Creative Christmas Carols is designed to help you explore new ways to play your favorite carols. Each carol can be decorated using special fills and ornaments just as you might decorate your home with special wreaths or lights for the season. At the beginning of each song, you will find the unique pattern or fill that has been used in the carol to create the new arrangement. Take your time and decorate a little at a time. The only mistake you can make is being afraid of making one! Now enjoy using new ways to play ageless carols as you create special new sounds to celebrate Christmas.

Songs include: Angels We Have Heard on High • Away in a Manger • Good Christian Men, Rejoice • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing • It Came Upon a Midnight Clear • Joy to the World • O Come, All Ye Faithful • Pat-a-Pan • Silent Night • The First Noel • We Wish You a Merry Christmas. $9.00

WOMEN COMPOSERS IN HISTORY  $ 13.00

18 Intermediate to Late-Intermediate piano pieces by these 8 composers:  Amy Beach, Theresa Carreno, Cecile Chaminade, Louise Dumont Farrenc, Fanny Mendelsohn-Hensel, Margaret Ruthven Lang, Clara Gottschalk-Peterson and Clara Schuman.  The new book is compiled and edited by Gail Smith and published Hal Leonard. 

THE ART OF COMPOSING   $20.00              

In the twelve chapters of this book you will find creative ideas for pianists who want to compose.  It contains information with examples of a vast variety of forms of composition from composing palindromes to setting poems to music.  It is a treasure chest of concrete ideas and insight into the creative process of great composers.  You will be shown proven ways to start composing instantly.

THE MUSICAL GARDEN   $10.00             

This book has eleven original piano solos for late elementary to intermediate level pianists.   There are short poems before each solo that can turn the whole book into a special piano recital as a Narrative Suite.  Each piece stands on its’ own but when you read the poems, the delightful musical story will come alive.  The names of the pieces are: Garden Prelude; The Proclamation; Dreaming; The Garden Waltz; It’s Raining Notes; The Ladybug Boogie; Lullaby of the Birds; The Dancing daffodils; The Tulip Tango; Rose Petals and Concert in the Garden.   Your students will love each of the pieces

STATS  
 $5.00

“STATS” is a Palindrome in title and in composition.  A palindrome can be played backwards and forwards and sound the same.  By reading a song backwards pianists become better sight readers.  The brain cells are stimulated and it is a good exercise for the eyes.  This sheet music also has the worlds’ only piano solo that can be played upside down and sound the same.  It is a reversible – inverted palindrome called WOW MOM.

CARLA’S CAPRICCIO 
$5.00

A most beautiful instrumental, piano composition which all will enjoy.  Truly written from the heart.  Moderately Difficult Level. Appropriate for recitals.

Amazing Grace
10.00

In the setting of
Bach, Beethoven and Brahms
arranged by Gail Smith

"Amazing Grace" is a Christian
Hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton (1725–1807), published in 1779. With the message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, "Amazing Grace" is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world.