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FIFTEEN FOUR-HAND PIECES FOR THE PIANOFORTE, WITH VISITS TO NEIGHBORING KEYS, COMPOSED W ARRANGED BY

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The Little Shadow

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German Sickle Song

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Die Muhle am Bach

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The Mill

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To These

the Teacher

five-note pieces, for piano four-hands, are arranged so that the pupil can

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They form a

play either part.

suitable course of sight reading in the first grades.

written in an easy key, and repeated in another, sometimes

more

difficult,

Those

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accustom the child's ear to distinguish changes of tone-color, besides affording a desirable readjustment of the hand position. When the fingers have become used to a particular fivenote compass, they learn to find the intervals more readily, and are soon able to play without the stuttering and halting which destroys the sense of rhythmic continuity, and kills musical understanding.

My affection of love to arrange If

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folk-songs, included in this collection,

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the children enjoy the reading lesson,

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SUSAN SCHMITT

To

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come and ride with me on my broomstick, round the sun, then round the moon, And we'll light on the steeple to hear a merry tune. Will you

far

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First

Kate Greenaway

Subdue the Bass! When you have

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the noisy bass notes, don't thunder!!!

boy once played so loud, That the thunder up in a thunder cloud Said, "Since I can't be heard, why, then, little

I'll

never, never thunder again."

Eugene Field

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