The Joy of First Piano Collection

30 favourite pieces selected by teachers. Selected by piano teachers for piano teachers, EPTA Teachers? Choice Piano Collection 2 is a collection of the most popular pieces for Grade 5-8 level students, as voted for by members of the European Piano Teacher?s Association (EPTA). Each piece is introduced with a comment from a teacher, providing first-hand insights, tips and technical advice.

The Boogie and Blues Piano Collection contains carefully transcribed boogie-woogie classics by Pinetop Smith, Hersal Thomas and Jimmy Jancey, along with new arrangements by Wolfgang Wierzyk. German boogie experts Axel Zwingenberger and Gottfried Böttger have their say in a fast-paced way. The first 10 pieces are arranged more easily and are suitable for getting started or for refreshing one's skill and knowledge. As you progress, surprises await, including classics like Happy Birthday, Silent Night and Für Elise... / Piano

One of the first documentary collections of Negro folk songs was compiled in 1867 by William Francis Allen Charles Pickard Ware and Lucy McKim Garrison. Under the title Slave Songs of the United States this collection of136 authentic folk songs of the Negro people revolutionized America's understanding of this music. The book which contains spirituals work songs field hollers soldier songs of Civil War days and freedom songs has become aclassic of its kind. These songs provide the basis for subsequent expressions of gospel music blues and jazz. In 1965 composer Irving Schlein created sensitive and useful piano settings for every song from the original edition.Chords for guitar have also been added to the musical notation. The result is a magnificent and practical volume of songs of great historical value designed for contemporary use.

For Children Vol. 2. Bartók composed his first pedagogical collection For Children between 1908 and 1911. The first edition was issued between 1909 and 1911 in four volumes, comprising two of Hungarian and two of Slovak folk song arrangements. After moving to America, Bartók considered it important to produce new editions of his earlier works. Thus in autumn 1943, together with his new publisher Boosey and Hawkes, he planned a new edition of For Children, and to this end completely revised the collection. Although Bartók had already completed his revision by the end of 1943, the revised edition was only issued in 1946. The pieces were published without titles in the first edition, but the folk song lyrics were included. These lyrics, deemed unnecessary for the non-Hungarian audiences, were not taken over to the American revised edition however, a significant number of pieces were provided with a title conveying their mood and their background in folk music and folk life. The American edition omitted the folk songs lyrics that seemed unnecessary to the audience there, but the titles of the first edition were replaced with English titles (some with the same meaning and some with modified interpretations) conveying each song's mood and background in folk music and folk life.The present edition - which contains the same scores as those in Volume 37 of the Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition (Z. 15037) - is based on the revised version that the composer made in 1943 for the new edition, to which he also referred to as ''corrected''. We have added Hungarian translations to the English titles but we have also restored the original collection of folk song texts with parallel English translations. The pieces discarded from the revised version, as well as early versions that are significantly different from the revised version, are included in the Appendix. This publication contains a preface and editorial comments in both Hungarian and English.

Piano Collection-Mark's very first published piano collection this book is for the advanced pianist and is ideal for preludes offertories or the concert stage. It Is Well With My Soul is a definite stand-out!

(Autumn/Winter 2016)-Following the success of the first two volumes the Autumn and Winter edition of Really Easy Piano Chart Hits contains 17 of 2016's biggest and best pop songs complete with informative background notes foreach song as well as handy hints and playing tips. If you're a beginner pianist looking to learn some of today's best pop tunes the Really Easy Piano collection of Chart Hits is thesongbook for you. Featuring hits like P!nk's Just Like Fire (from Disney's Alice Through The Looking Glass) Zara Larsson's Lush Life and Blossoms' catchy Charlemagne as well as Coldplay's Hymn ForThe Weekend this collection includes some of 2016's most popular tunes specially arranged for Easy Piano. Suitable for beginners or young pianists the songbook includes performance notes and useful fingering guidesthroughout enabling players to learn these familiar songs quickly and easily. Boasting 17 chart-toppers with fascinating song background information and chord symbols throughout Really Easy Piano is thebest place to learn the catchiest contemporary songs.

Level 4-An entertaining collection of traditional and popular Christmas songs arranged to offer a variety of sounds and styles. Suitable for students at level 4 in the Faber Piano Adventures series. Includes: 'Carol of the Bells' 'The First Noel' 'Hallelujah Chorus (from Handel's Messiah)' 'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing' 'A Holly Jolly Christmas' 'I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day' 'It Came Upon the Midnight Clear' 'Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring' 'Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!' 'O Come O Come Emmanuel' 'O Holy Night' 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' 'Silent Night' 'What Child Is This'' 'Winter Wonderland'.