(Willis). John Thompson's classic Modern Course for the Piano from Willis Music is now available for the first time in a book/CD format Each volume will be re-released with an eye-catching new cover.

Up-Grade! Pop Piano Grades 3-4 is part of Pam Wedgwood's hugely successful Up-Grade! Series, allowing pianists of all ages repertoire to bridge the gap between grades. Up-Grade! Pop offer's Pam's own take on songs such as Summer Nights, A Whole New World, and ABBA's Mamma Mia, as well as her own specially composed pieces. Guaranteed to breathe new life into your piano playing, the varied pieces in this collection are demonstrated on the online audio and are designed to ease you gently on to the next grade.

Easy piano arrangements of fifty great songs.

Complete with song background notes, and playing hints and tips.

The songs range from Pop to Classical, featuring everything from Vivaldi's 'Autumn' to Westlife's version of 'You Raise Me Up'.

• (They Long To Be) Close To You - The Carpenters
• All The Way - Frank Sinatra
• American Pie - Madonna
• Autumn (The Four Seasons) - Vivaldi
• Baby Elephant Walk (Hatari!) - Henry Mancini
• Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk
• Cabaret (Cabaret) - John Kander
• Cagney And Lacey - Bill Conti
• Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue
• Casualty (Theme) - Ken Freeman
• Common People - Pulp
• Don't Stop Movin' - S Club 7
• Downtown - Petula Clark
• Ebony And Ivory - Paul Mccartney and Stevie Wonder
• Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
• Hallelujah (Shrek) - Leonard Cohen
• Hometown Glory - Adele
• I Don't Want To Wait (Dawson's Creek) - Paula Cole
• I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - Elton John
• I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany
• If I Were A Rich Man (Fiddler On The Roof) - Jerry Bock
• I'm Beginning To See The Light - Duke Ellington
• It Must Be Love - Madness
• La Valse D'amelie (Amelie) Yann Tierson
• Luck Be A Lady (Guys And Dolls) - Frank Loesser
• One Day I'll Fly Away (Moulin Rouge!) - Kidman, Nicole
• Rockin' All Over The World - Status Quo
• Rule The World - Take That
• She's The One - Robbie Williams
• So What - Miles Davis
• Songbird Eva Cassidy
• Symphony No.40 (Theme) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• The Blue Danube - Johan Strauss
• The Can Can (Orpheus In The Underworld) - Jacques Offenbach
• The Lady In Red - Chris De Burgh
• The Most Beautiful Girl In The World - Prince
• The Music Of The Night (The Phantom Of The Opera) - Andrew Lloyd Webber
• The Nearness Of You - Norah Jones
• Theme (Schindler's List) - John Williams
• Theme (Swan Lake) - Tchaikovsky
• Thriller - Michael Jackson
• Trouble - Coldplay
• Wannabe - The Spice Girls
• Waterloo - Abba
• Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
• When I'm Sixty Four - Paul Mccartney
• When You're Gone - Avril Lavigne
• Wires - Athlete
• Wonderwall - Oasis
• You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban

Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 7 (Early Advanced) is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by 'going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). This delightful collection of 17 favorite folk songs and familiar melodies offers pieces useful for recital performance, family or group sing-along, and as motivational material for the private or group lesson. Arrangements are in the 5-finger hand positions of C, G, F, Dm and Am, and harmony is limited to single notes and harmonic intervals. Includes: L'il Liza Jane * My Ma Gave Me a Nickel * The Three Doughs * Bill Groggin's Goat * Go Tell Aunt Rhody * Peter, Peter * Off to Bed, Now * The Ash Grove * Old King Cole * Irish Washerwoman * Shave and a Haircut * The Old Gray Mare * Boom Boom * The Centipede and the Frog * Michael Finnegan * Give My Regards to Broadway * Music Alone Shall Live.

The Jazz Piano Player: Stormy Weather contains 15 classic jazz standards in an ingenious new format for jazz pianists, arranged by John Kember. Each piece is presented in two formats: the first version includes melody, lyrics and basic chord structure, ideal for improvisation; the second version is a superb arrangement for piano solo, for intermediate level pianists. All the songs are helpfully included in their standard keys so pianists will be able to play with other jazz musicians, and there also a quick guide on piano jazz chords for added tutorial assistance. The free CD included features full performances of all the arrangements by pianist John Kember for an enhanced learning mobility. The Jazz Piano Player Series is designed for those wanting to make the transition into jazz or pop piano playing. An essential new resource for all jazz pianists - a great way in for players wanting to make a transition into jazz, as well as for pianists wanting to develop their own style.

"In this book, Barbara Owen has created a rich resource of historical information coupled with strategies for interpreting that information on today's instruments." Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society

..". Barbara Owen has succeeded admirably in distilling three centuries of organ registration practice into a volume less than three hundred pages long.... Anyone with an interest in the history of the organ and its music... will not want to ignore this book." Sixteenth Century Journal

"It is rare to find a book that combines such careful scholarship with a practical focus that makes it accessible to performing musicians as well as research specialists." Notes

"An excellent volume from historical, musical style and interpretive standpoints. Highly recommended for all large academic and professional music collections." Choice

..". recommend this book to all serious organists." The American Organist Magazine

Barbara Owen has prepared the first work to present in a single book the registrational practices of organists from c.1550 to 1800. The four parts of the book move from the Renaissance through the Early, High, and Late Baroque. Each part starts with a brief description of the political and religious climate of the period and the way such factors affected the compositions and the organ-building of the time."

This text contains the music and lyrics of ABBA's pure gold hits, all arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Songs include 'Mamma Mia', 'Waterloo', 'Thank You For The Music', 'Dancing Queen' and more.

Up-Grade! Jazz Piano Grades 3-4 is a fun addition to Pam Wedgwood's popular Up-Grade! Series, featuring well-loved jazz hits in cool new arrangements. Featuring hip classics such as Fly Me To The Moon, My Baby Just Cares For Me and It Don't Mean A Thing, alongside jazzy numbers by the inimitable Pam Wedgwood. Guaranteed to breathe new life into your piano playing, the varied pieces in this collection are designed to ease you gently on to the next grade. There are several other spin-offs to the Up-Grade! Series for piano, including pop and Christmas.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Pianistic arrangements of ever-popular melodies for the early intermediate piano student. Pieces are in the keys of C, G, F, A minor and D minor. Includes: Skaters' Waltz * Scarborough Fair * Chopsticks * Two Guitars * Glow Worm * Greensleeves * Hello, My Baby * I've Been Working on the Railroad * Give My Regards to Broadway * Song of the Volga Boatmen.

For more than a century the piano occupied a dominant place in music and society. Professor Ehrlich follows its fascinating history from the fortepiano of Mozart's time, through the Victorians' `household orchestra and god', to the most sophisticated modern products of the Japanese manufacturers. His protagonists include barnstorming virtuosi, fashionable ladies and aspiring clerks, the great makers and the back-street `garrett-masters', distinguished musicians, and hire-purchase touts. Originally published in 1976 by Dent, this book has now been updated and revised by the author in the light of developments of recent years.

A critical edition of the 35 Piano Sonatas by Professor Barry Cooper, renowned Beethoven specialist. Includes a general Introduction covering performance practice, including tempo, articulation, pedalling and dynamics and commentary to each sonata, including history, full assessment of the sources and detailed notes on interpretation. Introductory CD included.

After Hours Jazz 1 is a superb collection of original pieces as well as arrangements of your favourite jazz standards by Pam Wedgwood for the Grade 3-5 pianist. Relax with the lush harmonies and laid-back melodies of many well-known pieces as well as some great original repertoire.

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and critics by decades Leo Ornstein passed away in 2002 at the age of 108. Frequently compared to Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, for a time Ornstein enjoyed a kind a celebrity granted few living musicians. And then he turned his back on it all. This first, full-length biographical study draws upon interviews, journals, and letters from a wide circle of Ornstein's friends and acquaintances to track the Ornstein family as it escaped the horrors of the Russian pogroms, and it situates the Russian-Jewish-American musician as he carved out an identity amidst World War I, the flu pandemic, and the Red Scare. While telling Leo Ornstein's story, the book also illuminates the stories of thousands of immigrants with similar harrowing experiences. It also explores the immeasurable impact of his unexpected marriage in 1918 to Pauline Mallet-Prevost, a Park Avenue debutante.

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices finds Ornstein at the center of several networks that included artists John Marin, William Zorach, Leon Kroll, writers and activists Paul Rosenfeld, Waldo Frank, Edmund Wilson, and Clair Reis, the Stieglitz Circle, and a group of English composers known as the Frankfurt Five. Ornstein's story challenges directly the traditional chronology and narrative regarding musical modernism in America and its close relation to the other arts.

This Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643-50) was the first French document to discuss keyboard performance practice in any detail. Jean Denis was both a harpsichord builder of renown and the organist of a prominent Parisian church, and is thus an authority worthy of careful study. The treatise addresses numerous matters of interest to both scholars and performers, including temperament, ornamentation, fugue, and the use of the organ in liturgical practice. Also included in the treatise are a keyboard prelude designed to reveal errors in tuning, and two delightful anecdotes attesting to the power of music. The forthright character of Denis's writing lends a unique and distinctly enjoyable tone to the work."

Easy instructions with over 250 new and old melodies with fingerings; 17 with words; three for both hands; and two easy songs with piano.

This work includes every track from the Olivier-award winning hit musical, "Billy Elliot". It is arranged for piano, voice, and guitar and is complete with full lyrics. The music is given by Elton John. The songs include: "The Stars Look Down"; "Shine"; "Grandma's Song"; "Solidarity"; "Expressing Yourself"; "The Letter"; "Born To Boogie"; "Angry Dance"; "Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher"; and "He Could Be A Star".

Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling "A Tune A Day" series has revolutionised music-making in the classroom and the home. C Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrumental technique for a new generation of musicians. The series has the same logical, gentle pace and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations! The audio CD - with performances and backing tracks - will make practice even more fun and exciting. And the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student achieve the perfect technique and tone. The features include: advice on equipment; instructions for effective technique and comfortable posture; explanatory section of reading music; easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages; audio CD with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks and audio examples; great music in a variety of styles; tests to check progress and comprehension; and useful pull-out chart giving common scales and chords.

This work features songs from the world's number one show, "Mamma Mia" - the musical based on the music of Abba. Each song is presented in a complete arrangement for Easy Piano. It includes all 22 Songs from the show. It is complete with lyrics and chord symbols. More productions of "Mamma Mia" are playing simultaneously around the world than any other musical. Songs include: "Dancing Queen"; "Mamma Mia!"; "The Name of the Game"; "Take A Chance On Me"; "Voulez-Vous"; "Chiquitita"; "Does Your Mother Know"; "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do"; "I Have A Dream"; "Knowing Me, Knowing You"; "Lay All Your Love On Me"; and "Money, Money, Money".

This specially produced book and CD set gives you the chance to learn the Piano parts for eight massive pop and rock classics by some of the greatest artists of all time, with a CD of backing tracks that accurately captures the magic of these anthemic hits.

Get your hands around some of the rock's best, and discover the soaring melodies and lilting harmonies that have made these songs so popular for so long. The book features full solo piano arrangements, complete with melody line, lyrics and guitar chords. The CD has full 'soundalike' demo performances, as well as the all-important tracks minus the piano so you can play along.

• Imagine - John Lennon
• Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
• Life On Mars - David Bowie
• Perfect Day - Lou Reed
• Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney
• Riders On The Storm - The Doors
• Tiny Dancer - Elton John
• Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel