This original compilation covers three centuries of dance works for the piano,from the minuet to the cakewalk. Its unique, diverse selection comprises 86 captivating miniatures--all of them within reach of intermediate pianists.Ever-popular selections encompass highlights from Bach's French and English Suites, mazurkas by Chopin, Brahms waltzes.
Fun to play and exciting to hear, dances enthrall performers and listeners alike.This original compilation covers three centuries of dance works for the piano,from the minuet to the cakewalk. Its unique, diverse selection comprises 86 captivating miniatures--all of them within reach of intermediate pianists.Ever-popular selections encompass highlights from Bach's French and English Suites, mazurkas by Chopin, Brahms waltzes, Beethoven minuets, Spanish dances by Granados and Albniz, Satie's Gymnopdie No. 1, and a Russian dance by Tchaikovsky. Other featured composers include Mozart, Rameau,Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Grieg, Strauss, and Debussy.This inexpensive treasury of piano classics represents an excellent resource for pianists at a variety of levels, offering a wide range of music to challenge and delight young and old alike. Original Dover (2004) publication. 128pp. 9 x 12.Paperbound.
ALBINIZ, ISAAC
Zortzico (Op. 165/5)
BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN
From English Suite No. 2
Bourre I
Bourr6e II
Gigue
From English Suite No. 3
Sarabande
Gavotte I
Gavotte II
From English Suite No. 6
Gavotte I
Gavotte II
From French Suite No. 2
Courante
From Partita No. 1
Menuet I
Menuet II
Gigue
BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
Six Minuets (WoO 10)
Six Lindler (WoO 15)
BRAHMS, JOHANNES
Waltzes (Op. 39)
No. 2 in E Major
No. 3 in G-sharp Minor
No. 11 in B Minor
CHOPIN, FREDIRIC
Waltz in D-flat Major
"Minute Waltz" (Op. 64/1)
Waltz in A Minor (Op. 34/2)
Mazurka in C Major (Op. 7/5)
Mazurka in B-flat Major (Op. 7/1)
Mazurka in F Major (Op. 68/3)
DEBUSSY, CLAUDE
Passepied
Golliwogg's Cake-Walk
GRANADOS, ENRIQUE
Spanish Dance No. 2 (Orientale)
Spanish Dance No. 4 (Villanesca)
valses ffoetlcos
No. 1 in A Major
No. 2 in F Major
GRIEG, EDVARD
Valse-Impromptu (Op. 47/1)
Halling (Op. 47/4)
Leaping Dance (Op. 47/6)
Anitra's Dance (Op. 46/3)
MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS
Minuet in G Major (K. 1/le)
Minuet in F Major (K. 2)
Minuet in F Major (K. 4)
Minuet in D Major (K. 355/576b)
tAMEAU, JEAN-PHILIPPE
Allemande
Venitienne
Menuet
SATIE, ERIK
Gymnop4die No. 1
Gnossienne No. 1
SCHUBERT, FKANZ
17 Lindler (D. 366)
8 Ecossaises (D. 299)
SCHUMANN, ROBERT
Gigue (Op. 32/2)
Lindler (Op. 124/7)
Waltz (Op. 124/15)
SCRIABIN, ALEXANDER
Impromptu la Mazur (Op. 2/3)
STRAUSS, JOHANN, JR.
On the Beautiful
Blue Danube (Op. 314)
Pizzicato-Polka
TCHAIKOVSKY, PETER ILYITCH
Danse Russe (Op. 40/10)
Mazurka (Op. 39/11)
Polka (Op. 39/10)