Tango in A Minor 'Oriental' for Piano

Some people consider the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" the greatest Christmas song ever recorded.

With this sheet music, you get an accurate, playable piano arrangement of the full song.
The full melody is included in the piano part, so it makes for a perfect instrumental (piano solo) cover.

Written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan, "Fairytale of New York" is a beautiful Irish folk ballad. The Pogues recorded it together with Kirsty MacColl, and included it on their 1988 album "If I Should Fall from Grace with God".

Released as a single in November 1987, "Fairytale of New York" became one of the most popular Christmas songs in the UK and is even considered the best Christmas song of all time.

It's certainly not your typical feel-good Christmas song - it covers issues like alcoholism and drug abuse, wrecked dreams, and comes with quite a few slurs and swear words.
At the same time, it's also a song with an honest message of love and hope, and it might just be what one needs to hear during the Christmas season.

In any case, it's a wonderful song to play on the piano - with this sheet music, you can play it, too!

18 easy piano titles inspired by gemstones, healing stones and minerals. The result .is a collection of soothing pieces that explore the mystical effect of each gem and bring their particular characteristics to the fore.

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn Piano Cover
Arranged By Piano Go Life.

German.

The series &apos.Get to Know Composers&apos. presents works of famous masters in easy arrangements as well as original compositions for piano. A brief biographical sketch with contemporary colour illustrations as well as a list of the most important works provide easy access to the respective composer. Thus, amateur pianists and young piano pupils can embark on a vivid excursion into the life and work of important composers.
Tchaikovsky was the first Russian composer who gained worldwide fame. His symphonies, concertos and ballets are part of the standard repertoire of the musical scene. In addition to original piano works, this volume contains excerpts from Tchaikovsky&apos.s best-known compositions: the Violin Concerto and his Piano Concerto No. 1, Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6, the ballets &apos.SwanLake&apos., &apos.The Sleeping Beauty&apos. and &apos.Nutcracker&apos., as well as &apos.Capriccio Italien&apos. and other works.

Piano teachers (as well as pupils) know about the problem of the adult concert repertoire: there is a lack of literature for young, talented and virtuoso pianists, when the hands are in the process of growth but still small. This moment creates serious difficulties in the process of teaching gifted children who want to prove themselves in a full-scale concert repertoire, as most of the classical and romantic pieces contain octaves, wide chords and interval sequences that require an adult hand.
Rosenblatt's 8 Etudes in Jazz Style are the result of his cooperation with the pianist Michael Bischoffberger. All pieces are devoted to the development of the pianist's basic technical skills: with scales, arpeggios, double notes, chord technique, cantilena and sustain pedaling skill. However, the pieces only use intervals smaller than the octave, the septima is the largest interval. The pieces are excellent for teaching and they sound absolutely adult, bright and "fresh" because of the Jazz based style of the music.
Excellent pieces for concert, teaching and competition.

Ogni anno punto e da capo (Every Year Again) is a one-act comedy by Eduardo De Filippo, which premiered in 1931 at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples. On the occasion of the revival at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan in 1971, De Filippo asked Nino Rota .to edit some songs of the Italian Rivista tradition from the thirties and provide them with additional music. Of the music arranged and composed by Rota, only the piano score published here remained, which probably served as a basis for the instrumental version.

Die Stucke aus Piano Studies in Pop sollen nicht nur ein Gegenpol zur Klassik sein, vielmehr sollen sie die Bemuhungen Jazz- und Popmusik im Instrumentalunterricht zu integrieren, unterstutzen.
Es war Mike Schoenmehl ein besonderes Anliegen, klavieristische Lerninhalte in Form dieser Arrangements zu prasentieren, damit der Schuler nicht nur Stucke spielt, sondern dazu auch technische und musikalische Schwierigkeiten zu bewaltigen hat.

Peteris Vasks occupies a special position in the circle of Baltic composers. He is not only the most significant and popular composer ever to come out of Latvia. he always speaks to his listeners with a fervent intensity that seems to point to something higher. This higher aspect is without a doubt something that stands above the world of humanity but is also present within each person: divine nature.

"I am deeply rooted in nature, in the nature of the North. It influences all of my music. The nature we know is also quite various. we have four very distinct seasons. The winter is very long, the summer very short and therefore all the more beautiful and longed for. The seasons in between are quite dramatic."

The first of Peteris Vasks's Seasons pieces was not written with the intention of forming a complete cycle. For his friend, Talivaldis Deksnis, he composed in 1980 Balta ainava - White Landscape (Winter), in 1981 Rudens muzika - Autumn Music, and in 1995 the Pavasara muzika - Spring Music. In 2008, Zala ainava - Green Landscape (Summer) came into being, the piece which completed the cycle.

In 2009, as a kind of "encore", Vasks wrote Vasaras vakara muzika - Music for a Summer Evening based on old sketches. this, of all the pieces, is the one most anchored in tradition. Only the two newest pieces - both of which have to do with summer - have a fixed metrical structure. The three earlier works are metrically free, notated without bar lines, which gives them an improvisatory character.

Vasks says of the individual pieces in the cycle: "In Balta ainava everything is white. A new year begins. It is a quiet meditation, a new beginning, with only two themes.

Pavasara muzika. Quasi una Sonata - the most demanding piece in this cycle - is intense, an impressive development. Spring comes slowly, with much drama. It is like a battle, until it is simply there. This multi-faceted piece, with its bird songs, lives from conflicts and dramatic intensification and ends in ecstatic rapture. Zala ainava is based on two themes. Our summer is very brief and offers a respite after the battles. And it is so beautiful! The music reflects joy and contentment. The first theme brings a kind of pure energy. the second is more devoted to tone painting. At the end, a five-note quotation from a well-known Latvian folksong about a drunkard is heard.

Rudens muzika begins pianissimo on a quiet September day, in a peaceful, sunny atmosphere. Now the autumn storms sweep over the land. a gentle sadness settles on the people and on nature, which surrenders its splendor. After a last great storm, the snow comes again as a symbol of purified conclusion and a new beginning. Vasaras vakara muzika takes place at the quiet end of a summer day. The sun sets. Slowness. Memories of previous experiences surface. With the memories' appearance comes an increase in intensity. Towards the end, a kind of folksong is heard: 'We have survived the time of tyranny and retained our identity'. The ending is quiet, everything is asleep."

Christoph Schluren

Translation: John Patrick Thomas and W. Richard Rieves