Intermediate to early-advanced works by 37 composers. Also available as a book-DVD set. Included are works by Bela Bartok, Arthur Benjamin, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Emma Lou Diemer, Manuel De Falla, Arthur Farwell, Ross Lee Finney, Carlisle Floyd, Ignacy Friedman, Alberto Ginastera, Percy Grainger, Charles Griffes, Lou Harrison, Jacque Ibert, Nelson Keyes, Zoltan Kodaly, Benjamin Lees, Bohuslav Martinu, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Andre Previn, Serge Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel, Vladimir Rebikov, Wallingford Riegger, Erik Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, Cyril Scott, Igor Stravinsky, Karol Szymanowski, Alexander Tcherepnin, Virgil Thomson, Joaquin turina, and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

This practical resource provides foundational tools for scale, chord and arpeggio playing; exercises for developing precision, speed, agility and clarity of tone; and exercises and etudes that focus on a variety of technical challenges.

Includes intermediate and moderately difficult-level works by Alban Berg, Aaron Copland, Ross Edwards, Jean Francaix, Paul Hindemith, Darius Milhaud, Joaquín Rodrigo, Erik Satie, Joaquin Turina, Kurt Weill, and others.