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.
A student practice guide that accompanies the Masterwork Classics. Invaluable notes on technique, style and listening activities for every piece in the Masterwork Classics books, plus teacher's notes and short lesson guides for each piece.
Classics Alive Book 1 offers teachers and students a wide selection of literature to help pace musical and technical development evenly and with ease. The book presents 72 pieces of standard teaching literature by 12 composers----familiar and not so familiar---who wrote exceptionally well for the late-elementary/early-intermediate student. Studying these works will give students a solid foundation in the best literature available at their level, and will prepare them to proceed to more advanced music. The pieces are easy to learn, rewarding to play and sound great!
This book offers teachers and students a wide selection of literature to help pace musical and technical development evenly and with ease. The book presents appropriate teaching literature by 14 composers who wrote inspirationally for the intermediate student. The pieces in this book are primarily from Levels 7 and 8, according to Jane Magrath’s The Pianist’s Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature. Titles include: Prelude in D Minor, BWV 926 (J. S. Bach) *Prelude in D Minor, BWV 940 (J. S. Bach) *Sonata in F Major, K. 78 (Scarlatti) *Sonata in G Major, K. 391 (Scarlatti) *Sonata in C Major, K. 309 (Scarlatti) *Sonata in A Minor, K. 149 (Scarlatti) *Viennese Sonatina No. 1 in C Major (1st movement) (Mozart) *Viennese Sonatina No. 2 in A Major (1st movement) (Mozart) *Viennese Sonatina No. 6 in C Major (1st and 3rd movements) (Mozart) * Sonatina in G Major, Hob. XVI: 8 (1st movement) (Haydn) *Sonatina in F Major, Hob. XVI: 9 (1st movement) (Haydn) *Sonatina in C Major, Hob. XVI: 10 (1st movement) (Haydn) *Bagatelle in G Minor, Op. 119, No. 1 (Beethoven) *Bagatelle in D Major, Op. 119, No. 3 (Beethoven) * Bagatelle in A Minor, Op. 119, No. 9 (Beethoven) *German Dance in D Major, D. 783, No. 2 (Schubert) *Waltz in B Minor, D. 145, No. 6 (Schubert) *Waltz in A-flat Major, D. 365, No. 2 (Schubert) *Two Ecossaises, D. 421, Nos. 1 and 2 (Schubert) *Album leaf in F-sharp Minor, Op. 99, No. 4 (Schumann) *From Foreign Lands and Places, Op. 15, No. 1 (Schumann) *Mignon, Op. 68, No. 35 (Schumann) *Important Event, Op. 15, No. 6 (Schumann) *Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7 (Chopin) *Mazurka in F Major, Op. 68, No. 3 (Chopin) *Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 67, No. 2 (Chopin) *Mazurka in G Major, Op. Post (Chopin) *Mazurka in B-flat Major, Op. Post (Chopin) *Song of the Cowherd, Op. 17, No. 22 (Grieg) *Waltz, Op. 38, No. 7 (Grieg) *Norwegian Melody, Op. 12, No. 6 (Grieg) *The Little Shepherd (Debussy) *Album Leaf (Debussy) *Braul (Bartok) *Buciumeana (Bartok) *The Farewell, Op. 21, No. 3 (Borkiewicz) *Venice, Op. 21, No. 7 (Borkiewicz) *Pierrot's Serenade (Martinu) *Columbine Remembers (Martinu) *Prelude (Fragment) (Gershwin) *Merry Andrew (Gershwin) *Promenade (Walking the Dog) (Gershwin).
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 Valery Lloyd-Watts studied at the Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Royal College of Music in London. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied with Paul Badura-Skoda.
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. Recording artist Valery Lloyd-Watts studied at the Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Royal College of Music in London. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied with Paul Badura-Skoda. She co-authored the text Studying Suzuki Piano: More than Music, which was endorsed by Dr. Suzuki.
The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls “wonderfully entertaining” and USA Today describes as “sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety”—nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel. “Reader, I murdered him.” A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre “last confessions” of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess. Burning to know whether she is in fact the rightful heir, Jane takes the position incognito and learns that Highgate House is full of marvelously strange new residents—the fascinating but caustic Mr. Thornfield, an army doctor returned from the Sikh Wars, and the gracious Sikh butler Mr. Sardar Singh, whose history with Mr. Thornfield appears far deeper and darker than they pretend. As Jane catches ominous glimpses of the pair’s violent history and falls in love with the gruffly tragic Mr. Thornfield, she faces a terrible dilemma: Can she possess him—body, soul, and secrets—without revealing her own murderous past? “A thrill ride of a novel. A must read for lovers of Jane Eyre, dark humor, and mystery.”—PopSugar.com
Eighty-three popular piano classics arranged for the beginning student are accompanied by a short history of each piece and advice on playing each arrangement.5NjBwBT
These graded collections of piano duets by master composers are among the best literature available at respective levels. Each duet, written by composers who lived in the 18th, 19th, and 20th century, has been carefully edited and fingered for performance ease. Titles: * Rondo (Türk) * The Storm (Türk) * Polonaise (Türk) * Rondino, Op. 149, No. 17 (from Melodious Pieces) (Diabelli) * Sonatina in C Major (Weber) * Waltz and Trio No. 5 (from Six Waltzes with Trios) (Pixis) * Waltz and Trio No. 5 (Moscheles) * March in C Major, Op. 18, No. 1 (Gade) * Russian Dance, Op. 74, No. 7 (from 10 Pièces pour cinq touches) (Cui) * Trojky (from Moravian Dances) (Janácek) * Waltz, Op. 34, No. 4 (from Six Children's Pieces) (Arensky) * Fugue on a Russian Theme, Op. 34, No. 6 (from Six Children's Pieces) (Arensky) * Am See (Poldini) * Pavane de la belle au bois dormant (from Ma mère l'oye) (Ravel)
These graded collections of piano duets by master composers are among the best literature available at respective levels. Each duet, written by composers who lived in the 18th, 19th, and 20th century, has been carefully edited and fingered for performance ease. Titles: * Rondo, K. 19d (from Sonata in C Major) (Mozart) * March, Op. 87, No. 44 (from The Children's Musical Friend) (Wohlfahrt) * Galop, Op. 87, No. 46 (from The Children's Musical Friend) (Wohlfahrt) * Polonaise, Op. 149, No. 23 (from Melodious Pieces) (Diabelli) * Venetian Boat Song, Op. 19, No. 6 (Mendelssohn-Czerny) * Morgengesang, Op. 39, No. 1 (Volkman) * ABC, Op. 39, No. 2 (Volkman) * The Russians Are Coming, Op. 11, No. 3 (Volkman) * Dance, Op. 57, No. 6 (Kirchner) * Variations on the C Major Scale, Op. 122b, No. 5 (Reinecke) * Shepherd's Poem, Op. 43, No. 3 (Bendel) * Barcarolle, Op. 22, No. 2 (Fibich)
