This edition of John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course introduces a number of First Hit Songs to the beginner pianist providing easy-to-play hits in the well-loved John Thompson style with simplified arrangements and large notation. A number of the most popular chart songs are included in First Hit Songs which have all been simplified so that pupils working through parts two to four of the Easiest Piano Course are able to play some familiar and famous tunes. The songs are ordered progressively so as pupils learn more challenging theory and techniques they can put that intopractice by getting to grips with more advanced songs. All the songs included here are well-known hits with most being modern chart-toppers. The 15 hits in this songbook include Piano-based ballads like Tom Odell's Real Love and Sam Smith's I'm Not The Only One as well as more upbeat pop tunes arranged for Piano like Style by Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor's Lips Are Movin'. Other hits like See You Again Hold Back The River Blame It On Me and Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud are included along with two all-time classics Love Is All Around and We Are The Champions. Popular songs like these enable pupils to enhance their learning by using the techniques to play songs they know and love helping them to develop deeper musicality. Because dynamics and phrasing are not introduced until part three of the Easiest Piano Course  some of the songs early in First Hit Songs do not feature this while some outline fingering is included throughout helping pupils at this level. As well as being a fun and enjoyable complement to learning the book can also provide invaluable sight-reading practice for advanced students.  For a

The winner of six Tony Awards® including Best Original Score and Best Musical  Dear Evan Hansen has struck a remarkable chord with audiences and critics everywhere.With advanced ticket sales in excess of $20 million and its soundtrack debut at #8 on the Top 200 Album Billboard chart it is on track to be one of the most successful Broadway musicals of all time. The show officially opened on Broadway on December 4 2016 after a successful Off-Broadway run.The musical features a score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul who were both personally involved in editing and approving the Hal Leonard Vocal Selections.Pasek and Paul won an Oscar for Best Original Song for being the lyricists behind “City of Stars” from La La Land. They have also received numerous awards for their previous stage productions A Christmas Story The Musical; Dogfight; James and the Giant Peach; and Edges.The folio is arranged for easy Piano and includes 13 songs from the soundtrack including Anybody Have a Map? Disappear For Forever Good for You If I Could Tell Her Only Us Requiem Sincerely Me So Big/So Small To Break in a Glove Waving Through a Window Words Fail and You Will Be Found.

This informative volume provides a chord reference for any pianist wanting to learn to play jazz. Starting with the most basic intervals the text explains how chords are built and how they are used in different performancesettings. After covering the basics advanced chord types such as 9ths 11ths 13ths drop voicings and the blues chord are presented and explained. The functions of chords are described as are substitutions clusters andpolytonal clusters. Numerous charts are provided which can be helpful for practicing and for quick and easy reference as to which can be used with given bass notes. The Melody Harmonization Charts show chords based on fourths.Learning to use these chords will help the pianist play with more harmonic variety color and interest.

36 Original Piano Pieces-The music teacher and pianist Monika Twelsiek adds a new selection of piano works around the subject of Night and Dreams to the Piano Classics series. At any time the night was a theme in literature art and music. 'Night' and 'Dream' are emotional images which evoke vastly different emotions in different people. The night is a place of peace and security of longing and love of secrets imagination and dreams. But night also means strangeness loneliness fear danger and crime. The collection 'Night and Dreams' with works from the Romantic piano literature to new contemporary sounds tries to capture all of these nightly emotions. Apart from aplethora of folk-song-like lullabies numerous fantastic dream pieces and descriptions of dangerous night scenes have been added to the collection. An alluring mixture of imagination and reality for advanced piano pupils and lovers of piano music.Content - P. Zilcher: Lullaby op. 93/4 - G. Nevada: A Little Dreamy - A. Gretchaninoff: Lullaby op. 98 - C. Gurlitt: 4 Reverie op. 210 - R. Volkmann: Night Song op. 17 - R. Schumann: Lullaby op. 124 - J. Senfter: Lullaby - F. Burgmüller: Lullaby op. 109 - P. Tschaikowsky: Sweet Reverie op. 39 - R. Fuchs: Lullaby op. 32 - E. Satie: Lullaby - K.-H. Pick: Sleeping Beauty is Sleeping - H. Regner: Phantasmagoria - B. Heller: Evening Flower - G. Nevada: When Paris Dreams - J. Turina: The Village Sleeps - E. Pütz: Sleep Well Blues - J. Kember: Midnight Blue - G. Nevada: Starry Dome - E. Grieg: Lullaby op. 38 - A. Gretchaninoff: Bed Time op. 109 - Nightly Event op. 115 - K. Slavicky: The Evil Dream - B. Martinu: The Cats' Procession in the Solstice Night - R. Schumann: Reverie op. 15 - Child Falling Asleep op. 20 - A. Rubinstein: The Night op. 44/1 - L. He: Lullaby - E. Pütz: Night of Love - J. Field: Nocturne B major op. 9/2 -

Urtext Edition-Edited and engraved by Ephraim Hammett Jones Volume I of this two-book set presents an original compilation of Robert Schumann's best-known character pieces and piano cycles in a pristine urtext edition. Printed to precisely reproduce the artist's original intentions it features thirteen of the Romantic composer's finest works.Suitable for intermediate to advanced pianists the contents include Fantasy Pieces Op. 12; Symphonic Études Op. 13; Toccata Op. 7; Variations on the Name 'Abegg' Op. 1; Scenes from Childhood Op. 15; Kreisleriana Op. 16; Arabeske Op. 18; Blumenstück Op. 19; Humoreske Op. 20; and Forest Scenes Op. 82.Dover Original.

16 Familiar Tunes for the Young Pianist. Par . This collection of familiar nursery rhymes and happy tunes will provide excellent reading material and a fun learning experience for all beginning pianists. The staff size is large and lyrics are provided plus Dennis Alexander created intriguing optional accompaniments for a teacher or more advanced student! Titles include: Alouette · Eency Weency Spider · Hickory Dickory Dock · Hush Little Baby · Little Miss Muffet · Oats, Peas, Beans, and Barley Grow · Sweetly Sings the Donkey · The Wheels on the Bus, and more! / Date parution : 2021-11-03/ Recueil / Piano

This practical overview of chords keys and harmonic relationships has been especially designed with the Jazz Rock and Pop Keyboard player in mind. It features a new structure that makes it useful for beginners as well as advanced musicians. This enables you to improve your musical understanding.