Product Description by our Music Experts
Pauline Hall’s Piano Time Pieces Book 1 is jam packed with really easy pieces from a wide range of fun styles and is designed to widen your repertoire.
Wide range of fun pieces
Piano Time Pieces Book 1 is a great book full of really fun pieces, which will be easy to pick up after you’ve learnt all the piano playing basics from Piano Time Book 1. It contains 27 pieces by Pauline Hall and guests, including some folk/traditional songs, world music, easy classical arrangements, and lots of songs with fun words so you can sing along, such as ‘The polar bear’, ‘Frog count’, and ‘Scarborough fair’. It even provides an easy introduction to improvisation - you are encouraged to make up your own Chinese melody in the right hand, using a given set of notes and rhythms, over a set left hand part. All pieces are of a pre-grade 1 standard, and the book is full of exciting illustrations, making Piano Time Pieces Book 1 really fun and engaging for beginners! The music includes fingerings, articulation, performance directions, dynamics, and there are pedalling tips and performance directions help you play musically.
Contents (a-z)
- A chat between friends - A. Bullard
- Allegretto - D.G. Türk
- Bohemian dance - Czech folk-tune (arr. P. Hall)
- Brave knight - M. Vogel
- Cheerful cha-cha-cha - P. Hall
- Chineses take away - P. Hall
- Crocodile waltz - A. Bullard
- Easy going - D. Blackwell
- Frog count - P. Hall
- Grass so green - Czech folk-tune (arr. P. Hall)
- In the desert - P. Hall
- Introduction and promenade - A. Reinagle
- Martian’s march - P. Hall
- Michael, row the boat ashore - American folk-tune
- Morning has broken - Old Gaelic melody (arr. E. Farjeon)
- On the river - A. Bullard
- Polly wolly doodle - American traditional
- Scarborough fair - English folk tune
- See what I told you - so there! - P. Hall
- Song of the squeaky door - A. Bullard
- Spooks - P. Hall
- The polar bear - 19th Century Melody (arr. P. Hall)
- The secret garden - P. Hall
- The witch’s lair - P. Hall
- Time to celebrate! - A. Bullard
- Trick mirrors - D. Blackwell
- Turpin - P. Hall