The Classic Piano Course, Book 2: Building Your Skills

This new, user-friendly course means you can take up the piano at any age! Whether you're learning from scratch, or starting again, these three books will guide you gently into the pleasure of piano playing. You learn as you play. The course is based on familiar favorites from the classical repertoire, themes from opera and ballet, folksongs and blues, music by contemporary classical composers, and original pieces by Carol Barratt herself. The books include fascinating items of musical history and biography, an easy-to-follow introduction to the theory of music, and suggested listening to enhance your musical appreciation.

Songs Include:

• Air [Purcell]
• All Through The Night [Welsh]
• Can-can [Offenbach, Jacques]
• Constellation [Barratt]
• Country Gardens [English]
• Dance Of The Hours [Ponchielli]
• Duet-Lavender’s Blue [English]
• Eighteenth-Century Gavotte [Witthauer]
• Gavotte ll [Bach]
• German Dance [Beethoven]
• Lazy Haze [Barratt]
• Minuet [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus]
• Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
• Pick ‘n’ Mix [Barratt]
• Sailor's Hornpipe
• Scherzo [Kabalevsky, Dmitri]
• Study In Finger Velocity [Czerny]
• Teddington Blues [Barratt]
• The Blue Danube [Strauss]
• The Entertainer [Joplin, Scott]
• The Marriage Of Figaro Cherubino’s Aria [Mozart]
• Twentieth-Century Gavotte [Barratt]