Edgar Knecht is a jazz pianist who has created his own unique style. His début CD, 'Good Morning Lilofee? (with four-piece combo), conquered the clubs and earned him invitations to international festivals. His treatment of the original melodies is refreshingly different from standard jazz arrangements: It is characterized by a free perception of the tunes, varied rhythms as well as unconventional harmonies. The same recipe for success underlies his second CD, 'Dance On Deep Waters?, with which the Edgar Knecht Quartet is again going on tour, with many gigs lined up for spring and summer.All eight of the songs in our edition offer agreeable and stimulating literature outside the classical and jazz pigeonholes for pianists everywhere, whether or not they dig German folksongs. Familiar tunes such as 'Es freit der wilde Wassermann? or 'Die Gedanken sind frei? gain a wholly new quality and pizzazz in his arrangements. Though based on the original songs, the pieces go far beyond them in form, harmony and rhythm, thereby turning the originals into top-quality jazz ballads. All the pieces have suggestions for improvised passages, usually with chords and written-out ostinato bass lines.All the pieces are recorded on the like-named CD with Edgar Knecht at the piano, accompanied by his trio of bass, drums and percussion.- Eight songs for piano- Appealing literature- Ad lib improvised partsContentsLilofee, Gedankenfreiheit (Freedom of Thought), Tiefe Wasser (Deep Waters), Nachttraum (Dream at Night), Fenjas Lullaby, Schwesterlein (Little Sister), Frühling (Spring), Wiegenlied (Cradle Song)The AuthorEdgar Knecht lives in Kassel (Germany), where he heads a piano school and tours with his combo. Since the age of 14 he has held concerts with his own piano pieces and written many theatre, film and TV scores. With his Edgar Knecht Trio he transforms German folksongs into fascinating jazz ballads with which he fills his programmes and venues. / Piano

57 of the Most Popular Love Songs of All Time. This comprehensive collection of love songs includes selections by the finest composers and songwriters from the worlds of movies, pop, Broadway and jazz. The titles also span more than 80 years with hits from the 1920s all the way through 2007. This collection includes chord symbols and lyrics, and most of the pieces are in vocal ranges appropriate for singing along. The 57 titles include: Almost Like Being in Love * Angel Eyes * As Time Goes By * At Last * Beautiful (As You) * Beauty and the Beast * Because You Loved Me * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Can You Read My Mind' * Dream a Little Dream of Me * Embraceable You * Emily * Endless Love * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue * The Gift * Hero * How Could I Ever Know' * How Deep Is Your Love * How Do I Live * I Believe In You and Me * I Could Write a Book * I Don't Want To Miss A Thing * I Get a Kick Out of You * I Only Have Eyes for You * I've Got You Under My Skin * I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face * Killing Me Softly With His Song * Kiss The Girl * Laura * Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love) * Love Is a Many Splendored Thing * Love is Here to Stay * Misty * My Funny Valentine * Reflection * Send in the Clowns * Somewhere, My Love * Take My Breath Away * Taking a Chance on Love * Teach Me Tonight * The Morning After * The Rose * Theme from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love) * This I Promise You * This Kiss * This Magic Moment * Three Coins in the Fountain * Up Where We Belong * Wedding Song (There is Love) * When A Man Loves a Woman * When I Fall in Love * Wind Beneath My Wings * You Light Up My Life * You Raise Me Up * You'll Be In My Heart * You'll Never Know * (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher. 144 pages. / Instrumental Music, Miscellaneous, Piano Music, So / Recueil / Piano

E-Z Play - Today Volume 15. 50 all-time favorite selections in our large E-Z Play' Today notation featuring the note name in the note head. Songs include: Any Dream Will Do - Blue Skies - Crazy - Do-Re-Mi - Hallelujah - Imagine - Let It Go - Misty - Over the Rainbow - Star Wars (Main Theme) - Tomorrow - Unchained Melody - What a Wonderful World - Yesterday - and more./ Recueil / Piano

This book of First Australian Songs follows the world-renowned John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course method that has helped thousands of beginners learn the Piano. Now you can learn all of those famous Australian pop and folk songs with ease.The John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course is one of the best-selling Piano methods ever, and for good reason. The collection of repertoire books that are intended as supplementary material for these tutors are equally deserving of their praise, with the way they enable students to put what they've learned into practice through familiar and famous songs. This particular songbook is made up of those Australian Songs that remind you of a beautiful beach with white sands and a crystal clear ocean, while also representing the natural beauty of the flora and fauna of the great island.Popular tunes like I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing, Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree and Waltzing Matilda perfectly supplement students working through parts 2, 3 and 4 of the Easiest Piano Course, with the songs are also ideal for use as sight-reading practice by more advanced students. Other familiar melodies include Waltzing Matilda, Skippy The Bush Kangaroo and, of course, The Australian National Anthem. By learning and playing fun songs from this book, students will be more motivated to play the Piano and will become more musical as a result.What's more, this book is great in the sense that it creates a natural progression for beginners. The pieces become more difficult as they go on, meaning players have something to strive for. Also, because techniques like dynamics and phrasing (though essential) are not introduced until the later parts of the course, they have been omitted from the earlier parts of this songbook, so that initially the student remains focused on accuracy in the notes and rhythm.To enhance learning through fun-to-play popular songs, the First Australian Songs book will bring a taste of down-under to your fingertips. These jaunty melodies and happy tunes will get you playing, and improving, in no time at all. / Piano

Featuring Easy Piano arrangements of 21 more Classical Favourites, this sheet music songbook will satisfy any beginner's desire to play the most popular and enduring classical pieces ever composed by the masters of the genre. These simple arrangements feature fingering guidance, song background notes and helpful performance hints.With some of the most beautiful classical music included here, this Really Easy Piano songbook will let you play the standards, the traditionals and the essentials quickly and easily. Schubert's Ave Maria, Debussy's En Bateau, Mendelssohn's Song Without Words and the all-time favourite, Vivaldi's Spring from The Four Seasons are included, among many others. Each of these composers represents a very different school of music, so you'll love picking out your favourite or playing through them all and then exploring the rest of their oeuvre.This instalment of the Really Easy Piano series puts the best-loved Classical Favourites right at the fingertips of beginning pianists. All too often playing the works of these composers is but a dream of players who are just starting out. Now, such masters of composition as Beethoven, Mozart, Puccini, Wagner and Handel are immediately accessible to pianists in the early stages of their playing, letting them learn these glorious melodies and soaring chords without the decades of practice necessary to master the full arrangements. Even though they are simplified, they sound absolutely great, from the lively to the melancholy and everything in between, these pieces are sure to impress any audience.Not only do you get Easy Piano arrangements of tunes like Sarabande, Vocalise and Dance Of The Knights, as with all the books in the Really Easy Piano series some fascinating background information on each song is included, as well as really useful practical performance advice, ensuring that you nail every note and play every phrase perfectly.This book of Really Easy Piano: More Classical Favourites features a great number of beautiful classical pieces that are easy to play and sound utterly fantastic. This book is suitable for pianists at the early grades, bringing amazing classical music to the fingertips of beginners, enabling you to learn the timeless pieces that we return to again and again. / Piano

37 contemporary composers chose a song by Stephen Sondheim and re-imagined it as a solo piano piece. / Piano

A collection of the world's finest classical and popular music set for the developing pianist. Here you will find the great masterpieces from every musical era, in rewarding piano arrangements that are easy to play. Turn these pages to enjoy three centuries of all-time favorite piano solos - the classic genius of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms - the expressive beauty of Chopin and Debussy - the elegant syncopations of Scott Joplin - the timeless melodies of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern and many, many more. This expansive music library will provide years of playing pleasure for any pianist. Nowhere else will you find such a rich array of classical, ragtime, popular and folk music in a single volume. These easy and rewarding piano arrangements make it truly a joy to explore the world's most beloved piano music. Spiral Bound. / Piano

The bestselling series Piano Gefällt Mir! continues with Book 5, featuring 50 more hits from the charts and blockbuster movies, arranged brilliantly for Piano by Hans-Günter Heumann. This edition is spiral-bound so will stay flat on a music stand, while the included MP3 CD features full backing tracks and demonstration tracks with the Piano part removed.Including a huge number of hits from some of today's top performers, this is the ideal songbook for beginners to learn some popular songs straight from the charts and movies. Featuring FourFiveSeconds by Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney, All About That Bass from Meghan Trainor and the instant pop-classic Photograph by Ed Sheeran, Heumann's arrangements are perfect for beginners, those re-learning the Piano, or even advanced players looking to expand their repertoire or practise sight-reading.The sheer range of songs in Piano Gefällt Mir! means that there really is something for everyone. Well-known songs from new and recent films are also included in this songbook, such as See You Again from 'Fast And Furious 7', Love Me Like You Do from 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' and Yann Tiersen's wonderful theme Watching Lara from 'Goodbye Lenin!' Each song in this fantastic volume features chord symbols, lyrics and useful fingering suggestions, ensuring you can learn to play these songs as quickly as possible.With Hans-Günter Heumann's Piano Gefällt Mir!, pianists of all ages and abilities can benefit from the diversity of popular songs and the expert arrangements on offer. / Piano

Mendelssohn 's Lieder Ohne Worte , or ' Songs without Words ,' is among the most loved, most played collections in the Romantic Piano repertoire. Reproduced from the authoritative Breitkopf and Härtel edition, this volume contains all of these popular compositions - more than 40 pieces, including such favourites as Spinning Song, Spring Song, and Venetian Gondola Song. Composed at various points throughout his life, Mendelssohn compiled this collection of short works for the amateur pianist looking for high quality, yet not-to-difficult music. Still practiced and performed today, ' Songs without Words ' is often considered to be Mendelssohn 's greatest legacy as a composer. For study or play, this work represents and admirable addition to any music library. Reprint of the Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig, edition. / Piano

2017 has been a fantastic year for music! This title includes 30 massive hit songs from some of the world's greatest artists, including Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Stormzy, Rita Ora, Clean Bandit, Imagine Dragons and many more. Arranged for easy Piano, includes chord symbols and full lyrics. This book is supported by Soundwise and includes a range of digital features: SoundCheck : This unique assessment and feedback listens to you play, then gives you instant feedback on your performance and advice on how to improve! eBook : a digital edition of your music to read on any device / Piano

Contains enjoyable pieces for reading experience and repertoire building. Designed to supplement any Primer level method. Music styles represent many composers, both classic and contemporary, plus a few folk songs and spirituals. / Piano

The Featured Pianist is a splendid collection of fourteen classical favourites for the intermediate to advancing pianist, providing a superb enrichment to their repertoire. Suitable for Grades 5-6, the book also comes with a CD and additional downloadable content.The book itself contains fourteen fantastic pieces that everybody is sure to know and love by the cream of classical composers. With Debussy's masterpieces Clair de Lune and Arabesque #1, the latter of which is a beautiful score merely to look at, let alone play. A couple of classic Beethoven pieces, Adagio Cantabile and Adagio Sostenuto, are included, as well as timeless compositions by Chopin, Schubert and Bach that are essential learning for any pianist worth their salt.The accompanying CD contains professional performances of each piece and includes free hints and tips which are downloadable to your computer. Either play along to the CD, or simply unwind and relax to this unbeatable compilation of inspirational performances. Other pieces include Solfeggietto by C. P. E. Bach and Sweet Remembrance by Mendelssohn, among many others that will undeniably delight any listeners within earshot. The pieces arranged in this book are between Grades 5 and 6 in standard, making them perfect for those who want to expand their repertoire and musical knowledge with some of the finest compositions of all time. The Featured Pianist, with its brilliant engravings, accompanying CD and downloadable content, is everything you'll need to learn these great pieces of music. / Piano

Contains enjoyable pieces for reading experience and repertoire building. Designed to supplement any Level 1 method. Musical styles represent many composers, both classic and contemporary. / Piano