Willard A. Palmer

This popular volume offers practical training in well-articulated pianistic passage work, particularly in playing the virtuoso music of the romantic period. In addition to this, each study is a comple...

An excellent follow-up to Köhler's '12 Easy Studies,' these twenty etudes continue to develop finger dexterity through broken-chord and scalar passagework. Emphasizing traditional harmonies, the works...

These short etudes explore a variety of keyboard patterns and articulations. The studies, limited to key signatures of three sharps or flats or less, develop legato phrasing, dynamic graduations and v...

Although each study emphasizes an aspect of virtuoso piano technique, the etudes are some of the most effectively moving of all the concert works in piano literature. This 144-page volume includes the...

Dreaming with a Broken Heart is by John Mayer from his 2006 album 'Continuum.' This expressive song about a man who has lost someone he has loved charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and is now avail...

One of Bartok's best known short pieces, this solo features alternating and contrasting slow and fast sections, as well as changing dynamics, phrasing and touch. A late intermediate level pianist shou...

Beginners method for all ages offering a step by step easy approach to reading music for rock, blues, country, folk and classical music. Includes a CD for accompaniment to exercises and songs.

This suite of tone poems has survived as MacDowell's best-known work. Included among the 10 pieces are the familiar miniatures, 'To a Wild Rose' and 'Will o' the Wisp.' The last work of the set, 'Told...

This thoughtful, delicate song from MacDowell's Woodland Sketches is perhaps the most well-known of his compositions. It is original, written in A major, with pedal indications added by the editor.

Sheet solo version of the famous 'Spinning Song,' in F major. Students will learn a lot about phrasing and different touches, as well as observance of rests, accents and other dynamic markings, while...

Compiled and edited by Willard Palmer, this concise collection presents easy works in their original form written by great composers spanning the Baroque to 20th-century periods. These pieces are incl...

Alfred Level 1A. The gentle swaying of ocean waves and walks on the beach are portrayed in this peaceful elementary level song in 3/4 time and C-major (C Position). The pianist will play long phrases,...

Alfred Level 1A. For the early elementary student who would like a recital piece that is fun to play (or sing along with), this C-major (C Position) song will be the perfect choice. The student will p...

Alfred Level 1A. The first-year student will enjoy the drum and bugle sounds in this C-major (C Position) recital piece, which will include skips, phrasing, observance of rests, and use of the sustain...

Piano solo by Willard A. Palmer correlated to Alfred Level 1B.

This is an amusing elementary level piano solo written by Willard A. Palmer for his granddaughter. The five verses of lyrics are dedicated to those on a diet who also happen to like cookies! The piece...

Designed to supplement Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course, but may also be used to supplement any piano course. Rich collections of popular folk and country songs, sing-along favorites, holiday songs a...

Late elementary piano solo by Willard A. Palmer from the Signature Series.

A cute song about a little boy named Mumbo who loves to ride on Jumbo the elephant. The G minor theme consists of half-notes and quarter-notes only and the hands play separately throughout the piece....