The easiest tunes from Horace Silver, Eddie Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Cedar Walton, Wes Montgomery, etc. Get yourself---or your beginning jazz combo --- sounding good right away with the first fake book ever designed for the beginning improviser: Easy, but classic jazz tunes give the student a good start in learning the jazz repertoire.Sample piano v…

This brand new edition presents Béla Bartók's Mikrokosmos, a progressive cycle of 153 studies for Piano, in a single volume for the first time. Designed to illustrate the musical and technical progressions suitable for beginner to advanced players, this complete collection is invaluable for every pianist. All six volumes of Mikrokosmos are presented here, exactly as the composer intended them. Fea…

An Irish Tale. Par COLES PAUL. Paul Coles has a chequered career as composer, performer, teacher and publisher, all centred around his instrument, the guitar. His latest work, “Dagda’s Harp”, is influenced by the story of Dagda, the Celtic god of the Earth and evokes the unmistakable sounds of Irish folk music. Dagda possessed a magic harp, on which he is supposed to have played magical sounds, in…

Par KEMBER JOHN. Jazz Piano Plus One is a folio of 14 original jazzy pieces, composed by John Kember, with optional upper and lower parts for your teacher or friend, adding extra dimensions to your performance. Covering a range of styles, and suitable for players of grade 3 upwards, this set of pieces offers a variety of playing options, with a melody, the chords and the bass line all provided. Be…

Playing Piano Is Fun Book 4 is a keyboard tutor series for beginners. It is designed to meet the developmental needs of children as they journey through the wonderful world of music. The tunes are specially composed by Alice Chua, and are based on the characters and subjects from the classic stories of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll. The literary ex…

Par JOHNSON TIMOTHY. Composer Timothy Johnson spent many years as a school band director. His teaching experience qualifies him to approach the development of this new entry into the CMP Essentials of Musicianship Series with reality-based confidence. Ever so gradually this product takes the band from the simplest forms of syncopation to more and more complex notation. Your students can build thei…

Play and Sing Songs in the Music Class with Step-by-Step Projectable Lesson Slides. Par GROSS MARTY / HAINES SALLY. Get on board! Using ukuleles in an elementary general music class can open new experiences for your students. These fun, accessible instruments encourage singing while promoting confidence and musical independence. Ukuleles also provide an additional way for you to observe student pr…

How to shape a melodic line. Par GRAF PETER-LUKAS. Musical interpretation is first and foremost a question of shaping a melody or the melodic line of a setting. Music, like any language, follows its own set of rules and a sufficient knowledge and familiarity with musical ‘grammar’ is therefore an essential prerequisite of any convincing interpretation. The internationally renowned performer and te…

Selected and graded especially for use by singing teachers, students and amateur performers by Shirley Leah. Includes works by Armstrong-Gibbs, Arne, Dvorak, le Flemming, Handel, Lully, Rosa, Rosseter, Schubert, Anon. A fantastic selection of some of the most celebrated classic songs for Voice with Piano accompaniment. / Voix Et Piano

Par APPLEBAUM SAMUEL. The pieces in this book have been selected for their musical and technical value. They have been carefully transcribed and edited to stimulate interest in technical debelopment and in general musicianship. They providesupplementary material to be used with any of the standard string methods. By studying the text carefully, and with the teacher's help, the young student can de…

Par SMITH GAIL. In this collection of piano solos, you will find the WORLDÆS FIRST PIANO SOLO ever composed that can be played backwards and forwards and upside downàand sound the SAME! The piece is called ôSOLOSö and is an ambigram and a palindrome. Two variations of ôSOLOSö that are more difficult are added that use the melody of this unusual piece. There is a special piece called ôMirrorö. When…

58 Essential Masterworks. Par . Featuring 58 carefully curated classical duets from elementary to intermediate, this 1 piano, 4 hands collection is a must-have for every piano studio. Features comb-binding for easy page turns. Includes works by Brahms, Czerny, Gurlitt, Lully, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and many more. The graded pieces are presented in a progressive order from elementary through to int…