -- There's Music in the Air
An Early Polyphonic Piece -- The Cuckoo
Another Type of Polyphonic Music -- Bobcat Boogie
Black Key Study -- Rhapsody in Orange
Certificate of Promotion
Characteristic Music -- March of the Lions
Chord Study -- Mountain Grandeur
Expression in Music -- Moonlight and Orchids
How to Practice Blocking Chords -- The Bird Bath
Key of A Minor -- The Masked Horseman
Key of E Minor -- In the Hall of the Mountain King
Key of G Minor -- The District Attorney
Left Hand Alone -- Southpaw Serenade
Major Key Signature Drills
Minor Scales -- Harmonic Minor Scale Pattern
Music and Politics -- Two Military Heroes
Music Dictionary
Natural Accents in 6/8 Time -- A Harvest Melody
One-Finger Pedal Study -- Waltz for the Index Finger
Piano Quiz No. 1
Piano Quiz No. 2
Plantation Spiritual -- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Polyphonic Music -- Two Tunes at Once
Polytonality -- A Modern Sound -- Henry's Hennery
Reading Three Staffs -- Garden of the Stars
Scale Fingering Charts
Scale Passage Playing -- In an Eighteenth Century Flower Garden
Singing Tone -- The Swan
Spanish Music -- El Caballero
Staccato in 6/8 Time -- Pals of the Saddle
Study for the Weaker Fingers -- Three Blind Mice
Technical Pattern -- The Isle of Ecalpon
The Chromatic Scale -- The Hornet
The ROUND and the CANON (Two examples of Polyphonic Music) -- Smitty's Ditty and Main Street After Dark
The Viennese Waltz Form -- The Waltz King
Theme and Variations -- Reuben and Rachel in Society