The Big Book of Classical Music
100 of the World's Favorite Pieces
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Shipping Policy- Format: Score
- Instrumentation: Piano
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- Size: 9.0 x 12.0 inches
- Pages: 352
Description
100 classics in intermediate level arrangements, with music by the great composers.
Contents: ALBINONI: Adagio in G min - BACH: Air on the G String - Bist du bei mir - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Prelude in C Maj - Sheep May Safely Graze - BEETHOVEN: Sonata, Op. 13, Adagio - Fur Elise - Ode to Joy - Concerto No. 5, 1st mvt excerpt - Symphonies 3 & 5, 1st mvt excerpts - Turkish March - BIZET: Habanera - BORODIN: Polovetzian Dances, 1st theme - BRAHMS: Lullaby - Symphonies: No. 1, 4th mvt excerpt - No. 3, 3rd mvt excerpt - No. 4, 1st mvt excerpt - Waltz, Op. 39, No. 15 - CHOPIN: Preludes, Op. 28: No. 7 - No. 20 - No. 15 - No. 4 - Waltz, Op. 69, No. 1 - DEBUSSY: The Girl with the Flaxen Hair - Golliwogg's Cake-walk - Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Opening excerpt - Reverie - DELIBES: Pizzicato Polka - DVORAK: Humoresque - Symphony NO. 9, 2nd mvt excerpt - FAURE: Pie Jesu - FRANCK: Panis angelicus - GOSSEC: Gavotte - GOUNOD: Funeral March of a Marionette - GRIEG: In the Hall of the Mountain King - Morning - Solvejg's Song - HANDEL: Water Music: Air - Allegro maestoso - Messiah: Hallelujah - I Know That My Redeemer Liveth - Serse: Largo - HAYDN: Keyboard Trio No. 23, 3rd mvt excerpt - Symphony No. 94, 2nd mvt excerpt - HUMPERDINCK: Evening Prayer - LEHAR: The Merry Widow, Selections - MAHLER: Symphonies: No. 1, 3rd mvt Opening - No. 2, 5th mvt Choral - MASSENET: Meditation - MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides themes - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Overture themes - MOURET: Rondeau - MOZART: Alleluia - Ave verum corpus - Eine kleine Nachtmusic, 1st mvt excerpt - Lacrymosa - Piano Concerto No. 21, 2nd mvt excerpt - Piano Sonata, K. 545, 1st mvt - OFFENBACH: Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffmann) - Can Can - PACHELBEL: Canon in D - PARRY: Jerusalem - PUCCINI: O mio babbino caro - O soave fanciulla - Quando men vo - Un bel di vedremo - Vissi d'arte - PURCELL: Rondeau (Abdelazer) - Trumpet Tune - RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, Part 1 themes - SAINT-SAENS: Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium - The Swan - SCHUBERT: Ave Maria - Serenade - SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A Minor, 1st mvt themes - SMETANA: The Moldau excerpt - J STRAUSS II: By the Beautiful Blue Danube, themes - The Fledermaus Waltz - Tales from the Vienna Woods, themes - Vienna Life - SULLIVAN: HMS Pinafore, Selections - TCHAIKOVSKY: Dance of the Reed Flutes - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - 1812 Overture, excerpt - Romeo and Juliet, Love theme - The Sleeping Beauty Waltz - Symphony No. 6, 1st mvt excerpt - Violin Concerto 1st mvt excerpt - VERDI: Addio, del passatto - La donna e mobile - VIVALDI: Autumn, 1st mvt excerpt - Mandolin Concerto, 1st mvt excerpt - WAGNER: Bridal Chorus (Lohengrin) - The Evening Star (Tannhauser) - Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser)
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Hardcover
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Set of Parts
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Solo Part with Piano Reduction
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Study Score
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Vocal Score
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Wind Set
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With Audio
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The Big Book of Classical Music
