Excerpts

This collection in The World's Great Classical Music series features 60 excerpts from 46 symphonies by a dozen beloved composers, faithfully transcribed for easy to intermediate piano solo. Composers represented are: Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorák, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. The book also gives a brief biography of each composer. Also available for Intermediate to Advanced Piano Solo (00220032).

Features 102 selections drawn from rich 19th-century Romantic symphonies, ballets, operas and piano literature, arranged for beginning to intermediate-level players. Composers include Brahms, Bruckner, Chopin, Gounod, Grieg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and others. Melodies are presented as faithful transcriptions in new, clean engravings. Includes capsule biographies of all of the composers represented. Also available for Intermediate to Advanced Piano Solo (00240096).

Camille Saint-Saëns' symphonic poem is based on a poem by Henri Cazalis which Saint-Saëns originally set as a song. The following excerpts from the poem of Cazalis were prefaced by Saint-Saëns to his score.

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Danse Macabre (Saint-Saëns Camille)

This collection includes 35 Baroque keyboard pieces by Bach, Buxtehude, Couperin, Handel, Lully, Pachelbel, Purcell, Scarlatti and others, and 18 transcriptions for piano of Baroque favorites by Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, Purcell and Vivaldi. Among the most famous music in the book is Air on the G String, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, selections from Water Music, selections from Messiah, and movements from The Four Seasons. As with the rest of the series, the edition is deliberately clean, without editorial markings, allowing a teacher or performer his or her own interpretive ideas.

The Baroque period (1600-1750) is represented by 67 piano pieces and 24 transcriptions for easy to intermediate piano. There are 25 composers in the collection, including J.S. Bach, Couperin, Handel, Pachelbel, Purcell, Telemann and Vivaldi. The music includes the most famous Baroque pieces: The Four Seasons, Canon in D, selections from Messiah, Air on the G String, Sheep May Safely Graze. Very satisfying easy to intermediate piano pieces will give musicians years of pleasure. Printed on high-quality, ivory-colored paper, with long-lasting sewn binding. 224 pages.

For sheer beauty and inventiveness, Mozart's piano concertos are peerless. We're pleased to present, for the first time ever, the most beautiful piano solo excerpts from all 27 concertos - in one volume! What's more, the 75 note-for-note piano solo excerpts presented are not difficult. Each is an exquisite piano solo piece that can be performed by nearly all pianists. Enjoy!

The Modern Course series provides a clear and complete foundation in the study of the piano that enables the student to think and feel musically. It may be preceded by the Teaching Little Fingers to Play series. Based on the fundamentals of interpretation: form, mood and style. Carries on without interruption the musicianship developed in Book 2.

Fifteen of John Williams' most famous film themes arranged for solo piano by Stephen Duro. Includes music from Star Wars, Jurassic Park, E.T., Schindler's List, Jaws and many more.

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Adventures On Earth (E.T.) (Williams John)
Cadillac Of The Skies (Empire Of The Sun) (Williams John)
Excerpts (Close Encounters Of The Third Kind) (Williams John)
Exsultate Justi (Empire Of The Sun) (Williams John)
March (1941) (Williams John)
Out To Sea (Jaws) (Williams John)
Parade Of The Slave Children (Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom) (Williams John)
Star Wars (Main Theme) [Williams, John] (Williams John)
The Raiders' March (Raiders Of The Lost Ark) (Williams John)
Theme (Always) (Williams John)
Theme (Jaws) (Williams John)
Theme (Jurassic Park) (Williams John)
Theme (Schindler's List) (Williams John)
Theme (Sugarland Express) (Williams John)
Yoda's Theme (The Empire Strikes Back) (Williams John)