Since its first publication in 1873, Charles-Louis Hanon's Le Pianiste Virtuose (The Virtuoso Pianist) has became an undisputed classic, the staple of technical study in music schools and conservatories worldwide. Easy Hanon is a simplified version of the first part of the book (20 exercises), along with the major and minor scales, arpeggios, and additional excerpts. The exercises have been shortened and condensed to make them more accessible for the elementary to intermediate level pianist. A bonus practicing plan created by the editor includes suggested rhythmic and articulation variations to the exercises. Includes: exercises 1-20; exercises for turning the thumb under; preparatory exercises for the scale; major and minor scales; chromatic scales; arpeggios; practicing plan; and more!
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Eight easy, playable arrangements of recent Disney movie hit songs arranged in five finger piano notation. Includes: Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (from Frozen) • Evermore and How Does a Moment Last Forever (from Beauty and the Beast) • How Far I'll Go and You're Welcome (from Moana) • Remember Me (Ernesto de la Cruz); Un Poco Loco and The World Es Mi Familia (from Coco).
Hal Leonard Five-Finger Piano songbooks are designed for students in their first year of study. They feature single-note melody lines that stay in one position, indicated by a small keyboard diagram at the beginning of each song. Each song also includes lyrics and beautifully written piano accompaniments that can be played by teachers, parents or more experienced students.
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75 years of Henle Urtext: with this anniversary volume, G. Henle Verlag celebrates the enduring success of its Urtext editions. This album features a representative selection of 17 famous, often-played piano pieces from Henle's programme. They are graded from easy to moderately difficult, and are excellently suited for both study and performance purposes. At the same time, they represent the entire spectrum of classical piano music. They are arranged chronologically in order to lead us on a journey through the history of piano music, from Bach to Gershwin. Why not come on board!
CONTENTS: J.S. BACH: Invention in C Major, BWV 772 • SCARLATTI: Sonata in B minor, K. 87 • MOZART: Fantasy in D minor, K. 397 • BEETHOVEN: Bagatelle (Für Elise) in A minor, WoO 59 • SCHUBERT: Impromptu in A-flat Major, D. 935 • SCHUMANN: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen, Op. 15, No. 1 • CHOPIN: Funeral March from Piano Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 35 • BRAHMS: Waltz in A Major (easy version by the composer), Op. 39, No. 15 • GRIEG: Arietta, Op. 12, No. 1 • RACHMANINOFF: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2 • SATIE: Gymnopédie No. 1 • SCRIABIN: Prelude in A minor, Op. 11, No. 2 • RAVEL: Pavane pour une infante défunte • DEBUSSY: La Fille aux cheveux de lin• SCHÖNBERG: Il Langsam, Op. 19, No. 2 • BARTÓK: Stick Dance, BB 68, No. 1 • GERSHWIN: Prelude No. 2
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Introduce piano students, young and old, to the culture and music of the Malay-speaking world, which includes the Southeast Asian countries of Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and Indonesia. Includes notes on all 24 songs, illustrations, and a map of the region. Titles include: The Cockatoo (Burung Kakak Tua) • Milk Coffee (Kopi Susu) • Chan Mali Chan • The Goodbye Song (Geylang Sipaku Geylang) • Longing (Rasa Sayang) • The Moon Kite (Wau Bulan) • C'mon Mama! (Ayo Mama!) • Song for the Ladybugs (Tepuk Amai-Amai) • It's All Good Here (Di Sini Senang) • and more! Bonus: includes national anthems of the 4 countries.
“Voyage of the Sampan” (Dayung Sampan) is an ABRSM 2023-24 Grade 4 selection.
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24 songs in the Chinese tradition: Crescent Moon • Darkening Sky • Girl's Lament • Hand Drum Song • Jasmine Flower Song • Mountaintop View • Sad, Rainy Day • The Sun Came up Happy • Wedding Veil • and more. Features notes on each piece, exquisite illustrations, and a map of China.
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Jazz Etude Inspirations is a collection of eight original piano etudes inspired by some of the most important jazz pianists in history. Etudes in the style of legendary greats Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, McCoy Tyner, Jelly Roll Morton, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Count Basie and Herbie Hancock will help students master some technical challenges posed by each artist's individual style. The performance notes include a biography, practice tips and a list of significant recordings. Tunes include: Count on Me • Hand Battle • Jelly Roll Me Home • Minor Tyner • Oscar's Bounce • Pineapple Woman • Repeat After Me • Tears Falling on Still Water. Intermediate to Late Intermediate level.
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“Some of Gershwin's finest inspirations have not as yet been either published or publicly performed. It is probable that the production of his twenty-four preludes ... will award him a still higher rank in the army of contemporary composers.” In 1925, an admirer thus heralded George Gershwin's ambitious project in Vanity Fair, namely to compose preludes in all keys as Bach and Chopin had done before. On 4 December of the following year, the composer publicly performed five of these pieces. However, the extremely busy darling of Broadway only published the famous three Preludes for Piano (1927) during his lifetime. We are now proud to present them for the first time in a state-of-the-art Urtext edition.
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This delightful collection of Celtic favorites for the intermediate level pianist features 24 traditional Irish folk songs, as well as notes on the songs, illustrations, and even a map of Ireland! Songs include: As I Walked Out One Morning • Ballinderry • Carrickfergus • The Cliffs of Doneen • Down by the Salley Gardens • Follow Me Up to Carlow • The Gartan Mother's Lullaby • I'll Tell My Ma • Kitty of Coleraine • The Londonderry Air • Rocky Road to Dublin • Slieve Gallion Braes • and more.
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Introduce piano students to unique African American history and music with these 24 folk songs arranged for intermediate piano solo. Songs include: By and By • Deep River • Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? • Every Time I Feel the Spirit • Give Me That Old Time Religion • In Bright Mansions Above • Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing • My Lord, What a Morning • Ride On, King Jesus • Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child • Wade in the Water • and more. Includes detailed notes about the songs and beautiful illustrations.
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This unique collection features 24 traditional folk songs from Japan for intermediate level pianists: Blooming Flowers • Counting Game • The Fisherman's Song • Harvest Song • Itsuki Lullaby • Joyful Doll Festival • Kimigayo • Picking Tea Leaves • The Rabbit on the Moon • Sakura • Takeda Lullaby • Village Festival • Where Are You From? • and more. Includes a preface, author bio and performance notes.
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The epithet “English Suites” – as with the “French Suites” – did not originate with Bach himself. In contrast to the six intimate French Suites, Bach's English Suites adopt a grander tone, each one opening with a prelude in concertante style. Two of the sarabandes survive in additional versions that feature ornamentation by Bach himself; an impressive testimony to his intended virtuosic and opulent harpsichord style in these pieces.
Despite the lack of autograph sources, the musical text of these works has survived extraordinarily well and reliably thanks to several contemporary manuscript copies. For this revised Urtext edition Ullrich Scheideler has undertaken an exemplary investigation of authentic variants, especially in the ornamentation. All are documented here, and made directly accessible to the player in the musical text itself. This new edition also has another Bach specialist on board: Ekaterina Derzhavina, whose carefully-devised fingerings will guide players securely through the cosmos of Bach's English Suites.
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Circles features 24 original character etudes by Phillip Keveren, representing all of the 12 major and minor keys. These brief solos range widely in emotion and each is absolutely delightful to play. The set was inspired by the calendar months from the viewpoint of someone living in the northern hemisphere (where Keveren grew up), therefore the C Major etude is also titled “New Beginnings” while F Major, the penultimate etude, is called “Sleigh Bells.” May be performed as a set, in selected keys, or individually.
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This three-volume series of piano music by women composers is a progressive compendium of educational literature with a broad repertoire from the 17th century to the present day. For each piece, the editor has written short instructions with rehearsal tips as well as biographical notes on the women composers. The collection covers all levels of difficulty from easy (volume 1) to medium (volume 2) to difficult (volume 3) and is an indispensable addition to lessons and concerts.
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15 classic Disney tunes arranged with a ragtime flair: The Bare Necessities • Be Our Guest • Cruella De Vil • I Just Can't Wait to Be King • It's a Small World • Little April Shower • Mickey Mouse March • One Jump Ahead • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious • Topsy Turvy • Under the Sea • Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) • You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! • You'll Be in My Heart (Pop Version) • Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.
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Features intermediate-level solo arrangements of 24 songs in the Korean tradition. With performance notes, background info on each piece, and exquisite illustrations, this is an inspiring collection of timeless melodies. Songs include: Arirang • Boat Song • Cricket • Flowers • The Gate • Han River • Harvest • Lullaby • Waterfall • Yearning • and more.
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Let these 20 easy and modern piano pieces from the genres of pop and neoclassicism take you into a romantic dream world. Imaginative titles such as “Amélie in Dreamland,” “In Seventh Heaven,” “Rainbow Way,” and “Every Cloud a Dream” stimulate the imagination and invite to dream and relax.
Dreamworld is ideal, varied and fascinating supplementary material for every advanced beginner. The pieces can be mastered quickly and are well suited for lessons, playing in one's free time and first auditions.
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Five soulful solos that were “inspired by the northern sky, and in particular the Scandinavian landscapes of my own imagination,” writes Naoko Ikeda. Introspective pieces, yet full of warmth. Titles: Flora • Ethereal Summer • Land of the Midnight Sun • Aurora • A Sea of Clouds. Includes performance notes.
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With Children's Album and Children's Carnival, Amy Beach continues the tradition of famous 19th-century piano cycles for young players. The dances and character pieces are ideal for lessons and first performances. This new edition from the Student Edition Repertoire series was edited by Melanie Spanswick, who added fingerings, tempo and pedal information to the repertoire and wrote practical playing instructions for all pieces.
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12 songs from six of Disney's beloved films arranged at an easy level, including: Baby Mine • Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song) • Heigh-Ho • Some Day My Prince Will Come • When You Wish upon a Star • Whistle While You Work • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? • and more.
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With Piano infantil, the Catalan composer Narcisa Freixas has published a piano cycle for young players. This new edition in the Student Edition Repertoire series brings together the first two books of very easy and short character pieces under the title Elementary Piano Pieces. This new edition was edited by Melanie Spanswick, who added fingerings, tempo and pedal information to the repertoire and wrote practical instructions for all pieces.
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This extraordinary edition includes a selection of piano works by Chinese composers from the second half of the 20th century. They are marked by Western influences while also reflecting the multifaceted folk music of China. They range from short character pieces to sonatinas, from simple song arrangements to multi-movement cycles. These works are of medium difficulty and offer a representative cross-section of a musical cosmos that remains largely unknown in Europe. Predominantly pentatonic in character, these works unite the magic of Far Eastern music with the sound of the piano.
We were able to get the well-known pianist Jingxian (“Jane”) Xie from Shanghai to select these compositions, which she herself regularly performs in the concert hall. She not only provided the fingerings, but has also written a preface that offers a general overview of modern Chinese piano music and introductions to each of the individual pieces.
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A journey through 35 pieces among the most representative of the prestigious Max Eschig, Durand, and Salabert catalogs. The pieces are arranged in order of increasing difficulty of execution. Fundamental edition for a journey into the world of the piano through the didactic repertoire of the last century.
Pieces include works by Jean-Michel Arnaud, Henry Barraud, Mel Bonis, Olivier Hauray, Francis Poulenc, Eric Satie, Alexandre Tansman, and more.
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This collection features piano works by prominent G. Schirmer composers, including: Adams, Barber, Cowell, Dello Joio, Harbison, Kabalevsky, Khachaturian, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Tan Dun, and others. Includes previously unpublished first editions by John Corigliano and Gabriela Lena Frank. Suitable for advanced high school and college-level pianists.
Contents: ADAMS: China Gates • ANTHEIL: Sonatina (Death of the Machines) • Toccata No. 2 • BARBER: Ballade, Op. 46 • Interlude I • Interlude II • BLOCH: Poems of the Sea: I. Waves, II. Chanty, III. At Sea • BOULANGER: Trois Morceaux Pour Piano • BRUBECK: Dad Plays the Harmonica • CARPENTER: Danza • CHAVEZ: Estudio a Rubinstein • CORIGLIANO: Il January 3, 2008 • COWELL: Ostinato No. 2 (Set of Four) • DELLO JOIO: Suite for Piano • DORMAN: Prelude No. 1 • FRANK: Barcarola Latinoamericana • GRIFFES: The White Peacock, Op. 7, No. 1 • HARBISON: Gatsby Etudes • HOIBY: Nocturne, Op. 6 • KABALEVSKY: Four Preludes, Op. 5 • KENNAN: Three Preludes • KHACHATURIAN: Toccata • MUCZYNSKI: Six Preludes, Op. 6 • PROKOFIEV: Prelude, Op. 12, No. 7 • Suggestion Diabolique, Op. 4, No. 4 • W SCHUMAN: Three-Score Set • SHOSTAKOVICH: Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5 • DUN: Eight Memories in Watercolor: Ancient Burial, Op. 1, No. 6 • Staccato Beans, Op. 1, No. 2 • Sunrain, Op. 1, No. 8 • TCHEREPNIN: Bagatelle, Op. 5, No. 1 • Bagatelle, Op. 5, No. 5 • Bagatelle, Op. 5, No. 7
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This convenient collection features 10 NFMC-selected piano solos at the early intermediate/intermediate level. Includes: Caravan • Chatterbox • In the Groove • Jubilation! • Kokopelli (Invention in Phrygian Mode) • La marée de soir (Evening Tide) • Reverie • Time Travel • Voiliers dans le vent (Sailboats in the Wind) • Williwaw.
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Children learning to play piano are anxious to play songs they know and recognize. This collection presents 26 songs to help them do just that! It includes 26 songs arranged at an upper elementary level: Alouette • Bingo • The Farmer in the Dell • Itsy Bitsy Spider • The Kookaburra Laughed • London Bridge • Mary Had a Little Lamb • Old MacDonald • Pop Goes the Weasel • Row, Row, Row Your Boat • Three Blind Mice • The Wheels on the Bus • and more.
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Introduce piano students to the beautiful traditional music of South Africa with these 24 folk songs arranged for piano solo. During apartheid the music of the country's various cultures and groups (Afrikaans, amaNdebele, amaXhosa, amaZulu, Bapedi, Basotho, Batswana, Cape Malay, emaSwati, Vatsonga) developed separately, and the authors felt it long overdue to bring these contrasting musical traditions together. Titles include: The Axe Cuts the Thorn Tree • The Crowing of the Rooster • The Doves Above • God Bless Africa (Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika) • Here Comes the Alibama • I Have a Sweetheart • Jan Pierewiet • Mama, Who Is This? • Our Dearest Mothers • Sugar Bush • They Say There's a Man in the Moon, and more!
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The six highly individual Piano Etudes by Unsuk Chin represent as a collection one of the most challenging high peaks of the contemporary piano repertoire. Composed between 1995 and 2003, their abstract but often playful quality surfaces through formidable technical intricacy.
This definitive edition, published with revisions from the composer unites the Etudes for the first time and represents an essentialaddition to the library of the most technically accomplished pianist.
Composer's note:
The music critic Oscar Bie wrote, with respect to Chopin, that there is no “piano music more 'real' than an etude,” since “the essence of the piano has become music in it.” I am of the same opinion, not only as far as Chopin is concerned, but also with regardto the etudes of other great piano composers: Liszt, Bartók, Messiaen, and the works of their predecessors as well: Scarlatti's Essercizi, Bach's Well-tempered Clavier or his Klavierübungen ... I am very much attracted by the boundary-crossing, “transcendental” (Liszt) aspect on which all important etudes are based: the idea that the pianist is prepared to push himself to or - past - his/her limits.
Etude no. 1, In C, was composed in 1999. It was influenced by the Balinese gamelan music that I became better acquainted with duringa sojourn on Bali in 1998, and that has played a role for me in many works. A number of concepts of gamelan music were decisive here: first, the rhythmic models (in particular the consistent overlapping of three different pulsations); second, the uniquely iridescent tonal world that comes about through the subtle tunings. (Strictly speaking, the latter cannot be realized on the piano, and yet it can be hinted at through the sonic structure of the piece and the pedal artistry of a skilled pianist.) In spite of theseallusions to gamelan music, In C is not a paraphrase or even an imitation of it. The harmony of the piece is based on the tone C yet the piece has nothing at all to do with the functional harmony: the overtone series of C merely forms the harmonic foundation ofthe piece.
Etudes nos. 2 through 4 (Sequences, Scherzo ad libitum, Scales) were conceived as a group and written in 1995. In comparison to the other etudes, they have a relatively strong orientation on the piano music of classical modernism, especially as far as piano technique is concerned. The titles Sequences and Scales tell something about the compositional and pianistic problems of the second and fourth etudes. Scherzo ad libitum, on the other hand, is a character piece and thus forms a striking contrast to the other etudes.
Toccata, the fifth etude, refers to Etude no. 1: it, too, is based on the overtone series of C. And yet the concept on which the Toccata is based is diametrically opposed to that of the first etude: in the place of inactivity, a very dynamic forward motion dominates here,
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Features 20 original and charming pieces written especially for piano students by this popular composer, performer and conductor.
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Fourteen distinctive pieces. Perfect for developing pianists of all ages, this book features inventive progressive repertoire for players of grade 3-5 standard with informative tips on style and technique for every piece. It also includes audio demonstrations by the composer.
“This collection is a must have for every student of the piano. Creative, fun, attractive pieces each with a key instructional element. McDonagh gets it just right.”
- John OConor -
Ailbhe McDonagh is an Irish composer and international cellist based in Dublin, Ireland. She began composing at an early age and hasbeen commissioned to write pieces for school ensembles, national music examinations and international festivals. She performs worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician, and released her debut album “It's a Cello Thing” in 2012.
Contents: Night Cat • Secret Garden • Razzle Dazzle • Cloudscapes • Gagaku • Blue and Green • Marimba Dance • Anastasia • Winter Rose • Rat Race • Stephen's Green • Carousel • Super Slalom • City Express
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25 bluesy classics are presented in our patented E-Z Play® Today large notation with the note name in the note head. Includes: At Last • Basin Street Blues • Fever • Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You • I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good • Kansas City • Night Train • Route 66 • St. Louis Blues • Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) • and more.
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