Easy to Intermediate Orchestral, Opera $ Ballet
57 Best-Loved Melodies Of All Time


From the wonderful waltzes of Johann Strauss, the beautiful orchestral themes of Brahms, Shubert and Tchaikovsky, to the soaring operatic arias of Verdi and Puccini, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue, this is an enchanting treasury of beautiful piano music. Dan Fox, who has arranged the family music collections and piano books for Reader’s Digest, as well as for Sheet Music Magazine and numerous music publishers, has created this marvelous collection of pieces for the Easy-Intermediate piano level. Set in the easier keys, these best-loved themes are fun to play, and a pleasure to hear. A perfect way to brush up on sight-reading too!

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Song List

Colonel Bogey Kenneth J. Alford Sheep May Safely Graze Johann Sebastian Bach Ode to Joy (Symphony No. 9) Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 (Opening Theme) Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (Shepherd's Song) Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 (2nd Movement Theme) Ludwig van Beethoven March of the Kings (L'Arlésienne) Georges Bizet Toreador Song (Carmen) Georges Bizet Symphony No. 1 (4th Movement Theme) Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 (3rd Movement Theme) Johannes Brahms Waltz Leo Delibes Coppélia The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Main Theme) Paul Dukas Largo ("New World" Symphony) Antonín Dvořák Pavane Gabriel Fauré M'appari tutt' amor (Martha) Friedrich von Flotow An American in Paris (Blues Theme) George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue (Main Theme) George Gershwin Funeral March of a Marionette Charles Gounod Andaluza (Spanish Dance No. 5) Enrique Granados Anitra's Dance (Peer Gynt) Edvard Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt) Edvard Grieg Serenade Surprise Symphony (2nd Movement Theme) Franz Joseph Haydn Evening Prayer (Hänsel and Gretel) Engelbert Humperdinck Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana) Pietro Mascagni Elegie Jules Massenet Rondeau ("Masterpiece Theater" Theme) Joseph Mouret Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Opening Theme) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Là ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffman) Jacques Offenbach Can Can (Orpheus in the Underworld) Jacques Offenbach La Belle Hélène Waltz Jacques Offenbach Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda) Amilcare Ponchielli Musetta's Waltz (La Boheme) Giacomo Puccini O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi) Giacomo Puccini Un bel dì (Madame Butterfly) Giacomo Puccini Piano Concerto No. 2 (1st Movement Theme) Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (18th Variation) Sergei Rachmaninoff Love Theme (Scheherazade) Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Mazurka (The Barber of Seville) Gioacchino Rossini William Tell Overture Gioacchino Rossini Serenade Franz Schubert The Unfinished Symphony (1st Movement Theme) Franz Schubert Artist's Life Johann Strauss, Jr. The Blue Danube Johann Strauss, Jr. Also sprach Zarathustra Richard Strauss Andante cantabile Pathétique Symphony (1st Movement Theme) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet (Love Theme) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty (Waltz Theme) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Waltz (Symphony No. 5) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Serenade Enrico Toselli Anvil Chorus (Il Trovatore) Giuseppe Verdi Grand March (Aïda) Giuseppe Verdi La donna è mobile (Rigoletto) Giuseppe Verdi Spring (The Four Seasons) Antonio Vivaldi The Skater's Waltz Émile Waldteufel


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