"In general, the selections follow a graded sequence. The first few pieces can be played as early as the second or third month of study"

Beginning and intermediate grade

A touch of blues / Gerald Martin -- Aria (from Don Giovanni) ; Rondino (from Divertimento no. 14) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Aura Lee / George R. Poulton -- Black is the color (folk song) -- Blow the man down (sea chantey) -- Bourrée / Johann Krieger -- Capriccio italien theme (solo or duet) ; Pathétique symphony. Theme / Peter I. Tchaikovsky -- The carman's whistle / William Byrd -- Chit-chat ; The comedians' galop / Dmitri Kabalevsky -- Down in the valley (folk song) -- Folk boogie (folk song) -- German dance / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Give my regards to Broadway / George M. Cohan -- Gypsy life csardas / V. Monti -- House of the Rising Sun (folk ballad) -- Lament / Béla Bartók -- The lonesome road (folk blues) -- Marian (calypso song) -- Maypole dance / Béla Bartók -- Melody / Robert Schumann -- Musette / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Nocturne / Frédéric Chopin -- Plaisir d'amour / Jean Paul Martini -- Red River Valley (cowboy song) -- The riddle song (folk song) -- Romance (from The pearl fishers) / Georges Bizet -- Roses from the south / Johann Strauss -- Rumanian rhapsody. Theme / George Enesco -- Sarabande / Arcangelo Corelli -- Symphony no. 1. Theme (from Finale) / Johannes Brahms -- The bagpipers / Joseph Haydn -- The trout / Franz Schubert -- Variations on Little brown jug / Gerald Martin -- Venetian boat-song / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Vilia (from The merry widow) / Franz Léhar -- We three kings of orient are / John Henry Hopkins, Jr. -- When the saints come marchin' in (spiritual)

Traditionell västerländsk notskrift

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