• carefully graded selection of tuneful pieces for cello and piano

• well-crafted arrangements provide practice of the keys, note-ranges and fingering patterns encountered in the early grades

• wide range of material, from Tallis to Tchaikovsky and from Beethoven to Vaughan Williams

• each volume presents the pieces in chronological order and prints the year in which they were written

• Canon [Thomas Tallis]
  
• Branle des Sabots (from Orchésographie) [Thoinot Arbeau]
  
• Ayre, What is it all? [Thomas Campion]
  
• Allemande (from Banchetto Musicale) [Johann Schein]
  
• Song 22 [Orlando Gibbons]
  
• Italian Rant [Anon.]
  
• Minuet [Henry Purcell]
  
• Minuet from Music for the Royal Fireworks [George Frideric Handel]
  
• Trio from Minuet No. 5, XII Menuets pour le Clavecin ou Pianoforte [Joseph Haydn]
  
• Das klinget so herrlich from The Magic Flute [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
  
• Marmotte Op. 52 No. 7 [Ludwig van Beethoven]
  
• Liebhaber in allen Gestalten (Lover in many forms) [Franz Schubert]
  
• Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen (A youth loves a maiden) from Dichterliebe [Robert Schumann]
  
• The Sandman [Johannes Brahms]
  
• Chanson Russe from Album for the Young [Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky]
  
• Czech Dance [Bedrich Smetana]
  
• The Elephant from The Carnival of the Animals [Camille Saint-Saëns]
  
• Andante from Very Easy Melodious Exercises in the First Position, Op. 22 [Edward Elgar]
  
• Moravian Folk Song [Leoš Janácek]
  
• The Bear [Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov]
  
• A New Year Carol from Friday Afternoons, Op. 7 [Benjamin Britten]
  
• March of the Stegosaurus [Paul Harris]