Composer: Margaret Goldston
Series: Encore Series
Instrumentation: Piano Solos
Level: Late Elementary–Intermediate
Key: Various
Time Signature: Various
Style/Character: Lyrical, Expressive, Virtuosic
Concepts: eighth notes, five-finger patterns, pedal, glissandos
Page Count: Music 22, Total 32
Printing Suggestion: Booklet on tabloid paper, double-sided, stapled
Released:  2025 (second edition)
Additional Info: 

The Magic Typewriter and Other Early Grade Pieces for Piano Solo was Margaret Goldston’s first published collection, released in 1982 by Galaxy Music Corporation.  The pieces in The Magic Typewriter are unmistakably influenced by the children’s piano compositions of Bartók and Kabalevsky, as well as emerging pedagogical composers Lynn Freeman
Olson and William Gillock. Many of the compositions reflect a series of children’s games and activities.

This new edition of The Magic Typewriter compares various workshop copies of the collection, where Margaret wrote sketches and scripts for her presentations and noted additions and corrections to the printing. The updated engraving includes these updates, as well as the addition of measure numbers.  An extensive three-page foreword is included, and also the original cover art.

Titles (with leveling) include:
The Magic Typewriter, LE
Jump Rope, EI
Slashing in Puddles, EI
Toy Train, EI
Baby Brother’s Lullaby, EI
Moonlight Tide, EI/I
A Tree House in the Rain, EI/I
Japanese Flower Girl, EI/I
Chop Suey, EI/I
Journey to a Distant Star, I
March of the Androids, EI/I

The production of this title is partially funded by a part-time faculty development grant from Columbia College Chicago.