Piano Accompaniments

The selections are duet arrangements of the pieces in the original seven volumes of the Suzuki Piano School. This superb teaching tool is designed for use by Suzuki and traditional students and teachers as supplementary material, and will help the child better understand each selection musically, help motivate the student to review, serve as a model for improvisational skills, and add variety and fun to the learning situation. The cassette features only the accompaniments, not the original pieces.

Eclectic Strings, Book 1 is a collection of pieces from around the world arranged for various combinations of string ensembles. The score and parts are included in one book, and the parts are reproducible. Included are pieces from India, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Russia, and China, as well as original pieces with a Latin flair. Titles: Bringer of Luck---A Bangle Salesman (Bhagyada Balegaara) (Indian Folk Song) * Country Dance (Carl Maria von Weber) * German Dance (Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf) * Mark of Zorro (Zorros Marke) (Swedish Fiddle Tune) * Norwegian Rheinlander - Little Billy (Norwegian Fiddle Tune) * Spring Sorrow (Maj Sazaljenja) (Russian Folk Song). Book 2 is available as item 00-26124.

Piano accompaniment for Suzuki Cello School, Volume 1. Titles: * Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Variations (Shinichi Suzuki) * French Folk Song (Folk Song) * Lightly Row (Folk Song) * Song of the Wind (Folk Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * O Come, Little Children (Folk Song) * May Song (Folk Song) * Allegro (Shinichi Suzuki) * Perpetual Motion in D Major (Shinichi Suzuki) * Perpetual Motion in G Major (Shinichi Suzuki) * Long, Long Ago (T.H. Bayly) * Allegretto (Shinichi Suzuki) * Andantino (Shinichi Suzuki) * Rigadoon (H. Purcell) * Etude (Shinichi Suzuki) * The Happy Farmer from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 10 (R. Schumann) * Minuet in C, No. 11 in G Major from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, BWV 841 (J.S. Bach) * Minuet No. 2 from Minuet in G Major, BWV 116 (J.S. Bach)

"The Piano Improvisation Handbook" offers a comprehensive overview of the practical skills and theoretical issues involved in mastering all forms of piano improvisation. It explores a wide range of styles, including classical, jazz, rock and blues. Whereas other books on improvisation typically offer little more than models for imitation and exercises for practising, this one adopts an approach specifically designed to encourage and enable independent creative exploration. The book contains a series of graded tutorial sections with musical examples on CD, as well as an extensive introductory section detailing the history of keyboard and piano improvisation, an appendix listing useful scales, chords, voicings and progressions across all keys, a bibliography and a discography. In addition to sections outlining how melody, harmony, rhythm, texture and form work in improvised piano music, there are sections devoted to explaining how ideas can be developed into continuous music and to exploring the process of finding a personal style. A key feature is the distinctive stress the author puts on the interconnectedness of jazz and classical music where improvisation is concerned. This book is best suited to those with at least some prior experience of learning the piano. However, the rudiments of both music theory and piano technique are covered in such a way that it can also serve as an effective basis for a self-sufficient course in creative piano playing.

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Outstanding popular repertoire skillfully arranged and correlated with the concepts in Accelerated Lesson Book 1. Contents include: In Dreams * Video * Star Wars * Hedwig's Theme * Fiddler on the Roof * What a Wonderful World * Soak up the Sun * Over the Rainbow * The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

Famous British accompanist recalls his association with singers, violinists, and others. Includes many anecdotes, praise where it is due, and some remarks on artistic temperament.

This series of books was meticulously designed to provide beginning to intermediate instrumentalists with an enjoyable introduction to classical melodies. Selections include: Ode to Joy; Sleeping Beauty Waltz; the Trout; Scheherazade; Emperor Humn; Cancan; plus 10 more by Bach, Bizet, Brahns, Mozart, Strauss, Rossini and others.