Best Opera & Classical Songbooks
This new volume in Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics presents 26 preludes, 21 nocturnes and 19 waltzes a large amount of music at a value price.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I am very content with the fingeren in this volumet , and the quality of the paper ."
"Really good edition with useful fingering (though I have had to change several passages, but this is expected)."
"Printing is not clear as I expected."
"Love this book and playing from it."
"It's Schimer -- what else can I say -- one of the best editions ever on the market."
(Piano Solo Songbook). Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest print music publisher, representing some of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My training was mostly classical and there are MANY classical solos that could have been simplified down for this book to add another level of interest."
"The book is very sturdy so I do recommend going to a store like Staples or Office Depot and paying to get it spiral-bound."
"This book has a lot of beautiful piano pieces that you hear in movies and theater."
"Truly beautiful arrangements."
"Very good collection with popular arrangements."
Millions of copies have been sold of these progressive exercises which guide a player's technique, building finger independence and strength.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I don't belong to either of the extreme camps, but use Hanon to address weaknesses in technique, not to become a Hanon expert (for example, I don't agree with the advice that the entire 60 exercises be played every day -- sheesh!)."
"I recommend this book to every one committed to the piano, practice slow with the metronome and try to keep the fingers very high to acquire a good touch."
"I strongly recommend (and insist with my pupils) that you use a metronome whilst practicing the exercises. The author claims that the whole book can be played through in an hour and a half."
"An excellent resource for finger dexterity practices for students of any age."
"As a pianist who is approaching 7 years of experience I don't know how I never got the will to acquire this book."
"A quick and dirty scan from the printed book."
Best Classical Music
Some of the master composers are represented by several pieces each: nine works by Bach include Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ; Mozart's Rondo alla Turca appears along with eight other selections from his oeuvre; seven by Chopin include Funeral March ; the "Emperor" Concerto, Ode to Joy, and "Für Elise" are among the eight Beethoven features; and eight by Tchaikovsky include Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker. Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent compilation of beloved piano classics. Some of the master composers are represented by several pieces each: nine works by Bach include Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ; Mozart's Rondo alla Turca appears along with eight other selections from his oeuvre; seven by Chopin include Funeral March ; the "Emperor" Concerto, Ode to Joy, and "Für Elise" are among the eight Beethoven features; and eight by Tchaikovsky include Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker. 2 by Liszt, Brahms' "Lullaby," Morning Mood by Grieg, Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony, plus compositions by Schubert, Verdi, Debussy, Handel, Mendelssohn, and others.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"You should be able to read music two octaves up from middle "C" and one octave below, but the base is simple--usually one or two notes at a time, many slow selections and almost every song is in the key of C or F. Even as someone who doesn't sight read well, I can play the pieces from the beginning with both hands--slowly. I feel my sight reading is improving because the notation doesn't overwhelm a beginner with too many notes at a time. Some people were frustrated that the pieces were short excerpts of classics--1-3 pages of music. Nice variety--9 from Bach, 8 from Beethoven, 7 Chopin, 9 Mozart, 8 Tchaikovsky plus 1 or 2 each from Bartok, Brahms, Clementi, Debussy, Dvorak, Foster, Gluck, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, MacDowell, Mendelsohn, Moussorgsky, Paderewski, Rameau, Rachmaninoff, Rubinstein, Saint-Saens, Satie, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Sibelius, Strauss,Verdi, Vivaldi, and Wagner."
"I was never a virtuoso, but could play Moonlight Sonata, or Fur Elise up until it gets hard. A rough order of easy to difficult would have been useful, or grouped for some sort of lesson, e.g. unusual time signatures or challenging keys. I think either of those methods of organization would make the book more useful--it's obviously aimed at learners so why not help them out a bit more and steer them toward pieces that will help them with whatever it is they'd like to learn, or whatever part of the difficulty spectrum is the best level of challenge. With the organization as it is, I'm just kind of working through alphabetically, practicing the ones that look interesting and doable for as long as I feel like it, and moving on."
"Good complete book of songs!"
"perfect!"
"I like the book."
"I love the classics and they made them easy to play----with some harder than others."
"Fun for a beginning adult piano student--most of these pieces are only one page."