Latest News: Sheet Music, Education
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Education,
The First Piano Recital: Preparing Your Beginners For A Performance 2nd October 2024
Award-winning author Melanie Spanswick discusses supporting your students in their first piano recital.
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Education,
Music for the Back-To-School Season 13th August 2024
With the school holidays soon coming to an end, we have collated a collection of handy links to help you quickly find everything you might need for the back-to-school season.
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Education,
Piano Time (Third Edition) 29th July 2024
The iconic piano tutor series from Pauline Hall, Piano Time, has recently been updated. The third edition of the best-selling series now benefits from more varied and easier-to-play pieces. Find out more.
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Education,
Piano Exam Pieces 2025 & 2026 6th June 2024
Now available, ABRSM's Piano Syllabuses for 2025 & 2026 feature refreshed repertoire lists with wide-ranging repertoire from Baroque and Classical to pop, stage and screen. Find out more.
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Education,
ABRSM Piano Star Series 16th February 2024
Piano Star is a series of repertoire books to inspire young pianists and help them to develop their musical skills. Find out more.
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Education,
New Piano Exam Materials 8th September 2023
This week has seen the release of new piano publications for both ABRSM and Trinity College exams, with additional repertoire added to the Trinity exam syllabus, and two new piano collections for intermediate to advanced students by Isata Kanneh-Mason. Find out more.
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Education,
40 Years of Microjazz 18th July 2023
This year Boosey & Hawkes are celebrating forty years of the bestselling series Microjazz. Find out more.
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Education,
ABRSM New Bowed String Syllabus 21st June 2023
ABRSM recently launched their new Bowed Strings Syllabuses for Practical and Performance Grades from 2024. Featuring refreshed repertoire lists, the syllabus includes a wide range of composers and a greater choice of music than ever before. Find out more here.
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Education,
Penelope Roskell: The Essential Piano Technique 23rd May 2023
Following on from her award-winning book The Complete Pianist, Penelope Roskell's latest series Essential Piano Technique is aimed at children in the early stages of learning the piano, helping them develop a strong foundation of healthy technique, and allowing rapid progression through the early stages of piano playing. Find out more.
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Education,
The Jazzin' About Piano Anthology 13th April 2023
The Jazzin’ About Piano Anthology celebrates Pam Wedgwood’s best-selling series in a collection of the author’s favourite pieces. Presented progressively for the first time in one volume, pieces range from early elementary to intermediate level. Find out more.
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Education,
Fiddle Time Duets 23rd March 2023
Fiddle Time Duets is an exciting and attractive collection for violinists of all ages by the award-winning educational composers Kathy and David Blackwell. The duets are suitable for established beginners through to intermediate violinists. Find out more.
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Education,
Piccolo Paganini, Volume 2 21st February 2023
Following the success of the first volume, Piccolo Paganini, Vol. 2 contains thirty original intermediate-level pieces for violin and piano. These rarely performed concert pieces provide appealing, accessible, and musically rewarding repertoire pieces. Find out more.
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Education,
Teachers' Choice, Selected Piano Repertory & Studies 26th January 2023
Containing popular choice pieces and alternative works from the ABRSM Piano syllabus, these pieces have been specially selected for examination purposes and general repertoire study. Teachers' Choice 2023 & 2024 offers teaching points and performance directions that help to develop technical assurance and stylistic awareness in the students.
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Education,
Edition Peters: Piano Anthology Examination Pieces 6th October 2022
New from Edition Peters, the Piano Anthology Examination Pieces for 2023 and 2024 support students preparing for ABRSM's practical or performance exams. Comprising four volumes at grade 5-8 level, each book includes a selection from lists A, B, and C, as well as pieces suitable for the own-choice section of the performance exams.
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Education,
Easy Composer Series: My First Schubert 30th August 2022
Schott's Easy Composer Series features a wide selection of easier pieces by well-known composers, ideally suited to pianists looking to expand their repertoire, and perfect for music lessons and playing at home. The latest in the series, My First Schubert, is the perfect introduction to Romantic piano music. Find out more.
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Education,
Hal Leonard Discovery Choral Series 12th August 2022
Hal Leonard's Discovery Series is perfectly adapted to the classroom with chart hits and rock & pop classics arranged into varying levels of difficulty. Browse some of our all-time favourites from the series here.
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Education,
ABRSM Piano 2023 & 2024 Publications 9th June 2022
Get ready for ABRSM's 2023 & 2024 graded piano exams with these new publications, offering a diverse choice of inspirational pieces. Also browse ABRSM's range of supporting test publications to help you fully prepare for the exams.
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Education,
Paul Harris: The Clarinet 19th April 2022
A comprehensive guide to all aspects of clarinet playing. In this new publication, Paul Harris shares his unique insights towards gaining mastery of the clarinet, and provides a compete philosophy of playing for intermediate to professional level clarinettists.
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Education,
Collins Music: Keyboard Magic 29th March 2022
The latest addition to the Magic series, Keyboard Magic is a fun and approachable method for instrumental learning, introducing young people to the keyboard with enjoyable activities and pieces. Discover more recent and bestselling publications from Collins Music here.
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Education,
ABRSM: Signature Series 17th February 2022
ABRSM's Signature Series is a range of authoratative performing editions of piano works, researched and edited by leading scholars. Find out more here.
