Barbara Becker

Just Fun is a collection of fifteen preparatory level solos by award-winning composer Barbara Becker. These sophisticated, short character pieces are ideal for beginners of all ages and offer the perfect stage to work on articulations, basic phrasing, and dynamics.

Just Fun is a collection of eleven delightful showcase solos for late-beginners and beyond composed by Barbara Becker. These short character pieces are the perfect way to work on phrasing, articulation, and other important technical elements with students of all ages!

Just Fun for Two is a collection of twelve easy solos, many based around simple pentacles, with lush, harmonically innovative duets. This duet collection composed by Barbara Becker will delight students of all ages and jazz up your next recital!

A Child’s World for Two is an imaginative collection of eight easy solos with lush teacher duets composed by Barbara Becker. Full of evocative harmonies and a variety of genres, this is a collections that students of all ages will enjoy.

Eleven elegant showcase solos for beginners and late beginners composed by Barbara Becker. These harmonically innovative character pieces will delight students of all ages!

Twelve elegant showcase solos for late beginners and early intermediates composed by Barbara Becker. These harmonically innovative character pieces will delight students of all ages!

Three spooktacular showcase duets for late beginners (Primo) and intermediates (Secondo) composed by Barbara Becker. These harmonically innovative duets will delight students of all ages and jazz up your next fall recital!

Halloween Fun is a mini-songbook of easy showcase style solos composed by Barbara Becker. Featuring favorites from Becker’s Just Fun! songbook volumes, these engaging solos, for beginners and late beginners, will delight students of all ages!

While the ragtime genre really did not exist during the California Gold Rush, this collection of evocative ragtime solos by Barbara Becker, offers a musical glimpse into that wild time as San Francisco appeared and then boomed with activity. Picture a gentle dance late at night in a saloon; the joyous hope and the frequent disappointment associated with prospecting for gold; Lola Montez’s moaning about some so-and-so who did her wrong; “Mr. Moneybags” John Sutter preening in the city; and tired miners drowning their sorrows on Saturday night, then shuffling off to bed. These fun pieces fit right in with the period’s expectations of instant wealth, juxtaposed against the back-breaking work, often for little return.

Potpourri is an imaginative collection of ten showcase solos composed by Barbara Becker. Full of evocative harmonies and a variety of genres, this is a songbook intermediates of all ages will enjoy growing with.

Scenes from the Theatre, composed by Barbara Becker, is an elegant suite of character pieces for late intermediate pianists that spans a wide variety of genres and will showcase the artistic skills of developing artists.

Feel the energy and pulse of San Francisco with this set of six character pieces by Barbara Becker. Harmonically innovative showcase solos for intermediates of all ages!

All aboard the Orient Express! This collection of imaginative and elegant solos, composed by Barbara Becker, will take your early intermediate students on a sonic tour around the world!

The Madison Suite, composed by Barbara Becker, is a three-movement set of character pieces for late intermediate pianists that spans a variety of genres and will showcase the artistic skills of developing artists.

Kensington Suite, composed by Barbara Becker, is a three-movement set of character pieces for late intermediate pianists that spans a variety of genres and will showcase the artistic skills of developing artists.

Lollipop Polka is an easy solo for late beginners with lush teacher duet included. This duet by Barbara Becker is part of the Just Fun for Two songbook.

Sailing is an easy solo for beginners based in a five-finger position with lush teacher duet included. Music by Barbara Becker.

Redundant Rondo, composed by Barbara Becker, is a delightful showcase solo, full of elegant harmonies, that will delight early intermediates of all ages.

Barcarolle is a charming waltz composed by Barbara Becker full of evocative, lush harmonies, and is appropriate for intermediates of all ages. This selection is part of the Riding the Orient Express songbook.

Ah, Paree! is an elegant lyrical solo for early intermediates and up composed by Barbara Becker. This selection is part of the Riding the Orient Express songbook.

Sonatine Francaise is an elegant multi-movement classical work composed by Barbara Becker. This piece is full of evocative, lush harmonies in a French style, and is appropriate for intermediates of all ages.

Sonatina is a charming three-movement classical composition by Barbara Becker. This piece is ideal for early intermediates of all ages.