Details
- Instrument:
- Piano Method Piano Solo
- Composers:
- James Bastien
- Publishers:
- Neil A. Kjos Music Company
- Series:
- Bastien Supplementary Books
- UPC:
- 9780849793471
- ISBN:
- 849793475
- Item types:
- Physical
- Instructionals:
- Methods and More
- Series levels:
- Level 3
- Artist:
- James Bastien
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Size:
- 9 x 12 inches
- Shipping Weight:
- 0.3 pounds
SKU: KJ.WP246
Composed by James Bastien. Bastien Piano. Special Themes. Methods, Piano. Music book. Neil A. Kjos Music Company #WP246. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WP246).ISBN 849793475. UPC: 9780849793471. 9 x 12 inches.
This fascinating book provides an intriguing insight to the world of the dinosaurs. INcludes a history of the "terrible lizards," and descriptions of many different types of creatures. Unexpected, non-traditional harmonies and full-color artwork will keep students mesmerized! Levels 2-3.
Procompsognathus
Plateosaurus
Brachiosaurus
Brontosaurus
Allosaurus
Stegosaurus
Triceratops
Monoclonious
Protoceratops
Trachodon
Pteranodon
- More by this Composer:
- James Bastien James Bastien Piano Method James Bastien Easy Piano James Bastien Piano Solo
- Series:
- Bastien Supplementary Books
- Instrument:
- Piano and Keyboard Piano Piano Method Piano and Keyboard Piano Piano Solo
- Artists:
- James Bastien
- Publisher:
- Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Ratings + Reviews
4.2 Rating
5 reviews
Emily T.
Mar 22, 2021
This book is NOT for your average student. You must know what you are getting into. Almost all the pieces use dissonance, whole tone scales, clusters and/or suspended chords. That said this is GREAT for teaching sightreading. Students cannot rely on their ears or on memorized hand positions, they must follow the notes on the page. It is in a style between modernism and post-modernism. If you buy the book with this knowledge and with that intent you won't be disappointed. These are not meant to be recital worthy except Brontosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Pteranodon, and Protoceratops but they give good moods and interesting harmonies.
Anonymous
Sep 5, 2019
It's not BAD, it's hip and modern FUN!
Debu S.
Jan 17, 2012
My son played these when he first started to learn the piano. Nothing had gripped his interest until Brontosaurus, which he played at his first recital along with Allosaurus and then surprised his teacher sightreading another one. The pieces are highly expressive while also great for building technique, and they allow a young person to feel what it is like to make music on the piano. Dissonance: young people are open to music of the 20th Century. At the student recitals year after year, half the pupils chose these pieces over a wide variety of other pieces. It's these dinosaurs I thank for getting my son excited about playing the piano! The rest of Bastien I appreciate is very good though I tend to give my beginning pupils Thompson and Dozen a Day books now that I myself teach piano.
Amy C.
Oct 30, 2010
These pieces are just plain ugly. There is no real teaching value in the book, and the annoyingly repetitive dissonance in nearly every piece will drive the teacher and the students' parents crazy. I'm very disappointed in Bastien for publishing something so poorly-written and far below the standard of their other method books.
Leona D.
Sep 22, 2010
I expected some dissonance in the pieces, but this is ridiculous! I'm sorry, James, but I could write better music than this. I really don't know which student to saddle this with. The parents will think the kid is totally playing the wrong keys... Don't buy. Check out Goldston for a better dinosaur book.