Download or read book 24 Character Preludes written by Dennis Alexander and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of preludes in all major and minor keys contains a wealth of pedagogical challenges for the late-intermediate to early-advanced level student. Each prelude is designed to explore one or more pianistic problems, and serves as excellent preparatory repertoire for the more complex character pieces of the great masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The sounds of Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin, Prokofieff and Copland are echoed in the pieces in this collection.