These pieces represent a new form developed by Donald Waxman that lies midway between an exercise and a short etude and written in the accessible contemporary language that has distinguished the pedagogical compositions of the composer. Graded in five books from early intermediate to advanced, these "exertudes," many of them only two or three lines long, exploit every aspect of finger, wrist and arm techniques and exemplify the many facets of contemporary musical language such as chromaticism, pandiatonicism, quartal harmonies, interval writing, whole tone and pentatonic modes, etc.
Broken 3rds in C Major
Five Finger Pattern with Thumb Holds
The Intervals Hand over Hand
Pedaled Skips
Five Note Black Key Pattern in Parallel and Contrary Motion
Three Finger Pattern in Parallel Motion
Two Finger Crossovers
Whole Tone Positions
Legato 3rds in Alternating Hands
Five Finger Contrary Motion
Three Finger Pattern in Cross Rhythms
Broken Major, Minor, 145 and 125 Triads
Broken 3rds in D Major and D Minor
Legato and Staccato
Left Hand Crossovers with Pedal
Triads in Alternating Hands
The Pattern 1452 in Contrary Motion
Two Note Repetitions
Overlapping Five Finger Groups
Four Finger Pattern in Staccato and Legato
Legato Passages with 3rds
5ths in Parallel and Contrary Motion
Legato Phrasing Between Hands
Alternating 3rds
Four Finger Repetitions
5ths and Broken 5ths
Chromatic Passages in Contrary Motion No. 2
Staccato 3rds in Contrary Motion
Triads in a Syncopated Pattern
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