Finding Elementary and Intermediate Piano Music

This is a guide to locating elementary and intermediate piano music in the Music Library.

Note

Below are just a few of the elementary- and intermediate-level piano works held by the Music Library. For other repertoire suggestions, you may wish to consult The Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature (Reference ML 128 .P3 M128 1995), which covers beginner to early-advanced repertoire and provides a brief description and suggested grade level for each entry.

Elementary and Intermediate Piano Music: Collections of Works by Multiple Composers

Sonatinas and Easy Classics: The Ultimate Collection. [This CD-ROM has printable scanned images of more than 1000 pages of public-domain music.]
Call Number: CD-ROM M41
American Essentials: Easier Compositions for Piano.
Call Number: M 21 .A495 1998
From Schoenberg to Ligeti: Easy Piano Pieces of the 20th Century.
Call Number: M 21 .V94 2002

Elementary and Intermediate Piano Music by a Single Composer

Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach. by Bach, Johann Sebastian.
Call Number: M 22 .B12 N9 2001
Two- and Three-Part Inventions. by Bach, Johann Sebastian.
Call Number: M 25 .B12 I6 2002
Mikrokosmos: 153 Progressive Piano Pieces. by Bartok, Bela.
Call Number: MT 243 .B28 M6 1994 v.1-6
Gyermekeknek (For Children). by Bartok, Bela.
Call Number: M 1378 .B28 F7 2000 v.1-2
Ten Easy Piano Pieces. by Bartok, Bela.
Call Number: M 25 .B28 T3 1950a
Children's Album, op. 36. by Beach, Amy.
Call Number: M 1380 .B36 C5 1990
At the Piano with Beethoven. by Beethoven, Ludwig van.
Call Number: MT 247 .B42 1986
Dances (Ländler, German dances, Écossaises, Minuets, Waltzes). by Beethoven, Ludwig van.
Call Number: M 22 .B4 1990
25 Progressive Pieces. by Burgmüller, Johann Friedrich.
Call Number: MT 225 .B96 E8 1990
At the Piano with Chopin. by Chopin, Frederic.
Call Number: MT 247 .C55 1986
Six Progressive Sonatinas, op. 36. by Clementi, Muzio.
Call Number: M 23 .C63 P96 2001
Piano Album: Down a Country Lane; In Evening Air; Midsummer Nocturne. by Copland, Aaron.
Call Number: M 20 .C78 1981
Lyrical Pieces for the Piano, op. 12. by Grieg, Edvard.
Call Number: M 25 .G84 L9 194-
Lyrical Pieces for the Piano, op. 68. by Grieg, Edvard.
Call Number: M 25 .G84 L96 1932
Thirty Pieces for Children, op. 27. by Kabalevsky, Dmitri.
Call Number: M 1378 .K12 C54 2012
Easy Variations on Folk Themes, op. 51. by Kabalevsky, Dmitri.
Call Number: M 1380 .K13 L6 2005
Sonatinas, op. 55. by Kuhlau, Friedrich.
Call Number: M 23 .K955 S8 1908
Woodland Sketches, op. 51. by MacDowell, Edward.
Call Number: M 24 .M14 W9 1980
Forgotten Fairy Tales, op. 4. by MacDowell, Edward.
Call Number: M 25 .M14 F7 1990
Kinderstücke, op. 72. by Mendelssohn, Felix.
Call Number: M 25 .M54 K5 197-
At the Piano with Mozart. by Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus.
Call Number: MT 247 .M94 1986
Fables, op. 21. by Muczynski, Robert.
Call Number: M 22 .M965 1990
Music for Children, op. 65. by Prokofiev, Sergei.
Call Number: M 1380 .P96 D5 1995
Children's Pieces. by Satie, Erik.
Call Number: M 1380 .S25 E6 2006
Gymnopédies. by Satie, Erik.
Call Number: M 22 .S25 1974 v.1
Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young), op. 68. by Schumann, Robert.
Call Number: M 1380 .S38 A31 1977
Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood), op. 15. by Schumann, Robert.
Call Number: M 25 .S388 K5 1996
Children's Notebook for Piano, op. 69. by Shostakovich, Dmitri.
Call Number: M 1380 .S54 D5 2004
Album for the Young, op. 39. by Tchaikovsky, Peter.
Call Number: M 1380 .T25 D4 197-
Guia Pratico (Practical Guide). by Villa-Lobos, Heitor.
Call Number: M 25 .V72 G92 1993 (book 2)
Guia Pratico (Practical Guide). by Villa-Lobos, Heitor.
Call Number: M 25 .V72 G93 1992 (book 3)
Guia Pratico (Practical Guide). by Villa-Lobos, Heitor.
Call Number: M 25 .V72 G9 1987 (books 4, 5, & 10)

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