These 18 pieces are versions of well-known classical music arranged for instruments available in most school music rooms and feasible for playing by community groups as well.Sometimes these arrangements use only a few notes or have easy repeated patterns. They have worked well with children, with family groups, in various school settings, and with older adults aged 65- 90 - many of whom have had little experience playing music in groups. Many melodies from the classical repertoire are familiar even to children, from television themes, advertising, or cartoons. These arrangements are intended to make playing in groups possible for a wide range of people using commonly available instruments. The pieces are also easily found on YouTube in many orchestral arrangements.

Eighty-three popular piano classics arranged for the beginning student are accompanied by a short history of each piece and advice on playing each arrangement.5NjBwBT

42 of the most famous classics arranged for simplified piano. These enchanting melodies supply students of the first and second levels of study with an introduction to the world's finest music.

Play the world's most beautiful classical music quickly and easily with this high-quality selection of short, favorite, accessible compositions by the world's greatest composers — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, and others. Includes Beethoven's Für Elise, Three Norwegian Dances by Grieg, Liszt's Consolation, Macdowell's To a Wild Rose, Schumann's Träumerei, and many more.

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