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29 fun-to-play, pedagogically sound easy piano arrangements include themes from Beethoven's "PathTtique Sonata" and Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" along with such favorites as the Brahms "Hungarian Dance No. 5" Tchaikovsky "Marche Slave" Mussorgsky "Promenad
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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This slim volume has a nice card cover so should stand quite happily on your music stand.
All the italian terms are listed and defined in a preface.
Each piece is preceded by a short paragraph giving a little history of the piece or composer.
There is plenty of space around the staves for your own notes.
Only one piece spans more than two pages (and is the only piece that requires a page to be turned whilst playing), and that is both a slow piece and has "turn" marked in the score to remind players.
Overall an ideal book for beginners, or for sight reading practice by intermediate students.
The only thing missing is an assessment of the difficulty of the pieces (or a list roughly ordered by difficulty as appears in some other volumes of the "My First Book of..." series)
All the italian terms are listed and defined in a preface.
Each piece is preceded by a short paragraph giving a little history of the piece or composer.
There is plenty of space around the staves for your own notes.
Only one piece spans more than two pages (and is the only piece that requires a page to be turned whilst playing), and that is both a slow piece and has "turn" marked in the score to remind players.
Overall an ideal book for beginners, or for sight reading practice by intermediate students.
The only thing missing is an assessment of the difficulty of the pieces (or a list roughly ordered by difficulty as appears in some other volumes of the "My First Book of..." series)
76 of 80 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is lovely for the starting pianist, simple yet not boring, great even for more experienced players. The "my first book" series are all great, i have about 15 of them, they range from christmas top jazz, they-re all great. oh and the price is marvellous!!
28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I purchased this book for the purpose of practicing my sight reading. That and the fact that you can never have to much music to work through. Upon receipt however I was immediatly dissapointed as soon as I sat down to play.
The opening piece is a good example. It's J. S. Bach's famous Minuet from one of the Ana Magdalena notebooks. Normally this is played (and was written) in G Major but in this edition it has been put in C Major. I assume this was done because it was chosen as the opening piece of the book and any new pianist learns C Major first. However, I personally prefer pieces in the key they were written in and there are some other peices that have had similar treatment.
Several of the pieces are incomplete, but they are obviously reductions so I'm not complaining about that. I don't much like how the fingering is given on every single note change in the book. Surely part of learning to sight read is learning to do this yourself. This is assuming you want to use it for this purpose.
The book does have some nice touches though. A list of the Italian phrasing and their meanings/translations is given in the book. Opening paragraphs tell the player a few facts about the piece they are about to play. And the music itself is a very good size with nice clear fonts.
I would really only recommend this to someone in their first year as a pianist. Once you've passed grade 1 maybe put it on the shelf. Adult beginners and intermediate pianists may want to move on to "The Joy of First Classics," instead, which I have found to be a great asset.
In short, I don't think this is a terrible book. I'd really only recommend it to young begginers.
The opening piece is a good example. It's J. S. Bach's famous Minuet from one of the Ana Magdalena notebooks. Normally this is played (and was written) in G Major but in this edition it has been put in C Major. I assume this was done because it was chosen as the opening piece of the book and any new pianist learns C Major first. However, I personally prefer pieces in the key they were written in and there are some other peices that have had similar treatment.
Several of the pieces are incomplete, but they are obviously reductions so I'm not complaining about that. I don't much like how the fingering is given on every single note change in the book. Surely part of learning to sight read is learning to do this yourself. This is assuming you want to use it for this purpose.
The book does have some nice touches though. A list of the Italian phrasing and their meanings/translations is given in the book. Opening paragraphs tell the player a few facts about the piece they are about to play. And the music itself is a very good size with nice clear fonts.
I would really only recommend this to someone in their first year as a pianist. Once you've passed grade 1 maybe put it on the shelf. Adult beginners and intermediate pianists may want to move on to "The Joy of First Classics," instead, which I have found to be a great asset.
In short, I don't think this is a terrible book. I'd really only recommend it to young begginers.
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good for beginners
This is good for beginners and introduces them to classical music, the arrangements are easy, and well explained so makes the teachers job a breeze!
Published 16 months ago by Athame
Go for it!
Lovely book, encouraging for the non-piano playing parents of children just starting - we can follow the notes!!! Read more
Published 21 months ago by Kieran Brennan
Extension for grade 1 +
This is a great book for those who have completed grade 1 piano exam. The ease of playing varies with each piece, we found that some could be used as sight reading exercise's where... Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2006 by A. Sotheran
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