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Previously Featured Edition"100 Best Loved Piano Solos - Teaching Pieces"
This unique edition includes 75 classical piano solos in their original form and 25 arrangements of well-known themes from symphonies and operas. The collection serves as both an introduction to true classical piano literature and a lasting repertoire resource for early intermediate students and teachers. The pieces have been carefully selected to ensure a variety of precisely graded repertoire representing each of the primary periods in music history. Organization of ContentThe 75 original piano solos by many of the great composers are organized by music period. Included are the easiest minuets and dance pieces from the Baroque and Classical Periods, and short, descriptively titled character pieces from the Romantic Period and the Twentieth Century. An additional category lists Schultz’s 25 arrangements of non-piano classical works. Included are 1-2 page arrangements of themes from symphonies by Haydn, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, a variety of famous opera arias, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Pachelbel’s Canon In D and more. Approach to EditingThe sample pages from this edition, shown below, are representative of the general level of difficulty, the approach to editing, and the beautifully laid out computer engravings. Note that the editing is precise, accurate, consistent, and always done with complete respect for the composer’s original version. Necessary fingering, marks of articulation and expression, phrasing, dynamics and pedaling, are included when appropriate, but great care is taken to avoid over-editing. For instance, slurs or phrase marks are used consistently to indicate passages that are to be played with a legato touch. The absence of such slurs or phrasing consistently indicates a normal degree of separation, or a slightly detached touch, while staccato marks indicate a true staccato touch. This is a clear and historically accurate approach to music editing that avoids the trap of marking articulations for every note, such as the combination staccato/tenuto mark sometimes used to indicate a normal baroque detached touch. The same approach is applied to the use of dynamics and marks of expression--important indications are always included, but with the expectancy that students are always encouraged to play musically, to shape phrases, and to discover the natural spirit of the music without relying on an over-abundance of wedges and terms to guide every nuance. Sample PagesSample excerpts from this Teaching Pieces edition are shown below. Minuet in G Major
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Author:
Robert Schultz
