Joe Hisaishi Piano Collection: Piano Solo Sheet Music Scores Book

All notation is in Japanese, but I found the English titles in another review on Amazon and copied them. The music is upper-middle to upper level in difficulty. Very nicely arranged. I mostly bought the book for One Summers Day from Spirited Away, and for Merry Go Round from Howl's Moving Castle, and happy these are both included. I was hoping it also contained The Sixth Station from Spirited Away, but I had to download that separately from another seller. Overall, this book is well done. Although, as usual, the manufacturer decided it's just for show and not for actual use, so they didn't spiral bind it, and it constantly flips closed on me. (WHY do music manufacturers do this?!) So I have to pay to go get it spiral bound on my own.

Book came beautifully wrapped, not a wrinkle on any page! I looked through the arrangements and they look great for an advanced beginner like me (I only started self-learning how to read piano scores and play the piano a year ago). The arrangements don't look too simple nor hard, so I'm certain I'll enjoy playing all of the pieces! As someone who has practised and memorised some of Yiruma's pieces like Love Me, River Flows in You, Chaconne and Fairy Tale, the pieces look pretty manageable (somewhat easier than Yiruma's pieces) and I'll probably be able to take less time mastering them than I did Yiruma's. As I love Studio Ghibli music and Joe Hisaishi's work, I got Hisaishi-san's Ghibli's Best Stories which are piano arrangements by Hisaishi-san himself. But since he is a master at music, those were too hard for me... So I'll say that this book will be a great transition step between the me now and the me who will (hopefully) be able to play the music from that other book in the future!

Great book. I’m an advanced piano player, and this one challenged me without being too hard.

These are wonderful compositions to learn even for an amateur DIY pianist. They have given me hours of pleasure and sound just like the anime movie scores.

The song titles are in Japanese, but can be easily translated into English using a language translation app on your cell phone. Just point the camera and it shows you the translation. I then wrote the English versions in my table of contents page. I also had to heavily crease the pages and use weights to keep it open on the proper page (hence why I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars). Other than that though, the music notations and terminology are universal, so no issues with reading/playing the music. It is beautiful music!

The songs in here are beautiful. A collection of studio ghibli - it was definitely worth the money. The book is good quality, however it is difficult to crease the pages so that music book doesn't stay open very well. We ended up using paper clips. Lastly - this book is not an intermediate level. It is advanced. I got this for my boyfriend for his birthday and he Loved it. Most of the books song titles are in Japanese, but I was able to find a song list online.

A great collection of movie themes written for solo piano by Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi. They are melodic and easily played by an intermediate piano player. While I have not seen any of the movies these were written for, the pieces are still seem familiar. My only complaint with the book is the composer notes and titles of the pieces are not in English. Downloading the Google translation app for your phone, will rectify this short coming. I highly recommend this book.

I picked this up for two different scores from this composer and am happy I did, since there are several more, which I'm enjoying quite a bit.This is a nice collection, easy to read and well-laid out. The music difficulty hits around a medium-somewhat advanced level.