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HARRISON MUSIC GOSPEL KEYBOARD DAVID COHEN

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PIANO INSTRUCTION & TECHNIQUE
BEST OF BILLY JOEL BEST OF
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PIANO INSTRUCTION & TECHNIQUE
THE ULTIMATE TECHNICAL STUDIES ROCK HANON
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CHORD CHART 50 EXERCISES FOR Private Lessons
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JAZZ & BLUES PIANO
ACCOMPANYING DAVID BENNETT BEST OF
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VOCALIST TEACHES PIANO
A PRACTICAL GUIDE BLUES PIANO by Gene Rizzo
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JAZZ & BLUES PIANO
BLUES, JAZZ & ROCK A CLASSICAL DR. B’S
RIFFS FOR APPROACH TO RHYTHMIC
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ponent of jazz, rock, R&B, gospel, soul, and even pop. key excerpts from the greatest jazz standards to illus- that will sharpen any player’s rhythmic approach to
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JAZZ & BLUES PIANO
VOLUME 2 – INTERMEDIATE JAZZ JAZZ CONNECTION
BUILDING A BLUES REPERTOIRE PIANO COMPING – SERIES
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JAZZ & BLUES PIANO
JAZZ PIANO JAZZ JAZZ PIANO –
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JAZZ & BLUES PIANO
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JAZZ & BLUES PIANO
PENTATONIC SCALES QUARTAL JAZZ SOLO
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JAZZ & BLUES PIANO
BILL BOYD JAZZ BOOKS EXPLORING BASIC JAZZ KEYBOARD
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48
PIANO REPERTOIRE
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PIANO REPERTOIRE
HYMNTIME PIANO BOOK 3 THE MICROJAZZ THE RUSSIAN SCHOOL OF PIANO PLAYING
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PIANO DUETS to The Emperor’s New
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Shaddai • How Majestic Is
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BROADWAY the Lord • We Are So Reflection • When She Loved Me • Written in the
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of 8 songs arranged as
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Dreamed a Dream • If Ever MOVIE HITS FOR TWO
I Would Leave You • Intermediate Level Lower-Intermediate Level
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Someone • Theme from Friend Like Me • Under the
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10 easy piano duets: Alleluia • ______00290503..........................................$10.95 ______00292076..........................................$10.95
Ave Maria • Canon • Dance of
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DUETS, DUOS & ENSEMBLES
DISNEY TREASURES GOD BLESS HYMNS FOR TWO
Lower-Intermediate Level AMERICA® & OTHER Intermediate Level
A collection of 8 Disney fav- INSPIRATIONAL 12 duet arrangements of favorite hymns, including:
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Necessities • It’s a Small Intermediate Level with Many Crowns • I Need Thee Every Hour • O
World • Mickey Mouse Includes duet arrangements Worship the King • To God Be the Glory • What a
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Chariots of Fire • Climb ELTON JOHN
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Fortress Is Our God • Stars and Stripes Forever • Intermediate Level
DUET CLASSICS What a Wonderful World • You’ll Never Walk Alone. 8 of his greatest, including:
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Lower-Intermediate Level of Life • Crocodile Rock •
8 classical melodies, GREAT MOVIE Rocket Man • Your Song •
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(Liszt) • Minuet in G 8 movie hits, including:
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Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky). the Wind • The Entertainer •
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______00290172............................................$6.95 THE AMAZING
Theme from Jurassic Park •
Somewhere in Time • TECHNICOLOR
FAMILY ALBUM Somewhere, My Love • Star DREAMCOAT
Lower-Intermediate Level Trek® – The Motion Picture • and more. Intermediate Level
by Norman Dello Joio ______00290494............................................$9.95 Includes: Any Dream Will
Children’s pieces for piano, four hands. Includes: Family Do • Close Every Door • Go
Meeting • Play Time • Story Time • Prayer Time • Bed GREAT SYMPHONIC Go Go Joseph • Jacob and
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______00009258............................................$5.95 Easy Level Heaven • Potiphar • Song
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An excellent collection of 10
BROADWAY DUETS duets that even beginners
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Cherry Lane Music Sprach Zarathustra, Opening 10 PIANO FAVORITES
Features duet arrangements Theme • 1812 Overture, Intermediate Level
of 9 great showstoppers: Excerpt • Fingal’s Cave Students will love playing
Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man • Overture • Jupiter • Nimrod • Rhapsody on a Theme of these duet arrangements of
Godspeed Titanic (Sail On) Paganini • Romeo and Juliet, Love Theme • and more. popular tunes. Includes:
• Heart Full of Love • The ______00290513 ..........................................$9.95 Angel • Don’t Know Why •
Impossible Dream • The (Everything I Do) I Do It for
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Moment. FAVORITES Way You Are • Let It Be • Linus and Lucy • My Heart
______02500041..........................................$10.95 Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic) • Two Worlds.
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8 fun duets arranged for two ______00290543 ........................................$10.95
GERSHWIN
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PIANO DUETS piano. Includes: Any Dream LES MISÉRABLES
Lower-Intermediate Level Will Do • Chopsticks • Lower-Intermediate Level
These duet arrangements of Heart and Soul • Music! 8 piano duets from
10 Gershwin classics such Music! Music! (Put Another the Broadway spectacular,
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DUETS, DUOS & ENSEMBLES
LIGHT CLASSICS MANNHEIM PRAISE &
Intermediate Level STEAMROLLER – WORSHIP DUETS
Ten favorite classical pieces in FRESH AIRE Intermediate Level
intermediate duet arrange- Upper-Intermediate Level Phillip Keveren Series
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Plaisir D’Amour • Stars and for its new age music. They Lift Your Name on High •
Stripes Forever • Tales from feature more advanced Shout to the Lord • There Is
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WEBBER PIANO 8 favorites, including: All
DUETS MOVIE DUETS Shook Up • Blue Suede
Lower-Intermediate Level Intermediate Level Shoes • Can’t Help Falling
arr. Ann Collins 9 songs, including: Chariots in Love • Don’t Be Cruel •
8 easy piano duets, featur- of Fire • The Godfather Heartbreak Hotel • Hound
ing some of Andrew Lloyd (Love Theme) • Romeo and Dog • Jailhouse Rock •
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______00290332..........................................$10.95 RAGTIME CLASSICS
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ANDREW LLOYD Lower-Intermediate Level
WEBBER PIANO MY FAIR LADY – SELECTIONS Joplin/Agay
DUETS VOL. II Upper Intermediate Level A collection of seven of Joplin’s
Lower-Intermediate Level Includes favorites such as: I’ve Grown Accustomed to greatest arranged for piano
8 songs, including: As If We Her Face • Get Me to the Church on Time • Wouldn’t duet, including: The Easy
Never Said Goodbye • Close It Be Loverly • Show Me • With a Little Bit of Luck • Winners • The Entertainer •
Every Door • Love Changes I Could Have Danced All Night. Maple Leaf Rag • and more.
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of the Opera • Unexpected
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Upper-Intermediate Level arr. Agay
LOVE DUETS 8 songs from the most suc- Denes Agay’s duet treatment
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Love Tonight • Can’t Help Music of the Night • The Joplin will appeal to the
Falling in Love • Here, Phantom of the Opera • accomplished pianist.
There, and Everywhere • Prima Donna • Think of Me
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World (Aladdin’s Theme). ROCK ‘N’ ROLL –
______00290485............................................$8.95 COLE PORTER PIANO DUETS
PIANO DUETS Upper-Intermediate Level
Upper-Intermediate Level 10 early rock classics,
What better way to play including: Blue Suede Shoes
these 6 Cole Porter love • Don’t Be Cruel • Rock
songs such as “Do I Love Around the Clock • Shake,
You?” “I Love Paris,” “In Rattle and Roll.
the Still of the Night,” than
with a partner?
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DUETS, DUOS & ENSEMBLES
RODGERS & THE SOUND OF MUSIC MELODY TIMES TWO
HAMMERSTEIN – Late Intermediate Level Duets Classic Counter-Melodies for Two Pianos, Four Hands
CLASSIC DUETS David Carr Glover has made the music from this (Two scores included in folio)
Intermediate Level beloved show accessible to the intermediate pianist. Intermediate Level Duo
8 great songs, including: The 10 selections include “Edelweiss,” “Do-Re-Mi,” arr. Eugénie Rocherolle
Climb Ev’ry Mountain • Do and “Climb Every Mountain.” Includes an introduction This collection of classic counter-melody songs fea-
I Love You Because You’re to the movie. tures elegant and thoroughly entertaining arrange-
Beautiful? • Happy Talk • If ______00312715............................................$9.95 ments for two pianos, four hands. Including a defini-
I Loved You • The Sound of tion and history of counter-melodies throughout musi-
Music • You’ll Never Walk THE SOUND OF MUSIC cal periods; song histories; composer biographies;
Alone • and more. Intermediate Level Duets and Masterfully arranged by renowned composer
______00290500............................................$9.95 David Carr Glover’s duet arrangements of 6 songs Eugénie Rocherolle, these classic tunes will capture
from Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s last musical com- the musical imagination of students young and old!
THE RODGERS & bine with original photos from the movie version. The folio includes two complete scores for perform-
HAMMERSTEIN Includes: My Favorite Things • De-Re-Mi • Edelweiss ance. Intermediate Level 4 Duos: Baby, It’s Cold
PIANO DUET BOOK • and more. Outside (F. Loesser) • Play A Simple Melody (I.
Lower-Intermediate Level ______00312714............................................$9.95 Berlin) • Sam’s Song (Lew Quadling/Jack Elliott) •
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David Carr Glover and TV THEMES ______00296360..........................................$12.95
Walter Pel’s duet arrange- Easy Level Duets
ments of 15 Rodgers & arr. Phillip Keveren POWER DUETS
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Includes: Oklahoma • The • The Brady Bunch • Where arranged by Carl Seal
Sound of Music • Oh! What a Beautiful Morning • My Everybody Knows Your Word Music
Favorite Things. Name (Cheers) • Theme 10 classic duets for two
______00312691............................................$9.95 from Frasier • Hill Street pianos (or optional key-
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The student’s part is writ- CONCERTO FOR
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the Lamb • Jesus Loves Me • and more. exciting, dynamic outer Chase • Alpine Snowfall •
______00309621..........................................$12.95 movements with plenty of opportunity for the soloist to Presto Scherzo • Blues Alla
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MUSIC ond piano part provides complementary support to the
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Mi • Edelweiss • My ______00296356..........................................$16.95
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DUETS, DUOS & ENSEMBLES
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Includes copy for each These easy-to-learn, highly
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Scherzo • Mambo • Cha- students to show off their advancing technical and
cha • Meeting Scene • Cool Fugue • Rumble • Finale. musical powers.
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CONCERTINO 2004-5-6
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