This is a book of simple and beautiful pieces for keyboard or piano for near-beginners. It requires only mastery of the sixteenth
and dotted notes, and elementary right and left hand coordination in playing. The
arrangements are very easy, and notation and symbols have been kept to a minimum. A first year student can easily begin to master these. There are several works each by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorcak, Grieg, Clementi, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, Mozart, Paderewski, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky. There is one composition each by Bartok, Debussy, Foster, Gluck, MacDowell, Mendelsshon, Mussorgsky, Rameau, Rachmaninoff, Rubinstein, Saint-Saens, D. Scarlatti, Satie, Scriabin, Strauss, Verdi, and Vivaldi. These works have been simplified, not only to bring the delights of
classical music to the learner at an early stage in their experience of playing music, but also to develop special skills, in the pieces particularly suited to that technique. Fingerings are provided,and although the authors recommend these, they need not be taken as the ONLY way to play these pieces. Each pair of hands is unique, and when it meets the music, they find their way.