Piano Solo Literature

Piano Solos for All Occasions – The Complete Resource for Every Pianist!

Everyone who plays piano should have this multipurpose resource on their music shelf! Includes delightful solo arrangements of 65 songs in styles ranging from classical to Latin, Broadway to blues, movie hits to new age, jazz standards, wedding songs and more!

Tunes include: Ain’t Misbehavin’ * Ave Maria * Bridal Chorus * Canon in D * Edelweiss * Fur Elise * Georgia on My Mind * The Girl from Ipanema * The Godfather * Memory * Misty * Moon River * My Heart Will Go On * Route 66 * Stella by Starlight * When I Fall in Love * and scores more.

Hal Leonard
271 pages
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Piano For Pleasure, Book 1 – Easy Classics – Solo and Duet

Piano for Pleasure follows Piano Progress in providing a graded sequence of pieces by master composers from Bach to Bartok. This book provides a great repertoire for the pianist who has mastered a basic technique, and features both solos and duets.

Selected and edited by Fannie Waterman & Marion Harewood.

Hal Leonard (Faber Music)
29 pages
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Grace Notes – Songs of God’s Amazing Grace (Jolene Boyd)

The hymn arrangements in this collection all underscore the common theme of “grace.” Jolene Boyd’s creative interpretations of these beloved hymns will have strong appeal to people of all ages. Annotated background notes are also provided for each hymn enhancing the meaning for both the pianist and the listener.

Titles:
Amazing Grace
Blessed Assurance
Grace Greater than Our Sin
He Giveth More Grace
He Hideth My Soul
Jesus Is All the World to Me
Jesus Loves Me
Jesus Paid It All
Nearer My God to Thee
Standing on the Promises

Level: Advanced

Lillenas
40 pages
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Big Purple Book of Praise & Worship Piano Solos

This collection includes 34 medium-difficult praise and worship solos from some of today’s top arrangers: Bruce Greer, Jim Hammerly, Mark Hayes, Bob Krogstad, Rolin R. Mains, Carol Tornquist, Bill Wolaver and Don Wyrtzen. It is an excellent resource for contemporary worship service and includes preludes, offertories, transitions, meditations and “special music.” Songs include: Almighty * As the Deer * As We Gather * Awesome God * Awesome in This Place * Bind Us Together * Come Just as You Are * He Is Our Peace * Holy Ground * I Will Celebrate * Praise You * Shine on Us * We Will Glorify * and more.

Word Music
142 pages
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Chris Rice (The Living Room Sessions)

The Living Room Sessions is the new instrumental project from Chris Rice featuring classic piano hymns of faith recorded in Chris’ living room. This companion folio features all of the titles from the album, arranged for solo piano. Includes: All Creatures of Our God and King * Be Still My Soul * The Church’s One Foundations * Fairest Lord Jesus * Great Is Thy Faithfulness * How Great Thou Art * Like a River Glorious * and more.

Word Music
71 pages
Level: Moderate
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Grand Keyboard Classics (David T. Clydesdale)

10 of the best-loved praise and worship songs arranged for piano solo with optional piano accompaniment parts. Titles include: Amazing Love * Blessed Be the Lord God Almighty * Crucified with Christ * Higher Ground * Holy Ground * I Stand in Awe * Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee * Oh, I Want to Know You More * Shout to the Lord! * You Have Broken the Chains.

Word Music
127 pages
Advanced
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Jazz Carols for Christmas (Jim Hammerly)

A collection of 10 of the most familiar melodies of Christmas arranged in a fresh new jazz style by gifted pianist Jim Hammerly. These titles are arranged for advanced solo piano: Angels We Have Heard on High * The First Noel * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing * How Great Our Joy! * It Came upon the Midnight Clear * Joy to the World! * O Come, All Ye Faithful * O Holy Night! * O Little Town of Bethlehem * What Child Is This?. Includes lyric pages for each carol.
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Classic Praise: 10 Master Pieces for Solo Piano (Larry Dalton)

This is the first book in Word Music’s brand new Solo Piano Artist series, with arrangements designed especially for more advanced pianists who want challenging performance pieces to add to their repertoire. The creator of this folio, Larry Dalton, is a popular Steinway concert artist, who travels and performs extensively throughout the world. His heart for worship is captured in these exquisite solo arrangements of well-known praise and worship melodies some older, some more recent but all destined to become classics in church music. Songs include: Above All * As the Deer * Knowing You * Lord, Have Mercy * Open the Eyes of My Heart * Shout to the Lord * The Heart of Worship * There Is None Like You * You Are My All in All * You Are Worthy of My Praise.

Word Music
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Easy Gospel Piano (Jack Schrader)

This is a terrific volume of contemporary Christian songs arranged for easy-moderate piano solo – no lyrics. Titles: *Cornerstone *El-Shaddai *Flyin like an eagle *Go tell it on the mountain *He was there all the time *I just came to praise the Lord *Into my heart *Lord, listen to your children *Thank you, lord *The fire *The new 23rd *Unfailing love
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