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Edward MacDowell was one of America's first and most important native-born composers. Smaller piano works have enhanced MacDowell's reputation more than any of his other compositions. He was a miniatu...

Jacques Ibert's humorous and charming staccato study is presented here in Maurice Hinson's Masterwork Edition, which includes biographical and historical notes, and practice and performance suggestion...

Taken from his collection, 'Histoires,' written between 1910 and 1922, this light-hearted, delightful French piece makes a wonderful show piece for the early advanced pianist. There are swings in dyna...

In this captivating volume, Hinson describes how the personality of Russian music is often derived from Russian folk songs and Oriental elements, with imaginative harmonies and chordal effects that di...

In the late-19th and 20th centuries, composers produced a wealth of innovative piano music, venturing in new directions and seeking new sounds. The music produced during those transitional years is co...

This beautiful edition of the famous piece from Debussy's 'Children's Corner Suite' has historical notes, performance suggestions, and translations of Debussy's French instructions which are scattered...

Morton Gould composed brilliantly for orchestra, Broadway, film, television, ballet and piano. He became nationally recognized through his work in radio, where he introduced many of his own compositio...

The six programmatic movements in this suite depict the characters of early European pantomime, popular in America in the late 19th century: Promenade - Columbine - Pantalon - Pierrot and Pierrette -...

This is Scandanavian romantic composer Christian Sinding's most famous piano solo, with its descriptive broken chord legato accompaniment over the beautiful lyric melody. This edition is nicely laid o...

Presumably inspired by Charles Sainte-Beuve's collection of poems, this set of six pieces provides a wonderful introduction to Liszt's melodic invention, mood evocation and harmonic language. The most...

Eight contrasing pieces with descriptive titles comprise the 'Fantasy Pieces', op. 12. Although the eight pieces form a homogeneous whole, each can be played individually without loss of effect. They...

Felix Mendelssohn's Allegro brillant, Op. 92, for one piano, four hands, was written in 1841 and dedicated to Clara Schumann. The expressive Andante theme alternates between the Secondo and Primo, seg...

Dr. Hinson explores western polyphonic piano music at a comfortable level for early and middle level pianists to aid them in developing the proficiency to play the great polyphonic repertoire. Forms s...

This wonderful grouping of keyboard works includes pieces written from the 16th through the 20th centuries. The works found in this edition are lively and charming, and offer intermediate to moderatel...

Carnaval is characteristic of Schumann's highly individual youthful romanticism and requires musical maturity for performance. Written for advanced pianists, it is a series of glimpses enveloped in th...

This performance- and teaching-oriented volume focuses on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Emphasizing variety, a list of suggested performance groups is provided. Comprehensive information on...

This volume surveys American piano music over the last two centuries, providing biographical information on composers as well as performance notes. Pieces are presented in their original form and have...

Czerny's Op. 821 is an enjoyable collection of eight-measure exercises including scalar figurations, contrast of legato and staccato, trills, arpeggios, transposition, ornamentation and more. Their br...

The second piece in Schumann's 'Fantasiestucke,' Aufschwung (or 'Soaring') is played rapidly, in 6/8 time, but with fluctuations in tempo that suggest the feeling of flight. In this edition, Maurice H...

Expertly arranged early advanced piano sheet music by Cyril Scott.

This excellent volume contains 85 selections that are essential for pianists at the early- to late-intermediate level. Spanning the Baroque through Modern eras, all of the selections have interesting...

In the Essential Keyboard Repertoire Series, much care was given to grading, editing and most of all, student appeal. Each volume spans four centuries of keyboard music, and every selection is in its...