The Joy of Piano Duets: Familiar Melodies in Easy Arrangements for One Piano Four Hands

For centuries duet playing has held and continues to hold a fascinating attraction for the student, the teacher, the professional musician. One of the most pleasurable aspects of music-making, it always provides an enjoyable experience to both player and audience. In addition, it has definite pedagogical benefits.

The Joy of Piano Duets contains colorful examples of music from the classics to folk songs and jazz. The arrangements are equally easy for both players with the melody alternating between the two.

Robert Schumann advised pianists, "Don't omit any opportunity to play with others." It is sound advice. We trust that this collection will be a source of pleasure to "one piano-four hands" enthusiasts the world over."

CONTENIDO:

-Adeste fideles (Old Latin Hymn)
-Adiós muchachos (Julio Sanders)
-Arioso (Johann Sebastian Bach)
-Arkansas Traveler (Fiddle Tune)
-The Banjo Rap (Charles Drumheller)
-Boogie for Two (Gerald Martin)
-Bourrée, from Violin Sonata No. 2 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
-Can-Can, from the operetta La Vie Parisienne (Jacques Offenbach)
-Caprice No. 24 (Niccolò Paganini)
-Careless Love (Folk Song)
-The Comediants' Galop (Dmitri Kabalevsky)
-Duet, from Don Giovanni "La ci darem la mano" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-Fascination (Filippo D. Marchetti)
-Frolic (Béla Bartók)
-Gavotte, from The Classical Symphony (Serge Prokofieff)
-Give My Regards to Broadway (George M. Cohan)
-The Harmonious Blacksmith, theme (Georg Friedrich Händel)
-Hush-A-Bye, All the Pretty Little Horses (Folk Lullaby)
-Jamaica Farewell (Calypso Song)
-Little Rhapsody, on Hungarian Themes (Denes Agay)
-Lullaby, from The Firebird (Igor Stravinsky)
-Melody in Waltz Time, theme from String Quartet No. 2 (Alexander Borodin)
-The Merry Boys Polka (Franz von Suppé)
-Minuet, from A Little Night Music (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
-The Musical Snuffbox (Anatol Liadov)
-O Come All Ye Faithful (Old Latin Hymn)
-Parade of the Tin Soldier (Leon Jessel)
-Rondino, theme from Cello Concerto in D (Joseph Haydn)
-The Streets of Laredo (Cowboy Song)
-The Metronome, theme from Symphony No. 8 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
-The Trout (Franz Schubert)
-Trepak, Russian Dance from The Nutcracker (Peter I. Tchaikovsky)
-Waltzes, from Fledermaus and Gypsy Baron (Johann Strauss)
-The Washington Post (John Philip Sousa)