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a variety of supprementary material in many different
This new series answers the often expressed need for
popular styles. what could be more fun for an adult than
to play the music that everybody knows and loves?
is that soon after beginning piano study, anyone
can play
The remarkable part of this new Greatest Hitsseries
attractive versions of the best-known music of today'
1 of Alfred's Basic Adult Piano course; pieces should
This book is correlated page-by-page with Lesson Book
corner of each title page of Greatesf Hlfs (the
be assigned based on'thl instructions in the upper-right
included in parentheses)'
correlation for Alfred's Adult All-in-One Course is
you may
not always lend themselves to precise grading'
since the melodies and rhythms of popular music do
than the corresponding pages in the Lesson Book'
find that these pieces are sometimes a ritile more difficult
in deciding when to begin each title'
The teacher's judgment is the most important factor
in conjunction with the Lesson Books' these
when the books in the Greatest Hifs series are assigned provides
introduced. ln addition, the motivation the music
appealing pieces reinforce new concepts as they are popular song increases
receive from mastering each
could not be better. The emotional satisfaction students
popular music available in the Greatest Hifs series (Levels
1'
their enthusiasm to begin the next one. with the
increase every adult's interest in piano study'
2 and 3), the use of allihree books will significantly
Edelweiss (Arr. bY Tom Gerou) Rainbow Connection, The (Arr' by Dennis Alexander)
fTomTHE SOUND AF MUS1C '" '3 fToITHEMUPPETMOV1E.' ""8
Hello, Dolty! (Arr. by Sharon Aaronson) Rock Around the Glock (Arr. by Martha Mier) ' ' ' ' 16
from HELLO, DOLLY!
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She LovesYou (Arr. by George PeterTingley) ' ' ' ' '
I Left My Heart in San Francisco (Arr. by Sharon Aaronson)
42 Sound of Music,The
(Arr. by Martha Mier) 34
fromTHE SOUND AF MUSIC
It's a Small World (Arr. by George Peter Tingley)
fram Disneyland and Walt Disney World's That's Amore (That's Love)
12 (Arr. by George Peter TingleY)
IT'S A SMALLWORLD
Love Me Tender (Arr. by Christine H' Barden) ' ' ' ,,2 fromtheParamountPictureTHECADDY ' " ' ' '32
Tomorrow (Arr. by Sharon Aaronson)
Memory (Arr. bY Sharon Aaronson)
from CATS
25 from the Musicat Production ANN]E "" ' 14
Peter Tingley)' ' 0
My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from 'Titanic')
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What a Wonderful World (An' by George
(Arr. by George Peter TingleY)
Whole NewWorld, A (Arr. by Dennis Alexander)
fram the Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox
" " " "4 from Walt DisneY's ALADDIN ' " ' 37
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LESSON BOOK, Level 1, after page i
o,r, You
have made my life com - plete, and I love you so.
For it's there that ,l be-long, and we'll nev - er part.
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I l. Ev'- ry night in
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mydreams
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Love was when I loved you one true time I hold to.
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you have come to show you go on.
ln my life we'll al - ways go on.
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brought him strings and seal - ing wax and oth - er fan - cy stuff. J ont
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Copyright @ 1963; Renewed 1991 Honalee Melodies (ASCAP) and Silver Dawn Music (ASCAP)
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friends shak-in' hands, say-in' "How do you do!" They're real-ly say - in' "l love you." I hear
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world ol hopes and a world of fears. There's so much that we share that it's
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Clock to - night. 1. Put your glad rags on and join ffie, Hon, we'll_
clock strikes two, and three and four, if the
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3. When the chimes ring five and six and seven we'll be rockin' up in seventh heav'n, etc.
4. When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven too, I'll be goin'strong and so will you, efc.
5. When the clock strikes twelve, we'll cooloff, then, start a-rockin"round the clock again, etc.
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Ev-er as be - fore, ev - er just as sure as the sun will rise.
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Tale as old as time. Tune as old as song. Bit-ter-sweet and
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On Broadway
Words and Music by
Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber
Arr. by Tom Gerou
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yeah, yeah, And with a love like that know you should be glad.
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Hello, Dolly!
from HELLO, DOLLY! Music and Lyric by Jerry Hermar
Arr. by Sharon Aaronsor
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O 1963 (Renewed) JERRY HERMAN
All Rights Controlled by EDWIN H. MORRIS & COMPANY A Division of MPL Communications, lnc.
All Rights Reserved
play - in' one of your old fa - v'rite
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ring, ting-a-ling-a ling, ting-a-ling-a ling, and you'll . sing, "Vee - ta bel - la."
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with songs they have sung for a thou-sand years.
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Copyright@ 1959 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein ll
Copyright Renewed
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My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds that rise from the lake to the
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trees. My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies from a church )na
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breeze, - To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls o-ver stones on its
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pray. f', oo to the hills when my heart is lone - ly.
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know I willhear what l've heard be fore.
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All Rights Reserved Used by Permission
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/take you won - der by o- ver, side - ways and
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mag-ic car - pet ride. A Whole New
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crys - tal clear thi now l'm in Whole New World with
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in San Fran - cis - co,
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do an - y - thing but lay off of my Blue Suede Shoes.
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walk-in' a - round on tlose, what d' - ya call 'em, oh
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sun. Wan-der- in' free, wish I could be part of that world.
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land they un-der stand. Bet they don't re - ori- mand their daugh-ters. Brightyoung
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to know what the peo-ple know. Ask'em my ques-tions and get some an -swers.
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