The Classic Piano Course, Omnibus Edition

You can take up the piano at any age with this complete, user-friendly course by Carol Barratt. Whether you're starting from scratch, or starting again, this course has been designed to guide you gently into playing simple tunes from day one. Containing familiar favorites from the classical repertoire, themes from opera and ballet, folksongs and blues, plus music by contemporary classical composers.Including 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.Free dummy keyboard included for silent practice, group tuition, and theory work.Book 1: Starting to Play-You'll soon be playing more than 40 piano pieces and exercises. Book 1 introduces the keyboard, the musical alphabet, terms and signs, as well as note values and time signatures.Book 2: Building Your Skills - More than 20 piano pieces for you to play, ranging from "The Entertainer" to "The Blue Danube," plus more information on music theory, expression marks, and terms and signs.Book 3: Making Music - You will play over 20 piano pieces, including music by Verdi, Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Saint-Saëns, and Tchaikovsky. More theory points are incorporated, and you'll be playing the blues!

Songs Include:

• (Resting!) On The Bridge At Avignon (French)
• A Cradle Song [Kabalevsky]
• Air Des Bouffons (French)
• Air In F [Bach]
• Air [Purcell]
• All Through The Night [Welsh]
• Allemande [Schein]
• Au Clair De La Lune (French)
• Auld Lang Syne [Scottish]
• Baratt’s Canon (Barratt)
• Bobby Shaftoe [English]
• Can-can [Offenbach, Jacques]
• Carefree John [Türk]
• Clog Dance [English]
• Constellation [Barratt]
• Dance Of The Hours [Ponchielli]
• Der Meyen [Swiss]
• Din, Don [Spanish]
• Don Giovanni [Mozart]
• Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
• Duet-Lavender’s Blue [English]
• Duet-Monet’s Garden [Barratt]
• Eighteenth-Century Gavotte [Witthauer]
• F-Sharp Workout [Barratt]
• Für Elise [Beethoven]
• First Loss [Schumann]
• First Study [Czerny]
• Frankie And Johnny
• Funeral March Of A Marionette [Gounod]
• Gavotte ll [Bach]
• Gavotte [Handel]
• Gavotte [Hook]
• German Dance (Haydn)
• German Dance [Schubert]
• Greensleeves [Traditional English]
• La Donna E Mobile (Rigoletto) [Verdi, Guiseppe]
• La Traviata [Verdi]
• Largo
• Lazy Haze [Barratt]
• L’homme Armé [French]
• Les Cinq Doigts [Strasvinsky]
• Little Sonata [Wilton]
• Lullaby [Brahms]
• Miserable Mary! [Barratt]
• Mopstick Rag [Barratt]
• Morning [Grieg]
• Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
• Ode To Joy [Beethoven]
• Pick ‘n’ Mix [Barratt]
• Poor Wand'ring One [Sullivan]
• Prelude [Chopin, Frederic]
• Racoon Rag [Barratt]
• Rigadoon (Purcell)
• Russian Dance [Goedicke]
• Sailor's Hornpipe
• Sarabande (Handel)
• Sarabande [Correli]
• Scarborough Fair [English]
• Scherzo [Kabalevsky, Dmitri]
• Shepherd's Hey [English]
• Shoo Shaggie (Scottish)
• Skye Boat Song [Scottish]
• Sonatina [Clementi]
• Staccato Study [Czerny]
• Study In Finger Velocity [Czerny]
• Surprise Symphony [Haydn]
• Swan Lake [Tchaikovsky]
• Tallis's Canon [Tallis]
• Tambourin [Rameau]
• Teddington Blues [Barratt]
• The Blue Danube [Strauss]
• The Elephant [Saint-Saëns]
• The Entertainer [Joplin, Scott]
• The Marriage Of Figaro Cherubino’s Aria [Mozart]
• Theme And Variations (Mozart)
• Treadmill Blues [Barratt]
• Trepak [Tchaikovsky]
• Twentieth-Century Gavotte [Barratt]
• Two Excerpts-Symphony No. 1 [Brahms]
• Two-Part Invention [Barratt]
• Unfinished Symphony [Schubert, Franz]
• Valse [Chopin]
• Variations On A Theme Of Haydn (Brahms)
• Vltava [Smetana]
• Waltz [Moravian]
• When the Saints (American)