14 of His Easiest Piano Pieces


Book Description

This collection provides an excellent introduction to Mozart's easiest works. Selections include short dances such as the popular "Minuet in F Major," easier sonata movements and arrangements of familiar opera arias. The short biography and notes on each piece will be appreciated by students new to the study of Mozart's music.




14 of His Easiest Piano Selections


Book Description

This Practical Performing Edition is a well-rounded introduction to Chopin's easiest piano pieces. It contains the familiar "Prelude in A Major," "Prelude in B minor" and "Prelude in E minor," three waltzes (published posthumously), six mazurkas and additional works. Ornaments are realized and fingering and pedal suggestions are provided. Biographical information and a brief discussion of each work further assist students with Chopin's style.




Mozart -- 14 of His Easiest Piano Pieces


Book Description

This collection provides an excellent introduction to Mozart's easiest works. Selections include short dances such as the popular Minuet in F Major," easier sonata movements and arrangements of familiar opera arias. The short biography and notes on each piece will be appreciated by students new to the study of Mozart's music."




Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 1


Book Description

This exciting edition contains 100 early intermediate selections in their original form, spanning the Baroque period to present day. The repertoire, which includes several minuets, folk dances, character pieces and much more, has been carefully graded and selected for student appeal by editor Lynn Freeman Olson.




Chopin


Book Description

Some of Chopin's best-loved works are contained in this volume. More advanced than 14 of His Easiest Piano Selections, familiar preludes, waltzes and mazurkas are joined by "Fantaisie-Impromptu," "Etude in E Major" and "Polonaise in A Major." This versatile collection could be used over the span of several years as a student's facility develops. Helpful biographical and historical materials are provided for each work. Also included is an outstanding CD recording from the Naxos label by internationally renowned artist Idil Biret. She has made more than 70 recordings and has received numerous awards including: Lily Boulanger Memorial, Boston; Harriet Cohen - Dinu Lipatti gold medal, London; Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite, France; State Artist, Turkey and many others.




Easy Piano Classics


Book Description

Play the world's most beautiful classical music quickly and easily with this high-quality selection of short, favorite, accessible compositions by the world's greatest composers — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and others. Includes Beethoven's Für Elise, Three Norwegian Dances by Grieg, Liszt's Consolation, Macdowell's To a Wild Rose, Schumann's Träumerei, and many more.




Masterwork classics


Book Description

A progressive repertoire series designed to motivate students while allowing them to progress evenly and smoothly from the earliest classics toward intermediate literature. These pieces are from the standard classical literature, chosen to appeal both to teacher and student. Each volume comes with a corresponding CD. PIanist Kim O'Reilly Newman holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois. She has performed throughout North America and Europe with the Hambro Quartet of Pianos and was an editor and recording pianist for Alfred Music. Kim is a brain tumor survivor and now specializes in performing music for the left hand.




100 easy piano classics


Book Description

Chosen from the four stylistic periods of piano repertoire and presented in their original form, the 100 pieces in this collection have been favorites of pianists throughout the years. To help in performance, the editors have realized ornaments and added editorial markings such as phrasing, expression marks, and dynamics where appropriate. Titles: Little Prelude in C Major, BVW 939 (J. S. Bach) * Teasing Song, from For Children (Bartók) * Ecossaise in G Major (Beethoven) * Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36, No. 1 (Clementi) * Waltz in C Major (Diabelli) * Spinning Song, Op. 14, No. 4 (Ellmenreich) * The Chase, Op. 117, No. 5 (Gurlitt) * Minuet in G Major (Haydn) * Prelude in G Major (Kuhnau) * Minuet in F Major, K. 2 (Mozart) * Minuet in A Minor (Purcell) * Minuet in C Major, K. 73b; L. 217 (D. Scarlatti) * The Happy Farmer, from Album for the Young, Op. 68 (Schumann) * Italian Song, No. 15 (Tchaikovsky) * and more.




Moments musicaux, Op. 94


Book Description

Challenging and expressive, this set of six pieces will delight pianists as well as their listeners. The editor has included a discussion of the life and works of Schubert, specific directions on how to perform and practice these works, and information on how they were researched. The pieces are maintained in their original form.




Deux Arabesques for the Piano


Book Description

Debussy was not referring to "arabesque" in the form of a ballet term but rather to the meaning of "arabesque" as a piece with exquisite detail and clear repetitions of ideas and artistic balance. These pieces were written in 1888 during Debussy's earliest compositional period.