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Learn the Guitar in a Creative New Way

Series: Guitar
Publisher: Schott
Format: Softcover Audio Online - TAB
Composers: Jens Franke, Tim Pells

Learn the Guitar in a creative new way: Playing music that makes you feel good, right from the outset.

Passport to Play Guitar is a tutor series which is focused on learning to play the guitar through listening, reading and playing together, and is suitable for both classical and acoustic guitarists. The sheet music includes TAB alongside the standard notation.

The books use music drawn from styles and cultures from all around the world, including Blues and Jazz from North America; Folk and Traditional music from Europe, Africa and Latin America; and pieces inspired by the people and places that the authors have encountered on their travels.

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Because musicians everywhere learn by listening and playing together, our authors have also included audio for every piece. This allows you to play along with other musicians, while learning at the same time.

Tim and Jens (the authors) believe in keeping it simple, which is why they have included clear illustrations and kept the explanatory texts to a minimum. The focus will always be on playing music that makes you feel good, right from the outset.

Passport to Play Guitar is great for Beginners, includes TAB alongside the standard notation, and also includes accompaniments for ensemble playing.

Catalog:	HL49046773
Publisher:	Schott
Composer:	Jens Franke, Tim Pells
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Series: Piano Solo Songbook
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Format: Softcover
Artist: Various

Relax at the piano with this exceptional collection of satisfying and profoundly beautiful arrangements of 30 standards: All of Me • All the Things You Are • Angel Eyes • Body and Soul • Days of Wine and Roses • Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) • Georgia on My Mind • It Had to Be You • Misty • Moon River • My Romance • Nature Boy • Polka Dots and Moonbeams • Satin Doll • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes • Stella by Starlight • Summertime • The Very Thought of You • Waltz for Debby • The Way You Look Tonight • What a Wonderful World • and more.

Catalog:	HL00363775
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
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Grieg's incidental music for Henrik Ibsen's drama "Peer Gynt" contains some of his best-known compositions, such as "Morning mood" and "In the hall of the Mountain King". Grieg later extracted the most beautiful pieces to form two orchestral suites and arranged himself these versions for piano solo and piano four-hands. There was a surprise in store for Henle when preparing their Urtext edition. In the autograph and the first print run, the second suite contained another movement, the "Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter", which Grieg deleted shortly afterwards. This charming dance appears in the appendix to this edition - printed again for the first time in 120 years! The Norwegian pianist and Grieg expert Einar Steen-Nøkleberg was co-editor for this edition and also provided the new fingerings.

Catalog:	HL51481243
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Edvard Grieg
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Arranger:	Edvard Grieg

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A Step-by-Step Breakdown of His Playing Techniques

Explore the guitar licks, riffs, and techniques of British blues legend Peter Green with this hands-on analysis by Dave Rubin. Songs include: Albatross • Black Magic Woman • A Fool No More • Man of the World • Need Your Love So Bad • Rattlesnake Shake • Showbiz Blues • The Stumble • Underway • and more. This book includes access to online audio tracks for download or streaming, now including PLAYBACK+. This multi-functional audio player allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, pan left or right, and more.

Catalog:	HL00145386
Publisher:	Bmg
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Artist:	Peter Green
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Catalog:	HL51480409
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Debussy
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Series: Faber Piano Adventures®
Publisher: Faber Piano Adventures
Format: Hardcover with DVD
Composers: Nancy Faber, Randall Faber
Piano Level: Primer

The 2nd Edition Primer Level Teacher Guide provides comprehensive support for instructing beginning students using the Fabers' student-centered curriculum. Included are updated lesson plans, tips for reinforcing concepts and skills, and ideas for creative music exploration. Watch Nancy Faber and her young students in over 60 model teaching videos. Review and reflect with 20 new pedagogy articles and "ask yourself" study questions. And prepare for group activities with new ensemble parts, stories, and extended teacher duets. Get inspired to Analyze, Create, and Express with your Primer students!

This print edition includes the 176-page hardcover Teacher Guide, 64-page softcover Duet Appendix, and a DVD featuring over three hours of video lessons.

Catalog:	HL00231607
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
Composer:	Faber
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Series: Faber Piano Adventures®
Publisher: Faber Piano Adventures
Format: Softcover
Authors: Nancy Faber, Randall Faber
Piano Level: Primer

No more guessing how well your students are learning! Let them show what they know with the Primer Unit Assessments. The imaginative Teacher Handbook contains all the materials needed. As the student completes each unit in the Primer Level Lesson Book, the corresponding Unit Assessment may be given at the lesson and takes approximately 10 minutes. Confirm understanding of reading, rhythm, symbols, patterns, and musical terms. Teachers use engaging questions and answers, comparisons, and similarities to build rapport, confidence, and bring new excitement to the lessons. Assess for success!

Catalog:	HL0165327
Publisher:	Faber
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Playing 5-finger scales has significant value for early-level pianists. This innovative book helps students chart progress through all major and minor 5-finger scales, cross-hand arpeggios, and primary chords. Engaging teacher duets for each key are used for scale exercises. Students also enjoy improvisation activities for each key with creative prompts to inspire imagery, character, and tempo.

Catalog:	FF3024
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
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Series: The Phillip Keveren Series
Format: Softcover
Composer: Phillip Keveren
Piano Level: Intermediate

Piano Calm is an engaging collection of piano solos by Phillip Keveren intended to elevate both performer and listener into a meditative, peaceful state of mind. All the pieces are original compositions. Titles: Alpine Meadow • By the Pond • Dawn • Dreaming • Floating • Frosted Windowpane • Gentle Breeze • Hush • Johann's Music Box • Lavender • Nightfall • Peaceful Stream • Pianissimo • Rain • Winter Sky. A recording is also available via Burton Avenue Music.

Catalog:	HL00300640
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
Composer:	Phillip Keveren
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14 Reflective Arrangements by Phillip Keveren

Series: The Phillip Keveren Series
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Format: Softcover
Composer: Various
Arranger: Phillip Keveren

14 uplifting piano arrangements that will elevate both performer and listener into a more peaceful state of mind. Includes: All Things Bright and Beautiful • Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing • Evening Prayer • For the Beauty of the Earth • Great Is Thy Faithfulness • Holy, Holy, Holy • It Is Well with My Soul • Were You There? • and more.

Catalog:	HL00346009
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
Composer:	Various
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Shortly after a rather unsuccessful performance of his Piano Concerto No. 1, Johannes Brahms wrote to Joseph Joachim in 1859: “... asecond one will sound different”. Nevertheless, a good 20 years elapsed before that second concerto finally took form, and only in 1881 was he able to announce: “I wanted to tell you that I have written a very small piano concerto with a tiny little delicate Scherzo”. Henle's piano reduction of this anything-but-little symphonic concerto presents the solo part as it appears in the respective, recently published volume of the Brahms Complete Edition (51486020). Lars Vogt has succeeded in taming the opulent piano writing withis fingerings. The refined arrangement of the complex orchestral part for the accompanying second piano stems from Johannes Umbreit.

Catalog:	HL51481231
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Brahms
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Series: Henle Music Folios
Publisher: Henle Urtext Edition
Format: Softcover
Two Pianos
Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
Editor: Peter Jost

Despite its unusual form - a structure with two sections, each comprising two movements that are to be played without interruption - this work from 1875 enjoyed great success from the start. In its balanced proportion of solo part to orchestra, it corresponds almost perfectly to the model of the “symphonic concerto” and numbers among the most popular concerti by this French composer. For the first edition of 1877, no less a figure than Gabriel Fauré undertook the piano transcription of the orchestral part - an optimal basis for Johannes Umbreit's piano reduction for the first Urtext edition ever of this work. As for the Piano Concerti no. 2 and no. 5 already issued by Henle, Pascal Rogé, one of the greatest experts on Saint-Saëns' piano works, also provided the fingerings for this edition.

Catalog:	HL51481359
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Camille Saint-Saens
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This piano course is for the young beginner. Prep Books 1-A and 1-B replace book 1 of the series It’s Piano Lesson Time. Beginning in Middle C position with traditional melodies and folk songs, this course advances at a relaxed pace with extra pieces and note-naming practice. Each book includes music theory, writing, and ear training as well as clear & colorful diagrams & illustrations. This series makes teaching easy and learning fun. After completing Prep Book 1-B, students can advance to It’s Piano Lesson Time, Book 2.

Catalog:	757778009055
Publisher:	Bernard Stein
Composer:	William Monell
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This Primer series for young beginners (ages-5-6) begins with pre-staff notation, and proceeds to reading on the grand staff. The combination of original, folk, and seasonal songs, and full-color artwork makes learning a treat. Students who complete both Primers A & B are ready for study in Level 1 of Bastien Piano Basics. The Primer B Level is a continuation of the method for students who have completed Primer A.

Catalog:	KJWP231
Publisher:	Kjos
Composer:	Bastien
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For the Intermediate Grades

Includes:
C.P.E., Bach -- Solfeggietto
J.S. Bach -- Invention No. 1, Invention No. 4, Invention No. 8
Bartók -- Evening in the Country
Burgmüller -- Arabesque, Ballade
Beethoven -- For Elise, Minuet in G
Clementi -- Sonatina (Op. 36, No. 3)
Elmenreich -- Spinning Song
Grieg -- Sailor's Song, Elfin Dance, Puck
Haydn -- Allegro Scherzando
Heller -- Avalanche
Kabalevsky -- Sonatina, Toccatina
Khachaturian -- Ivan Sings
Kirnberger -- Bourrée No. 1, Bourrée No. 2
Kuhlau -- Sonatina (Op. 55, No. 1), Sonatina (Op. 55, No. 3)
Rebikoff -- Kukla
Schubert -- Waltz in B-Flat
Schumann -- Norse Song
Spindler -- Sonatina
Tchaikovsky -- Italian Folk Song, Polka

Catalog:	KJGP20
Publisher:	Kjos
Composer:	Bastien
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Song List:
•Brahms: Intermezzo b minor op. 119,1
•Brahms: Intermezzo C major op. 119,3
•Brahms: Intermezzo e minor op. 119,2
•Brahms: Rhapsody E flat major op. 11

Catalog:	HL51480123
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Brahms
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Your favorite sheet music will come to life with the innovative Piano Play-Along series! With these book/CD collections, piano and keyboard players will be able to practice and perform with professional-sounding accompaniments. Containing cream-of-the-crop songs, the books feature new engravings, with a separate vocal staff, plus guitar frames, so players and their friends can sing or strum along. The CDs feature two tracks for each tune: a full performance for listening, and a separate backing track that lets players take the lead on keyboard. The high-quality, sound-alike accompaniments exactly match the printed music.
8 songs, including: Born Too Late • A Lot of Livin' to Do • Night Song • Once Upon a Time • Put On a Happy Face • Those Were the Days • Tomorrow • You've Got Possibilities

Catalog:	HL00311821
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
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The name Mahler is so closely associated with the symphony and Lied genres that it is little known how intensively he applied himself to chamber music during his studies. Of his numerous attempts in this field only one piano quartet composed between 1876 and 1878 has survived - and of this merely the first movement in its entirety. The latter was only rediscovered in the 1960s and first published in 1973. Even if Brahms is unmistakably his model, the quartet movement contains enough individual and also unconventional elements - such as the almost symphonic treatment of the piano - for Henle to incorporate it into their Urtext ranks. In addition, they have included an appendix “for study purposes” with Mahler's fragmentary sketch for a further movement, a scherzo for the same instrumentation.

Catalog:	HL51481228
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Mahler
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Arranger:	Christoph Flamm

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Series: Ensemble
Publisher: Henle Urtext Edition
Format: Softcover
Score & Parts
Composer: Richard Strauss
Editor: Peter Jost

Completed on 1 January 1885, the Piano Quartet is, alongside the Cello Sonata op. 6 and the Violin Sonata op. 18, one of the most substantial chamber music works by the young Strauss. The four-movement, large-scale work is unmistakably influenced by his preoccupation with Brahms’s piano quartets. It initially experienced several very successful performances and was even awarded a prize in early 1886 by the Berlin Tonkünstlerverein, but later largely fell into oblivion, even though it had been available in print since July 1886. The Henle Urtext edition now makes possible the rediscovery of a work that unites youthful verve with sovereign technical mastery.

Catalog:	HL51481495
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Richard Strauss
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Series: Henle Music Folios
Publisher: Henle Urtext Edition
Format: Softcover
Set of Parts
Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Editor: Peter Jost

For several years following composition of his first piano quartet, Dvorák's publisher Simrock pushed him to compose a follow-up piece in the genre. The work, written during a few short weeks in summer 1889, fulfilled Simrock’s wishes. With his op. 87, Dvorák delivered a challenging and mature work in which a mastery of form is combined with memorable themes and surprising harmonic turns, leading it quickly to conquer the hearts of both performers and audiences.

The engraver's model for the first edition is lost; but together with the first edition the autograph survives as a second source for our critical edition, with which Henle continues its series of Urtext editions of this composer.

Catalog:	HL51481580
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Antonin Dvorak
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Series: Henle Music Folios
Publisher: Henle Urtext Edition
Format: Softcover
Score & Parts
Composer: Gabriel Fauré
Editor: Pascal Rogé

Directly after composing his first violin sonata, Fauré wrote another great chamber music work with the Piano Quartet op. 15. This youthful, fresh composition met with wide approval at its premiere in February 1880, however, a little later, friends expressed somereservations about the last movement. Fauré then even composed an entirely new Finale, although this was only after a period of reflection of three years. With this new final movement, op. 15 quickly found its way into concert halls and is now regarded as one of the most important and popular French chamber music works of the late 19th century. The fingering in the piano part has been added by a specialist in “musique française,” the French pianist Pascal Rogé.

Catalog:	HL51481544
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Gabriel Fauré
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Series: Henle Music Folios
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Format: Softcover
Score & Parts
Composer: Cesar Franck
Editor: Ernst-Günter Heinemann

This work, composed in 1878/79, alternates between chamber music intimacy and symphonic opulence, and marks the beginning of a series of significant late works by César Franck. Its composition was partly prompted by the successful performance of Franck's youthful piano trios at the "Société nationale de musique" (founded in 1871), and probably also by a composition competition for works using this instrumental combination whose deadline Franck then went on to miss. The Quintet was received coolly at its first performance in January 1880, and it was performed just a few more times during the composer’s lifetime. It was only in the 20th century that audiences and critics came to recognise this work as a major milestone in the history of French chamber music, and it now adorns the Henle catalogue in a new Urtext edition.

Catalog:	HL51481142
Publisher:	Henle
Composer:	Cesar Franck
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Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics

Series: Faber Piano Adventures®
Publisher: Faber Piano Adventures
Format: Softcover
Authors: Nancy Faber, Randall Faber
Piano Level: Late Elementary

Sightread in style... classical style! Recommended for students at Level 3A-3B of Piano Adventures, the Developing Artist Piano Sightreading Book 1 features vignettes to develop patterns, rhythms, and styles based on the corresponding Literature Book 1 pieces. Play the sets before, during, or after learning the original keyboard classic piece, providing confidence, clarity, and connection. This title is also suitable as a stand-alone sightreading book at the appropriate level.

Catalog:	HL01217867
Publisher:	Faber
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30 Contemplative Hymns & Classical Piano Series: Piano Solo Songbook Format: Softcover Artist: Various This collection includes 30 reflective songs and classical pieces in pianistic settings appropriate for church musicians or hobbyists. Includes: Ave Verum Corpus • Beneath the Cross of Jesus • God So Loved the World • Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley • The King of Love My Shepherd Is • Nearer, My God, to Thee • O Sacred Head, Now Wounded • The Old Rugged Cross • Pie Jesu • Were You There? • What Wondrous Love Is This • and more.

Catalog:	HL00237100
Publisher:	Hal Leonard
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