This collection by the well-known Russian composer and piano educator Sergei Slonimsky contains three cycles of short pieces for piano that simultaneously fulfill both artistic and educational demands. Regarding their level of difficulty, the small works are ordered progressively and children and adults as well as beginners and returning piano enthusiasts will all find excellent, new performance material. Slonimsky has designed a series of musical vignettes of varied poetic scenes, very much in the style of Robert Schumann. The collection begins with the first steps at the piano and ends with a musical journey to foreign countries and continents. The book contains: 1) "The Pianist's First Steps", 2) "A Child's Summer Day", 3) "Musical Journey to Foreign Countries and Continents".

First steps of the pianist

Right hand monody

Left hand monody

Harmonious duet

Happy dance in major

Cheeky Dance (in Lydian mode)

Gentle Dance (in Mixolydian mode)

Sad song in minor key

Lyrical motif (in Aeolian mode)

Moody Motive (in Doric mode)

Combative Motive (in Phrygian Mode)

Canon

Double Counterpoint

Little Fugue

A child's summer day

The morning

Brisk walk

Bitter offense

Strange occurrence

Catch game

Fantastic cinema

In a sad mood

Song in a Boat on the River

The Enchanted Forest

Birds singing in the forest

The terrible horseman

It's raining

Hunter's March (Rondo)

Happy feast

Waltz (for 4 hands)

Polka (for 4 hands)

Evening prayer

Lullaby

Musical journey through countries and continents

American song

Russian dance

Argentine dance

Chinese landscape

African Talking Drums

Arab dervishes wander in the desert

Sad Hebrew Song

Furiant (Bohemian folk dance)

Hungarian March

Gypsy dance

Mazurka (Polish Dance)

English song

Song of a French Troubadour

Spanish song

Italian canzone

Scottish dance

German song

Happy March