While practicing relentlessly for an important competition, seventeen-year-old Clara wonders if she has the dedication to pursue a career as a concert pianist.
Introduces new players to the body of the piano and the reading of music and presents illustrated, step-by-step instructions for playing, providing songs as well as tips to make learning fun.
Anatole, a music-loving mouse, plays the miniature piano in the museum, saving a concert for the orphans of Paris by removing a broken string of pearls from the piano.
The story of Bartolomeo Cristofori, the Italian harpsichord maker who invented the piano while working in the city of Florence about three hundred years ago.
Looks at the different instruments that comprise the keyboard section of the orchestra, and explains how they make their sounds, how they are played, and how they are used in various types of music.