In Recital©
Throughout the Year, Volume One
About the Series
In Recital Throughout the Year is a series that focuses
on fabulous repertoire, intended to motivate your students.
We know that to motivate, the teacher must challenge
the student with attainable goals. This series makes
that possible.
- Musically engaging pieces by leading
FJH composers and arrangers
- Addresses the technical strengths
and weaknesses of students
- Carefully leveled to ensure attainable
goals—crucial in motivating students
- Recital repertoire for the entire
year
- Original solos and duets
- Arrangements of famous classical
themes
- Pieces for Halloween, Christmas,
and Fourth of July recitals
- A progressive discussion by Dr. Helen
Marlais on the art of performance
- Companion CD included
- Available from The
FJH Music Company
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Volume
One, Book 1
Early Elementary
Focus on fabulous repertoire to motivate your
students! These first two books in a new series
introduce elementary level students to recital
performance, with original, engaging pieces by
outstanding FJH composers. Their wide-ranging
styles offer teachers and students original solos
and duets, arrangements of famous classical themes,
and pieces for Halloween, Christmas, and the Fourth
of July—all carefully leveled to ensure attainable
goals, and to address students’ technical strengths
and weaknesses. A companion CD of instructive
performances make each volume of In Recital™ Throughout
the Year a multimedia experience.
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Volume
One, Book 2
Elementary
The outstanding FJH composers of Book 1 return
to further engage and challenge more experienced
elementary students in Book 2 of In Recital™ Throughout
the Year. New musical concepts are introduced
(legato and staccato articulations, crescendo/
decrescendo, ritardando, rests, etc.), and familiar
ones reinforced (note values, keys, hand positions,
etc.). The companion CD can be used as a motivational
tool, to help the student gain an intuitive understanding
of each piece. Recital preparation tips continue
to build excitement into the approach to recital
performance. Higher grade level than Book 1, same
low price!
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Volume
One, Book 3
Late Elementary
In this third In Recital collection, Judith Strickland
joins us, with a lyrical solo, Autumn Colors.
The repertoire features arrangements of Puccini’s
O mio babbino caro, Beethoven’s Allegretto, from
Symphony No. 7, and the theme from Mozart’s Symphony
No. 40, along with solos and duets from Bober,
Brown, Greenleaf, McLean, and Olson. As part of
the curriculum, students learn: playing legato
and staccato at the same time, blocked and broken
major, minor, and diminished chords, and scales
with finger crossings that extend beyond 5-finger
patterns. A companion CD is included.
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Volume
One, Book 4
Early Intermediate
In Book 4, we welcome contributions by Martín
Cuéllar (a lyrical etude), David Karp (a Halloween
piece and an equal-part duet), and Kevin Costley
(an arrangement of America the Beautiful), along
with showpieces by Melody Bober and Kevin Olson,
who has also arranged a classical theme solo of
Offenbach’s Barcarolle. New elements include:
sixteenth note patterns, compound meters, inversions
of I, IV, and V chords, octave scale passages,
some LH melodic passages, and more intricate accompaniments.
The CD and teaching pages address more advanced
performance issues.
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Volume
One, Book 5
Intermediate
In Recital Book 5 opens with an expressive Notturno
by Valerie Roth Roubos, affording the chance to
demonstrate beautifully sustained legato line,
and other accomplishments, learned in earlier
books. Equal-part duets by Bober, Olson, and McLean
expand the student’s understanding of ensemble
play, while four challenging new solos round out
the repertoire. Triplets, one and two octave scale
passages, rolled chords, double thirds, simple
ornamentation and playing two voices within the
same hand are explored in the teaching pages and
the CD.
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Volume One,
Book 6
Late Intermediate
Some of the most rewarding In Recital music is here
in the final book of Volume One! Melody Bober leads
off with a lyrical solo. Kevin Olson then offers
a Toccata and Fugue arrangement and later, a jazzy
Christmas solo. Ed McLean contributes an equal-part
duet arrangement of the Toreador Song, while Martín
Cuéllar, David Karp, and Timothy Brown (2 solos!),
showcase highlights of their own. New elements include
dotted eighths, triplet sixteenths, scales in tenths,
syncopation, jazz chords, parallel and color chords,
middle pedal use, and more, found in the teaching
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