Helen Marlais

Baroque Era, Volume One of Succeeding with the Masters is a collection of 22 graded repertoire pieces by J.S. Bach, Handel and Scarlatti. These works, mostly dances, build a foundation for playing mor...

Succeeding with the Masters, Romantic Era, Volume One, is a collection of graded repertoire featuring selections from Tchaikovsky, Schumann, and Schubert-three great masters of the Romantic era. These...

Within Succeeding with the Masters Romantic Era, Volume Two, comes the intermediate through early-advanced pieces by Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and Chopin. As with all of the books in Succeeding...

The pieces included in Book 5 will challenge and propel your students forward towards advanced repertoire, as well as provide students with the necessary literature to obtain a command of pianistic te...

The repertoire contained within The Festival Collection(R) Book 7 embodies some of the finest pieces from the Baroque to Contemporary eras. This repertoire was selected for its superior artistic and p...

Duet Treasures, Volume 1 contains wonderful duet repertoire for the beginning adult piano student. Compiled and edited by Helen Marlais, this volume contains many original duets including Hymn of Hope...

In Volume 2 of Duet Treasures, the intermediate level adult piano student is provided with several outstanding duet arrangements of well known pieces such as Fascination, Clair de Lune, and Hungarian...

Volume 1 for the beginning adult piano student is devoted to ageless classical music. The fine composers and arrangers have created engaging solos and duets of classical themes from symphonies, operas...

In Classical Treasures Volume 2, the intermediate level adult piano student is provided with the perfect way to discover and enjoy ageless classical themes from symphonies, operas, and many other clas...

The Festival Collection Preparatory is the first book available in the nine-volume Festival Collection series. To be used before The Festival Collection, Book 1, students will have the opportunity to...

Soon you will be hooked on 20th century piano sounds with Stanley Applebaum's amazing miniatures! These short pieces utilize the full range of the piano and allow the student to sense different kinds...

Discover and explore wonderfully modern sonorities! From lyrical (Slow, Sad Waltz, and Minor Serenade), to rhythmic (Drumming It Up), to simply amusing (Icicles, Teasing), Emma Lou Diemer asks the stu...

This engaging and accessible contemporary sonata has a broad emotional range and is full of intensity. Each of its four movements makes a strong statement with relatively few notes. I have used the 12...

Flip through the pages of Ninov's Piano Album and they will introduce you to a gallery of musical pictures. You will "see" the sparrow leaping among the branches; you will "feel" the melancholy of aut...

In this second volume of SOUND/WORLD, the intermediate / early advanced pianist is taken on an exciting discovery into the world of dissonance. Students are encouraged to explore these studies and the...

The Phantasie Variations, Op. 12 were commissioned by Phyllis Alpert Lehrer for her Merkin Hall Debut Concert near Lincoln Center in 1980. The piece uses two 12-tone rows, opening with the first row i...

Rahbee’s Piano Sonata No. 2 is an appealing piece in the contemporary genre. Its wide-ranging expressive array is filled with fervor. The sonata’s untraditional tonalities allow the advanced student t...

Extremely positive in nature has been said to describe the character of Piano Sonata No. 4 Op. 128.. The energy of this four-movement sonata is derived from its maestoso first movement---executed with...

Premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2004, this adventurous one-movement work provides a variety of contrasting experiences for both the performer and their audience. Subtitled "Odyssey," this piece presents...

This composition is the first of its kind for The FJH Music Contemporary Keyboard Editions. Written for piano and orchestra, it provides a perfect showpiece for a student pianist who has an opportunit...

This collection contains exciting contemporary pieces (solos and duets) by seven leading FJH composers that will open up a world of new sounds through bitonality, chromaticism, jazz harmonies, mixed m...

This collection of short piano images for children and adults is suitable for pianists from intermediate to early advanced levels. The pieces show poetic hints of Schumann and Chopin along with refere...

In Musical Treasures, Volume 1, students will find numerous character piano works that will broaden their musical understanding and imagination. These inventive and fun-to-play pieces will bring them...

Outside the Box is a unique collection containing ten pieces that experiment with contemporary compositional techniques, altering such elements as melody, harmony, and form to create a completely new...

Inspired by Witold Lutoslawki's approach to form and melody, Timothy Brown has created this innovative work consisting of five preludes for the advanced pianist. Written for two pianists, this duet fe...