William Gillock

Ha frequentato il Methodist College, a Fayette, Missouri, dove si è diplomato sia in piano che composizione con N. Louise Wright, che fin da principio riconobbe in lui spiccate doti musicali. La didattica è l'ambito a cui ha dedicato buona parte delle sue opere, soprattutto quella rivolta a bambini ed adolescenti. Per vent'anni ha vissuto a New Orleans dove divenne anche animatore musicale nell'organizzazione di eventi, abbinando l'insegnamento privato e workshops con insegnanti. La seconda parte della sua vita la passò a Dallas. Gillock fu insignito per cinque volte dalla National Federation of Music Clubs con l'Award of Merit for Service to American Music e la sua biografia appare sull'International Who's Who of Musician. Da suoi contemporanei è stato definito "The Schubert of children's composers".

La sua musica ha molti cultori in Germania e Giappone.

Morì a Dallas a settembre 1993 dopo una lunga malattia.

• Now I Can Play Book 1

• Now I Can Play Book 2

• Now I Can Play Book 3

• Piano All the Way 1A

• Piano All the Way 1B

• Piano All the Way 2

• Piano All the Way 3

• Piano All the Way 4

• Technic All the Way 1A

• Technic All the Way 1B

• Technic All the Way 2A

• Technic All the Way 2B

• Theory All the Way

• Theory All the Way 1B

• Theory All the Way 2A

• Theory All the Way 2B

• Adagio Esotico

• Aeolian Harp

• Arabesque Sentimentale

• Ariel (a forest sprite)

• At the Ballet

• Autumn Is Here

• A Time for Us

• A Woodland Legend

• Bagdad

• Barcarolle

• Bells of Notre Dame

• Ben

• Blue Mood

• Blues Motif

• By a Sylvan Lake

• Cabaret

• Capriccieto

• Carnival in Rio

• Carnival in Rio (second part)

• Castanets

• Choral Prelude

• Classic Carnival

• Clowns

• Come Saturday Morning

• Command Performance

• Cossack Dance

• Cuckoo's Call

• Dancing in a Dream

• Dancing on the Levee

• Day by Day

• Deserted Planatation

• Drifting Cowboy

• Electronic Computer

• Elfin Pranks

• Entertainer

• Etude in A Major

• Etude in E Minor

• Etude in G Major (Tobaggan Ride)

• Festive Dance

• Festive Piece

• Fiesta

• Fifers

• Flamenco

• Flute Song and Dance

• Fog at Sea

• Fountain in the Rain

• French Doll

• Fur Elise

• Georgia on My Mind

• German Dance Op

• Glass Slipper

• Goldfish

• Happiness

• Happy Holiday

• Harlequin

• Haunted Tree

• Holiday in Paris Schirmer

• Horseback Ride

• In Old Vienna

• Journey in the Night

• The Juggler

• Last Spring

• Lazy Bayou

• Little Suite in Baroque Style

• Little Suite in C

• Love Story

• Madrigal Singers

• Maple Leaf Rag

• March of the Tin Soldiers

• March (from the Nutcracker

• Memory of Vienna

• Mirage

• Misty

• Moonlight

• Music Box Waltz

• My Toy Duck

• Mission Bells

• My Wild Irish Rose

• Night Serenade

• Nocturne

• Old Plantation

• Polynesian Nocturne

• Portrait of Paris

• Prelude

• Promenade

• Prowling Pussycat

• Rondo in Classic Style

• Royal Hunt

• Sarabande

• Seven Dwarfs

• Sleigh bells in the Snow

• Sevilla

• Sing We Noel

• Sonatina in C

• Sonatina in Classic Style

• Sonatina in G

• Sonatine

• Song from M*A*S*H

• Spanish Roses

• Stately Procession

• Sunrise Sunset

• Sunset

• Tarantella

• Three Jazz Preludes

• Toyland

• Two Indian Dances

• Valse Etude

• Valse Triste

• Viennese Rondo

• Viennese Rondo (secondo)

• Village Dance

• Yo Yo Tricks

• You Are So Beautiful

• You Light Up My Life

• You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

• Lyric Preludes in Romantic Style: 24 Short Piano Pieces in All Keys

• New Orleans Jazz Styles

• More New Orleans Jazz Styles

• Still More New Orleans Jazz Styles

• New Orleans Jazz Styles 3 books & CD pack

• New Orleans Jazz Styles, More NO. Jazz Styles, Still More N.O Jazz Styles CD

• New Orleans Jazz Styles, More N.O. Jazz Styles, Still More N.O Jazz Styles MIDI

• Seven Pieces in Seven Keys

• Solo Repertoire Book 1

• Solo Repertoire Book 2

• Solo Repertoire Book 3

• Solo Repertoire Book 4

• Young Pianist's First Big Note Solos

• Young Pianist's First Hymnal

• Young Pianist's First Christmas

• Boogie Prelude

• Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy

• Espana Cani

• Fiesta Mariachi

• Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

• Jazz Prelude

• Liebesfreud

• March of the Three Kings

• March of the Toys

• Playing in the Park

• Sidewalk Cafe

• Trepak from Nutcracker Suite

• Viennese Rondo (secondo to solo)

• Little Sparrow

• Oriental Bazaar

• On a Paris Boulevard

• Portrait of Paris (2nd piano part)

• Champagne Toccata

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