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Designed especially for beginning pianists, enjoy simplified arrangements of popular classics from renowned composers with lessons and free MP3 to guide you!

The Big Book of Beginner's Piano Classics makes it wonderfully simple for students from the ages of 4 to 99 to improve their piano playing techniques with popular classics from renowned composers—allowing them to experience music that otherwise would seem daunting. Eighty-three simplified arrangements of beloved works include pieces from Brahms, Debussy, Grieg, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and more. Each piece comes with a free MP3 download so aspiring pianists can easily familiarize themselves with each song. These audio files serve as an auditory guide, helping learners grasp a piece's mood, tempo, and dynamics, which might not be immediately apparent from sheet music alone. Whether teaching yourself or learning with a music instructor, practicing alongside these recordings can enhance a student's timing and rhythm, providing a more immersive learning experience.
  Simplified Classics for Beginners: Start your musical voyage with The Big Book of Beginner's Piano Classics, which features 83 simplified arrangements of popular classics for children and adults of all ages. Perfect for Developing Musical Skills: This collection of piano lessons is the ideal starting point for beginner pianists to develop hand and ear skills and learn other techniques, such as playing in octaves, with accented notes, or four-part chorale playing. Complimentary MP3 Downloads: Each piece comes with a free MP3 download, serving as an auditory guide to familiarize learners with the music to internalize melodies and harmonies, understand the mood, tempo, and dynamics, and practice anywhere, anytime. Enhanced Learning Experience: Practicing alongside the provided recordings can significantly improve a student's timing, rhythm, and overall musicality, creating a more immersive and practical learning experience. Educational Extras: Includes a glossary of Italian musical terms used in the pieces, offering a more comprehensive learning tool and enhancing understanding of musical expressions. It also includes informative text about each work.
Lessons include the following music with free MP3 downloads:

*Bach:
Minuet
Sheep May Safely Graze
Sarabande
Air on a G String
Aria from Goldberg Variations
Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor (opening)
Prelude in C Major
Invention in F Major
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
*Bartók
Rumania Sketch
*Beethoven
Für Elise
Ode to Joy
Sonatina in G (opening)
Moonlight Sonata (opening)
Minuet in G
"Emperor" Concerto
Symphony No. 5 (opening)
Turkish March
*Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Lullaby
*Chopin
Mazurka
Nocturne
Etude No. 3
Prelude No. 7
Funeral March
“Raindrop” Prelude
Fantaisie-impromptu
*Clementi
Air Suisse
Rondo in C
*Debussy
The Maiden with the Flaxen Hair
*Dvorák
From the New World
Humoresque
*Foster
Beautiful Dreamer
*Gluck
Ballet Air
*Grieg
Piano Concerto
Morning Mood
*Handel
Sarabande
The Harmonious Blacksmith
*Haydn
Sonata in C
Rondo
“Surprise” Symphony
*Liszt
Consolation
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
*MacDowell
To A Wild Rose
*Mendelssohn
Venetian Gondola Song
*Mozart
Minuet from Don Giovanni
Papgeno’s Song
Romanze
Sonata in A
Allegro from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Aria from Don Giovanni
Overture to Marriage of Figaro
Rondo Alla Turca
Symphony No. 40 (opening)
*Mussorgsky
Hopak
*Paderewski
Krakowiak
Minuet in Olden Style
*Rameau
Tambourin
*Rachmaninoff
Prelude
*Rubinstein
Melody in F
*Saint-Saëns
The Swan
*Satie
Lullaby
*Scarlatti, D.
Sonata in A Minor (Aria)
*Schubert
The Trout
Impromptu
*Schumann
Träumerei
The Happy Farmer
The Poet Speaks
*Scriabin
Prelude
*Sibelius
Finlandia
*Strauss
Pizzicato Polka
*Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 (theme)
Marche Slave
Fifth Symphony
Romeo and Juliet (theme)
1812 Overture (Allegro)
Swan Lake (theme)
Eugene Onegin Waltz
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker
*Verdi
Grand March
*Vivaldi
The Autumn Hunt
*Wagner
Bridal Procession
Song to the Evening Star

 

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; 37862nd edition (June 11, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486466159
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486466156
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 4 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.17 x 0.32 x 10.92 inches
Reviewer: Evan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for beginners!
Review: I already learned the 1st piece in a couple of days. It has free downloadable audio files for every piece so you know how it should sound. This is a great book!!!!!!

Reviewer: LM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just what I was looking for
Review: I just wanted some nice little pieces to work on as I ease my way back into piano. I need time to rebuild my skills and these will help me get there by being relatively easy and fun to play. Thank you!

Reviewer: Z
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great practice book for adults (or kids!) who already have basic skills
Review: I am an adult (late 30's) and had piano lessons when I was a kid. I was never a virtuoso, but could play Moonlight Sonata, or Fur Elise up until it gets hard. After many years of not having a piano in my life I finally do again, and am terribly, terribly out of practice. This book is perfect for me. It's grown-up music, simplified to a point where I look at the music and think, "I'll need to practice a little while to be able to play that perfectly, but I can totally get there." Which is exactly what I want in a book of sheet music designed for learning.I see some debate (of sorts) in the reviews as to whether this is a "beginning" book or not. I would say yes, it is a beginning level book, but towards the advanced end of "beginning." It is a book for practicing skills you already have learned or are learning elsewhere, rather than a teaching book. I'm only a little way into it, but so far it has chords in both hands, melodies moving from clef to clef, cross-over fingering, and timing as complex as triplet eighth notes but not much more complicated than that. Many but not all pieces have fingering suggestions. From what I've tried so far, most pieces seem to be 1-3 pages long, most often 2 or 3 pages. I've seen up to 4 flats or sharps.My one complaint is the way the book is organized. It's simply alphabetical by composer. Very easy for them to put together, I'm sure, but it could have been better organized to better help the learner. A rough order of easy to difficult would have been useful, or grouped for some sort of lesson, e.g. unusual time signatures or challenging keys. I think either of those methods of organization would make the book more useful--it's obviously aimed at learners so why not help them out a bit more and steer them toward pieces that will help them with whatever it is they'd like to learn, or whatever part of the difficulty spectrum is the best level of challenge.With the organization as it is, I'm just kind of working through alphabetically, practicing the ones that look interesting and doable for as long as I feel like it, and moving on. When I've gotten a look at everything in it I'll probably choose a few to focus on and actually practice until I can play them well. If they were organized by difficulty level, it would be much easier to hone in on the best ones for me to practice.

Reviewer: Britbob
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very Helpful
Review: I enjoy this book. Playing the songs definitely has helped my ability to play.It is a great challenge. Daunting at first. Surprisingly simple.Haven’t finished it yet. It will be a must open for quite a while longer.

Reviewer: Gary
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just what a wanted
Review: Very easy for beginners

Reviewer: ME Dobbs
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great selection of the classics!
Review: This is what I've been looking for to introduce my students to famous works of music! This book captures the essence of themes of music. Young and beginner students often aren't familiar with the tunes of well known music. These simple arrangements give students the opportunity to learn good music without having to play the entire piece.A lot of books of classical music I've seen for beginner students have simple pieces in them, but they aren't well known themes. Considering one of my young students had never heard of Beethoven, I don't want to teach my students obscure pieces that really won't round out their education about music. This book includes well known and loved themes of music over the centuries.Each piece also has a snippet of information about the composer or the piece. It's nice to have specific information right there for the student to see. So much of what is explained about music during a lesson is audible, so its nice to have another medium of teaching.One tiny disappointment is that the arrangements are really short. For instance "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desirings" only has the first part of the piece. The second section of that piece easily could have been included. But overall, this is a great book.

Reviewer: coreenv
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Disappointed with it!
Review: I was excited to get this book cuz I wanted to try some familiar classical pieces that were written simply that I could play by myself. However, even though they are simply written, there isn't very much of each piece to play! They seem to stop just as they get to where the most familiar part is! Very disappointing!!

Reviewer: Miscellaneous Reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic book
Review: This book has all your great classical songs that are simplified but still sound just like the real thing. While they are simpler they are not for the new beginner. However with a little effort these songs will have you sounding professional! As an added bonus, the pages are a nice off-white color that creates an antique look that I really like.

Reviewer: jorge j. mattar
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Libro muy completo. Buena selección de compositores. Muy útil para dar clases

Reviewer: stefania
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Sono molto contenta di averlo acquistato . Ci sono molti pezzi di musica classica che mi piacciono, e li voglio proporre al mio Maestro. Purtroppo sono all'inizio del percorso di studio ,avevo quindi proprio bisogno di un testo come questo.

Reviewer: BigJon
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This is most definately NOT for beginners. Most of the pieces are technically very challenging, requiring at least an intermediate skill level. Even my teacher has trouble with many of these...

Reviewer: Max W
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: This book is most valuable for those learning the piano or keyboard and who have an ear for the classics in music. The book is well bound and the music printing is quite large making it easy to open, flatten and read. What is highly complex music is reduced to the basic themes that are easy to read and play. I would recommend it to anyone learning, or relearning the piano after several years of absence.

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