Piano Star 2 / 26 pieces for young pianists
| Publisher | ABRSM Publishing |
| Genre: |
music for children, pupils and students
spirituals, folk, country & traditional |
| Arrangement: | piano |
| Cast: | solo |
| Difficulty: | Beginner |
| Format: | book |
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| Product code: | ABR499256 |
| Composer: | Various Composers |
| Author / Editor: |
Blackwell, David
Greally, Aisling |
| No. of songs: | 26 |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Language: | English |
| Size: | 23 x 31 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781848499256 |
| Weight: | 130 g |
Songlist (26)
- Take Note! (duet) [David Blackwell]
- Lullaby Carol [Trad. German]
- The Midnight Owl [Edmund Jolliffe ]
- The Music Box [Mike Cornick]
- This Old Man [Trad. English]
- Spider Web Waltz [Sarah Watts]
- Tingalayo! [Trad. Caribbean]
- On Parade [Christopher Norton]
- Wonkey Donkey [Mark Tanner]
- Hoppity-Bop, Over the Top! [Alasdair Spratt]
- Speed Bump Bounce [Paul Harris]
- Fire Dance [Andrew Eales]
- Action Stations [Heather Hammond]
- Sprinkling Stardust [Karen Marshall]
- The Cat and the Mouse [Aisling Greally]
- Runaway Train [Alasdair Spratt]
- Playing Ping-Pong [Christopher Norton]
- Tyrannosaurus Rocks! [Nicholas Scott-Burt]
- My Cat the Concert Pianist [Nancy Litten]
- If you should meet a crocodile [Aisling Greally]
- Creaky floorboards [Edmund Jolliffe ]
- Hiding in the wardrobe [Edmund Jolliffe ]
- Fairground [Alan Bullard]
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat [Trad.]
- Reflections [Peter Gritton]
- John Ryan's Polka [Trad. Irish]
Product description
Piano Star is an exciting series for young pianists, offering a rich selection of new repertoire to help players build confidence and musical skills. Piano Star 2 is at ABRSM Prep Test level and provides alternative repertoire for that assessment and includes compositions by David Blackwell, Edmund Jolliffe, Mike Cornick, Aisling Greally, Christopher Norton, Mark Tanner, Sarah Watts, Alasdair Spratt, Andrew Eales, Heather Hammond, Karen Marshall, Nicholas Scott-Burt, Nancy Litten, Paul Harris, Alan Bullard, and Peter Gritton.
Key features of the series:
- Solo pieces, plus a number of duets
- A rich mix of musical styles, with techniques introduced progressively
- Fun extension activities
- Beautifully illustrated
David Blackwell is English composer, arranger and music teacher. He studied music at Edinburgh University. He has written and edited a wide range of educational music for strings and for piano, including Piano Mix and Piano Star (ABRSM), The Foundation Pianist (Faber, 2 vols.), Get Set Piano Christmas Crackers (HarperCollins) and pieces in Piano Time series. His choral and organ music is published in the UK and America, and includes Carols for Choirs book 5, In the Mood and Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists, six volumes of hymn preludes.
