For the Easy Concert Pieces series, the experienced piano teacher Monika Twelsiek compiled pleasant, easy piano pieces for beginners and published them in three volumes in progressive order.

The three volumes are intended to complement a piano tutorial method and are particularly suitable for performance at auditions at music schools, for examinations and for competitions. They offer varied repertoire in a broad selection of pieces from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras.

Volume 1 (ED 22547) can already be used by beginners, containing pieces in the five-note range and easy pieces spanning a single octave. Other criteria for selection are simple rhythms and very easy chords. Crossing the thumb underneath, playing several parts together and pedal use are not yet required.

Volume 2 (ED 22548) contains pieces with an extended range of two octaves. Crossing the thumb under, pedal use, simple polyphony and three- or four-part chords all feature here, as do simple ornaments, cantabile playing and differentiating between melody and accompaniment.

Volume 3 (ED 22549) is aimed at advanced players who wish to refine their expression and personal interpretation. The pieces demand a great deal of dexterity, a high sense of rhythm, articulation and phrasing, polyphonic playing (polyphony even in one hand) and tonal differentiation of the piano setting.

Pomp and Circumstance (Edward Elgar)

Carnival Of Venice (Julius Benedict)

Solveig`s Song (Edvard Grieg)

Greensleeves (What Child is This)

Happy Birthday To You (Patty & Mildred J. Hill)

Fur Elise (Ludwig Van Beethoven)

Ave Maria (Franz Schubert)

O Sole Mio (Eduardo Di Capua)

Blue Danube Waltz (Johann Strauss Jr)

Can Can (Jacques Offenbach)

1. Pomp and Circumstance Edward Elgar

2. Andante (Surprise Symphony) Franz Joseph Haydn

3. Arioso Daniel Gottlob Turk

4. Lullaby Johannes Brahms

5. Melody Robert Schumann

6. Sarabande George Frideric Handel

7. Silent Night Franz Xaver Gruber

8. A Little Piece Robert Schumann

9. Carnival Of Venice Julius Benedict

10. La Donna E Mobile Giuseppe Verdi

11. Largo (The New World) Antonin Dvorak

12. Old French Song Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

13. Waltz (Sleeping Beauty) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

14. We Wish You A Merry Christmas EnglishFolk Song

15. Air Henry Purcell

16. Ode To Joy LudwigVan Beethoven

17. Italian Polka SergeiRachmaninoff

18. Minuet (In F Major) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

19. Solveig`s Song EdvardGrieg

20. Sonatina (In C Major) Muzio Clementi

21. Waltz DmitriKabalevsky

22. Alouette FrenchFolk Song

23. Gaudeamus Igitur Johannes Brahms

24. Green Sleeves English Folk Song

25. Hongroise Adolphe-Charles Adam

26. Minuet (In F Major) Franz Joseph Haydn

27. Serenade (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

28. Soldier\'s March Robert Schumann

29. Arietta MuzioClementi

30. Emperor Waltz JohannStrauss Jr.

31. Grand March (Aida) Giuseppe Verdi

32. Happy Birthday To You Patty and Mildred J. Hill

33. Minuet (In D Minor) Johann Sebastian Bach

34. Santa Lucia Italian Folk Song

35. The Emperor\'s Hymn Franz Joseph Haydn

36. La Paloma Sebastian Yradier

37. Dance Of The Hours Amilcare Ponchielli

38. Fur Elise Ludwig Van Beethoven

39. Humoresque Antonin Dvorak

40. Minuet (In G Major) Johann Sebastian Bach

41. Toreador Song Georges Bizet

42. Turkish March Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

43. Ave Maria FranzSchubert

44. Barcarolle Jacques Offenbach

45. In The Hall Of The Mountain King Edvard Grieg

46. Melody In FAnton Rubinstein

47. None But The Lonely Heart Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

48. Polovtsian Dance Alexander Borodin

49. Spanish Romance

50. Liebestraum (Dream Of Love) Franz Liszt

51. Arioso George Frideric Handel

52. O Mio Babbino Caro Giacomo Puccini

53. O Sole Mio Eduardo Di Capua

54. To A Wild Rose EdwardMacDowell

55. Sobre Las Olas (Over The Waves) JuventinoRosas

56. Waltz (Op. 39 No. 15) Johannes Brahms

57. Blue Danube Waltz Johann Strauss Jr.

58. Bridal Chorus (Wedding March) Richard Wagner

59. Gavotte Jean-Baptiste Lully

60. Die Forelle FranzSchubert

61. Pavane Gabriel Faure

62. The Skaters Waltz Emile Waldteufel

63. Wedding March FelixBartholdy Mendelssohn

64. Adagio (In G Minor) Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

65. Can Can Jacques Offenbach

66. Habanera GeorgesBizet

67. Passacaglia Handel-Halvorsen

68. Radetzky March JohannStrauss Sr.

69. Serenade FranzSchubert

70. Theme From Symphony No.40 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Mostly remembered for his great compositions, during his life Edward Elgar was also a violin teacher.

These six short studies, presented in a progressive order of didactic difficulty, are, despite their simplicity, very musical. They can be played in the first position, but require the knowledge of all fingering patterns. The compositions are set in C major, A minor and G major with occasional modulations.

They are ideal practice-pieces to encourage confident reading and playing in various (and often neglected) fingering patterns. At the same time, they promote the understanding of different metres and characters.

This edition is part of the new Schott Student Edition series which offers varied literature at five different levels of difficulty, from 1 (easy) to 5 (difficult), for instrumental lessons:

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Accompanying tracks of the pieces available as downloads.

"6 Easy Dixieland Tunes" for Violin and Piano, great ideas for beginners/intermediate, comfortable range and key
(Complete parts). Contents:
1. Down By The Riverside ? trad. (key C)
2. Joshua Fight The Battle of Jerico ? trad. (key E min.)
3. Just A Closer Walk With Thee ? trad. (key C)
4. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - trad. (key G)
5. Washington and Lee Swing ? Mark W. Sheafe and Thornton W. Allen. (key C)
6. When The Saints Go Marching In - trad. (key F).

Ode To Joy Ludwig Van Beethoven

Canon In D Johann Pachelbel

Minuet (In G Major) Johann Sebastian Bach

Rondeau Jean-Joseph Mouret

Wedding March Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn

Bist Du Bei Mir Johann Sebastian Bach

O Mio Babbino Caro Giacomo Puccini

La Rejouissance George Frideric Handel

Ave Maria Franz Schubert

Bridal Chorus (Wedding March) Richard Wagner