Customer Reviews for New Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs - 6th Edition
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Amber Lynn
Location: from California City, CA
Difficulty Level:
Not sure
October 8, 2012
Wide Range of Music
I really like the book but the difficulty of the songs seem to be all over the place. Some I found really easy to play where as others are far beyond my current skills. It is a good book for some easy songs and beginning to learn to play harder song; I am, however, a fan of self learning though.
7 of 17 people found this review helpful.
Pianolady1
Location: from Chula Vista, CA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
July 7, 2012
New Illustrated Treasury of Disney Songs
I was very pleased with the songs and the arrangements. I recommend it for medium level students and med. beginners who want a challenge. My students love this book.
13 of 27 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Denver PA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
January 28, 2009
We love the songs
This was a gift to my daughter and she loves the songs, but she thought they were a little difficult to play since they are created in difficult key's. She thought it is possible to change the key of the songs, but then they wouldn't be the original songs.
33 of 67 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
January 20, 2009
Fun!
This is a way fun collection of disney songs from many of the disney movies, even some that I have never heard of, it has different levels of difficulty and is fun for the whole family!
41 of 77 people found this review helpful.
Shelagh Richardson
Location: from New Zealand
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
December 3, 2008
Disappointing keys
I am a singing teacher and many of the songs in this book appear in examination lists. It is a beautiful book and had all the songs I was looking for but nearly all the keys are incredibly low and unsuitable for the young voices it it designed for. I find I can hardly use any of the songs without transposing them which is a pain.With young singers, I like to work in a range above middle C not below it!
35 of 72 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
October 13, 2008
Nice song list but disappointing presentation
The songs in this collection are organized well and there are a lot of songs to choose from. My biggest complaint is in the presentation of the songs - multiple verses/lyrics are "listed out" vs. being incorporated into the music itself. It's very difficult for my daughter to follow the music when she's trying to sing past the first verse. If this had been shown in the examples of inside pages I probably would not have purchased.
37 of 65 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
September 11, 2008
GREAT
I bought this more for my kids but found myself enjoying playing this songbook immensely. LOTS of fun!
24 of 52 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
June 29, 2008
awesome
Amazing book and the only thing I was disappointed in was that they didn't put in the song "Kiss the Girl" from the Little Mermaid. But it is awesome!!!
7 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Clarissa
Location: from Kansas
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
June 14, 2008
Pretty Sweet
I loved the selection of songs in this book. The only thing that disappointed me was that it doesn't have the whole version of a lot of the songs or the lyrics are weird-but it's kind of a good thing since it doesn't take like 10 minutes just to play one song. Other than that, I've enjoyed this book a lot!
11 of 17 people found this review helpful.
Barbara Lemons
Location: from Spring City, TN
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
May 3, 2008
Great Music From Disney
We are very pleased with the book. Also her voice coach is very pleased.
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
February 22, 2008
Enjoyable book for our granddaughter and myself.
Our 3 yr. old granddaughter enjoys the photos and the music. Fun music for me to play and her to sing. Wish there were more photos.
8 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
February 3, 2008
Great!!
This is an amazing piano book. I don't have all of the Disney books so this has a lot of the songs that I would want. Of course, they aren't all the full length songs, but oh well!
9 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Cass City, Michigan
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
December 31, 2007
The Greatest Disney songbook
This book was for my Grandaughter, who is 14, she sings a lot of the Disney songs, and was so excited when she opened her gift. She just loved it.
8 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Jenny
Location: from Las Vegas, NV
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
September 6, 2007
Musicmama
This book is awesome!! My 3yr old daughter love to hear me play it. I would recomment it to anyone!!
7 of 14 people found this review helpful.
goddessmom
Location: from nevada
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
April 12, 2007
Disney-ophile
Most of the songs are great, but I was a little disappointed to not have all the verses for some of the songs. For instance, "God Bless the Outcasts" from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" was Bette Midler's version, NOT the movie version. Big bummer.
9 of 16 people found this review helpful.
nancy kuehn
Location: from o'fallon, il
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
March 26, 2007
a great gift
i actually did not purchase the disney songbook for myself. it is a gift for a relative. she plays the piano and is very much into anything disney. but i flipped through the book. and it looks like a wonderful book. it has every disney song you could imagine. plus some i have never even heard of.
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Mary
Location: from Saratoga County, New York
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
February 18, 2007
Movie memories!
Ordered this book for use by a senior citizen chorus - these songs will appeal to four generations of Disney fans.
8 of 17 people found this review helpful.
Patricia Jane Polm
Location: from Castle Rock, WA
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
February 15, 2007
A Wonderful Treasure
This is a marvelous edition of Disney music! The history of Disneys life was especially enjoyable. I love this song book and will treasure it for years to come!
8 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Phoenix, AZ
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
January 28, 2007
LOVE IT
this has some really good songs in it and its not too hard. it's good to be able to sit down and just play it without having to worry about sneaky stuff most baroque and classical composers thrown in it.
7 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Sofia
Location: from Portugal
Difficulty Level:
Not sure
January 14, 2007
Fantastic book for who wants to learn!!!
I think that many people have talente. I bought lots of disney books, and i thought out of all this was the one i used most of all and still use today. For what it is, it's not expensive atttt allll!
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
James Griffin
Location: from Stourport UK
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
December 28, 2006
Nice one DISNEY
I think this a realy cool book, I first started buying disney piano books when I was 5 and and now Im twelve,Ive realy got the Gist of all tunes. I got this Book in disneyland Florida and everybody back at home said how good it was. (All you people out there who would like to learn some disney songs) BUY THIS BOOK ! (Its Great)
8 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
November 20, 2006
it's alright
it is missing like a third of the music for piano but has lyrics but the music is awsome
7 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from New York, NY
October 17, 2006
This is a great book!
Wow, this book is awesome! They get the tune excactly right. The range of songs is amazing! The only thing is there is not a lot of introductions at the beginnings of the song.
6 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
August 8, 2006
Im going to buy it Soon
this book has all of the songs that i like from disney, i just hope these other reviews help in choosing it
8 of 17 people found this review helpful.
Anne S.
Location: from Atlanta, GA
Difficulty Level:
Not sure
May 26, 2006
I liked it
It was a great way for me to get introduced to harder songs because I already knew the tunes to all the songs!
9 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
May 21, 2006
Too advanced for a begginers piece
Too HARD!!!
7 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Dr. Katherine Driscoll
Location: from Miami, FL
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
April 27, 2006
Waste of money!
Never have I encountered so many incomplete versions of songs. Virtually all the more recent Disney songs are cut before the break; the lyric sheet has the whole song, but the score is missing half the music. This is not a cheap book, and Disney clearly cut corners where it hurt the most. I've used other Hal Leonard publications of Disney songs, and those were complete. Both Hal Leonard and Disney should be ashamed of themselves. I'm writing them for a complete refund. I was trying to use this for a spring program, but have had to scramble to find complete editions elsewhere. All descriptions of this book should include a warning that the songs are not complete versions. Caveat emptor!
12 of 19 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from San Diego, CA
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
March 17, 2006
Very disappointed!
Everyone seemed to love this book so much, but I have to say that I am very disappointed with what I got. I thought I was going to be able to replace my old (falling apart) and outdated disney songbook, but it turns out that the arrangements in my old book are much better than these. Some songs lack their famous intros (ie. Part of Your World and Under the Sea). If you're looking for complete or fairly complete versions of the songs, you won't find them here.
11 of 19 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
August 16, 2005
Great, but too simplified
I got this book, and I was very pleased with the selection of songs. However, it seems that the publishers cut off most of the sheet music at one or two verses, when many songs have at least four or five, i.e. A Whole New World. This book is completely missing the A Whole New World key shift, where Jasmine starts to sing. But otherwise it's good, I guess.
9 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Jess
Location: from Chicago,IL
August 13, 2005
I LOVE DISNEY!!!
This book was very fun when i got bored of everything else i was playing. The songs are kinda easy but a lot of it was totally worth it. My favorite song in this book was "Can You Feel the Love Tonight." It has an amazing piano part. I think that playing it is kinda addicting. There's also a vocal part in this book so when you can play the piano part real well, you can sing along!
8 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Elaine
Location: from Springfield, MA
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
February 7, 2005
Alright...
The book overall was pretty good, but I was very disappointed that "If I Never Knew You" wasn't in it. That was pretty much the reason I bought the book, and it turned out that it wasn't there. But not a bad book.
7 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Fort Lauderdale
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
May 26, 2004
Amazing Songs
3 words-I loved it
9 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Rosie
Location: from New Zealand
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
February 29, 2004
Oh my gosh - SO good!
I was so excited when my book arrived! It was everything I thought it would be and more! It is a Fantastic collection and I would recommend it to any Disney fan - Especially girls - we love this sort of thing! Can't wait to play for my friends!
9 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Ashley
Location: from Houston,TX
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
January 4, 2004
best thing ever heard
When I started to play "Circle of Life" my cousin jump out of bed and started to sing and dance while I was playing. The music isn't boring its fun to know that you can play along with the music. I love the music alot!!!!!!
9 of 17 people found this review helpful.
alex hunt
Location: from the hague, Netherlands
August 31, 2003
Simply AMAZING
when i got this book for my birthday i was fascinated that such a fine compilation of music existed. that day i fell in love with the music and is so pleasurable to learn an easy yet fun piece of music. the pieces are endless and never get boring. i would certainly reccomend this book to anyone who considered just possibly buying it. its AMAZING!ยก!
9 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Alicia
Location: from Northville, Michigan
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
June 9, 2002
GREAT FOR AUDITIONS
I bought this book for an audition at the Marquis Theater in Northville, Michigan. I was great, (I used the song part of your world from the little mermaid) and I got in the play. It is a great book and I hope you buy it.
8 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from New Waterford , NS
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
March 16, 2002
DiSnEy RoX!!~!!
I bought this book in Walt Disney World and I find it tremendous.I have looked over it many times while I was staying in Disney's (All Star Movie Resort --Love Bug.)Right now I am waiting for a call to get my bag at the airport because I was in Halifax and we have a 4 & 1/2 hours wait , so we got the plane that left in 5 minutes.I am in serious sorrow or something right now coz' my book is not in!!I was dissapointed coz it didn't have the song :"Grim Grimming Ghosts" in it.
5 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Chris
Location: from Manteca, Ca
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
May 23, 2001
The Best Music Book Ever
All I have to say about this book is that it is the best thing that I have played in my entire life. Every day I play it just because I can't get enough. I recommend this book to everyone who can play, sing, or improvise. It's great!!!
9 of 15 people found this review helpful.