Five Popular Chanukah Songs arranged in jazz style,
including Swing, Stride Piano and Latin rhythms.

Arranged by Eric Lagergren (ASCAP), Published by Tutti Vireo Publishing (ASCAP); 5 pages;
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This is a piano arrangement of the popular Mexican folk song, La Llorona, which tells the story of a woman who drowned herself and her children and whose spirit wanders around Latin America searching for their souls so she may enter heaven.

With this sheet music, you can play "Rocket Man" by Elton John on piano!

It's an accurate, carefully created piano arrangement of the full song.

The entire melody is included in the piano part, so it makes for a perfect instrumental / piano solo cover.

Thanks to Elton John's impressive piano skills, "Rocket Man" is certainly a challenging piece to play - but it will sound amazing when you master it!

"Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long, Long Time)" first appeared on Elton John's 1972 album "Honky Château", and served as the album's first single.

Inspired by Ray Bradbury's story "The Rocket Man" and David Bowie's "Space Oddity", the song became one of Elton John's biggest hits! It was certified Platinum 3 times in the United States, and is also included on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Elton John's 1972 super hit makes for an amazing piano performance!

With this sheet music, you can play "Santa Baby" on piano!

It's an accurate, playable arrangement of Eartha Kitt's famous 1953 recording, in the song's original key of Db major.

It comes with a few challenges, but sounds fantastic!

The full melody is included in the piano part, so it makes for a perfect instrumental (piano solo) cover.

Written by Joan Javits and Philip Springer, Eartha Kitt recorded the song with Henri René and his orchestra. After its release in October 1953, it became the best-selling Christmas song of that year!

The song's suggestive lyrics and sexual undertone were considered quite controversial (the song was even banned for some time in the American South), and "Santa Baby" has been named both one of the best and one of the worst Christmas songs ever written...

Still, the song has become a famous holiday hit, and has been recorded by many artists, including Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ariana Grande, Gwen Stefani, Taylor Swift, and many others.

Many consider Eartha Kitt's original recording to be the greatest version of the song - it certainly makes for a fantastic piano cover!

Here are the song's full lyrics:

Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree
For me
Been an awful good girl
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa baby, a 54 convertible too
Light blue
I'll wait up for you dear
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you'll check off my Christmas list

Santa baby, I wanna yacht
And really that's not a lot
Been an angel all year
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa honey, one little thing I really need
The deed
To a platinum mine
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa cutie, and fill my stocking with a duplex
And checks
Sign your 'X' on the line
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Come and trim my Christmas tree
With some decorations bought at Tiffany's
I really do believe in you
Let's see if you believe in me

Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing
A ring
I don't mean on the phone
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry, tonight

Souvenir de Porto Rico, Op. 31, is a musical composition for piano by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk written from 1857 during a tour in Puerto Rico. Dedicated to the Dutch piano virtuoso and salon music composer Ernest Henry Lubeck, and published in Mainz circa 1860 with the subtitle of Marche des Gibaros, it is based on the Christmas folk song 'Si me dan pasteles, denmelos calientes', performed by local peasants known as Jíbaros.

The piece makes use of Latin-American and Afro-American melodies and rhythms almost fifty years before early ragtime and jazz would popularize its use.Souvenir de Porto Rico was written in the last trimester of 1857, when of Gottschalk's stay at the sugar plantation of English-born Mr. Cornelius Cartwright, in Plazuela. At the time, Gottschalk was on vacation with singer Adelina Patti and her father. He would decide not to leave Puerto Rico, but instead remain there for weeks. During this period he composed a number of additional pieces after the local musical styles.Gottschalk would say about the setting where he composed the piece: "[I was] perched upon the edge of a crater, [and] my cabin overlooked the whole country. Every evening I moved my piano out upon the terrace, and played for myself alone, everything that the scene opened up before me inspired. It was there that I composed 'Marche des Gibaros.'.

DOCTOR GRADUS AD PARNASSUM from ?Children?s Corner Suite? by CLAUDE DEBUSSY for PIANO SOLO. The Latin phrase gradus ad Parnassum means "steps to Parnassus?. Debussy composed Children's Corner between 1906 and 1908. This piece is actually a rather ingenious study in finger independence with a Twentieth Century vocabulary. In the middle, the pianist slows down and tries his material in other keys for exercise. Debussy's Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum is of intermediate difficulty and requires experienced fingers. The pianist gets wilder toward the end and finishes the piece with a bang. Debussy told his publisher that the movement should be played "very early in the morning".This edition also includes a short biography of Debussy and some facts about the piece.

Other similar arrangements and selections from DIAMOND S MUSIC available at:https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/diamond-s-music/6940

'Tango Fantasy - Alto Sax & Piano'?: (Duration: 2.12) Higher Intermediate to the Advanced student.
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Tango, is a passionate union between two dancers. The musical effect that I worked on was exactly that, the passionate union between two musical instruments. Throughout the piece, I endeavored to keep the central theme of the Tango rhythm playing out between the two instruments. I know that at some points I have moved away from the Tango idea, which is why I included the word fantasy in the title. So? for most of the piece, the Tango theme is foremost, and whatever may or may not be Tango material is indeed a fantasy, an idea, a leaning toward the real thing, that is the Tango in Latin Style.
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Tango in D minor for cello and piano

Maxim Zolotarenko, cello
Elena Orsa, piano

Three selected Piano solos by E.Murillo (1880-1942).
Level: Intermediate, Late intermediate and Advanced
Pages: 12 pages Piano solo sheet music PDF, with downloadable mp3s for audio-help.

A new and appealing holiday collection of nine piano arrangements of popular Hispanic Christmas carols from Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, the Andes, Costa Rica and Chile. Suitable for intermediate and advanced piano players. Ideal for concerts, holiday get-togethers and celebrations.

LupiCaelestia, Latin for "Sky Wolves" is another composition on the Imaginary Beings subject that fascinates the composer. This is the tenth composition with that title and is based in Norsemythology.

This three movements composition include:

1. Skoll - sky wolf that chases the Sun;

2. Hati - sky wolf that chases the moon;

3. Fenrir - father of the wolves Skoll and Hati.

This composition was premiered by Cândido Fernandes(piano) and Sérgio Carolino (Tuba) atGravíssimo! Festival 2020.

A modern, melodic original composition, suitable for students and advanced musicians alike.



Composer?s Note:

The title of this piece is taken from Sir Philip Sidney?s c.1590 sonnet sequence, known as Astrophel and Stella. The sonnets are meditations on romantic love, with the titular names derived from the Greek roots aster (star) and phil (love), and the Latin stella (also star). Hence, Stella is the object of Astrophel?s affection.


For interested students or teachers, here are a few pedagogical notes:

This piece is suitable for an intermediate-level student. It is playable as a simple waltz as-written, or as a jazz ballad with straight eighth notes. There are some left hand oom-pah shapes, as well as a couple of large arpeggiated shapes where the right hand might want to catch the top note of bass clef, primarily if a student?s hands are small (like the composer?s).


About the Composer:

Emily Nafius is a pianist in Southern California with her musical roots in jazz. As a soloist or sideman, she has performed at numerous music venues around California in an eclectic mix of styles, and recorded with a variety of jazz musicians, singer-songwriters, and rock bands. Her work as an accompanist spans classical, jazz, and musical theatre, receiving praise for her theatre work as a pianist and ensemble leader. She has maintained a teaching studio for over fifteen years, instructing musicians of all ages.