Publisher's Synopsis
Myklas Music Press was highly regarded for its extensive catalogue of quality elementary and intermediate supplemental piano music. The pieces that are included in Myklas Contest Winners represent Myklas's most popular and effective solos drawn from festival and contest lists. Divided into four graded collections, outstanding and time-tested solos are made available again by Rhonda Bennett, Ronald Bennett, Rosemary Barrett Byers, Lynne Cox, Anne Shannon Demarest, Mary Hauber, Ernest Kramer, Joyce Schatz Pease, Ruth Perdew, John Robert Poe, Catherine Rollin, Mike Springer, Robert D. Vandall, and Judy East Wells. Book 4 includes pieces appropriate for late intermediate students. Challenges include expanded use of chords and inversions, changing meter, sixteenth notes, independence between the hands, and more difficult key signatures. Titles: Ballet Beauties * Crystal Snowflakes * Festival Bells * On the Slopes * Ovation No. 2 (from Three Ovations) * Perpetual Motion II * Spooky Blues * Summer Smoke * Tarantella Espagnole * Walk It Slow.
