by Kevin Olson
This early intermediate level piece will be a favorite for any student with its steady up-tempo rock beat and blues-scale licks. The "good news" for teachers is that this piece is not only fun for students, but also offers important musical
“A wonderful piece, but very difficult – only a few will be able to master it...” Since this pronouncement by Nicolai Rubinstein, who nonetheless premiered it with bravura, the work has unjustly been stuc
By: Frédéric Chopin
Edited by Chopin's student and teaching assistant Carl Mikuli, this edition includes highly authoritative versions of these favorite pieces: Ballades — No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23; No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38; No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47;
By Christoph Willibald Gluck / arr. Greg Anderson
"Ballet" from Orfée et Eurydice is an enchanting masterpiece. Composed by early-Classical composer Christoph Willibald Gluck, its haunting melody reflects on the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and his failed
Rich and romantic, Carolyn Miller's Ballroom Dance is a pleasure to play. Fits perfectly under the hands, and the lyrical melody is well-suited for the sensitive, emotional performer. Key: C Major, with a modulation to D-flat
About Sheet Music Plus Level 10 (Advanced): Very advanced level, very difficult note reading, frequent time signature changes, virtuosic level technical facility needed. This title has selections that range in difficulty from SM
The Barcarolle, Op. 60, is one of the finest works of Frederic Chopin. Its expressive melodies, rich harmonies and formal perfection have been admired by musicians and writers for many generations. This edition, bas
A newly researched and engraved edition with extensive performance notes and a composer biography. Includes access to online video piano lessons with editor Immanuela Gruenberg addressing topics in Bartók'
By Béla Bartók / ed. Willard A. Palmer
This volume contains 31 pieces from The First Term at the Piano, For Children, 10 Easy Pieces and 7 Sketches. The informative foreword includes Bartók's specific instructions on wrist and finer action, articulations
With these three studies Bartók quite deliberately aimed to leave his mark on New Music in 1918. The first study is a kind of super-charged, motorically vehement Allegro barbaro, while the second, with its effervescent waterfalls of soun
After his 15 Hungarian peasant songs (HN 1404), these Improvisations on Hungarian peasant songs are the second of Bartók's works to feature the words “Hungarian peasant songs” in their title. The manner in whi
The definitive edition (1987) of the piano teaching classic. Includes an introduction by the composer's son Peter Bartók. In 1945 Béla Bartók described Mikrokosmos as a cycle of 153 pieces for piano written for “didactic” purposes
Composer: Béla Bartók
Bartók's Romanian Folk Dances, composed in 1915, are among his best-known works. They exist in multiple forms, since as well as several piano arrangements and a later orchestral version of his own there also exist arrangements by hi
This outstanding collection contains some of the composer's finest works for intermediate through early advanced levels. Included in this pedagogically selected volume are: #17 Love Song from For Children; #32 Jee
Bartók used different melodies taken from Romanian instrumental folk music in his Sonatina. A look at the sources shows how, in 1915, the piece slowly evolved out of a series of piano transcriptions of Romanian folk melodies into its three-movement form.
Bartók's Romanian Christmas Carols are based on folk melodies that originated in a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, and which he felt gave “the impression of a fiery, war-like type of song, rather than a piou
