The Young Pianist's Library: Broadway Classics for Piano, Book 3A


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The Blue Room * Dancing in the Dark * Embraceable You * I'll See You Again * I Love a Parade * Let the Rest of the World Go By * Mack the Knife (Moritat) * March of the Musketeers * Night and Day * Sometimes I'm Happy * Stouthearted Men * Toyland. Beginner level 1-2.







The Young Pianist's Library: Sonatinas for Piano, Book 2A


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Sonatina * Early English Sonatina * Minuet from Sonatina in C * Sonatina Op. 57, No. 1 * Sonatina No. 2 (1st Movement) * Sonatina Op. 36, No. 1 * Sonatina in C (1st Movement) * Sonatina in G * Rondo from Sonatina in G, Op. 300 * First Sonatina * Sonatina in D. Beginner level 1-2.




Clavier


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The Billboard


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Alfred's Basic Piano Library Classic Themes, Bk 4


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These volumes contain easy-to-play arrangements of great classical melodies. The arrangements allow the music to be introduced to younger students. While designed to correlate with Alfred's Basic Piano Library, Classic Themes may be used with any piano method or instruction course. Titles: At Home * Bohemian Dance (Tchaikovsky) * Clair de Lune (Debussy) * Espana Themes (Chabrier) * Fandango (from "Capriccio Espanol") (Rimsky-Korsakov) * Figar Tarantella (from "barber of Seville") (Rossini) * Lullay, Thou Little Tiny Child * March Slav (Tchaikovsky) * Minuetto (From Symphony No. 11) (Haydn) * My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (From "Samson and Delilah") (Saint-Saens) * A Night in Moscow * Romance (Tchaikovsky) * Rondo Op. 20, No. 1 (Kuhlau) * Opening Theme from Symphony No. 40 (Mozart) * Theme from Tales from the Vienna Woods (Strauss) * Tarantella in D Minor * Theme from Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn) * Wedding March (Wagner).




Piano Theory Workbook Book 1 (Music Instruction)


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(Educational Piano Library). Spike, Party Cat and friends guide the student through fun and creative assignments that introduce the language of music and its symbols for sound, silence, and rhythm. Ear training and basic theory exercises help students learn to write and play the music they are learning as well as the music they create themselves. Correlates to Piano Lessons Book 1.




Piano Practice Games


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(Educational Piano Library). Piano Practice Games presents imaginative ways to introduce pieces in Piano Lessons by coordinating technique, concepts, and creativity with the actual music in the Piano Lessons books. These preparation activities help focus learning by 'playing with' each lesson piece aurally, visually, and physically. Whether used in individual or group lessons, Piano Practice Games are all designed to make music. Many activities include accompaniments that can be added by the teacher or by using the CD or GM disk from the corresponding Piano Lessons book.




Hazel Scott


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"Hazel Scott was an important figure in the later part of the Black renaissance onward. Even in an era where there was limited mainstream recognition of Black Stars, Hazel Scott's talent stood out and she is still fondly remembered by a large segment of the community. I am pleased to see her legend honored." ---Melvin Van Peebles, filmmaker and director "This book is really, really important. It comprises a lot of history---of culture, race, gender, and America. In many ways, Hazel's story is the story of the twentieth century." ---Murray Horwitz, NPR commentator and coauthor of Ain't Misbehavin' "Karen Chilton has deftly woven three narrative threads---Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Harlem, and Hazel Scott---into a marvelous tapestry of black life, particularly from the Depression to the Civil Rights era. Of course, Hazel Scott's magnificent career is the brightest thread, and Chilton handles it with the same finesse and brilliance as her subject brought to the piano." ---Herb Boyd, author of Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin "A wonderful book about an extraordinary woman: Hazel Scott was a glamorous, gifted musician and fierce freedom fighter. Thank you Karen Chilton for reintroducing her. May she never be forgotten." ---Farah Griffin, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University In this fascinating biography, Karen Chilton traces the brilliant arc of the gifted and audacious pianist Hazel Scott, from international stardom to ultimate obscurity. A child prodigy, born in Trinidad and raised in Harlem in the 1920s, Scott's musical talent was cultivated by her musician mother, Alma Long Scott as well as several great jazz luminaries of the period, namely, Art Tatum, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday and Lester Young. Career success was swift for the young pianist---she auditioned at the prestigious Juilliard School when she was only eight years old, hosted her own radio show, and shared the bill at Roseland Ballroom with the Count Basie Orchestra at fifteen. After several stand-out performances on Broadway, it was the opening of New York's first integrated nightclub, Café Society, that made Hazel Scott a star. Still a teenager, the "Darling of Café Society" wowed audiences with her swing renditions of classical masterpieces by Chopin, Bach, and Rachmaninoff. By the time Hollywood came calling, Scott had achieved such stature that she could successfully challenge the studios' deplorable treatment of black actors. She would later become one of the first black women to host her own television show. During the 1940s and 50s, her sexy and vivacious presence captivated fans worldwide, while her marriage to the controversial black Congressman from Harlem, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., kept her constantly in the headlines. In a career spanning over four decades, Hazel Scott became known not only for her accomplishments on stage and screen, but for her outspoken advocacy of civil rights and her refusal to play before segregated audiences. Her relentless crusade on behalf of African Americans, women, and artists made her the target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during the McCarthy Era, eventually forcing her to join the black expatriate community in Paris. By age twenty-five, Hazel Scott was an international star. Before reaching thirty-five, however, she considered herself a failure. Plagued by insecurity and depression, she twice tried to take her own life. Though she was once one of the most sought-after talents in show business, Scott would return to America, after years of living abroad, to a music world that no longer valued what she had to offer. In this first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor and activist, Hazel Scott's contributions are finally recognized. Karen Chilton is a New York-based writer and actor, and the coauthor of I Wish You Love, the memoir of legendary jazz vocalist Gloria Lynne.




Alfred's Basic Piano Course Classic Themes, Bk 2


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These volumes contain easy-to-play arrangements of great classical melodies. The arrangements allow the music to be introduced to younger students. While designed to correlate with Alfred's Basic Piano Library, Classic Themes may be used with any piano method or instruction course. Titles: Big Ben Rings Again * Carnival of Venice * Theme from Capriccio Italien * Come, Thou Almighty King * Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes * El Relicario * Liebestraum * Morning Mood (from "Peer Gynt") * Over the Waves * Theme from Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) * Ring Out the Old * Rondalla Aragonesa * Santa Lucia * Theme from Sonata in A Major (Mozart) * Theme from Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky) * Theme from Symphony No. 6 (Tchaikovsky) * Young Prince and Princess (Rimsky-Korsakov).