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Table Of Contents
Ode to Joy.................................................4

Minuet........................................................5

Mexican Hat Dance...................................6

Hungarian Dance......................................8

In the Hall of the Mountain King..............10

Canon in D..............................................12

Rondo Alla Turca.....................................14

The Entertainer........................................16

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy...............18

March of the Nutcracker..........................20

Moonlight Sonata....................................22

Bolero......................................................24

Maple Leaf Rag.......................................26

Funeral March.........................................28

Sonatina..................................................29

Wedding March.......................................31

Spring......................................................33

Fur Elise..................................................35

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik..........................37

1812 Overture.........................................38

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 Ode to Joy 01
from Symphony no. 9
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Arranged Ruth Searle
Allegro maestoso


 
3 4 5 5 1 3 2

         
1 2 3 1

     
    
f

1 1 5 1 5

 
5

 
1
3
5

5
3 4 5 5 1 2 1

      
1 2 3

           
 

 







2 2 2 1 3

    
1

            
mf f
        
1 2 1 3 1
5 5

    

13
3 4 5 4 3 2 3 4 5 4 3



        
1 2 3 2 1 1 1 2 3 2 1

         
     
1

   
ff

5 1
1

 
3


5 3


5

  
About this piece: © Copyright 2007 Rock Star Recipes Ltd

It was written by Ludwig Van Beethoven who lived from 1770 to 1827. He was a
German composer influential in the Classical and Romantic era. He later became
deaf, but still composed!

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 02
Minuet
J.S.Bach
Moderato Arranged Ruth Searle

    
5 1 5 1 1 5 1 1 1 4 5 3 4

      
                

 
mf

  
2
    

4 3 2 1 2 3 5 4 2



      
7
    
2 1 1 2 5 1 5 1 5 1

       
 
 
mf
      
    
1


3 5 1 5 1 2 3 2 1

 
12 5 1 4 5 3 4 2 3 2 1

                  
p mf

          
1

  
2 1 3 5 4 3 2 5 1 5

 
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About this piece:

J.S Bach was a German composer and lived from 1685 until 1750. He wrote music
that was influential in the Baroque musical period which was characterised by complex
musical theory, a focus on tonal centres, and a type of Call and Response between
instruments which was called ‘Imitative Counterpont’. You can learn about the Call
and Response within another context in the Introduction to Gospel book.

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 03

Mexican Hat Dance

Traditional
Presto

           
  
5 3 1 2 3 1 2 1 4 1 4 2 5

    
       

f
  
  
5 1 4 1

 
    

   

5 3 1 2 1. 3 1 4 5 5

              
    
 
  
5 1

   



9 1 4 1 3 2 4 1 3

 

                   
  
5

3
  2

  
4 1 4 2 4


13 2 4 1 3 2 4 5


 
                   
          
1 4 2 4 2 4

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2


17 2 5 3 1 2 3 1 2 1 4 1

      

 
             
      
1 2 5 1
3 4

   
  
 
21 5 3 1 2 3 1 4 1 2

                    

    
 
       
4 1 5

  
 

About this piece:

Jarabe Tapatio known in english as The Mexican Hat Dance, was composed by Jesus
Gonzales Rubio in the 19th Century who was a professor of music in Guadalajara.

The piece of mexican folk music was later accompanied by an iconic dance that has
earned the title as the National Dance of Mexico which is taught as compulsory in
schools throughout Mexico.

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 Hungarian Dance
Hungarian Dance 04
Johannes Brahms
Arranged Ruth Searle

  
  
Allegro
      
 
mf
     
           
  

 01


    
6

       
mf
          
  

  

  

   
11

   

    

        



 

 
 



     
             
16

  
  f
             
        

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 
2

    
         
21

       

            mf 
       


              

26

       
   
     

  

       
 

 

30
            
       

   
   
mf f

ff

   
 



About this piece:

This piece is by the composer Johann Brahms of the Romantic Era. Brahms
was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1833 and although he was a major part of the
Romantic movement he also had many characteristics of the Classical era music in his
compositions.

He was a perfectionist and extremely self critical about his work despite his great
popularity. The Hungarian Dance is a series of 21 lively dances based on Hungarian
folk songs. Only three of these were completely original by Brahms.

This particular piece is perhaps the most popular and is named Hungarian Dance No.
5 in G minor. (It has been transposed for this arrangement to the key of E minor.

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 In the Hall of the Mountain King
from 'Peer Gynt'
In the Hall of the Mountain King 05 (1843-1907)
Edward Grieg


Adagio
Adagio Arranged Ruth Searle

        
                 


 
mf

       
       

   
                
5


mp mp


   
           

              
      
mf

      
       

         
13

      
      
f

       
 
     
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2
         
17

      
      
  
         
     

       
21

           
ff
         
         

 
25

     

  
 
     
      

About this piece:

Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He lived in the
Romantic era and was best known for his music for the play Peer Gynt.

This piece ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ was originally set for an orchestra and
later adapted for piano. The whole piece lasts only two minutes in total but has become
an icon in popular culture. The piece is set to a scene in the play where the main
character Peer, has sneaked into a castle and tries to escape from the King and his
trolls.

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 Kanon
Canon in D
06 J. Pachelbel
Moderate
Andante Arranged by Ruth Searle
            
       
     
mp

      
           

     
5

       
       
   
mf
  
  
           

  

9
   
dolce
   
 
   
        


        
12

   

  
     

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2

 
14

                 
       
   


mf mp
 
      
   


18


 

    





 
  
 

About this piece:

This piece Canon in D was composed by Johann Pachelbel, a German composer
from the Baroque period. He was an organist and teacher as well as a composer and
is considered to have helped popularise the German organ tradition. He had many
compositions but the Canon is one of his most popular works today, it had a resurgence
of popularity during the 1970s and more recently has been adapted to feature in pop
songs. The piece was composed for a string ensemble, and later adapted for piano.

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 Rondo Alla Turca
Rondo Alla
Turkish Turca
March
07 W. A. Mozart
Allegro
       

                 
p
      
   

   

  

            
4   

         
            


           

8


mp

    

    


             

   
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         
      
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                
16

       

p      
        
 

20               

        
       

   
23
     

          
 

About this piece:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prodigious composer of the Classical period. He
began composing music at the tender age of five and had more then 600 compositions
over his lifetime.

He influenced other great composers such as Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky.

This piece known as Turkish Rondo, or Rondo Alla Turca, was originally the third and
final movement of a piece called Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major.

The name for this particular movement was Alla Turca: Allegretto, and is more well
known then the other two movements. It imitates the trend of that time which was
Turkish military marching music.

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 The Entertainer
The Entertainer
A Ragtime Two Step
08
Scott Joplin
 
Moderato

  
      

      
mf 
      

        
5
            
 
f

                
 

                    
  

         


    

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                      

            
    

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                      

      
     

 
20 1.
         
  
 


 
    
   


 

23 
                

       
    


About this piece:

Scott Joplin was one of the most influential pioneers of American Ragtime music. He
was a musician and composer and was best known for his song Maple Leaf Rag.

In popularity, this song The Entertainer comes a close second, and was created at his
home in St Louis, Missouri in 1903. This rag-time two step (the subtitle of the song)
was a popular dance in those times, it is in the key of C major.

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 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy 09
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
(from The Nutcracker)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Arranged Ruth Searle
Grazioso

  
             
           
         
pp
            

 
                
 
5
       

       
p

     
 
  
 

      


9
                      
 
  
      
                  

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 
             
13

           


 

 

 

 

         
         


  
                  
2.

17
 
1.

 
mf   
 f

f

  
  
         
 
sf

About this piece:

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer who was very much the Romantic
era composer. His compositions showed the expressiveness and drama that was
typical of this period.

Some of his most famous works include; 1812 Overture, Romeo & Juliet, the Sleeping
Beauty, Swan Lake, and the Nutcracker, of which this piece, Dance of the Sugar
Plum Fairy, played near the end of the production.

The musical work was composed in 1891 to accompany the story by E.Hoffman to
create a fairy tale ballet.

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 March from 'The Nutcracker'
March of the Nutcracker
10P.I.Tchaikovsky
Moderate
Moderate Arranged Ruth Searle
                        
                    
p 3 3

  
    
          
       
 

 

                                 
   
5
   


                       

f
   

                 
9

                   
3 3

   
p
       
               



          
                 
      
13 1.



         
    
         
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  
17

           
    
 
 
              
p 3
   
 
21
     

       
     
    
p 3  
       


      
24 2.

         

       
f

       
 

About this piece:

Here is another piece by Tchaikovsky. This was the theme song for the Nutcrackers
march. It is the second piece that is played in both the ballet and the musical suite.

The Nutcracker has become the most popular ballet of the Western world.

Eight pieces from the musical work were selected by Tchaikovsky to make The
Nutcracker Suite suitable to be performed simply as an orchestral work featuring the
celesta. The instrumental gained success much sooner then the full ballet.

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 Sonata
SonataNo.
No. 14, 'Moonlight'
14, ‘Moonlight’
11 van Beethoven
Ludwig
Adagio
Adagio Arranged by Ruth Searle
 3
                             
       
p
    
  
 

               
mp

4

    
        
      

   
  
   


7

                      
               

    
    


                  
10

         
                          

     
    
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 
13

                       

         

  
   
  

   
16
  
                              
mf

         
        


19

                    

 

              
    
    

22
 
      

  
mp
  
 
              
  
 

 
About this piece:
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer of the Classical/Romantic eras. He
was a great pianist, and one of the most influential composers of all time. He composed
masterpieces throughout his life despite being partially, and then completely deaf. The
Moonlight Sonata (no.14) was written in 1801 and was dedicated to his pupil, a 17
year old Countess whom he had affections for.

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 Bolero
Bolero
12 Maurice Ravel

 
Moderate

     
3

pp
                       
  
1
5 sempre staccato
4

     
1 3 1 2

  

                     
  

     
     
                     
  

        
10

                 
5 2 1 3 5

 
mf
                   
  
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13 5 2 1 5 2

                      

                     
  
16

           
              
 


18

  
  
         
       
  

About this piece:

Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and a pianist. He lived from 1875-
1937 in the era known as the ‘impressionistic period’. Ravel’s musical style is very
classic, he uses traditional structures with experimental harmony.

This piece Bolero is his most famed piece, contrary to Ravels complacency with the
orchestral work. It was originally written for a ballet and was one of his last pieces
before he became ill and retired from composition.

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 Maple Leaf Rag 13
Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin
Arranged Ruth Searle
Allegro

       
           
   
f

 
             




4


 
                
p

 
          
 

 
      
           
8

  
mf

          
           
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2 
       
12
   
    
mf

          
  
        

          

15
 
1. 2.

       

    
      
      


About this piece:

Here is another Ragtime piano piece by Scott Joplin. The Maple Leaf Rag was one
of Joplin’s earlier works and was written to honor the Maple Leaf Club, which was a
black social club in Missouri in the 1890s.

After its completion Joplin boasted to a fellow ragtime composer that this rag would
make him the ‘King of ragtime composers’.

After it was published in 1899 it sold over 1 million copies of sheet music, and was a
huge success bringing Joplin the accomplishment of having composed the first great
sheet music hit in America.

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Funeral March
F. Chopin (1810-1849)
Arranged Ruth Searle
Largo 1

           

1 1 3 2 1 3 5 4

         
1 3 2

     

                     
mf 1 2 1 2


5 4 5 4

         
     
5
6 3

        
4 3 1 4 3 2 1 1 3 2 2 1

 
2 1

     
              mf       

 
5 4 3 2 3

         
  
1 1

   
11

1 3 2


     
mf
       

     
14

       
2 1 1 3 2 2 1 1

     
      f      
1 2 1
5 4 5

 
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About this piece:

Frederic Chopin was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic Period. He lived from
1810 to 1849. He was a very influential piano composer of his time, and was labeled
a Child Prodigy as a teenager.

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About this piece:
Muzio Clementi lived from 1752 to 1832, and was a composer in the Classical period.
He specialised mainly in piano, and composed 110 piano sonatas in his lifetime!

Sonatina 15

M. Clementi, Opus 36 No. 1

Spiritoso

         
 
mf
    
      
 

 
5
      
        
   
        
 

9
          
     
 
      
         


                     
13

   

mp

            
  

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17
            
             
     
       

          
22

          

 
mf
            


26

               
       
           
    


  
31

       

        
      

 
35

      

         
    
 
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Wedding March
Felix Mendelssohn
Andante maestoso

       
 
1 3

   
4


2 1

 
1 3 5 1 4
5
2
1      
   
   
f2
      
1 1 1

 
5 4 3 2 1 5 5 3 2

   
5
     
4 3 5 1 2 1 4 3 2 3

  5
1
      

  
mp
       
1 3 3 1
2 3 1
1 5 3
3
5

           
10 5 4 5 4 5


3 2 2 1 3 5 3 2 2 1 1 3

      

         
1 3 1 1
5 3 3 5

  
          
5
14

4 3


3

  
2 1 2 1 4 3 1 3 2 1


     
mf f
   2

5
 4 3

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
18

        
   
    
       


21

3 2

                

  
p
    
1
 1
3
5

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About this piece:

Mendelssohn lived from 1809 to 1847 and was from Germany. Some of his work
includes symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano and chamber music. He is among
the most popular composers of the Romantic era.

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Spring
Antonio Vivaldi
Arranged Ruth Searle
Vivace
                   
1 3 5 3 5 3


mf
            
1

   
3 1 3 5 3 1 3

      
5 5 5 5

6
        
        
2 1 3 5 3 5

             
1 2 3 5 3 1 3 5

     
5 5 5

11
            

3 2 2 4 5 1 4

 

                   
2 5 3 5 2 1 2 3 5 3 5
5 5 5 5 5 5

              
16

       
5 4 3 4 4


5 1 5 1 3 1 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 2

  
                    
5 2 3 5 5 1 5
5 5

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21
        
5

 
3 4 1 4 1


          
  

      
24 5 5



3 5

 
3 4 4 2 1 3 4


1 1 1

 
       
1 1

  
2 5
5

   

About this piece:

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678 and died in 1741. He was a popular
composer in the Baroque era. He was also an Italian priest, and a famous violinist.

It is part of a collection of 4 concertos originally for the violin, called The Four Seasons.
This series of concertos was his most well known works. The performance indication
at the top of the piece ‘Vivace’, indicates for it to be played lively and vivacious.

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Fur Elise
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Poco moto.

          2 4

     
5 4 2 4 5 1 1 2 4 5 1

  
  
  
1 2
P
       
5 2 1 5

  
  


4

             
1 5 4

   
5

    

             
  
   

      
8
 
1. 2.
   
2 5 1 5 3 1 5

  
3

          
    
mf
  1

 
2 2
5 5 1

  
   
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12 
5

  
5 1

    
    
3 1 2

  
 p
   
5


5


1

  
5
     
1 2 1

  




15
 3

          
4 5 2 4 3 1

      
   


  
1 2

    
       
5 2 1 5

 
  
            
19

     
  

       

  
1
5

  
  




About this piece:

Fur Elise was composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven as a Bagatelle in A minor for solo
piano. The piece was written around 1810, and is said to be devoted to one of his
mistresses at the time.

Fur Elise is one of the most popular classical pieces that piano students around the
world request to learn. It is popular for its beautiful melody, and simple arrangement. The
right hand carries the melody, while the left hand plays arpeggios to accompany.

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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Arranged Ruth Searle

         

         
4 1 2 1 2 3 5 4 2 5 3 1 5 1 2 4

   
      
f     
     
1 3 1 1

   
2 5 5 3 5

 


                  
6
      
2 1 3 5 2 4 1 3 5 1 2 3 3 3 5

     cresc. 

  
1
1

 
1 4
3
5

          
10 4

       
3
5 3 5 1 2 3 2 1


      cresc.
mp


2 1

 

        


3 5 3 5
13

 
1 3 1 2

      
2 1 3 3 4 5 1

   
 
        
f

   
f
 
3 2 1 3 1



5

    
1 1
5 1 5

 
5

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About this piece:
This piece loosely translated as “A Little Night Music” is one of the most popular
compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Originally intended for a Chamber
ensemble, he wrote this piece in Vienna during 1787 while he was also working on the
opera Don Giovanni.

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1812 Overture
Pyotr Illich Tschaikovsky

 
Maestoso


Arranged Ruth Searle
       
        
5

   
5 4


5 1
5 5 3 3
3 3 1 5
1 2
1 1
1
f
           

   
      

 
5 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
6
              
2 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 1

   
1

     
5
3
1

3
3 mf
        
         
   


5 3 5 5 5 3 1 3 5 3 1 3
10

                        
1 1 1 1 1

 

          
             
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                         
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 1

    

    
           
    

5 3 5 5 5 3 1 3
18

                       
1 1 1 1

  

mf
  
         
     

22 2 5 3 1
    2 4

  
               
1 3 1 1
5
2
1

      
     
 
    
5 5 2 5 5 5 5
25
    
    
1 2 1 1 3 1

 
1

     5

 
2
1

 
  
         
  

About this piece:

This is a Classical overture written by Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky the Russian Composer.
The piece was written to commemorate Russia’s defense against Napoleon’s army
in Moscow 1812. It is a full orchestral arrangement, complete with climactic firing of
Cannons!

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