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Twenty short characteristic pieces, easy level - for piano beginners, introducing to modern scales, styles, rhythms and hypertonality.Born in 1954, Colette Mourey is an associate university professor, a guitarist and a pianist, a writer and a composer. For her musical research, she starts from atonal counterpoint, to develop a new musical system called hypertonality, based on spiral scales (in amplitudes higher than the octave), allowing the reintroduction of natural consonances within a contemporary language. In 2012, she won the First Prize of the International Competition for Instrumentalists and Composers Music and Earth in Sofia (Bulgaria). From 2012 to 2014, she has been awarded by the IBLA Foundation for her works Estudios Festivos Homenaje a Manuel Ponce (guitar) in 2012, Variations in Memoriam (guitar) in 2013, and Bucoliques (harpsichord) in 2014. She won several mondial selections, from Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica, for Abacus (guitar), Quintetto La Maestria (winds and piano), 3 Variations sur lHymne Europen (winds and piano)