A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations.

A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations. This is the Primer level.

The Schaum Note Speller has the unqualified testimonial of thousands of teachers who pronounce it 'The Best.' Musical facts, beginning with line and space numbers are taught. Students learn by doing, since this book is in workbook form. This saves valuable lesson time, and immediately shows any mistakes in the beginner's thinking.

A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations.

The Virtuoso Pianist first appeared in 1873 and has become one of the standards of piano technique throughout the world. For this edition, Mr. Schaum has used eighth notes instead of sixteenth notes and has indicated hands played two octaves apart for ease in reading. With the modifications indicated by Mr. Schaum, this valuable set of exercises is suitable for elementary students. Mr. Schaum also provides valuable performance suggestions and an informative preface by Charles Hanon.

A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations.

Carl Czerny was a prolific composer who wrote approximately 1,000 published works. As a pupil of Beethoven and the teacher of Franz Liszt, he was a transmitter of ideas from one great master to another. His many collections of exercises and studies range from the easy and progressive to the virtuoso. The Czerny-Schaum edition is based on selections from Op. 599, Op. 139, Op. 821, Op. 718, Op. 636, and Op. 261. The objective is to bring together, in condensed form, excerpts that stress many varieties of technical problems. Special emphasis is placed on equal development of both hands. The technical points are equally divided between the right and the left hands. The exercises are purposely left brief, thereby avoiding stiffness and tension. Using the Czerny-Schaum exercises will improve piano technic when used in conjunction with a program of balanced repertoire.

The appeal of this collection is a joy to behold! Students appreciate the fact that they can have so much fun and sound so good. This is music they share willingly; the pieces are also fun to listen to. Of course, there is also musical merit; the pieces are not 'fluff.' The eleven solos and one duet are time-tested favorites, with good reason!

TECHNIC TRICKS are sets of easy etudes designed to satisfy the need for very early technical training. Most piano technic books begin at the grade-two level, or at an even more advanced stage. There is a distinct lack of usable technic in the grade-one classification. The books, TECHNIC TRICKS, have been planned to fulfill this requirement. Every study in Book 2 is written in the five-finger position. This plan offers an excellent means of building a graceful hand and arm position, and also of developing independent finger action. In addition, splendid opportunity for transposition is supplied. The exercises are derived in part from the works of Biehl, Czerny, Gurlitt, Schmitt, Kohler, Kunz, and Berens. All technical points have been equally distributed between the right and the left hands. This equalizing of the hands assures a balanced technic.

This small chart folds out on a piano to show where the notes of the keyboard correspond to notes on the treble and bass clef staffs.

The SCHAUM SIGHT READING Books are designed to provide intersesting material to increase the pupil's skill in reading. Finger numbers have been omitted so that the student may concentrate on NOTE READING without any distraction. Book 1 can be used as early as the Pre-A Grade level. Book 2 is Grade 1 or "A" Book degree of difficulty.

A practical volume to follow the SCHAUM NOTE SPELLER, Book Two. This is a book that can be used by instrumental and vocal teachers who want their students to know some of the essentials of harmony, but who haven't the time to teach it as a separate subject. Thus, a piano teacher, for example, can teach harmony in conjunction with the regular piano lesson. At the end of Book II, we have employed harmony in an accompaniment sense rather than in the traditional four-part harmony way. Transposition has been treated both melodically and harmonically.

The 14 piano solos in this collection have pleased untold numbers of students since John W. Schaum created them. Introducing them to today's students is a pleasure. Teachers will appreciate the many merits of the music, as well as the clean look and the minimum amount of finger numbers.

This collection of familiar hymns and sacred songs is arranged by John W. Schaum and Wesley Schaum for late elementary students. These pieces may be used as supplementary study for students in Level Two method books and are suitable for Church and Christian School use. Included are: I Surrender All * A Mighty Fortress Is Our God * Holy, Holy, Holy * Jesus Calls Us * Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us * What a Friend We Have in Jesus * When I Survey the Wondrous Cross * Jesus Is All the World to Me * Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus and many more great hymns of worship and praise.

Titles: Ain't Misbehavin' * Colour My World * Fame * Georgia on My Mind * Linus and Lucy * Somewhere in Time * Somewhere Out There * One Moment in Time * We've Only Just Begun * What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? * You Are the Sunshine of My Life. Correlates with Schaum Grade 2 1/2.