(Faber Piano Adventures ). Includes a CD of Accompaniments. Contents include: Allegretto (Kohler) * Ancient Dance (Praetorious) * Circle Dance (Beyer) * Country Ride (Kohler) * Echoes (Kohler) * Five-Note Sonatina (Bolck) * The Hero's March (Vogel) * In an Old Castle (Beyer) * Little March (Turk) * Melody (Beyer) * Ponies (Low) * Sonatina (Wilton).

(Keyboard Instruction). This comprehensive book/CD pack will teach you the basic skills needed to play jazz-blues piano. From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, the tools, and the tricks used by the pros. The accompanying CD features many of the examples in the book performed either solo, or with a full band, including a full chapter of complete songs. Topics covered include: scales and chords * harmony and voicings * progressions and comping * melodies and soloing * characteristic stylings.

(Easy Piano Songbook). The second edition of this bestseller has been updated to include Disney's latest blockbusters, such as High School Musical, Enchanted, Pirates of the Caribbean, and more Includes: Be Our Guest * Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Colors of the Wind * Friend like Me * Hakuna Matata * The Incredits * Kiss the Girl * That's How You Know * Under the Sea * We're All in This Together * You Are the Music in Me * and more

Michael Nyman's piano music has struck a chord with audiences across the world and this anthology brings together his most successful and best-loved pieces in one superb volume. All the tracks features in this work are transcribed and restored to solo piano, including previously unpublished works for Nyman's recent CD - "The Piano Sings".

(Piano Solo Songbook). Piano solo arrangements of 24 jazz favorites, including: Almost like Being in Love * Angel Eyes * Autumn Leaves * Bewitched * God Bless' the Child * If You Go Away * It Might as Well Be Spring * Love Me or Leave Me * On Green Dolphin Street * Smoke Gets in Your Eyes * That Old Black Magic * What's New? * Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) * and more.

In this wide-ranging set of original essays, musicologist and organist Russell Stinson investigates Johann Sebastian Bach's compositions for the organ, opening up a wealth of perspectives on the stylistic orientation and historical context of these timeless masterpieces. With a sweeping hand, Stinson sheds light on the entire corpus of Bach's organ chorales, and considers the reception of particular pieces not only by various luminaries in the classical music world, but also those within such disparate contexts as film, literature, politics, and rock music. Stinson's investigations include a revealing focus on a previously unpublished fugue by Bach pupil J. G. Schubler, unexplored techniques found in over twenty of Bach's chorale preludes, and the diverse ways in which Bach's organ works have been received from the composer's own lifetime to the present day. Individual essays are also devoted to Felix Mendelssohn as a performer; to Robert Schumann as an editor and critic; to Cesar Franck as a performer, pedagogue, and composer; and to Edward Elgar as a performer, critic, and transcriber. Rich in archival data and filled with fascinating anecdotes, J. S. Bach at His Royal Instrument is entirely up-to-date, meticulously annotated and indexed, and eminently readable. This book is essential reading for anyone at all interested in Bach and "the king of instruments."

15 Disney favorites arranged for classical piano: Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Chim Chim Cher-ee * Colors of the Wind * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * God Help the Outcasts * I'm Late * It's a Small World * Little April Shower * Once upon a Dream * Scales and Arpeggios * The Second Star to the Right * So This Is Love (The Cinderella Waltz) * Under the Sea * You'll Be in My Heart.

A piece a week Piano Grades 7-8 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

Focusing on styles such as classic ragtime, early blues & boogie woogie, New Orleans jazz, stride and swing, this new book/CD pack in the Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series teaches left- and right-hand techniques including chords, bass runs, patterns and more. Key players of these styles - Scott Joplin, Jimmy Yancey, Pete Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum - are prominently referenced. Includes 14 full songs to play, and an accompanying CD!

(Faber Piano Adventures ). 11 songs that include I-IV-V7 chords in the keys of C, G and F, featuring: Can You Feel the Love Tonight? * Do-Re-Mi * (Meet) The Flintstones * She Loves You * Star Wars * and more.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). An excellent collection of symphonic and operatic works by the great composers. The pieces were chosen for their appealing melodies and rhythmic vitality. Includes: Theme from Don Giovanni (La ci darem la mano) by Mozart * Egyptian Ballet Dance (from the opera Sanson & Delilah ) by Saint Saens * Liebestraum by Liszt * The Merry Widow Waltz (from the opera The Merry Widow ) by Lehar * Minuet (Op. 14, No. 1) by Paderewski * Canon by Pachelbel * Spring (from The Four Seasons ) by Vivaldi * Suitor's Song (from the operetta The Gypsy Baron ) by J. Strauss, Jr. * Theme from Symphony No. 1 (Third Movement, "Frere Jacques" theme) by Mahler * Prince of Denmark's March (Trumpet Voluntary) by Clarke.

(Keyboard Instruction). Learn the intros, endings and turnarounds that all of the pros know and use This new keyboard instruction book by John Valerio covers swing styles, ballads, Latin tunes, jazz waltzes, blues, major and minor keys, vamps and pedal tones, and more.

(Music Sales America). A second collection of the world's best beloved music, over 100 masterpieces by great composers from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Over 100 works, including Bach's Inventions, Mendelssohn's Wedding March, the theme from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, and many more.

(Music Sales America). Book of fully written out exercises dealing with all the problems with which a pupil is likely to be confronted. Also includes a chart suggesting how best to allocate your practice time.

(Educational Piano Library). Hal Leonard Student Piano Library mascots 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. This book correlates directly to Piano Lessons Book 4.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). This new collection features 11 hits that students will love to learn, including: Dancing Queen * I Saw Her Standing There * Lean on Me * 100 Years * Pachelbel Canon * Pure Imagination * Star Wars (Main Theme) * You Raise Me Up * and more.

Steven Pond's Head Hunters captures a transitional moment in modern music history, a time when jazz and rock intermingled to create a new, often controversial, genre. At the forefront of that style was Head Hunters, Herbie Hancock's foray into the fusion jazz market. It was also the first jazz album to go platinum, and the best-selling jazz record of all time to that point. The album became a turning point for a radical shift in both the production and reception of jazz. The sales numbers were unprecedented, and the music industry quickly responded to the expanded market, with production and promotion budgets rising tenfold. Such a shift helped musicians pry open the control-booth door, permanently enlarging their role in production. But it was all at a cost. Critics, believing that rock and funk might be appropriating jazz to new musical ends- or more ominously, for commercial reasons- grew increasingly alarmed at what they saw as the beginning of the end of jazz.

Lang Lang: daily technical exercises is a collection of scale-based warm-ups, work-outs and routines that no aspiring pianist should be without, providing a perfect follow on from the Lang Lang Piano Academy mastering the piano series. Ideal for mastering keys and developing essential technique, this book provides flexible and progressive routines ideal for intermediate-level players upwards. Elements include a comprehensive warm-up section, advice and tips from Lang Lang himself, and an extension section with ideas for further practice. Intermediate routines concisely cover each key centre in musical exercises and advanced routines cover Russian scale patterns, giving a full work-out for each key centre.