Essential Keyboard Repertoire: Vol. 1: 100 Early Intermediate Selections in Their Original Form Baroque to Modern (Item 501C) [Plastic Comb] Review

There's another reviewer who complains that this book contains too many pieces by nonentities such as James Hook and Daniel Gottlob, and too few by luminaries such as Beethoven and Mozart.I don't think it's a fair complaint.

Consider the book's stated philosophy:only unaltered, original pieces are included.That limits them quite a bit.It's an early intermediate book, yet Mozart and Beethoven wrote very few things that were simple enough for such inclusion.In fact, the few Mozart pieces in here have Kochel numbers of less than five!In other words, he wrote them when he was just out of diapers.

Get it?This is not a book of SIMPLIFIED piano classics, such as the excellently done Easy Piano Classics (Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library).Everything you're seeing is unsimplified.

I'm not so hot on this anthology, however.Another idea the editors had was to avoid editing the text.So, for example, none of the selections from the Anna Magdalena notebook have any of those staccatos you're used to.It's up to you do make decisions about tempo, dynamics, ornamentation, etc.In the selections after 1800 this doesn't make much of a difference, but for those earlier Baroque pieces it really gives them a spare, aseptic quality.

That's the problem, in my view.You're telling me that the student who goes through this is sophisticated enough to supply the correct flavorings to Anna Magdalena, yet low-leveled enough to only be capable of such simple pieces to begin with?Who's ever seen a student like that?

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1. The Little Trifle p. 8 2. Menuet en Rondeau p. 14 3. Minuet p. 23 4. Menuet p. 28 5. German Dance p. 42 6. Minuetto p. 47 7. Valse p. 52 8. The Hunting Horns And The Echo p. 58 9. Minuet And Trio p. 64 10. Adagio p. 68 11. Ecossaise p. 72 12. Etude p. 82 13. Arabesque p. 84 14. SoldiersÕ March p. 86 15. Wild Rider p. 88 16. Melody p. 90 17. Prayer p. 102 18. A Little Flower p. 104 19. The Bear p. 109 20. Scherzino p. 116 21. "Come Home, Lidi" p. 119 22. "Hey There, Tulip!" p. 122 23. Folk Dance p. 127 24. Waltz p. 129 25. Toccatina p. 130 26. Clowns p. 132

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