Books published by Faber Music Ltd

Celtic Woman is the angelic female Irish vocal ensemble. The biggest thing to come out of Ireland since 'Riverdance', their signature sound has captured the hearts of audiences around the world with a series of chart-topping albums. This songbook features twenty-eight of the greatest songs and instrumentals performed by Celtic Woman, from contemporary hits, classical favourites and Irish standards arranged for piano, voice and guitar.

Part of a series of piano pieces, this title is suitable for kids. Selected, edited, graded and fingered for Pre-Grade 1 piano, it presents music which is complemented with cartoon illustrations, puzzles and games. It features superhero themes including Batman, Star Wars, James Bond and Superman as well as some fresh superhero pieces.

Selected and edited by Paul Harris and Sally Adams and covering a broad selection of 19th century study repertory, including Baermann, Berr, Demnitz and many others. This book contains exercises 55 to 76, with the earlier pieces to be found in Book 1. The pieces are selected from the historical repertoire to present playing challenges and new techniques in a specific musical context, arranged in progressive order of difficulty.

Teaching beginners is a huge responsibility and a challenge, but also reaps enormous rewards. This handbook for various instrumental and singing teachers offers a comprehensive advice and practical strategies on how to teach beginners. It also offers solutions to the challenges faced in music education. It discusses practice ideas for beginners.

Presents some of the top hit songs from leading artists that are arranged for piano, voice and guitar.

The Young Pianist''s Repertoire Book 2 for intermediate piano solo repertoire is part of The Watermann/Harewood Piano Series, which is devised jointly by the world famous piano teacher Dame Fanny Waterman and her co-founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition, Marion Harewood (now Thorpe). It is established as one of the foremost piano methods and represents a distillation of the thoroughness, inspiration and sense of adventure that characterize Dame Fanny Waterman''s own teaching methods. The excellence of the musical material and attractive presentation have won universal acclaim.

This edition in the Steinway Library of Piano Music offers professional-sounding interpretations of 15 beautiful and best-loved standards expertly arranged for intermediate-level pianists with a warm improvisational quality and exciting chord substitutions. As with all books in this series, it includes a unique lay-flat binding to help keep the music open on the music stand.

A Lick and a Promise is the debut poetry collection of one of Irelands most famed female musicians, Imelda May. Following the release of her first poetry EP Slip Of The Tongue in 2020, this collection contains 100 poems, including two each from both her father and young daughter. Using the themes of Breast, Below, Blood, Eyes, Tongue and Temple, the poems are written in Mays absorbing, visceral style and encapsulate heartbreak, sex, nature and womanhood. Included in the collection is You Dont Get to be Racist and Irish, the powerful poem which was written in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and was recently used by Rethink Ireland

Danny Elfmans Piano Quartet comprises thematic variations for piano and string trio cast in five movements Ein Ding, Kinderspott, Duett fr Vier, Ruhig and Die Wolfsjungen. The idea behind the work stems from a familiar childrens playground taunt which can be heard in the second movement. The work playfully cycles through a variety of moods and textures, from the agitated intensity of the first movement so reminiscent of the composers iconic film music, through to the delicate Adagio, all culminating in Elfmans energetic and impassioned finale.