For Piano: Jane Austen's World | Piano Sheet Music Songbook | Intermediate Film Score Arrangements for Piano | Classic Movie Music from Pride and Prejudice Emma Sense and Sensibility Persuasion

by Rachel Portman, Patrick Doyle, Carl Davis

Evocative music from the classic feature films Pride & Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Persuasion

Jane Austen's World is a delicious spread of tunes from the recent major feature films. Here are the main musical themes - including Oscar-winning 'Emma' by Rachel Portman - and other pieces which will transport you into the elegant world of 18th-century drawing rooms and ballrooms. A collection that provides a veritable feast of new repertoire for all pianists.

Genres: Music

999 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1997

Reviews

[Bethany Willcock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh this is The Most amazing piano book ever! <3 The pieces are simple, beautiful, haunting, and not that difficult, so you don't have to be a Marianne Dashwood or an Anne Elliot to play them! It really felt like you had stepped into Jane Austen's world. I can't recommend this book highly enough! A must-have for all Jane Austen fans who love piano.

[Evelynn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is such a fun book to mess around with on the piano. The arrangements aren't too hard, though I find the arrangement for the P&P theme a bit wanting. It's not nearly as full as the arrangement in the movie, and that bugs me a bit. And I think it's slightly varied than the original composition.

Another one that I love to play in this book is another P&P song, the summary. It sounds very much like it is in the movie; my family's 7' 4" Yamaha grand piano has an incredible tone when I hit those opening chords. Love it.

I recommend this book for any intermediate pianist who likes or loves the Jane Austen movies.

[Brenda Cregor · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is just challenging enough for the intermediate student to make the songs sound like the do in the movies, and easy enough so sometimes-pianists do not end up weeping with their head on the keyboard. If you are a Jane Austen movie fan, and you play piano, what are you waiting for? Get this book!!

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a great piano book. The sheet music is not super hard. I can play some hymns with practice and I can play these songs with practice so I would guess they are on the same level as many hymns. We love this...songs from S&S, Emma and P&P movies...

[Katie Talbott · Rating 5 out of 5]

My daughters are playing from this book. I don't know about the difficulty level, or the quality of the composition, but I do LOVE hearing them play it while I work in the kitchen. Lovely memories of the Jane Austen films I have watched, flood my head as I listen.

[Jeanne]

This is piano music from some of the movies.