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Book cover image of The Piano Bench of Classical Music: (Sheet Music) by Hal Leonard Corp.

Authors: Hal Leonard Corp. (Created by), Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN-13: 9780825617690, ISBN-10: 0825617693
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Music Sales America
Date Published: October 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Hal Leonard Corp.

Book Synopsis

The Piano Bench of Classical Music is designed to be the cornerstone of your personal music library. This piano collection contains 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the pianist who loves classical music. No other single volume can provide the wealth of exquisite piano selections contained within these pages. Here you will find the world's favorite inventions, preludes, fugues, minuets, sonata movements, nocturnes, waltzes, mazurkas, intermezzos, romantic short pieces, impressionistic works, and light classic-as well as the most rewarding traditional arrangements of themes from the great symphonies, chamber works, operas, and ballets by the master composers of the past four centuries.

Table of Contents

RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Two-Part Invention No. 1
  • Two-Part Invention No. 4
  • Two-Part Invention No. 8
  • Three-Part Invention No.9
  • Prelude and Fugue in C
  • Chorale
  • Sarabande
  • Loure
  • Gavotte
  • Luigi Boccherini
  • Minuet
  • Jeremiah Clarke
  • The Prince of Denmark's March
  • Francois Couperin
  • Les Tricoteuses (The Knitters)
  • George Frideric Handel
  • Bouree
  • Sarabande
  • The Harmonious Blacksmith
  • Allegro
  • Hallelujah Chorus
  • See the Conquering Hero Comes
  • Bouree

  • Jean-Baptiste Lully
  • Gavotte
  • Henry Purcell
  • Trumpet Voluntary

  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Musette en Rondeau

  • Domenico Scarlatti
  • Tempo di Ballo
  • Sonata in D Minor
  • CLASSICAL
    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  • Rondo Espressivo
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Fur Elise
  • Sonatina No. 1
  • Sonata in G
  • Adagio (from Moonlight Sonata)
  • Allegro (from Sonata in F Minor)
  • Minuet in C
  • Bagatelle in C
  • The Glory of God in Nature
  • Piano Sonata in C Minor '(Pathetique')
    Francois Joseph Gossec
  • Gavotte
    Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Minuet (from Symphony in D)
  • Andante (from 'Surprise' Symphony)
  • Piano Sonata in G
  • Grave e Cantabile (from The Seven Last Words)
  • Serenade
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Gigue in G
  • Minuet in D
  • Alla Turca
  • Sonata in C

    LIGHT CLASSICS
    Julius Fucik

  • Entry of the Gladiators
    Gabriel-Marie
  • La Cinquantaine (The Golden Wedding)
    Leonard Gautier
  • Le Secret
    Charles Gounod
  • Funeral March of a Marionette
    Iosif Ivanovici
  • Danube Waves
    Junventino Rosas
  • Over the Waves
    Johann Strauss
  • One Heart, One Mind
  • Blue Danube Waltz
    Emil Waldteufel
  • Skaters Waltz
    Sebastian Yradier
  • La Paloma

    THEMES FROM THE OPERA
    Georges Bizet

  • Carmen (Themes)
    Charles Gounod
  • Faust (Themes)
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • The Marriage of Figaro (Themes)
    Jacques Offenbact
  • Tales of Hoffman (Themes)
    Giacomo Puccini
  • La Boheme (Musetta's Waltz)
    Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
  • William Tell (Themes)
    Johann Strauss
  • Die Fledermaus (Theme)
    Arthur Sullivan
  • H.M.S. Pinafore (Themes)
    Giuseppi Verdi
  • Aida (Themes)
    Richard Wagner
  • Lohengrin (Bridal Chorus)

    SCENES FROM THE BALLET
    Leo Delibes

  • Valse Lente (from Coppelia)
  • Pizzicato (from Sylvia)
    Jules Massenet
  • Aragonaise (from Le Cid)
    Amilcare Ponchielli
  • Dance of the Hours (from La Gioconda)
    Franz Schubert
  • Entr'acte (from Rosamunde)
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Love Theme (from Romeo and Juliet)
  • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (from The Nutcracker)
  • Dance of the Reed Flutes (from The Nutcracker)
  • Russian Dance (from The Nutcracker)
  • Waltz (from Sleeping Beauty)

    DUETS
    Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Minuet in G
    Johannes Brahms
  • Waltz
    Frederic Chopin
  • Prelude, Op. 28, No. 7
    Anton Diabelli
  • Polonaise
    Felix Menderlssohn
  • Consolation
    Franz Schubert
  • Two German Dances
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Chant sans Paroles

    ROMANTIC
    Johannes Brahms

  • Intermezzo in A
  • Waltz in A flat
    Frederic Chopin
  • Prelude in E Minor
  • Waltz in C-sharp Minor
  • Waltz in A-flat
  • Nocturne in E-flat
  • Mazurka in C
    John Field
  • Nocturne No. 5
    Edvard Grieg
  • Nocturne
    Franz Liszt
  • Consolation
  • Liebstraum
    Felix Mendelssohn
  • Confidence
  • Spring Song
  • Capriccio in A
  • Wedding March>br>
  • Spinning Song
    Franz Schubert
  • Serenade
  • Moment Musicale
  • Scherzo in B-flat
  • Ave Maria
  • Impromptu in A-flat
    Robert Schumann
  • Schlummerlied
  • Remembrance
  • Traumerei
  • Why?
  • Sonata
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Chanson Triste
  • Waltz

    IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN
    Isaac Albeniz

  • Tango
    Claude Debussy
  • Minstrels
  • La Fille auz Cheveux de Lin
  • Clair de Lune
    Antonin Dvorak
  • Humoresque
    Enrique Granados
  • Valses Poeticos No.2
    Edward MacDowell
  • To a Wild Rose
    Jules Massenet
  • Elegie
    Modeste Mussorgsky
  • Bydlo ('The Oxcart' from Pictures at an Exhibition) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • The Young Prince and the Young Princess (from Scherherezade) Antonin Rubenstein
  • Romance
    Erik Satie
  • Trois Gymnopedies
    Alexander Scriabin
  • Prelude in A Minor
  • Album Leaf
  • Prelude in D Major
    Francois Thome
  • Simple Aveu
  • Subjects