Sea Winds is a dynamic late intermediate piece in D minor. Featuring a lovely melody, 6/8 meter, modulation, and changing meters, this solo moves quickly – making it an exciting recital piece.
Composer: Kevin Olson
This suite of equal part duets is a celebration of the early seafaring explorers. Reflecting the majesty of the open sea, these resonant pieces are carefully written to give each player a chance to shine.
Heller thought of an etude as a character piece---an artistic miniature designed to develop overall musicianship, focusing on "expression, grace, and elegance."? Fourteen of the easier pieces from Opp. 45, 46, and 47 are sel
An impressive solo for recital and adjudication, this rich, expressive composition will improve voicing in the right hand as well as control of rubato.
By: Timothy Brown
A brisk and seasonal duet for one piano, four hands, by composer Timothy Brown. Sleighride evokes a world of ice and snow with crisp articulation and charging rhythms as performers gallop through a winter wonderland. A great challenge fo
This suite is intended to provide pianists with an introduction to baroque style. Each piece is technically and musically sound and rewarding, providing pianists of all ages with an enjoyable set of stepping stones to the more a
In the Every Day plan for Book 1A, students learn key and time signature recognition; how to count rhythms; interval recognition starting on the guide notes of middle C, treble G, and bass F; pattern identification;
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
In the Every Day plan for Book 1B, students learn key and time signature recognition; how to count basic rhythms in time signatures of 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4; interval recognition starting on and around the guide notes of
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
In the Every Day plan for Book 2A, students learn key and time signature recognition; how to count basic rhythms that include eighth notes; interval and pattern recognition through major five-finger patterns; single-
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
In the Every Day plan for Book 2B, students learn triads and begin to play pieces with both hands together on two staffs. Attention is given to different articulations and dynamics, and students are asked to transpose
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
In the Every Day plan for Book 3A, students learn and practice different rhythmic activities with accent markings, focusing on the dotted quarter note rhythm followed by eighth notes. Tonic and dominant chords are expl
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
In Book 3B of this distinctive series, new concepts carefully interweave with reviewed concepts to further the students’ knowledge and hone their sight-reading abilities. Some of the concepts reviewed are: rhythms that
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
In Book 4A of this outstanding series, Helen Marlais along with Kevin Olson, provide students with creative, structured lessons and activities to further develop their sight reading abilities. New concepts include: sl
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
In Book 4B of this outstanding series, Helen Marlais along with Kevin Olson, provide students with creative and structured lessons to further develop their sight reading and rhythm abilities. New concepts include: rea
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
In Book 5 of the Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day® series, students learn about compound meters and cut time, chords and their inversions, and new music terms including dolce, meno, and sempre. Also, Book 5 incorporat
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
Book 6 of Sight Reading & Rhythm Every Day® reinforces previous skills and adds new skills such as reading sixteenth-note rhythms in several different keys and includes combinations of rhythms such as an eighth note fo
Composer: Helen Marlais, Kevin Olson
Book 7 continues to develop student’s ability to sight read with ease, accuracy and musicality! Carefully crafted musical examples develop eye, ear, and hand coordination. New concepts are: sixteenth-note rhythms in 3/
In this beautifully engraved edition of Opus 36 by Clementi, McLean creates a pedagogical publication that preserves the intent of the original edition while adding a judicious amount of detail to guide the developing pianist. A “mus
by Melody Bober
Experience the sleighride from the staccato jingles to the joyous melody which passes from hand to hand. Features cross-hand arpeggios and interlocking hands tremolo.
Soaring, for one piano four hands, is an uplifting intermediate/late intermediate ensemble piece commissioned for the 10th Anniversary of the Bismarck-Mandan Monster Concert, 2008. This piece with its lyrical melodic lines and stron
Composers: Various
Book 5 contains 15 student and teacher favorites by composers Kevin Costley, Christopher Goldston, Valerie Roth Roubos, Edwin McLean, Mary Leaf, Kevin Olson, Melody Bober and Timothy Brown. These “crème de la crème” pieces are perfect f
Composer: Kevin Olson
Something’s Under My Bed is a clever solo for the elementary piano student that features a playfully mysterious melody, highlighted in the low register of the piano, staccato and legato touches, a moderate use of accidentals, and fu
Composer: Kevin Olson
This western style, four movement sonatina, truly captures the spirit of the pioneers who settled in the Wild West. The first movement Roundup on the Ranch, is full of energy and spirit that leads to the second movement, Ballad by th
Book 3 features more in-depth information about sonatinas (sonata-allegro form) and the classical era. Some titles not easily found in other collections, such as Sonatina in G Major by Le Couppey, and the complet
