Easy Piano Classics: 97 Pieces for Early and Intermediate Players

by Ronald Herder (Editor)

Overview

Learning how to play the world's most beautiful classical music has never been easier, because now there is Easy Piano Classics: 97 Pieces for Early and Intermediate Players, the sequel to Ronald Herder's highly successful Favorite Piano Classics. With this handsome volume on the piano, students of all ages will quickly master these timeless piano works.
Inside this original compilation you'll find music by no less than 36 of the world's greatest composers — including Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Mozart, and Schubert, among many others. Included are these and other favorite pieces: C. P. E. Bach, Solfeggietto; Beethoven, Für Elise; Brahms, Five Waltzes; Chopin, Mazurka in G Minor; Clementi, Sonatina in C; Debussy, Jimbo's Lullaby; Franck, A Doll's Lament; Grieg, Grandmother's Minuet; Joplin, Bethena, a Concert Waltz; Liszt, Consolation; MacDowell, To a Wild Rose; Mendelssohn, Venetian Gondola Song; Mozart, Two German Dances; Purcell, Lilliburlero: A New Irish Tune; Scarlatti, Gavotta; and Schumann, The Happy Farmer.
If you're just learning the piano or simply adding to your repertoire, this collection belongs in your music library. Offering both high quality and a rich selection of compositions at a remarkably low price, Easy Piano Classics is a wonderful resource for beginning and intermediate-level piano students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486404073
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	07/14/1998
Series:	Dover Classical Piano Music
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,033,715
Product dimensions:	8.38(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.36(d)
Age Range:	10 - 18 Years

Table of Contents

1 Alkan, Charles-Valentin
1.1 The Dying (from The Months, Op. 74)
2 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
2.1 Rondo espressivo
2.2 Minuets
2.2.1 Nos. 1 & 2: D major/B minor; Nos. 3 & 4: C major/C minor; Nos. 5 & 6: F major/F minor
2.3 Solfeggietto
3 Bach, Johann Sebastian
3.1 Prelude in C major (No. 1 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
3.2 Adagio in C minor
3.3 Musette in D major
3.4 Two Minuets (from The Little Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach)
3.5 Invention in D minor
4 Beethoven, Ludwig van
4.1 Sonatina in G major
4.2 Minuet in G major
4.3 Bagatelle: "Für Elise"
4.4 Variations on a Swiss Song
4.5 Bagatelle in D major (Op. 33, No. 6)
5 Brahms, Johannes
5.1 Waltzes (Op. 39)
5.1.1 No. 5 in E major; No. 8 in B-flat major; No. 9 in D minor; No. 15 in A major; No. 16 in D minor
6 Buxtehude, Dietrich
6.1 Sarabande and Gigue (from Suite XII in E minor)
7 Chopin, Frédéric
7.1 Préludes (Op. 28)
7.1.1 No. 6 in B minor; No. 7 in A major; No. 20 in C minor
7.2 Nocturne in G minor (Op. 37, No. 1)
7.3 Mazurka in G minor (Op. 67, No. 2)
7.4 Mazurka in F major (Op. 68, No. 3)
8 Clarke, Jeremiah
8.1 Trumpet Tune
9 Clementi, Musio
9.1 Sonatina in C major (Op. 36, No. 1)
9.2 Sonatina in G major (Op. 36, No. 2)
10 Dandrieu, Jean-François
10.1 The Eager Young Girl
11 Daquin, Louis-Claude
11.1 The Tuneful Girl: Rondeau
12 Debussy, Claude
12.1 Jimbo's Lullaby (from Children's Corner)
13 Delibes, Léo
13.1 Passepied (from Six Dance Tunes in Olden Style)
14 Dussek, Jan Ladislav
14.1 Sonatina in E-flat major (Op. 19/20, No. 6)
15 Dvorák, Antonín
15.1 Silhouette in D-flat major (Op. 8, No. 2)
16 Franck, César
16.1 A Doll's Laments
16.2 Slow Dance
17 Gluck, Christoph Willibald
17.1 Air de Ballet (from Orfeo ed Euridice)
18 Gossec, François-Joseph
18.1 Gavotte
19 Grieg, Edvard
19.1 Gjendine's Lullaby (Op. 66, No. 19)
19.2 Waltz in A minor (Op. 12, No. 2)
19.3 Watchman's Song (Op. 12, No. 3)
19.4 Grandmother's Minuet (Op. 68, No. 2)
20 Handel, George Frideric
20.1 Largo (from Serse)
20.2 Sarabande in D minor
21 Haydn, Joseph
21.1 Sonata in C major (Hob. 35): First movement
22 Joplin, Scott
22.1 Bethena: A Concert Waltz
23 Liszt, Franz
23.1 Consolation in E major
23.2 Pater Noster (from Poetic and Religious Harmonies)
23.3 Nuages Gris
24 Lully, Jean-Baptiste
24.1 Tender Melody
25 MacDowell, Edward
25.1 To a Wild Rose
25.2 From an Indian Lodge
25.3 A Deserted Farm (all from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51)
26 Massenet, Jules
26.1 Élégie (Op. 10, No. 5)
27 Mendelssohn, Felix
27.1 Venetian Gondola Song (Op. 30, No. 6)
27.2 Little Piece (Op. 72, No. 1)
28 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
28.1 Allegro in B-flat major
28.2 Four Early Minuets
28.3 Minuet in D major (K94)
28.4 Minuet in D major (K355)
28.5 Two German Dances
29 Mussorgsky, Modest
29.1 Promenade (from Pictures at an Exhibition)
30 Purcell, Henry
30.1 Lilliburlero: A New Irish Tune
30.2 Minuet in A minor
30.3 Air in D minor
30.4 Hornpipe in E minor
31 Rameau, Jean-Philippe
31.1 Tambourin
32 Scarlatti, Domenico
32.1 Sonata in D minor (Gavotta)
33 Schubert, Franz
33.1 Eight Ländler (D378)
34 Schumann, Robert
34.1 Little Study
34.2 The Happy Farmer (both from Album for the Young, Op. 68)
34.3 Träumerei
34.4 Child Falling Asleep (both from Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15)
35 Scriabin, Alexander
35.1 Prelude (Op. 16, No. 3)
35.2 Prelude (Op. 16, No. 4)
36 Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyitch
36.1 Morning Prayer
36.2 Marches of the Wooden Soldiers
36.3 German Song
36.4 In Church
36.5 The Hurdy-Gurdy (all from Album for the Young, op. 39)