A user’s guide to the piano! The award-winning Absolute Beginners series takes you step-by-step from first-day exercises to playing full pieces with helpful photos clear demonstrations and jargon-freeexplanations. You’ll learn about correct posture and hand positions how to find your way around the keyboard and basic music notation and will be playing with both hands together in no time at all! Theenclosed CD includes demonstrations of the exercises and backing tracks so you can play along. Songs include: Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes Jingle Bells Lullaby New World Symphony Ode To Joy andThe Unfinished Symphony.

100 beautiful arrangements of standards from the cinema including: An Affair to Remember (Our Love Affair) ? As Time Goes By ? Baby Elephant Walk ? Beauty and the Beast ? Bella's Lullaby ? Born Free ? Brian's Song ? Endless Love ? Theme from E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) ? The Godfather (Love Theme) ? Goldfinger ? James Bond Theme ? Live and Let Die ? The Magnificent Seven ? My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from 'Titanic') ? Theme from ?New York New York? ? Over the Rainbow ? The Pink Panther ? Raiders March ? The Rainbow Connection ? The Rose ? Singin' in the Rain ? Star Wars (Main Theme) ? Song from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) ? The Trolley Song ? The Way We Were ? TheWind Beneath My Wings and more.

Béla Bartók's series of piano pieces For Children, based on folk melodies, was written around the end of the first decade of the 20th century. The pieces were published shortly afterwards by the Hungarian publisher Károly Rozsnyai. That first publication was in four volumes, the first two containing a total of 42 pieces based on Hungarian folk tunes, the third and fourth containing 43 pieces based on Slovakian folk tunes.In 1943, whilst in the United States, Bartók prepared a revised version of the collection for the publishers Boosey and Hawkes. The revisions were minimal: two Hungarian and four Slovakian songs were eliminated, there were a few minor alterations incorporating new ideas, some of the pieces previously written with accidentals had key signatures added, a few pieces were rewritten with changed meters - some fingerings were added or changed.The composer prepared the revised 1943 edition by using copies of the first edition on which he marked minor changes - where the changes were more extensive, fresh manuscript was written and a new version engraved. However, much of the engraving of the first edition was preserved in the 1943 edition. Publication took place in 1946, after the composer's death - it is not known if he saw final proofs prior to printing.The revised edition was published in two volumes, which now have been published together as one volume for the first time. / Piano

1 Piano 4 Hands/Later Elementary Level-A fun boogie and blues duet that incorporates snapping clapping and sliding glissandos!