This series surveys three centuries of keyboard music, including representative shorter works by:
* Bach
* Handel
* Scarlatti
* C.P.E. Bach
* Haydn
* Clementi
* Mozart
* Beethoven
* Schubert
* Mendelssohn
* Chopin
* Schumann
* Tchaikovsky
* Grieg
* MacDowell
The student is helped to achieve stylistically correct performance through editing based on original sources, clear interpretation of ornaments, a glossary of musical terms and symbols for each book, and biographical material on composers, relating them to their period in music history.