An excellent method with new thoughts on early piano education.

This compilation includes favourites such as "Away In A Manger", "O Come All Ye Faithful" and "Once In Royal David's City". The book is complete with background notes and a host of playing hints and tips. The songs include: "Deck The Halls"; "The First Noel"; "Good King Wenceslas"; "The Holly And The Ivy"; "Jingle Bells"; "Joy To The World"; "O Christmas Tree"; "Silent Night".

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Paduan-born harpsichord maker and contemporary of Antonio Stradivari, who is credited with having invented the pianoforte around the year 1700 while working in the Medici court in Florence. Through thorough analysis of documents preserved in the State Archive of Florence, Pollens has reconstructed, in unprecedented technical detail, Cristofori's working life between his arrival in Florence in 1688 and his death in 1732. This book will be of interest to pianists, historians of the piano, musicologists, museum curators and conservators, as well as keyboard instrument makers, restorers, and tuners.

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 work presents piano, vocal, guitar arrangements for 20 great U2 hit songs. It is complete with full lyrics and guitar chord boxes.

(Willis). The Edna Mae Burnam Write It Right series is a valuable aid in creating well-rounded young musicians. The delightful lessons and exercises are designed to perfectly correlate with those in Burnam's popular Step by Step series, with specific page numbers linking lessons between the two so that concepts can be reinforced. Through the written exercises the student is able to better assimilate concepts learned in the piano lesson, and the teacher better able to gauge how much a student truly understands those concepts. Endearing classic illustrations add to the appeal of this time-tested series.

The FAB opening theme from the classic 60s cult children's programme is arranged here for piano solo. 5....4....3....2....1.....THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!

Contains easy piano arrangements for top jazz complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips.

Containing 45 piano solos, this bumper collection offers a selection of hit songs and themes from the top films of all time for the intermediate level pianist.

Essential piano songs arranged for piano, guitar and voice.

Robert Vandall's piano duets have been favorites of students and teachers for several years. Many have been chosen for contest and festival lists. Whether performed for studio recitals, contests, festivals, or concerts with multiple pianos on a stage, these duets appeal to performers and audiences alike. Diverse musical styles are represented in each book of this series-from beautiful melodies of lilting waltzes and lyrical ballads, to the rhythmic excitement of lively dances and ragtime. Both primo and secondo are skillfully crafted to be of equal difficulty and equal interest. Melodies are shared or passed between performers. These wonderful collections will motivate duet teams to continue making music together. Book 1 titles: Central Park Ride * Chanson * Hiking Song * On Our Way * Pirouette * Village Dance.

Easy piano arrangements with song lyrics and chord symbols complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips. Suitable for grades 1 - 3.

Perfect for musicians, teachers or anyone looking for solid info on scales, chords, and how they work together. Provides right- and left-hand piano fingerings for scales, chords, and complete inversions, covering 20+ different scales, each written in all 12 keys. The Source is the most complete collection of contemporary and traditional scales for classical, jazz and other styles.

This full size book, CD & DVD pack is an easy to follow Piano method for the complete beginner. Covers note reading, music fundamentals, finger technique and playing chords with the left hand. Includes many well known songs in a variety of styles.

Teach yourself to play any make of electric keyboard with the world's best selling easy to follow method Based on popular songs and with easy to follow text and clear diagrams, it assumes no previous knowledge of the keyboard or music. The CD contains full band backing tracks and demonstrations of all songs.

The Michael Aaron Piano Course Lesson books have been completely re-engraved, expanded (adding more definitions of musical terms and more musical pieces), updated (with modernized artwork), and re-edited (with less emphasis on fingerings and more on note-reading).

These twenty hymns for the beginning piano student are arranged in the easiest position, with both thumbs on middle C. There are some simple harmony and contrary motion, and the smallest rhythmic unit is an eighth note. As students progress through the book, the pieces start to use accidentals, which are written in as needed rather than in a key signature. Gradually, they are introduced to stretches and crossovers, key signatures up to three flats, and time signatures other than 4/4. Lyrics are included. Recommended for hymn playing by the Federation of Music Clubs.

This standard work is an introduction to the interpretation of keyboard music from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. Dr Ferguson provides information about the instruments themselves, and discusses this vast, fascinating, and ever-changing subject under the headings: musical types and forms, tempo, phrasing and articulation, fingering, rhythmic conventions, the tones' or modes, ornamentation, pianists' problems, and editors' problems.
It is a clear, detailed, and practical guide to authenticity in performance which all keyboard players will find indispensable. This reissue incorporates an updated list of modern editions and a completely revised bibliography.

Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon Desforges Pianos, a demure little shopfront in his Pairs neighborhood that seemed to want to hide rather than advertise its wares. Like Alice in Wonderland, he found his attempts to gain entry rebuffed at every turn. An accidental introduction finally opened the door to the quartier’s oddest hangout, where locals — from university professors to pipefitters — gather on Friday evenings to discuss music, love, and life over a glass of wine.

Luc, the atelier’s master, proves an excellent guide to the history of this most gloriously impractical of instruments. A bewildering variety passes through his restorer’s hands: delicate ancient pianofortes, one perhaps the onetime possession of Beethoven. Great hulking beasts of thunderous voice. And the modest piano “with the heart of a lion” that was to become Thad’s own.

What emerges is a warm and intuitive portrait of the secret Paris — one closed to all but a knowing few. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is the perfect book for music lovers, or for anyone who longs to recapture a lost passion.

More people watched his nationally syndicated television show between 1953 and 1955 than followed "I Love Lucy". Even a decade after his death, the attendance records he set at Madison Square Garden, the Hollywood Bowl and Radio City Music Hall still stand. Arguably the most popular entertainer of the 20th century, this very public figure nonetheless kept more than a few secrets. Darden Asbury Pyron, author of "Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell", leads us through the life of America's foremost showman with his fresh, provocative and definitive portrait of Liberace, an American boy. Liberace's career follows the trajectory of the classic American dream. Born in the Midwest to Polish-Italian immigrant parents, he was a child prodigy who, by the age of 20, had performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Abandoning the concert stage for the lucrative and glittery world of nightclubs, celebrities and television, Liberace became America's most popular performer. While wildly successful and good natured outwardly, Liberace, Pyron reveals, was a complicated man whose political, social and religious conservatism existed side-by-side with a lifetime of secretive homosexuality. At the same time, Liberace's swishy persona belied an inner life of ferocious aggression and ambition. Pyron related this complex private man to his public image and places this remarkable life in the rapidly changing cultural landscape of 20th-century America. Pyron presents Liberace's life as a metaphor, for both good and ill, of American culture, with its shopping malls and insatiable hunger for celebrity. In this biography, Pyron complicates and celebrates our image of the man for whom the streets were paved with gold lame.

Don't Be Afraid of the Pedals is a guide for the pianist-turned-organist in developing the use of not only the pedals but also the stops, couplers, and swell pedal of the organ. The pieces are arranged progressively beginning with the use of one manual and two pedal notes, continuing with two manuals, then advancing up to six pedal notes. As well as being a tutor for the new organist, the combination of hymns and voluntaries presented in this book provide a practical repertoire for church use. This volume is a combination of three titles previously available separately: "One Foot at a Time; Another Foot at a Time; and "Hymns for Mostly Manuals.