Basic Piano Library Classic Themes Books

The Classic Themes Books contain simple versions of great melodies and correlate page-by-page with Level 2 through Level 5 of the Basic Piano Course Lesson Books.  

​Once they have mastered Level 1 of the Basic Course, your child - or you! - will enjoy playing and appreciating the concert and operatic pieces found in these easy to play books while being educated on well known composers. You are welcome to purchase any of these additional books and Carolyne will then incorporate them into your child's lesson.

By Level 6, students will progress to playing original versions of classical pieces.

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​Classic Themes Book 2

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Classic Themes Book 2

Method Concepts

• Dotted half notes, dotted quarter notes
• Melodic and harmonic intervals:
  6ths, 7ths and octaves
• Crossing two over one
• Scales
• Triads, primary chords, blocked and broken chords
  
  

Themes Presented:

• Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (folk)
• Liebestraum (Liszt)
• Morning from Peer Gynt (Grieg)
• Capriccio Italien Theme (Tchaikovsky)
• Piano Concerto No. 2 Theme (Rachmaninoff)
• Sonata in A Major Theme (Mozart)
• Symphony No. 5 Theme (Tchaikovsky)
• Symphony No. 6 Theme (Tchaikovsky)
  
  

32 pages

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Classic Themes Book 3

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Classic Themes Book 3

Method Concepts​

• Overlapping pedal
• 3/8 and 6/8 time signatures
• Primary triads in Major and Minor keys
• Passing one under two / one under three
• Major scales in contrary motion
• Chromatic scale
• Minor scale
  
  

Themes Presented:

• All Through the Night (folk)
• Auld Lang Syne (folk)
• Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss)
• Finlandia (Sibelius)
• Flow Gently, Sweet Afton (folk)
• Funeral March of a Marionette (Gounod)
• Israeli Dance (folk)
• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
• Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Theme (Liszt)
• Wooden Shoe Dance (Humperdinck)
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32 pages​​


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Classic Themes Book 4

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Classic Themes Book 4

Method Concepts​​

• Tarantellas
• Eighth note triplets
• Arpeggiated chords
• First and second inversion triads in C
• Triads in all positions
• Major scales in parallel motion
• Two-part writing
• Seventh chords and inversions
• E harmonic minor scale in contrary motion
• Primary chords in E minor
• Sixteenth notes
• Dotted eighth notes
• Primary chords in B-flat Major and G Minor
• Repeated-note warm-ups
• Harmonic minor scales in parallel motion
  
  

Themes Presented:

• Bohemian Dance (Tchaikovsky)
• Clair de Lune” (Debussy)
• Figaro Tarantella from Barber of Seville (Rossini)
• March Slav (Tchaikovsky)
• Minuetto from Symphony No. 11 (Haydn)
• My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Saint-Saens)
• Symphony No. 40 Theme (Mozart)
• Romance  (Tchaikovsky)
• Violin Concerto Theme (Mendelssohn)
• Tales from the Vienna Woods Theme (Strauss)
• Wedding March (Wagner)
  
  

32 pages
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​Classic Themes Book 5

Alfred's Basic Piano Library
​Classic Themes Book 5   

Method Concepts​​

• Ornaments:
  - long and short appoggiatura
  - trill and mordent
• Arpeggios
• A Major scale
• Keys of B minor and C minor
• Minuets, sonatinas, preludes, arias
  
  

Themes Presented:

• Angel's Serenade (Braga)
• Annen Polka (Strauss)
• Aria from "Don Giovanni (Mozart)
• Drinking Song from La Traviata (Verdi)
• Gypsy Dance from Carmen (Bizet)
• June Barcarolle (Tchaikovsky)
• Love's Greeting (Elgar)
• Mirror Dance from Faust (Gounod)
• Themes from Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)
• Prelude (Chopin)
• The Last Rose of Summer (Moore)
• Piano Concerto No. 21 Theme (Mozart)
• Toreador Song from Carmen (Bizet)

32 pages

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