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	Characters in Tune - Betty Naughton Five Intermediate Studies Busybody Sleepyhead Skateboard Kid Grandpa Tries To Waltz Teenage Girl ISMN M 708040 63 7 £5.50 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book. Click here to read a review.
	My Party Pieces - Betty Naughton Six short pieces: grade 2-3 A Little Fugue The Scottish Piper Bike Ride The Lonely Goldfish Daydreaming Flying a Kite ISMN M 708040 54 5 £5.50 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book.
	The Funfair - Betty Naughton Five short pieces: grade 4-5 Carousel Ghost Train Candy Floss Swing Boats The Dodgems ISMN M 708040 55 2 £5.00 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book.
	At the Seaside - Betty Naughton Five short pieces: grade 5+ Jumping the Waves Footprints in the Sand Donkey Ride Speed Boats EbbTide ISMN M 708040 53 8 £5.50 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book.
	Up and Away in a Magic Balloon - Betty Naughton *Awarded First Place in Category 6 of the EPTA UK Composers Competition 2004* Nine short pieces: grade 1-2 "Up and Away has a 'floating' texture, floating away at the end. Little White Clouds depicts the clouds suspended in the blue sky. The Whispering Wind has a chromatic movement. Mountain Echoes has a 'strong' texture with the dynamics mimicking the echoes in the mountains. Sea Pictures evokes the swell of the waves. Drum Beat has a marching quality. Far Eastern Sounds utilises intervals of 4ths and 5ths giving an open sound easily associated with Eastern music. The Galaxy has stargazing qualities with its semiquaver movement. Homeward Bound has a yearning quality. "A varied set of pieces, each highlighting different musical nuances, and would be both technically educational and enjoyable for the learning student." Neil Day, Adjudicator EPTA UK Composers Competition, 2004 ISMN M 708040 44 6 £4.99 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book. Click here to read a review.
	Pickers and Stealers - John Byrt Three Pieces for Young Pianists: Look out - it's the Triads! Black-Note Serenade Habanera Blues "Rosencrantz: My Lord, you once did love me. Hamlet: And do still, by these pickers and stealers" (Hamlet, Act III, Scene II, William Shakespeare) NYM042 ISMN M 708040 42 2 £2.99 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book. Click here to read a review.
PIANO EXPLORER Stephen Baron	PIANO EXPLORER - A new concept in beginners' piano music encouraging the pianist to exploit the full potential of the instrument from the start. With a basic piano technique, the beginner will enjoy the inventiveness of these pieces - with forays into the black keys, whole-tone scale, and the church modes as well as the technical challenges of chords, pedals, crossing hands, counterpoint, harmonics and percussive effects on the piano lid. With teacher guidance, all pieces are very approachable, building on the principles of clear structures, patterned figurations and a strong melodic line. "*It sets a standard to which other, bigger houses* should aspire!" John York - PIANO MAY/JUNE 2004
	Piano Explorer Book 1 - Stephen Baron Adventurous pieces for the piano beginner The first book in this series includes a Pets' Corner (pieces about a kitten, a hamster, a guinea pig and some puppies), pieces based around the black keys and the whole tone scale, 4 pieces exploiting the sustaining pedal, 5 jazz-inspired numbers, a firework display piece, and a pastiche Clementi sonata. There are 25 pieces in all, including 2 folksong arrangements with words familiar to Colourstrings children. ISMN M 708040 23 1 £6.50 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book.
	Piano Explorer Book 2 - Stephen Baron Modal pieces for the piano beginner A set of 14 pieces exploring the unique sounds of the church modes, the scales used before our major and minor keys became current. Several of these modes are found in folk music, while others, although obsolete, have an engaging sound world of their own. There are two pieces in each mode. These pieces are particularly approachable as they only use the white notes of the piano. ISMN M 708040 24 8 £4.99 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book.
	Piano Explorer Book 3 - Stephen Baron Duets and trios for the piano beginner A collection of pieces for 4 and 6 hands. The traditional writing for pupil and teacher is avoided in favour of music written for two or three beginners. The pieces are wide-ranging in style, including a Spanish-flavoured piece, several pieces based on the black keys, a pastiche Classical sonata, and some folksong arrangements (four with words familiar to Colourstrings children). ISMN M 708040 25 5 £6.50 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book.
	Piano Explorer Book 4 - Stephen Baron Duet piano concerto for the piano beginner An extended piano duet in Vivaldi style, taking as its starting point a theme derived from the A minor Violin Concerto. Violinists have concertos in plenty for beginners - now pianists have one! ISMN M 708040 26 2 £4.99 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book.
	Rags to Riches – Simon Cunliffe A versatile Ragtime piece for any C, B flat or E flat instrument and piano. Duration approx. 2 minutes. ISMN M 708040 60 6. Full score 4pp A4 with gloss board cover and set of parts £5.00 Click on the jacket image to hear a sample from this book.