Encore is the official collection of best-loved ABRSM piano exam pieces, selected from syllabuses of the past few decades. Pianists will find an appealing mix of repertoire, while teachers can be confident that the perfect balance of content has been selected at every level. Book 3 features 19 popular pieces at Grades 5 and 6. Have fun exploring modern favourites and timeless classics, like Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1, or Of Foreign Lands and Peoples by Schumann. Footnotes provide background information, a summary of the key skills that each piece develops, and new ideas for exploring the music. Perfect for learners exploring repertoire for the own-choice piece in ABRSM's Performance Grade exams Whether you're working through our exams, playing informally, or planning a performance, Encore is full of music you'll want to play again and again!

David Rowland traces the history of piano pedalling from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to its first maturity in the middle of the nineteenth century and beyond. Pedalling technique was a major feature of nineteenth-century piano performance and, coupled with new developments in piano structure, inspired many composers to write innovative works for the literature. Rowland examines this through the technique and music of composer-pianists such as Beethoven, Liszt, and Chopin. In addition, he follows the transition from harpsichord and clavichord to piano and outlines the physical properties of the various stops, levers, and pedals available at the different stages of the instrument's development. The book also includes an appendix of translated extracts from three well-known piano-pedalling tutors. It will be of interest to students and scholars of music history and performance practice, as well as to pianists.

Pam Wedgwood's Piano Basics Pop (Pre-Grade to Grade 1) is a fantastic collection of pop hits such as Let It Go (from Frozen), Best Song Ever (One Direction) and Price Tag (Jessie J), as well as great original pieces by Pam Wedgwood. Teaching notes and practice exercises are featured throughout to help players learn and understand the pieces. Pam Wedgwood's Piano Basics Series provides the building blocks to develop a sound technique in an imaginative and practical way, whilst also establishing key musicianship skills. This book is ideal to be used alongside Pam Wedgwood's Piano Basics 2.

Encore is the official collection of best-loved ABRSM piano exam pieces, selected from syllabuses of the past few decades. Pianists will find an appealing mix of repertoire, while teachers can be confident that the perfect balance of content has been selected at every level. Book 4 features 14 popular pieces at Grades 7 and 8. Have fun exploring modern favourites and timeless classics, like Willie Wagglestick's Walkabout or Chopin's Nocturne in B, Op. 32 No. 1. Footnotes provide background information, a summary of the key skills that each piece develops, and new ideas for exploring the music. Whether you're working through our exams, playing informally, or planning a performance, Encore is full of music you'll want to play again and again! Perfect for learners exploring repertoire for the own-choice piece in ABRSM's Performance Grade exams

This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for ABRSM's Initial Grade Piano exam. It covers all the new requirements from 2021.

Encore is the official collection of best-loved ABRSM piano exam pieces, selected from syllabuses of the past few decades. Pianists will find an appealing mix of repertoire, while teachers can be confident that the perfect balance of content has been selected at every level. Book 1 features 21 popular pieces at Grades 1 and 2. Have fun exploring timeless classics and modern favourites, like Hook's Gavotte, or Vampire Blues by Wooding. Footnotes provide background information, a summary of the key skills that each piece develops, and new ideas for exploring the music. Whether you're working through our exams, playing informally, or planning a performance, Encore is full of music you'll want to play again and again! Perfect for learners exploring repertoire for the own-choice piece in ABRSM's Performance Grade exams

The volume includes arrangements of celebrated chamber and orchestral works alongside original duets, in a survey of prominent composers and styles from the USA. It reflects the indigenous influences of jazz, ragtime, and folk music, and of European styles and genres. Authoritative and expertly edited, the collection is designed for intermediate pianists (Grades 5-7) and includes an historical and technical commentary on every piece.

Taking account of Bach scholarship of the past twenty-five years, the first two volumes of Peter Williams's classic study of Bach's organ works are fully revised. This work is a piece-by-piece commentary on this ever-popular repertoire, demonstrating the music's unique qualities and how we might hear and play it today. The book follows the order of the Bach catalog (BWV): beginning with the sonatas, followed by the "free works" and the chorales, and ending with the doubtful works, including the "newly discovered chorales" of 1985.

Learn how to play authentic salsa! From traditional Cuban music to the more modern Puerto Rican and New York styles, you'll learn the all-important rhythmic patterns of salsa and how to apply them to the piano. The book provides historical, geographical and cultural background info, and the 50+-track CD includes piano examples and a full salsa band percussion section.

The Complete Practice Workbook has been produced in association with The Musician's Union and offers teachers and players a must-have resource that supports every aspect of instrumental practice. For every lesson, it includes: a diary to record the lesson highlights, review practice outcomes and note down any resources or issues to address in the next lesson; a Simultaneous Learning Practice Map to help structure and optimise practice; dedicated space to jot down ideas, notes and music, to encourage the Paul Harris Simultaneous Learning approach to practice. Ideal for learners of all ages, this workbook will help students to engage actively in music, developing their technique, understanding and general musicianship together: guaranteed to unveil the musician in everyone! The Musicians' Union is the representative organisation for musicians working in every area of the profession. This workbook is one of a series of resources provided to assist members in their work.

Joining the Dots is designed to improve students' skills in reading music at sight, enabling them to perform new music with confidence. The books feature short, creative exercises which help students to develop their ability to read music more quickly and easily, both in exams and when learning new pieces. They're perfect for use during lesson time or individual practice! The series covers the requirements for ABRSM's sight-reading tests at each of Grades 1 to 8. Each book includes: * Key Features - help the student familiarise themselves with the keys at each grade * Workouts - warm up and technical exercises help establish basic hand shapes and finger patterns within each key * Transpose - encourage a confident sense of key and develop skills in reading by shape * Make Music - build confidence in creative and imaginative work, and develop musical ideas and aural skills through simple improvisation exercises * Read and Play - work through examples and practice how to approach sight-reading in the exam: read the title, work out the rhythm, find the notes and play the music!

This is an exuberant and high-spirited work, written when the composer was nineteen. With a hauntingly beautiful contrasting slow movement, this is a fine concert piece for students of about grade 7 standard.

Diese Arbeit, die in aktualisierter Neuauflage vorgelegt wird, zeichnet zunachst den UEberlieferungsweg der freien Orgelwerke Buxtehudes nach, von den verschollenen Autographen bis zu den erhaltenen, vielfach mangelhaften Abschriften. Besonderes Interesse gilt der Frage, welchen Anteil die beruhmten Zeitgenossen Pachelbel und Bach an der Verbreitungsgeschichte dieser Werke hatten. Im zweiten Hauptteil werden Probleme von Stil und Form, Authentizitat und Chronologie behandelt; auch Aspekte der Spielpraxis werden berucksichtigt. Damit stellt die Arbeit eine Erganzung zur kritischen Edition der Orgelwerke Buxtehudes dar.