Joplin Highlights

To every pupil, the first concert is a special experience. The period of intensive preparation, the mixture of trepidation and joyful anticipation, the concentration during the performance, the applause of the audience and the pride after the successful performance. Such impressions will all stick in the pupil's mind and quite often influence his or her entire future development. The choice of the 'right' performance piece is of vital importance: It should be neither too long nor too short, make a strong impression and give great pleasure in practising.The edition Mein erstes Konzert contains 23 easy pieces for clarinet and piano for music lessons and first auditions. The selection of the original works invites the performer on a trip through various music epochs - starting from classical via Romantic to contemporary music. Further highlights are pieces from the areas of klezmer, jazz, rock and pop music.Most pieces can be played after 1-2 years of music lessons. The first pieces in this volume are exclusively written in the low register - without overblowing.Approaching the works is made easier by the enclosed CD which contains all pieces as a demo version and as a play-along version with just piano accompaniment. / Clarinette Et Piano

4 Original Works by 22 Composers-The World's Great Classical Music. Intermediate to advanced Piano solo arrangements of 40 original works by 22 major composers presented in unedited urtext editions. Highlights of this sizable 256-page volume include: Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Major (Bach) Romanian Folk Dances (Bartók) Rage Over a Lost Penny (Beethoven) Polonaise Militaire (Chopin) To Spring (Grieg) Solace (Joplin) Rondo alla Turca (Mozart) Arabesque Op. 18 (Schumann) and dozens more. Piano Classics includes biographies for each composer.

Chester Music's best-selling series The Easy Piano Collection Gold features some of the most famous classical music composers ranging from J.S. Bach to Scott Joplin. Each of the albums highlights a particularcomposer's essential works containing original piano music as well as transcriptions of other pieces. Best Of Gold presents a selection of the finest music from the series.

Grade 3-Janet Way's Grade By Grade series draws on the rich and varied Boosey & Hawkes catalogue of classical contemporary and educational repertoire highlighting composers including Serge Prokofieff Dmitri Shostakovich Karl Jenkins Carol Barratt and Christopher Norton alongside arrangements of traditional music from around the world by Peter Wastall Vera Gray and others.This practical anthology of carefully selected pieces provides the complete repertoire resource for the aspiring Grade 3 clarinettist and creates the perfect package for teaching exam preparation and performance.Each volume contains:19 pieces & shortstudies each complemented by a useful practice and performance tip.Grade-appropriate scales and arpeggios linked to the repertoire through bespoke text and exercises.Brand new sight-reading activitiesNewly-commissioned aural awareness tasks.A Piano accompaniment booklet. This book for Grade 3 Clarinet players includes the pieces Shoehorn Blues by Christopher Norton Minuet For Anna-Magdalena by J. S. Bach Solace by Scott Joplin and more.Janet Way: Grade By Grade Clarinet (Grade 3) comes complete with a CD of full performance demonstrations Piano backing tracks and grade-appropriate aural awareness resources.