Item Number: S9.Q54742

The 24 Soul Etudes constitute a kaleidoscope of soulful landscapes nested in human soul's depth. These pieces are destined for pianists yearning to express their utter sensitivity and poetry in perfect osmosis with their audiences.
These compositions can be savored as chosen flower bouquets in completion of a given piano recital's varied repertoire program by coloring through such sound paintings approaches revealing infinitely cap- tivating atmospheric and evocative universes. Alternatively, they could be presented in their entirety for a total immersion experience combining compelling meditative and reflective daydreamed worlds which lay in each of us. Their performance valorizes the pianist interpreter in a fusional communion with the listener merging both in a transcendental longing into a truly blossomed unison of human feelings. (Emile Naoumoff).

ISBN 9781513455945. 8.75x11.75 inches.

These 27 short etudes were composed to provide music suitable for study or the concert stage. The etudes present a colorful palette of moods and musical textures and incorporate various picking techniques and lush harmonies. They are extremely useful in developing tone and a lyrical feeling to a guitarists style. These etudes will work well as concert preludes or encores or may be played in groups to create more extended performance repertoire. They are guitaristic and highlight the beauty of the plectrum/flatpick guitar style. The etudes are written in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781619117495.

Odd-time signatures are often an enigma to the Western musician and present specific challenges when it comes to phrasing and feeling. This book will improve any musician's ability to intuit odd-time signatures, through 48 etudes in 5/8, 7/8, 9/8, 10/8 and 11/8 time. Mixed etudes are also included, which feature different traditional and odd-time signatures within each piece. All of these studies will facilitate note-reading and position playing abilities, and are applicable to jazz, classical and contemporary guitar genres.The Mel Bay Achieving Guitar Artistry series is designed to condition and guide the developing guitarist to an advanced level of proficiency, regardless of the style of music performed.

?Little Studies?, for piano solo (1998 ? 2002). 12 Studies,( 1st and 2nd volume) each of different style, character and technical demands using at the beginning a very simple tonic idiom, growing gradually to apply composition with symmetry of intervals, jazz harmony and free serialism. Parts of the work has been performed by Valeria Athanasiadou at ?Athenaeum? Concert Hall?, Athens in 2002.
Ι.
a. ?First Steps?, for the Five Fingers
b. ?Gnome?, for the Staccatto ( to Gyorgy Ligeti)
c. ?Clouds?, for the ?Tenutae?
d. ?Gallop?, for the Crossing Hands
e. ? A Knight?s Fanfare?, for the Chords
f. ?Sentiments?, for the sonority (to Bernard Hermmann)
II.
a. ?Nocturne?, for the Sostenuto Pedal (to Keith Jarret)
b. ?Sorrow?, for Multiple Layers
c. ?Step by Step?, for the Wrist
d. ?Riddle?, for the Subtle Dynamics (to Anton Webern)
e. ?Fire Dance?, for the Large Intervals (to Arnold Scoenberg)
f. ?Jazzy?, for the ?Swing? Feeling (to Thelonius Monk and Cecil Taylor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt_UFYkamQA

Corona Etude is a hopeful piece written during coronavirus lockdown. It uses rapid 2, 3 and 4-string crossings to create the sensation of multiple voices. The use of many open strings helps to create a full sound while being relatively easy to play. After players familiarize themselves with the notated version, they are encouraged to create their own realization using the sketch on the front cover. It has a folk-like feeling, while using a standard classical technique. It could be way to introduce students to the string crossings in solo Bach sonatas and partitas, and other standard literature. .