Level Nine Textbook: The Mayron Cole Piano Method Hardcover – January 1, 2015

The Level 9 Textbook is for graduates of The Mayron Cole Piano Method Level 8 and builds directly on the knowledge from Levels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8. Level 9 is a college level course and is the final textbook in The Mayron Cole Piano Method curriculum. Level 9 concepts include a 58-page music composition course written by Mayron Cole which reviews and teaches various types of chords including augmented & diminished triads; four-tone dominant 7th chords; five-tone 9th chords; Roman numeral assignment for chords; chord status; primary & secondary chords; scale degree; sub-dominant, sub-mediant, leading, tonic, super tonic, mediant, & dominate tones; chord movements; the overtone series; moving tones; dominant of a dominant; cadences; phrases; form; and composing a melodic line, harmony, & accompaniment. Level 9 also contains a travel through each of the five major eras of piano music: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, and Contemporary; as well as challenging rhythm exercises for advanced students and theory sheets which analyze the composition being studied. The Level 9 compositions include sixteen advanced classics and four of Mayron's original compositions. Level 9 includes biographies about Schumann, Chopin, Schubert, Pachelbel, Mozart, Bach, Joplin, Debussy, Clara Schumann, Haydn, and Cole.The Level 9 Textbook is paperback-bound with color covers and spine, contains 27 lessons, 225 pages, 4 original solos, 16 classical solos, a 7-lesson 58-page composition course, 54 corresponding theory sheets & music history lessons, 4 rhythm tap exercises, major and harmonic minor scales & cadences, glossary of musical terms, and 67 original drawings. This book is also available on FreePianoMethod.com website as a free pdf download; please visit FreePianoMethod.com for free orchestrated accompaniments to the compositions in this book. Amazon does not allow returns, but before you order you can preview each lesson of the book on FreePianoMethod.com. Original copyright 2015; current edition copyrighted 2018. (Level 9 is exactly the same material as the previously printed Level 9A and Level 9B of The Mayron Cole Piano Method.) Read more