Pour récitant et piano à quatre mains-During the visit to Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1940 Poulenc sketched a little piece for the children of his cousins: Sophie Sylvie Benoit Florence and Delphine Périer Yvan Alain Marie-Christine and Marguerite-MarieVillotte and their two friends Marthe Bosredon and André Lecoeur. This took the form of a musical background to Jean de Brunhoff's popular illustrated children's story about Babar a baby elephant whose mother is killed by ahuntsman. Fortunately Babar meets a kind elderly lady who dresses him in a fine suit and gives him an impressive motor-car.However Babar feels homesick for his forests and is pleased when his cousins Arthur and Celeste find him and needs no persuasion to go home with them. Back in the forest where the King of the Elephants has eaten a poisonous mushroom Babar is elected to succeed as King. He marries Celeste and the last we hear of him isthinking of a rosy future as he dreamily looks up at a marvellously star-filled sky.Poulenc's score to which he returned and completed in 1945 is for a narrator and a Piano so written that the individualsections offer the pianist a number of self-contained descriptive pieces such as a Lullaby a Reverie a Galop a Nocturne and so on. Indeed some of Poulenc's finest Piano music isfound in these charming pages.In 1962 Jean Françaix made an orchestral version and Barbar has been enjoyed by children of all ages all over the world. An English translation of the text was made by Nelly Rieu.Thisparticular edition is arranged for Narrator and Piano duet (1 Piano 4 hands) and a separate insert with English translation is included.

New Orleans Jazz Styles Duets - Complete Edition. All 15 pieces from Gillock's classic New Orleans Jazz Styles series adapted for piano duet and in one collection! These beloved, bouncy tunes encourage fabulous music-making and fun collaborations! Duet partners often become friends for life. Titles: After Midnight · Bill Bailey · Bourbon Street Saturday Night · Canal Street Blues · The Constant Bass · Dixieland Combo · Downtown Beat · Frankie and Johnny (Theme and Variations) · Mardi Gras · Mississippi Mud · Mister Trumpet Man · New Orleans Blues · New Orleans Nightfall · Taking It Easy · Uptown Blues. Includes access to audio files online for practice.

This book contains 16 intermediate Piano Duets in their original form written by 10 composers from the 18th and 19th centuries selected and edited by Gayle Kowalchyk and E.L. Lancaster. Each duet has been carefully edited and fingered for ease in performance by intermediate students. These duets can be used as supplementary material for any course of study. They are excellent repertoire selections for group lessons ensemble classes or concerts. Students will be motivated by music making with friends as they acquire security with tempo and rhythm provided by ensemble performance.

16 intermediate Piano Duets in their orignal form written by 9 composers from the 18th 19th and 20th centuries. Each duet has been carefully edited and fingered for ease in performance by intermediate students. These duets can be used as supplementary material for any course of study. They are excellent repertoire selections for group lessons ensemble classes or monster concerts. Students will be motivated by music making with friends as they aquire security with tempo and rhythm provided by ensemble performance.

Enthusiasm thrives when students share musical experiences with others. This book provides many such opportunities as young pianists friends and parents take part together in playing these simple enjoyable duets. Each duet isbased on a tune from Kinder Keyboard (by Robert Pace). Through playing a secondo part along with the original melodies students revisit and expand upon concepts and creative activities from Kinder Keyboard whilelearning about playing musically rhyhmically and creatively by listening to a partner as well as to oneself.