This inexpensive compilation draws upon authoritative sources to present favorite Piano works of the Baroque era. Unlike many other anthologies of music from the era which vary widely in the quality of their content this collection comprises only the greatest works of the period. Intermediate and advanced Pianists will find these carefully chosen pieces a rewarding and satisfying reflection of the glories of the Baroque. Selections include Johann Sebastian Bach's Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue as well as the French Suite No. 5; Fantasia in C Minor BWV 906; and preludes and fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Other works byBach include the great composer's transcriptions for keyboard of five violin concertos by Vivaldi reprinted from the definitive Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Other selections include several pieces by Handel among them the popular Air and Variations known as The Harmonious Blacksmith; four sonatas by Scarlatti; and works by Telemann Rameau and Purcell.

Baroque to Modern presents music from the 1700s through the 1900s, with composer biographies and practice and performance tips. Organized by difficulty level, the music is presented in newly researched editions. Each volume is in progressive order.

This essential collection of 100 piano études is divided into 15 units that survey the technical challenges at the early intermediate, intermediate, and late intermediate levels. The early units review technical issues that students experience at the elementary levels, such as five-finger patterns and articulations. The later units introduce more difficult technical challenges that prepare students for advanced repertoire, such as playing ornamentation, octaves, and large chords. Each unit contains between five and ten études written by master composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods. Within each unit, the études are arranged in order of difficulty. Each piece appears in its original form - notes have not been added or removed. The composers' original dynamics, tempo marks, phrase indications, and articulations have been preserved. Ornamentation is realized in footnotes. Added measure numbers provide easy reference, and editorial suggestions for fingering and pedaling have been provided. A concise foreword discusses technique at the intermediate levels. Two indexes are included: one by unit and technical skill, and another by level and composer.Unit listing: Five-Finger Patterns * Articulation * Coordination between the Hands * Scales * Triads, Inversions, and Broken Chords * Double Notes * Left-Hand Development * Velocity * Arpeggios * Finger and Hand Independence * Repeated Notes * Accompaniment Patterns * Ornamentation * Octaves * Four- and Five-Note Chords. / Piano

The Perfect Way To Rediscover The Piano-Did you used to play the piano? Would you like to play again? Play it again: Piano uses real pieces from the piano repertoire to teach specific techniques and tips getting you playing fluently once again. This is the second book which is for the more confident ?former? piano player or for those continuing their journey from Book 1. The level of pieces in this second book progresses from around UK grades 5 to 8 (intermediate to late advanced). ?I used to play the piano??Aimed at ?returning? players who have spent some time away from the keyboard Play it again: Piano gives you the confidence to revisit this fulfilling pastime and go beyond what you previously thoughtyou could achieve.Each of the 21 pieces in Book 2 is accompanied by two full pages of easy-to-understand practice tips all designed to get your fingers speeding comfortably across the keys once again! There are more comprehensive Piano Technique and Theory sections at the front and back of each book so you can also delve deeper to regain a fuller understanding of music and technique. A refresher course for all abilities each book is arranged in 4 progressive sections with Book 1 moving from ?Elementary? to ?Intermediate? and Book 2 taking you from ?Late Intermediate? to ?Late Advanced?. Dip in and out wherever your level of playing suits: this two-book course starts with simple and elegant miniatures and concludes with the famously showy Prelude in C-sharp minor by Rachmaninoff! Confident pianists could start with Book 2 but there is a wealth of delightful repertoire and valuable practice tips in Book 1 it?s always useful to go ?back to basics?. From Schumann to shuffles. Baroque Classical and Romantic works sit alongside Jazz Ragtime contemporary or traditional pieces at every level so each lesson brings something different and you?ll learn to play in a range of styles some of which may be new to your fingers. If you often find yourself saying ?I used to play the piano?? but wish you still did then Play it again:

Piano-This volume contains Baroque compositions specifically designed and edited for the intermediate pianist and provides an essential iontroduction to the range of core Baroque repertoire. Piano Grades 5-7.

Offering insightful interpretive suggestions, pertinent fingering and historical and stylistic commentary, the Schirmer Performance Editions series is designed for Piano students and teachers, as well as professional pianists.This volume contains 20 pieces by 12 composers, including C. P. E. Bach, Blow, F. Couperin, Daquin, Duncombe, Handel, Pachelbel, Petzold, A. Scarlatti, D. Scarlatti and Telemann.Complete with online access to recorded performances, this book provides the early intermediate level pianist with a newly-engraved collection of pieces from the Baroque Era, accompanied by historical notes and performance suggestions. / Piano

Book 2-Richard Smith's My Piano My Body And Me - Book 2 develops the holistic approach to technique musicianship and interpretation adopted in the first publication.  This book is suitable for students at an intermediate level and covers music from different periods. It charts the Piano's development showing how the larger instruments that emerged at the end of the 19th century made different physical and mental demands on performers. Pianists today are playing very different instruments to their predecessors. This demands close consideration when performing music from the Baroque Classical Romantic and 20thcentury. Why should I approach Baroque music differently to that written in the Romantic period? What is direct pedalling....and finger pedalling? How do I play and count unusual time signatures? These are all questions that My Piano My Body And Me - Book 2 will answer. This book is equally instructive and illuminating as its predecessor and contains another selection of inspiring imaginative pieces specifically written to practise particular skills and techniques - e.g. grace notes ('Kestrel') the una corda pedal ('Serenity') compound time ('Loving Living') and unusual time signatures ('All in Good Time').

14 intermediate pieces for solo piano-Piano Sketches Book 2 is a fabulous new collection for younger pianists at an intermediate level (approx. Grades 4-5). The pieces include a broad range of appealing and accessible styles and will delight student and listener alike as well as helping to reinforce technical skills. Get toes tapping with the 'Country Fiddler' lose yourself in the delicately beautiful 'Sweet Memories' take a trip into orbit with 'Space Wanderer' and step back into the Baroque with the magnificent 'Sonatina Polifonica'. As well as being great fun to play these pieces offer young pianists an adventure in texture melody and harmonyand will support formal study.

Every pianist wants to make the most of the great possibilities of his or her instrument and to play something from the Baroque or the Classical-Romantic tradition. The best-known works the most beautiful compositions unforgettable moments in music.BÄRENREITER PIANO MOMENTS makes this possible in well-written exquisite arrangements. These include Handel?s ?Largo? the first movement of Mozart?s G minor Symphony the ?Moldau? and the ?Wedding March? from Mendelssohn?s ?Midsummer Night?s Dream?. All intermediate pianists will enjoy playing these pieces.The arrangers:Christoph Ullrich and Andreas Skipis are two young pianists basedin Frankfurt with busy concert and recording schedules.

The Joy of Baroque is a tremendous collection with some of the richest most beautiful and enjoyable pieces from history. Here are forty-four easy to intermediate works by Bach Purcell Scarlatti and other 17th and 18th century composers all selected and edited by Denes Agay for Piano solo.

An introduction to the Baroque style with 38 intermediate pieces some well-known others unfamiliar fully annotated with performing notes by Richard Jones.

The World's Great Classical Music-The World's Great Classical Music. This collection includes 35 Baroque keyboard pieces by Bach Buxtehude Couperin Handel Lully Pachelbel Purcell Scarlatti and others and 18 transcriptions for piano of Baroque favorites by Bach Handel Pachelbel Purcell and Vivaldi. Among the most famous music in the book is Air on the G String Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring selections from Water Music selections from Messiah and movements from The Four Seasons. As with the rest of the series the edition is deliberately clean without editorial markings allowing a teacher or performer his or her own interpretive ideas.

Quirky New Piano Pieces-'In choosing to call this set of 25 pieces The FitzTanner Collection I make a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.The FitzTanner Collection doffs its cap in the direction of this seminal ancient tome by borrowing some of the more fanciful and suggestive titles from which it is comprised but beyond this there is no musical connection with the original pieces at all. And yet stirred into the mix is my fondness for melding together bygone musical styles. Hence this album of piano pieces pitched at the more robust intermediate pianist combines quirky originality with older musical styles drawinginspiration not just from Renaissance dances and fantasies but from more elaborate Baroque and Classical styles too. That said the music is conceived very much with the qualities of the modern piano in mind and hence requires a good many pedal effects dynamics and plenty of expression. What emerges is I hope a collection of attractive piano pieces which cheerfully bear the traces of a time when the modern piano was but a twinkle in the eye.There is an enjoyable charisma to the Old English spellings of these pieces (as well as a healthy margin for idiosyncrasy I might add) and to my own creations I have taken great delight in adding a few light-hearted directions which I trust won't cause too much consternation. Not all of the Fitzwilliam titles are easily fathomed but the playful risqué and politically incorrect overtones are sometimes quite striking leading me to contemplate a similarly unserious vein in my own writing. To what (or indeed to whom) you may ask does 'Quodlings Delight' refer? I'm not sure I'd recognise a Quodling if it crawled out of my porridge (and likewise who the eponymous Barafostus might have been is anybody's guess). Perhaps on balance the music is best left to speak for itself and regardless of how many ways an old title can be reworked it will always come down to living breathing

Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics-The Developing Artist: Piano Literature Book 3 presents authentic Keyboard literature for the intermediate pianist. The selections are organised into the four major periods: Baroque Classical Romantic and Contemporary with notes on the historical periods at the beginning of the book.The content of this book offers ample choice for auditions festivals recitals and personal study.

Every pianist wants to make the most of the great possibilities of his or her instrument and to play something from the Baroque or the Classical-Romantic tradition.The best-known works the most beautiful compositions unforgettable moments in music.BÄRENREITER PIANO MOMENTS makes this possible in well-written exquisite arrangements. These include Handel’s Largo the first movement of Mozart’s G minor Symphony the Moldau and the Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. All intermediate pianists will enjoy playing these pieces.The arrangers:Christoph Ullrich and Andreas Skipis are two young pianists basedin Frankfurt with busy concert and recording schedules.