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"With this collection, Lang Lang goes back to his first love--to the pieces that made him want to become a musician.  Rediscovering the miniature masterpieces written for learners and lovers of the piano, this album is a journey--of inspiration, discovery, fantasy and learning.  Lang Lang illuminates these popular pieces as the masterworks they truly are."-- Cover.

Children learn best when they can learn through multi-sensory means. By using hearing, seeing and kinesthetic methods, Emily Arrow has created this easy and fun book, Kid's Guide to Playing Piano or Keyboard, for children to use as an introduction to learn how to play the piano. The book is a simple and much needed piano method for beginning musicians ages 6 and older. Her process, which follows the Orff Schulwerk method, is very approachable as she...

"The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering, the much-anticipated companion to Joseph Banowetz's The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling, provides practical fingering solutions for technical musical passages. Banowetz contends that fingering choices require much thought and consideration and that too often these choices are influenced by historical traditions and ideas rather than by actual performance conditions. By returning to the unedited original compositions,...

"A very simple introduction to pianos, their history, what they sound like, what they look like, and how they are played" -- Publisher's website.

Photographs and simple text provide an introduction to pianos, explaining what they look like, how they sound, where they come from, and how they are played.

The author delivers another middle-grade thriller about a piano teacher obsessed with his students' hands--so much so that he collects them!

In a standout debut for the #MeToo era, a young pianist devotes herself to her art — and to the demanding, charismatic teacher she idolizes.
After seventeen-year-old Claire Alalay's father's death, only music has helped her channel her grief. Claire likes herself best when she plays his old piano, a welcome escape from the sadness — and her traditional Filipino mother's prayer groups. In the hopes of earning a college scholarship,

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