John Thompson's modern course for the piano : something new every lesson / John Thompson.

Author/creator Thompson, John
Format Musical Score
Publication InfoCincinnati : Willis Music Co., ©1936-1942.
Description6 volumes : illustrations ; 30 cm
Subjects
Piano--Methods. --Juvenile.
Piano--Studies and exercises. --Juvenile.

Uniform titleModern course for the piano
Portion of title Modern course for the piano
Contents [Volume 1]. Teaching little fingers to play. The birthday party -- Sandman's near -- The postman -- Rain on the roof -- Song of the Volga boatmen -- A message -- Chimes -- Good King Wenceslas -- Lazy Mary -- Betty and Bill -- Flying to the moon -- Air from Surprise symphony -- By the pond -- Paper ships -- Sledding -- Questions -- Blue bells of Scotland -- Toy soldiers -- Big ships -- Steamboat 'round the bend -- Comin' round the mountain -- The long trail -- The bee -- My bonnie -- Vacation time -- Home on the range -- The juggler -- From a wigwam.
Contents [Volume 2]. The first grade book: something new every lesson. Music land -- run-away river -- The traffic cop -- Swans on the lake -- The scissors grinder -- A song of penny candy -- The man in the moon -- The party -- The robin -- Merry clown -- The cuckoo -- Scaling a wall -- The chimes -- Stepping stones -- Mountain climbing -- A chord frolic -- The fairies' harp -- The wishing star -- Lightly row -- Little spring song -- Falling leaves -- Dutch dance -- The fairy court -- The tiresome woodpecker -- The knight and the lady -- Air from Mozart -- A little waltz -- The owl's question -- Cheer for the blue -- The cuckoo clock -- The singing mouse -- Birthday cake -- The pop-corn man -- The merry-go-round -- A Spanish fiesta -- The fox hunt -- To Celia -- The frog chorus -- The sleigh -- Little Bo-Peep -- Evening bells -- Peasant dance -- Long, long ago -- Silent night -- A keyboard recreation -- The streamliner -- To a skyscraper -- Dublin town -- John Peel.
Contents [Volume 3]. The second grade book: something new every lesson. In the Alps -- On yonder rock reclining / Fra Diavolo -- Hop o' my thumb -- Menuet / Johnn Sebastian Bach -- Round the village -- Country gardens -- Dance of the hours (La gioconda) -- A Christmas carol -- Distant bells / Streabbog -- Etude / Duvernoy -- Bill Grogan's goat -- In church -- A frolic in velocity / adapted from C. Czerny -- Carry me back to Old Virginny -- Reverie -- Puck -- Prelude in A major / Frédéric Chopin -- Starlight waltz -- A journey in the Arctic -- The sky pilot -- Hide and seek -- The Gipsy camp -- Minuet (Don Juan) -- A little Polish dance -- The hare and the hounds -- Off we go / Streabbog -- Dark eyes / Russian folk-song -- Etude -- Romanze / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Scherzino -- Theme from A dream of Love / Franz Liszt -- A little Slavonic rhapsody -- Hellelujah chorus (Messiah) -- Skpping through the forest -- Etude / Czerny - Hinkey, dinkey parley voo -- Deep river -- Moths -- Grandpapa Jonathan -- Habanera (Carmen) / Georges Bizet -- The bee and the clover -- A trial flight -- The nightingale and the cuckoo -- Two guitars / Russian Gipsy song -- Song of the birds -- Barcarolle (Tales of Hoffman) / Jacques Offenbach -- Theme from Gypsy rondo / Franz Joseph Haydn -- March of the gnomes -- A Viennese melody -- Jocularity.
Contents [Volume 4]. The third grade book: something new every lesson. Nobody knows de trouble I've seen -- Melody / Schumann -- Musette / J.S. Bach -- Toreador song (Carmen / Bizet -- Londonderry air -- Dorothy / Seymour Smith -- Witches dance / Kullak -- Serenade / Schubert -- Spinning song / Ellmenreich -- Berceuse (Jocelyn) / Godard -- Will-o'-the-wisp / Behr -- Minuet (from Septet) / Beethoven -- Excerpts from "Pinafore" / Gilbert & Sullivan -- Ballade / Burgmüller -- Sarabande / Handel -- Prelude in C / J.S. Bach -- Sonatina / Clementi -- Dona nobis pacem -- La cucaracha -- Skaters / Waldteufel -- Watchman's song / Grieg -- Taratella / Thompson -- Andante from 6th symphony / Tchaikovsky -- Gavotte / Popper -- Minuet / Boccherini -- Romance / Rubinstein -- Bublitchki / Russian folk-song -- Melody / Massenet -- Hungarian rhapsodie no. 2 / Liszt -- Prelude in C minor, op. 28, no. 20 / Chopin -- Minuet in G / Beethoven -- Curious story / Heller -- Hymn to the sun / Rimsky-Korsakov -- Twenty-four preludes for supplementary exercises.
Contents [Volume 5]. The fourth grade book: something new every lesson. The juggler : op. 96, no. 11 / Loeschhorn -- Andante from 5th symphony / Beethoven -- Aragonaise from Le Cid / Massenet -- Petite Russian rhapsodie -- Il penseroso / Heller -- Elfin dance : op. 33 / Jensen -- Waltz, op. 12, no. 2 / Grieg -- At evening / Schytte -- The skylark / Tchaikowsky -- Etude in style / Thompson -- Prelude in F major / J.S. Bach -- Arkansas traveler -- Scarf dance / Chaminade -- Impromptu / Thompson -- Hungarian / Hauser -- You / Cuban folk-song -- Prelude in B minor, op. 28, no. 6 / Chopin -- Ay-ay-ay / Creole song -- Solfeggietto / Carl Ph. E. Bach -- Etude / Bertini -- Calm as the night / Bohm -- Menuet from E flat major sonata / Haydn -- Prelude in D major / J.S. Bach -- Nocturne / Thompson -- Romeo and Juliet / Tchaikowsky -- Träumerei / Schumann -- Artist's life / Johann Strauss -- Cradle song / Brahms -- Rondo from C major sonata / Mozart -- Canzonetta in D major, op. 28, no. 2 / Schütt -- My heart at thy sweet voice (from Sampson and Delilah) / Saint-Saëns -- Sonata in F minor, op. 2, no. 1 / Beethoven -- Theme from 6th symphony (Pathetique) / Tchaikowsky.
Contents [Volume 6]. The fifth grade book: something new every lesson. Prelude in C major (From the Well-tempered clavichord) / J.S. Bach -- Scherzo in B flat / Franz Schubert -- Orientale / Cesar Cui -- Butterfly / Edvard Grieg -- On wings of song / F. Mendelssohn -- Turkish march / W. A. Mozart -- Prelude / S. Lund-Skabo -- Erotikon op. 10, no. 2 / E. Sjogren -- Chopin / B. Godard -- Polish dance / X. Scharwenka -- Waltz in A flat / Johannes Brahms -- Impromptu / Anton Arensky -- Fanitul / Ole Olsen -- Valse op. 64 / F. Chopin -- Romance in F sharp / R. Schumann -- Ghosts / L. Schytte -- Adagio from Sonata pathetique / L. van Beethoven -- Tango / I. Albeniz -- Hark, hark the lark / F. Schubert -- Lesson analysis. May night / Selim Palmgren -- Blue Danube / Johann Strauss Jr. -- Nocturne in E flat / F. Chopin -- Theme from Piano concerto / P.I. Tchaikovsky -- Scottish Highalnds scene / J. Thompson -- Hungarian rhapsodie no. 6 / Franz Liszt -- Reverie / Claude Debussy -- Hopak / M. Mussorgsky -- Melodie op. 3, no. 3 / S. Rachmaninoff -- Gavotte and musette / E. D'Albert.
General noteFirst book (Primer) has distinctive title: Teaching little fingers to play; other volumes graded first through fifth.
General noteSome selections are duets.
General noteFirst grade book includes "Verses by Katherine Faith, drawings by Frederick S. Manning"; second book, "Stories and biographical sketches by Laurence B. Ellert, drawings by Doris and George Hauman"; third book, "Stories and biographical sketches by Laurence B. Ellert."
General notePl. no.: W.M.Co. 6100 (v. 6).
LCCN 43042074
Publisher numberW.M.Co. 6100 Willis Music Co.

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