Maurice Hinson

June Montgomery

An introduction to the lives and works of seventeen composers is accompanied by a CD featuring familiar piano compositions by the composers.

Meet the Great Composers Book 1

Book contains important facts about each composer's life, an essay about the composer's music, and an activity for children to do.

Meet the Great Composers

These three volumes, in practical urtext-pedagogical editions, are designed with the idea that these precious works will be performed on the modern piano. With respect to the original text, Dr. Hinson offers many valuable, stylistically faithful suggestions for interpretation. Volume I is appropriate for progressing intermediate students, and provides a most effective introduction to the great Viennese Classical style. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.

Comb Bound Book

Haydn -- The Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol 2

Valerie Cisler

This practical resource provides foundational tools for scale, chord, and arpeggio playing; exercises for developing precision, speed, agility, and clarity of tone; and exercises and etudes that focus on a variety of technical challenges.

An Essential Collection of Progressive Exercises and Etudes

Technique for the Advancing Pianist

This enchanting collection features 11 pieces by the composers who greatly contributed to this musical style, including C.P.E. Bach, Brahms, Haydn, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. With an informative introduction and performance notes for each piece, intermediate to moderately advanced students will be challenged to produce accurate interpretations and performances.

Masters of the Piano Fantasy

June C. Montgomery

It is important that young students learn about the lives of the great composers who have enriched our lives with beautiful music. The 12 units in Stories of the Great Composers give elementary students a glimpse into each composer's life, character and music. Includes a CD recording of the suggested listening, featuring one composition by each composer.

Stories of the Great Composers: Book & CD

Maurice Ravel

Composed by Maurice Ravel in 1911, this set of eight waltzes was inspired conceptually by 19th century waltzes by Franz Schubert and Johann Strauss. The work beautifully reflects Ravel's daring early 20th-century style. It's subtle harmonies caused Debussy to comment, "It is the product of the finest ear that ever existed." This teaching/performance-oriented edition by Maurice Hinson includes suggested fingerings, performance advice, and discussions about tempo, pedaling and dynamics.

Advanced Piano Music from the Alfred Masterwork Edition

Valses nobles et sentimentales

Describes over 3200 compositions, from duos to octets, by more than 1600 composers. This work is divided into sections according to the number of instruments involved, then subdivided according to the actual scoring. It is useful for keyboard, string, woodwind, brass, and percussion players and their teachers.

An Annotated Guide

The Piano in Chamber Ensemble

In the Essential Keyboard Repertoire Series, much care was given to grading, editing and most of all, student appeal. Each volume spans four centuries of keyboard music (from Baroque to Modern) and every selection is in its original form. Standard favorites are included, along with a sampling of works which were infrequently performed prior to the introduction of these collections. The editing is based on sound teaching principles to facilitate performance and study. This edition includes 83 early intermediate to late intermediate selections requiring a hand span of an octave or less.

83 Early to Late Intermediate Piano Selections Requiring a Hand Span of an Octave or Less

Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 5 (Requiring a Handspan of an Octave or Less)

Op. 261 is a set of studies that covers a wide range of technical problems in a short, clear manner. They are appropriate for both early and advanced pianists. Techniques include arpeggios, change of fingers on repeated notes, change of hand position, chords, and many others. This collection is especially suitable to students with small hands since exercises in octave playing are not included.

Czerny -- 125 Exercises for Passage Playing, Op. 261

This volume includes 12 character pieces-one for every month of the year-which creates the musical atmosphere, alluded to by their respective titles. Expressive and thoughtful, they are effective performance pieces for intermediate to moderately advanced pianists. The editor has maintained the works in their original form and indicated tempo, dynamics, phrasing and fingering where necessary. Beautifully engraved, the music is widely spaced for easy reading.

Tchaikovsky -- The Seasons

Wesley Roberts

The Piano in Chamber Ensemble describes more than 3,200 compositions, from duos to octets, by more than 1,600 composers. It is divided into sections according to the number of instruments involved, then subdivided according to the actual scoring. Keyboard, string, woodwind, brass, and percussion players and their teachers will find a wealth of chamber works from all periods.

The Piano in Chamber Ensemble, Second Edition

Johann Friedrich Burgmüller

This edition is a wonderful collection of small character studies composed by Friedrich Burgmüller (1806-1874). Each piece presents a consistent technical problem, which is often the main idea of the piece, while at the same time having a distinct and lovely musical appeal. Each study is quite melodious and has a programmatic title. This edition may be used as a sequel to Burgmüller's

For Intermediate to Late Intermediate Piano

18 Characteristic Studies, Op. 109

Op. 139 begins with an easy level of pieces and gradually increases to a moderately difficult level. Some of the technical devices in these pieces include: right-hand melody with left-hand accompaniment; diatonic and chromatic scalar and arpeggio figurations; syncopated melodies and trills. Many of the studies can be transposed into other keys and practiced at varied tempos.

For the Piano

100 Progressive Studies Without Octaves, Opus 139

Alexander Scriabin

Two Scriabin compositions are presented here for performance by the left hand only, with performance notes and practice suggestions included. For pianists of advanced proficiency these will represent a nice technical challenge, but also two beautiful examples of the romantic Russian styling of Scriabin.

Opus 9, Nos. 1 & 2 for the Piano

Alexander Scriabin : Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone

Béla Bartók

This set of six pieces is based on folk song melodies and dance forms from Transylvania which was annexed to Romania in 1920. The contrasting melodies were originally for violin or shepherd's flute, but the unusual harmonies are original with Bartók. The performance time for the complete set of dances is approximately 4 minutes, 15 seconds.

Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 for the Piano

Johann (COP) Burgmller

This edition is a wonderful collection of small character studies composed by Friedrich Burgm?ller (1806-1874). Each piece presents a consistent technical problem, which is often the main idea of the piece, while at the same time having a distinct and lovely musical appeal. Each study is quite melodious and has a programmatic title.This edition may be used as a sequel to Burgm?ller's

Burgmller -- 18 Characteristic Studies, Op. 109

B'La Bartk

Written in 1911, this piece was Bartok's first large-scale independent piano composition, and the first time he used the piano this percussively. There are many shifts in moods and dynamics from ppp to ffff, and a strong emphasis on accents and a variety of touches. There are excellent performance notes and historic information included by Dr. Hinson.

Allegro Barbaro, Sz. 49

Franz Joseph Haydn

These three volumes, in practical urtext-pedagogical editions, are designed with the idea that these precious works will be performed on the modern piano. With respect to the original text, Dr. Hinson offers many valuable, stylistically faithful suggestions for interpretation. Volume I is appropriate for progressing intermediate students, and provides a most effective introduction to the great Viennese Classical style.

The Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume 1

Johann Sebastian Bach

A wonderful edition aimed at helping the intermediate / early advanced pianist perform Bach's music in a stylistically acceptable manner. It includes suggested articulation, dynamic, and fingering indications. Also included is history on Bach as a performer and a teacher to aid in better understanding Bach's works and styles.

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