Library Inventory
We have many books, CDs, DVD about various music and music education available for our learners, parents/carers, fee of charge. The returnable deposit is £5/item. Renewable after 1 month.
Piano
For learners and parents:
- Syllabus Guide, popular piano and keyboards. Printed off the Rock School's website
- Piano Syllabus 2013 & 2014 (ABRSM)
- Jazz – Flute Clarinet Sax Trumpet Piano and Ensembles Syllabus from 2007 (ABRSM)
- These Music Exams (ABRSM)
- Motivating Musical Achievement (ABRSM)
- Selected Piano Exam Pieces with CD (in different grades and in different years ABRSM)
- Teaching Notes on Piano Exam Pieces Grade 1-7 2012-2013, 2013-2014 (ABRSM)
- Piano Scales & Arpeggios for Trinity Guildhall examinations from 2007 Initial – Grade 5
- Trinity Guildhall Piano Initial Pieces & Exercises for Examinations (in different years)
- John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course, Part 1-4
- Share the Fun (for young children)
- 388 Questions and Answers to Piano Study ( in Chinese)
- Tunes You’ve Always Wanted To Play, Easy Classics for Plano
- Learn To Play Blues
- Jazz Piano, The Complete Guide With CD
- Blues Piano, The Complete Guild with CD
- Easy Piano, Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Classic Experience Encores
- 12 Oscar-winning film songs, arranged for piano
- 16 West Country Songs, arranged for piano
Piano/ Voice/Guitar
- Nursery Rhyme Songbook (for young learners)
- Disney Hits
- Disney Love Songs
- Tweety’s Easy Listening Songs
- Sylvester’s Snappy Songs
- Falling Into You, Celine Dion
- The Elton John Collection
- Guitar Basics for children with Enhanced CD
- The Guitarist’s Way, Book 1 and Book 2 ( for children)
- Classical Guitar Masterpieces
- Experience Hendrix Book One – Beginning Guitar Method
- 17 Modern Country hit songs
- Crash Course - Acoustic Guitar
- Crash Course – Bass
- Giants of Blues
- The Best of Iron Maiden
- ABRSM Songbook, book 1 with 2 CDs
- The Art of Song, Grade 1-8 and piano accompaniment CDs, Grade 1-8
- 30 Italian Songs and Arias
- Gabriel Faure-50 Songs
I have a large amount of choir pieces, from different eras and genres. Songs from oratorio, classical, 60th, 70th, 80th pops, English, Irish, Scottish folk songs, America's pops, musical theatres, Christmas carols, movies, Chinese music.
DVD Films
- The Sound of Music
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Evita
- Mama Mia
- Les Misérables
- Fiddler on the Roof
CD
I have a large amount of CD collections, from different eras and genres.
- Music from the ancient Greece and Rome
- Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Handel Arias and Cantatas, bought it after watched the concert
- A night at the opera
- Mozart’s Idomeneo Re di Creta. Act 1, 2, 3. Bought it after watched the concert
- The Deil’s awa’ wi’ the Jazzman. Bought it after been to the piano player’s one day workshop about Instrument/Vocal Teaching in ABRSM London head office.
- Mozart Overtures
- Nights in the gardens of Spain
- Dvorak, Slavonic Dances Op. 72
- 20 Best of Asia, Africa, Australia
- Beethoven Piano Sonatas, bought it after watched the player’s concert
- Brahms Hungarian Dances, Nos.1 -21
- Classical chillout, 4CD set
Many more of piano concertos, orchestral, chamber music collections. Chinese instrumental pieces, pop songs, etc.
Education/Music Education
Shin'ichi Suzuki (鈴木 鎮一, Suzuki Shin'ichi, October 17, 1898 – January 26, 1998) was the inventor of the international Suzuki method of music education and developed a philosophy for educating people of all ages and abilities. Considered an influential pedagogue in music education of children, he often spoke of the ability of all children to learn things well, especially in the right environment, and of developing the heart and building the character of music students through their music education. Before his time, it was rare for children to be formally taught classical instruments from an early age and even more rare for children to be accepted by a music teacher without an audition or entrance examination. Not only did he endeavor to teach children the violin from early childhood and then infancy, his school in Matsumoto did not screen applicants for their ability upon entrance. Suzuki was also responsible for the early training of some of the earliest Japanese violinists to be successfully appointed to prominent western classical music organizations. During his lifetime, he received several honorary doctorates in music including from the New England Conservatory of Music (1956), and the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, was proclaimed a Living National Treasure of Japan, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize.
Magazine:
Libretto (ABRSM News and Views) since 2011
Books:
- 1001 Classical Recordings, You Must Hear Before You Die
- The Classic FM Hall of Fame
- An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Musical Instruments and the Great Composers
Music Theory Books
- Music Theory in Practice and Model Answers, Grade 1-8
- Theory of Music Exams, papers and answers, Grade 1-8 in different years
- The AB Guide To Music Theory, Part 1, 2
- Harmony in Practice and Answer Book
Sight-Reading
- Sight-Reading Made Easy
- Piano Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, from 2009, Grade 1-8
Aural Training
- Aural Training in Practice, Book 1, 2, 3 Grade 1-8 with CDs
- Specimen Aural Tests, Grade 1-8 with CDs
We encourage our learners buy their own books for music learning and preparing music exams, there are in print and eBook versions, available on each exam board’s website, music shops, Amazon, etc. For details of buying, please refer to the Music exams and Exam Boards post on my teaching blog. The link is
Public Libraries
I have been reserving and borrowing books, CDs and DVDs a lot from these services provided by councils, you can do it online or go to local library. Everything is so easy and convenient, I believe that you can find everything you want.
