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Piano Music for Beginners

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Piano music is shelved in the basement of the Music & Dramatic Arts Library. Look in both the regular and oversized sections (see floorplan). Library staff are also available to assist.

  • Piano instruction books are shelved starting at MT 220 (regular and oversized sections).
  • Children's piano music is shelved starting at M 1378 (it may also be in other sections).
  • Regular piano music is shelved starting at M 21, but consult resources below first.

Beginning Books and Anthologies (A Selection)

Tip: Search the anthology's title in HOMER to see if it is checked out.

Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Sampler: For Clinics, Seminars, Workshops. MT 222.A44 S3 1986 Music Library Oversize

Easy Classics to Moderns. Compiled and edited by Denes Agay. M 21 .E17 1956 Music Library

Easy Pieces for the piano, Selected from the Work of Great Composers. M 21 .L587 1957 Music Library

Encore! Standard Literature that Motivates. Selected by Jane Magrath. M 21 .E52 1990 Music Library

Keyboard Musicianship: Piano for Adults: Book One. By James Lyke [et al.]. MT 222 .K48 1998 Music Library Oversize

Leichte Klavierstücke russischer und sowjetischer Komponisten = Easy Piano Pieces by Russian and Soviet Composers. M 1378 .L44 Music Library

My First Book of Classical Music: 29 Themes by Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin and Other Great Composers in Easy Piano Arrangements. By Bergerac (Dover). MT 755.B47 M9 2000 Music Library Oversize

Piano for Pleasure: A Basic Course for Adults. By Martha Hilley, Lynn Freeman Olson. MT 222 .H63 1998 Music Library Oversize

Sonatinas and Easy Classics: The Ultimate Collection. CD Sheet Music (CD-ROM). CDR SM 1 MPW v.3. Music Library Circulation Desk

Young Pianist's Anthology of Modern Music: 42 Easy and Intermediate Works by Contemporary Composers for Recital and Study. M 21 .Y68 1972 Music Library

Easy Piano Music (by Composer)


Piano music for beginners and experts is shelved together. This makes browsing more difficult. Instead, consult the books below. They list easy piano pieces. Identify a composer/work, then search HOMER to see if UConn owns the music. Here are quick search instructions. Feel free to ask for assistance.
Contemporary Music and the Pianist: A Guidebook of Resources and Materials. By Alice Canaday. MT 220 C257 C6 1997 Music Library Oversize.
Includes graded lists of piano music by modern composers.

Easy/Intermediate Piano Music -- List assembled at the University of Virginia. Look up music in HOMER to find UConn's call numbers.

Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire. By Maurice Hinson. ML 128 P3 H5 2000 Music Library Reference.

Arranged by composer. Describes and indicates difficulty level of work.

Pianist's Guide to Transcriptions, Arrangements, and Paraphrases. By Maurice Hinson. ML 128 P3 H536 1990 Music Library Reference.
Arranged by composer. Describes and indicates difficulty level of work.

Teacher's Guidebook to Piano Literature: A Recommended Listing of Graded Repertoire for Elementary, Intermediate and Lower Advanced Students. By Alice M. Kern and Helen M. Titus. ML132 P3 K4 Music Lib. Ref.

Teaching Piano: A Comprehensive Guide and Reference Book for the Instructor. By Denes Agay et al. 1981. MT 220 .T455 Music Library.
Arranged by composer, with difficulty level of works given.

Thematic Guide to Piano Literature: An Easy-to-use Reference That Identifies and Specifies Grade Levels of Solo Piano Works. By Marthe Morhange-Motchane. 1982. ML 132 P3 T47 Music Library Reference
  • To find other books that list piano music by difficulty level (or "grade"), do a HOMER Subject Heading search on Piano music--Bibliography--Graded lists.
  • Find other piano music guides at ML 128 P3, ML 132 P3, or MT 220+ (reference, regular, and oversized sections)

Find More Easy Piano Music in HOMER

Use HOMER's Subject Heading search and type these terms (exact word order):

Piano--Instruction and Studies (includes adult method books)
Piano--Methods
Piano--Studies and exercises (mostly advanced, but may include some easy)
Piano music, Arranged (includes easy and hard arrangements of music for piano)
Piano music, Arranged--Juvenile
Piano music--Bibliography--Graded lists (finds books that list music)
Piano music--Juvenile
Piano music--Simplified editions
Piano music--Studies and exercises
Piano music--Teaching pieces

Also try the Keyword search. Add terms such as beginning, beginner, children, easy, first (as in "first book"), intermediate, juvenile, kinder? (e.g., Kinderszenen, or "Childhood Scenes"), young, etc.

Example: piano music easy
Example: piano music juvenile
Example: piano and music and (juvenile or easy or beginner) [This is a KEYWORD BOOLEAN search.]

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Thanks to Rosalind Craft for identifying some of the titles listed in this page.

This page was found at http://www.lib.uconn.edu/music/beginners.html

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