Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

These twelve piano miniatures, of increasing difficulty, are a magical distillation of Ming Wang's long-desired encounter with the Alpine landscape: Rustling Brook, Two Marmots, Colourful Clouds, The...

Chiming is a rather ornamental, contemplative nocturne, the use of piano resonance, together with the way pitches are repeated within the same harmonic fields, suggesting the technique of change ringi...

40 really easy arrangements of popular classical tunes graded in order of increasing difficulty. Children (and adults!) will enjoy learning them as a welcome break from slogging away at all those exam...

Morceau pour piano (1915)

This intriguing 11-minute work builds on alternations between declamatory unmetered phrases (beginning as 'sonorous; rubato; with great aplomb and resonance') and strictly motoric rhythmic sections; d...

Chen Yi's exquisite PLUM BLOSSOM is a fantasy on the Cantonese children's song 'Moonlight.' The evocative title is inspired by plum blossoms which in Chinese culture symbolize nobility, elegance, pers...

African Sketches is a four-movement suite inspired by the composer's childhood years in Nigeria, her father's homeland. "The Village Children at Play," captures the children's joyful energy, "Dusk" is...

Chen Yi’s beautiful and highly-textured tone poem was inspired by ancient Chinese poetry; its melodic ideas were developed from musical phrases characteristic of Chinese opera. Wang Ya’s original vers...

As a pianist and composer, Clara Schumann played her own improvised exercises prior to playing scales, and improvised preludes as introductions to pieces she was performing. This is a collection of se...

Adapted by acclaimed pianist Lara Downes from the original work “Especially Do I Believe in the Negro Race” by Margaret Bonds. This is the lyrical second movement from Bonds’ larger work, “Credo” on t...

The two works in this publication are Tangamerican and Fugal Dance. In the words of editor John Michael Cooper, Tangamerican is melodically, harmonically, and stylistically rich, but succinct - just t...

A Cycle of Etudes for Piano

Fives for piano comprises music for beginners - miniature pieces for five successive notes of a particular scale. However, those notes can be written in different octaves, with the following aims in m...

The name of this collection reflects the diverse character and international provenance of the pieces. Each of them is a 'representative' of a different country and a different musical culture, and th...

It was Schlesinger, the publisher, predecessor of Robert Lienau, who was among the first to edit some of Fanny Hensel's compositions in her lifetime (op. 4 and 5 among others). The volume presented he...

With "Piano infantil", the Catalan composer Narcisa Freixas published a piano cycle for young players. This new edition in the Student Edition Repertoire series brings together the first two books of...

With "Children's Album" and "Children's Carnival", Amy Beach continues the tradition of famous 19th century piano cycles for young players. The dances and character pieces are great for lessons and fi...

This collection presents a selection of easy to intermediate dances and character pieces from the cycle Piano infantil by the Catalan composer Narcisa Freixas. With fingerings, tempo and pedal indicat...