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Teaching Pieces
Sacred
Choral

Scatterbrained Scarecrow

This piece has lots of fun rhythms, staccatos, and hand crossings. The most difficult rhythms are only eighth note pairs! Here’s what Hal Leonard says about the piece:

This scarecrow ode is a little scatterbrained, with its frequent cross-overs and 4/4 and 3/4 meters! Kids will love the keyboard choreography and “crazy energy” of this new gem from Wendy Stevens.

See Music Sample.

Details: 3 pages, Late Elementary
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item: HL 00296866
Price: $2.99

American Portraits

Inspired by the forgotten heroes in American history, this stunning collection captures the spirit of their amazing courage in sight and sound. Before each character piece is a beautiful portrait along with intriguing historical background sure to inspire the intermediate-level pianist. Pieces include: Letters from Abigail • Frontier Chrous • The Midnight Ride • Morning at the Falls • Summer on the Prairie • Underground Railway.

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Details: 40 pages, Late Intermediate
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item: HL 00296817
Price: $7.99

Returning to the Piano

Perhaps you are one of the many individuals who has said, “I wish I hadn’t stopped playing the piano!”? If so, then this is the perfect book to help you dive back into the fun world of creating music! It allows you to play the songs you know and love, from pop tunes to folk songs to familiar classical music. 44 songs include: Amazing Grace • Eine Kleine Nachtmusik • Forrest Gump – Main Title (Feather Theme) • I Walk the Line • Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring • Let It Be • The Music of the Night • Stand by Me • Sweet Home Alabama • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star • and many more!

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Details: 96 pages, 2 CDS (MIDI enhanced) with practice and performance tempos
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item: HL 00311845
Price: $19.99

Irish Celebration

The Level 1 Showcase Solo is reminiscent of a peppy Irish jig and is complete with a catchy teacher’s duet (beginning with bagpipe sounds, but not limited to these). Containing only quarter, half, and dotted half notes (with a few rests at the end), Hal Leonard describes this piece, “Beginning piano students will love the dancing spirit of this little jig! The bagpipe sounds in the teacher accompaniment add to the fun mood of this toe-tappin’ Irish tune.”

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Details: Sheet Music, Level 1, 4 pages
Item: HL 00296803
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Price: $2.99

Piano Recital Showcase, Pre-Staff

This exciting series of graded recital pieces includes 2 pre-staff pieces by Wendy Stevens. Fire Dance is a great piece for boys and “Cheerokee Lullaby” is very popular with girls. This entire book contains only pre-staff pieces and is a great “special book” for beginning students!

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Details: 24 pages, Early Elementary
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item: HL 00296784
Price: $6.99

Twister

This Level 3 Showcase Solo is sure to be a dazzler at the recital! The C minor 5-finger patterns and exciting hand-over-hand arpeggios make it an impressive piece that is easy to perform with flair. “Great especially for boys!” –Arlene Davenport

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Details: Sheet Music, Level 3, 4 pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item: HL 00296774
Price: $2.99

How Sweet the Sound

This book contains fresh arrangements of Day of Arising • How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds with Amazing Grace • Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence • Tis So Sweet • This is My Father’s World • Take Up Your Cross the Savior Said • There is a Balm in Gilead • Thine is the Glory • We Walk by Faith and Not By Site (Dunlap’s Creek)

See Music Samples. Please note that the table of contents incorrectly lists “Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee” as a piece in the book. The correct piece that you will find on page 26 is There is a Balm in Gilead.

Details: Piano Folio, 48 Pages
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
Item: 9780806696966
Price: $17.50

Easy Hymn Solos Level 1

These “hymn solos” are actual early level arrangements, not just solos! These pieces contain interesting introductions and endings, articulations, dynamics, motives, etc. that can be used to encourage more musical playing of hymn tunes. Level 1 contains music with mostly quarter through whole notes in an easy to read format. Students (including older students wanting more mature sounding pieces) will be excited that they can play such interesting arrangements at an early level.

Book 1 includes: Amazing Grace • Brethren, We Have Met to Worship • Come, Christians, Join to Sing • Doxology • For the Beauty of the Earth • God Is So Good • How Firm a Foundation • Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho • Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee • Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.

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Details: Elementary Book, 32 pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item: HL 00311878
Price: $7.99

Easy Hymn Solos Level 2

Level 2 of this series contains another 10 mature sounding arrangements of popular hymn tunes. This late elementary book uses more pedal changes, eighth note rhythms, shifting hand positions, etc.

Book 2 includes: At the Cross • Be Thou My Vision • Come, Thou Almighty King • I’ve Got Peace Like a River • Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners • O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing • O Worship the King • Praise Him in the Morning • Praise to the Lord, the Almighty • This Is My Father’s World.

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Details: Late Elementary Book, 32 pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item: HL 00311879
Price: $7.99

Easy Hymn Solos Level 3

This intermediate book contains fresh arrangements for all church pianists. The musical depth in each piece make these arrangements appropriate for both the student and the church pianist with little time to practice. Styles include stately anthems, adventurous energetic pieces, marches, reflective communion pieces, and jazzy sounding arrangments.

Book 3 includes: All Creatures of Our God and King • All Things Bright and Beautiful • Amazing Grace • Battle Hymn of the Republic • Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing • Count Your Blessings • I Sing the Mighty Power of God • Jesus Loves Me • Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho • Wade in the Water.

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Details: Intermediate Book, 40 pages
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Item: HL 00311880
Price: $7.99

All is Calm, All is Bright

This is not your ordinary collection of Christmas music! Bring some new sounds to your Christmas music collection with this collection of 13 late intermediate to advanced arrangements. Read the reviews here.

Included are: Angels We Have Heard on High • Here We Come A-Caroling • Silent Night • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen • In the Bleak Mid-Winter • Infant Holy, Infant Lowly, Ding Dong Merrily on High • Deck the Hall Hoedown • Sing We Now of Christmas • The Holly and the Ivy • O Come O Come Emmanuel • We Three Kings

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Details: Advanced Music Folio, 64 Pages
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress
Item: 9780800679040
Price: $20.00

All is Calm CD

Though the cover is different, the music is the same as the music contained in the All is Calm book.

Details: 13 tracks, 43 minutes
Producer: www.composecreate.com
Price: $14.99

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Rejoice! Engaging Hymn Settings for Piano

These 7 familiar hyms are arranged in unusual, fun, and thought-provoking ways. This book was a J.W.Pepper’s “Editor’s pick” in 2005. Concordia calls this book, “Absolutely fresh, delightful interpretations of well-known hymn tunes—reflective, reverent, memorable!” These settings are for late intermediate to advanced pianists.

Included are: America the Beautiful • Beautiful Savior (Fairest Lord Jesus) • Before You Lord We Bow (Rejoice the Lord is King) • Brethren We Have Met to Worship • Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing • Jesus Christ Is Risen (Christ the Lord is Risen Today) • Jesus Loves Me

Tunes include: Darwall’s 148th • Easter Hymn • Nettleton • Holy Manna • Jesus Loves Me • Materna • Schonster Herr Jesu.

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Details: Late Intermediate/Advanced Music Folio, 32 Pages
Publisher: Concorida Publishing House
Item: 977171WEB
Price: $16.00

For the Beauty of the Earth

This SATB arrangement features piano and oboe accompaniment. Concordia Publishing House describes the piece as “A hauntingly beautiful marriage between familiarity and ingenuity. Significant piano techniques are employed in the accompaniment to support truly inventive choral harmonic movement that seeks to interpret and bring to life this well-known text and tune.” An excellent teaching folio for the emerging church musician.