A Music Reader For Piano I

The ''Music Reader'' has been conceived as a kind of music magazine for junior music schools. Its aim is to provide children with a valuable music material and the collecting together of works by various composers of different epochs in one volume will make it easier for a teacher to select a repertory which would have to be assembled from different, not always available, collections. In addition, the Music Reader, as its title suggests, might provide useful material for sight-reading practice. All the pieces in the Music Reader have been checked against urtext editions or the most recent critical editions. The editing in itself has also been modernized in order to make the text as transparent as possible. The editor's performance directions, regarding tempo, dynamics, articulation and so on, have been placed in brackets in order to differentiate them from the composer's marks, while added slurs are pecked. In this way, both teacher and student will be able to distinguish the original marks from those added by the editor, which - of course - are less binding. This publication, aimed at primary schools, brings together works from different eras and by different composers in a single book, making it easier for teachers to choose repertoire which they would otherwise have to compile from multiple collections of varying availability. It may also be useful for practising sight reading.