Author: Victor Herbert

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-23

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9781334046261

Excerpt from The World's Best Music, Vol. 5: Famous Compositions for the Piano Olume five of the instrumental series contains a graded arrangement of selections for progressive study. The Volume has been edited by well-known New York teachers, who have exercised great care in including compositions best adapted to this purpose. The grading followed does not conform to the numbered schemes in use by teachers and conservatories, but will, it is thought, he found at once better suited to this work and more helpful to the student; The respective grades of Volume Five (instrumental), I, 2, 3, etc., corre spond throughout to the groups - Easy, Moderately Easy, eta - under which the entire con tents of the instrumental volumes will be found arranged in the Graded Index prefixed to Volume One (instrumental). Volume Five (instrumental) is designed to contain all practice music required by amateurs after the first six months of elementary drill; the purchase of sheet music for this purpose is thereby rendered unnecessary. It should be pointed out that from Grade III. Onward these selections are not for study merely, but may be regarded as supplemen tary to the four other volumes of the instrumental series in furnishing material suitable for leisure hours or for musicale and concert performance. It is readily apparent that this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.