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I'm introducing booklets to make my piano music easier to find and use..
If you're here for the first time, I'd like to welcome you to my site and my music. During the lockdowns, I wrote a large number of original compositions, many of them for solo piano.
My intention with these solos was to provide repertoire for adults learning piano. I thought it would be useful to write piano music speficially for adult learners, with adult themes (as opposed to music written for child students such as nursery rhymes).
The first album I released onto the streaming platforms consisted entirely of piano solos.
While I have published a PDF of my piano solos before, I realised it would be helpful if I separated out the solos into their respective ability levels.
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There's no registration or payment necessary for these PDF booklets however there are license terms as the scores and the soundtracks as they have been released on the streaming platforms remain copyright to me. You can still do most things with them, however check out the Terms of Use for details.
You can hear each solo individually at the playlists and check out the score at their respective pages. You can watch the score video on YouTube (or play along) and download each PDF book or download scores individually in either PDF or MuseScore files. If you find any of the individual PDFS missing or just want to say hi, you can email me at Rosie@musicalescapism.com
My recent recording of the Adagio from Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique:
If you'd like some support for your journey learning piano, there's an active and supportive FaceBook group called Adult Piano Returners- people who, like me, have returned to piano after a long break. I can't recommend them enough, it's a great group.
Ukrainian pianist Roman performs Waiting (from the Intermediate Piano Solos Book), one of my favourites.
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