Sonatinas, Volume I


Book Description

This collection of sonatinas offers an ideal introduction to some of the easiest classical keyboard sonatinas. Key signatures are limited to only the familiar keys of C major, G major, and F major. This ideal collection for teaching elements of musical form includes written-out ornaments in footnotes, composer biographies, and careful attention to editorial details of fingering, phrasing, and pedaling. Includes sonatinas by Biehl, Haslinger, Latour, Attwood, Duncombe, Beethoven, and Clementi.




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.




Selected Sonatinas, Volume 2


Book Description

Volume II includes sonatinas at a more advanced level than Volume I. Here we offer six sonatinas from various composers and periods to further introduce students to this musical form before going into the complete sonatas. Composers represented in this volume include BartÑk, Beethoven, Benda, Clementi, Dusek, and Kuhlau.




Selected Sonatas, Volume I


Book Description

Volume I contains eight sonatas, a composer biography, and useful written-out ornaments, all helpful to students. Included are some of the more often taught and performed of the Scarlatti sonatas such as Sonata in C Major. All newly engraved and at a great price.




Sonatina Album


Book Description

Originally compiled and edited by Louis Kí_hler, this edition contains some of the most popular keyboard sonatinas, rondos and other works (including symphonic transcriptions) of Beethoven, Clementi, Haydn, Kuhlau and Mozart, among others. In clarifying this edition, editor Allan Small has removed impractical fingerings and unnecessary accidentals found in other editions.




Miniatures, Vol 1


Book Description

The primo parts of Godowsky's Miniatures, for use by early-grade students, are all in five-finger positions. A more advanced student or teacher may perform the more difficult secondo parts. The included CD has masterful complete recordings of the pieces, performed by famed pianists Joseph Banowetz and Alton Chung Ming Chan, plus an extra track with only the secondo part. A fascinating biography and notes on the pieces are also provided. Joseph Banowetz graduated with a First Prize from the Vienna Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst. Banowetz has been a piano recitalist and orchestral soloist on five continents. He was awarded the Liszt Medal by the Hungarian Liszt Society in recognition of his outstanding performances of Liszt and the Romantic literature.




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.




The First Steps of the Young Pianist (Op. 82, Nos. 1-65) (Cornelius Gurlitt, Book 2)


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Cornelius Gurlitt was one of the later nineteenth century's most prodigious providers of well-graded piano music. The pieces in Opus 82 are important for development of technic, independence of the hands, and the playing of passagework for the young pianist. The pieces are all short and most use intervals no larger than a fifth. These excellent studies may be recommended for sight reading and transposition. Performance notes and impeccable editing by Gail Lew make these volumes indispensable for every piano student.




Contemporary Movie Hits (Songbook)


Book Description

(Educational Piano Library). Six blockbuster movie favorites arranged for intermediate-level piano solo: Bella's Lullaby * Breaking Free * Dawn * Georgiana * He's a Pirate * That's How You Know.