Imagine that Bach might have heard Burt Bacharach's I'll Never Fall in Love Again or that Chopin knew Stephen Foster's Oh Susannah.  If they did, perhaps they might have written something like the pieces included collection!  These 25 short studies are a wonderful and fun introduction to the music of the masters.  They present popular tunes and folk songs in the sound and technique of classical music styles.  Each piece is also intended to be helpful in solving the problems that all pianists face in development his or her own keyboard skills. The enclosed CD features a performance of each piece in the volume.