The Baroque Era - Intermediate to Advanced

The Baroque Era - Intermediate to Advanced Piano Solo (53 Selections from Piano Literature, Concertos, Chamber Works, Oratorios and Operas for Piano Solo). By Various. For Piano, Piano/Keyboard. The World's Great Classical Music. 232 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

This collection includes 35 Baroque keyboard pieces by: Bach * Buxtehude * Couperin * Handel * Lully * Pachelbel * Purcell * Scarlatti *and others and 18 transcriptions for piano of Baroque favorites by: Bach * Handel * Pachelbel * Purcell * and Vivaldi.

Among the most famous music in the book is Air On The G String * Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring * selections from Water Music * selections from Messiah * and movements from The Four Seasons. As with the rest of the series, the edition is deliberately clean, without editorial markings, allowing a teacher or performer his or her own interpretive ideas.

Contents: The Windmill (Dagincourt) * Aria from Goldberg Variations (Bach) * Menuet (from the Third French Suite) (Bach) * Canon in D Major (J Pachelbel) * The Trophy (Couperin) * Toccata and Fugue (Frescobaldi) * Tender Song (Lully) * Canzonetta (Buxtehude) * more.