Le premier cahier des Vexierbilder (1991) (Vexierbild se traduirait par attrape , rébus ) exploitait l'idée d'image trompeuse, de référent décalé, se concentrant autour d'un matériau délibérément appauvri. Dans ces trois nouvelles pièces, la musique cherche à se construire autour d'un geste, d'une figuration systématique, d'une forme coupant court à tout développement.

Dans une veine années de pèlerinage , Rome était la matière des images cryptées des trois premiers Vexierbilder. C'est l'art du poète américain Wallace Stevens qui est au centre de ceux-ci, et plus particulièrement son premier recueil Harmonium (paru en 1923), où il tente de trouver, avec des moyens resserrés, le caractère transcendant inhérent à la musique (Claire Malroux). En somme : remplacer le grand orgue de la poésie, devenu inadapté, par un instrument moins noble en apparence, dont le souffle et la portée naîtraient d'une activité têtue, concentrée mais presque dérisoire.

Pratiquant les rappels sacrés, parfois ironiques, Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), par un jeu de degrés étourdissant de raffinement, a porté au plus haut l'art de faire du neuf avec la mémoire.

Speech of clouds
Deux notes - une simple tierce do-la dans le médium - sont sollicitées par une navette de deux mains qui n'en seraient qu'une, sans chant ni harmonie, et sonnent comme un carillon brouillé. Dans la seconde partie de la pièce, après un court récitatif sorti de silence, ces trajectoires virtuoses, ces fusées d'artificier pour solo de concert , régressent, involuent vers une formule égrenée simplement par les cinq doigts, en ombre, ppppp possibile, comme une trame usée, ou un envers montrant la pauvreté de ses noeuds - et de ses ficelles - sur laquelle, au même endroit du clavier, vient se poser un contre-chant, comme si ces deux mains du médium n'appartenaient plus alors au même corps - invention rebrodée ton sur ton où une voix contrepointe l'autre par soustraction.

...An uncertain green,
Piano-polished, held the tranced machine
Of ocean, as a prelude holds of holds.

... Un vert incertain
D'un poli de piano, tenait la machine enchantée
De l'océan comme un prélude tient sans fin.

Negation
Pièce lente qui revient à cet arte povera cherché dans le premier recueil des Vexierbilder. L'objet harmonique est ici donné dans une grande nudité, comme une anti-figure dont le caractère obvi se retournerait en ambiguïté interrogative, et à partir duquel plusieurs ostinati se construisent, s'épuisent sans développement, écho au poème éponyme de Stevens : Hé ! Le Créateur aussi est aveugle / Qui cherche à bâtir son harmonieux ensemble, / Rejetant les parties intermédiaires, / Les horreurs, les faussetés et les maux, / Maître incapable de toute puissance, / Trop vague idéaliste, submergé / Par un souffle qui persiste.

Rondo
Une courte séquence construit la pièce en refrains, comme le titre l'indique, empruntant au contre-chant de la première pièce. Certaines strophes font entendre un précipité des ostinati de la seconde pièce, mais rejetés dans les extrêmes du clavier. Est-ce alors le grave qui vient orner, fouetter l'aigu à contre-emploi? Ces agrégats doivent sonner comme des sacs de grains lâchés par terre. C'est comme un tribut déposé au pied de la rhétorique, un geste d'embrassement qui voudrait naïvement fermer le ban du pianisme. D'autres strophes, plus fugitives, font entendre des sortes de chants d'oiseaux dont la mécanique se serait bloquée. Après un dernier retour du refrain, ourlé de résonances, la pièce se termine par une clausule dansante, livide, itérative, pendant aux Jeux d'os squelettiques qui achevaient les premiers Vexierbilder :

Mow the grass in tue cemetery, darkies,
Study the symbols and the requiescats,
But leave a bed beneath the myrtles.
The skeleton had a daughter and that, a son.

And that one was never a man of heart.
The making of his son was one more duty.
When the music of the boy fell like a foutain,
He praised Johann Sebastian, as he should.

Tondez l'herbe du cimetière, négros,
Examinez les symboles et les requiescats,
Mais laissez un lit sous les myrthes,
Ce squelette avait une fille, et cet autre, un fils.

Celui-là ne fut jamais un homme de coeur
Engendrer son fils ne fut qu'un devoir de plus.
Quand la musique de ce garçon retomba comme un jet d'eau,
Il loua Jean-Sébastien, comme il se devait. / Partition /

American Popular Songs for Solo Piano-This book/CD pack features solo piano arrangements of 11 favorite songs plus an accompanying CD of audio tracks and Standard MIDI Files. Songs include: Ain't We Got Fun - Avalon - By the Beautiful Sea - Carolina in the Morning - Look for the Silver Lining - Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning - Say It with Music - Swanee - Till the Clouds Roll By - When I Lost You - Whispering.

Treasury of piano music by great Norwegian composer, including the perennial favorites, Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 and the Holberg Suite, as well as a rich selection of other pieces: Vier Stucke, Op. 1, Humoresker, Op. 6, Sonata in E Minor, Op. 7, and many others. Content : Four Pieces [Vier Stücke], Op. 1 (dedicated to E. F. Wenzel) I. Allegro con leggerezza II. Non Allegro e molto espressivo III. Mazurka IV. Allegretto con moto Poetic Tone-Pictures [Poetiske tonebilleder], Op. 3 (dedicated to Benjamin Feddersen) I. Allegro, ma non troppo II. Allegro cantabile III. Con moto IV. Andante con sentimento V. Allegro moderato VI Allegro scherzando Humoresques [Humoresker], Op. 6 (dedicated to Rikard Nordraak) I. Tempo di Valse II. Tempo di Menuetto ed energico III. Allegretto con grazia IV. Allegro alla burla Sonata in E Minor, Op. 7 (dedicated to Niels W. Gade) Allegro moderato Andante molto Alla Menuetto, ma pocco più lento Finale Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16, Arranged for Solo Piano (dedicated to Edmund Neupert) Allegro molto moderato Adagio Allegro moderato e molto marcato Four Album Leaves [Fire albumblade], Op. 28 (dedicated to Minna Petersen) I. Allegro con moto II. Allegretto espressivo III. Vivace IV. Andantino serioso Two Elegiac Melodies [Zwei elegische Melodien], Op. 34 (dedicated to Heinrich von Herzogenberg; arrangement of a work for string orchestra based on the songs Op. 33, nos. 3 and 2) I. Heart's Wounds [Herzwunden] II. Last Spring [Letzter Frühling] From Holberg's Time [Fra Holbergs tid; Holberg Suite], Op. 40 (dedicated to Erika Lie-Nissen) I. Praeludium II. Sarabande III. Gavotte IV. Air V. Rigaudon Piano Pieces after His Own Songs [Klavierstücke nach eigenen Liedern] (I), Op. 41 I. Lullaby [Wiegenlied] II. Little Haakon [Klein Haakon] III. I Love Thee [Ich liebe dich] IV. She Is So White [Wenn einst sie lag an meiner Brust/Sie ist so weiss] V. The Princess [Die Prinzessin] VI. To Springtime [An den Lenz] Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (arrangement of orchestral work) I. Morning Mood [Morgenstimmung] II. Åse's Death [Åses Tod] III. Anitra's Dance [Anitras Tanz] IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King [In der Halle des Bergkönigs] Piano Pieces after His Own Songs [Klavierstücke nach eigenen Liedern] (II), Op. 52 I. A Mother's Grief [Mutterschmerz] II. The First Meeting [Erstes Begegnen] III. The Poet's Heart [Des Dichters Herz] IV. Solvejg's Song [Solvejgs Lied] V. Love [Liebe] VI. The Old Mother [Die alte Mutter] Two Melodies [Zwei Melodien], Op. 53 (dedicated to Franz Neruda; arrangement of a work for string orchestra based on the songs Op. 33, no. 12, and Op. 21, no I. Norwegian [Norwegisch] II. The First Meeting [Erstes Begegnen] Peer Gynt Suite No.2, Op 55 (arrangement of orchestral work) I. Ingrid's Lament [Ingrids Klage] II. Arabian Dance [Arabischer Tanz] III. Peer Gynt's Return Home [Peer Gynts Heimkehr] IV. Solvejg's Song [Solvejgs Lied] Moods [Stimmungen], Op. 73 I. Resignation II. Scherzo-Impromptu III. Night Ride [Natligtridt] IV. Folksong [Folketone] V. Study [Studie] (Hommage à Chopin) VI. Students' Serenade [Studenternes serenade] VII. The Mountaineer's Song [Lual?t] Nordraak's Funeral March [Sörgemarsch over Rikard Nordraak], WoOp. Three Piano Pieces [Drei Klavierstückel], WoOp. I. White Clouds [Hvide skyer] II. Gnomes' Tune [Tusselsl?t] III. The Dance Goes On [Dansen går]

9 All-New Piano Solos by Favorite Alfred Composers-Each collection in the Signature Solos series includes all-new piano solos by favorite Alfred composers in a variety of musical styles. Every solo was written for its appealing sound and ability to further the technical and musical growth of the student. These solos can be played either formally in recitals or informally for friends and family! Titles: Jazz Riff (Melody Bober) * Cloud Forests (Ted Cooper) * Nocturne (Ted Cooper) * Outfoxed! (W. T. Skye Garcia) * New Day (Chris Goldston) * Stomp! (Kathy Holmes) * Dance of the Gypsies (Martha Mier) * Mystery of the Black Diamond (Wynn-Anne Rossi) * Looking Through the Mist (Robert D. Vandall).

Four short Forecasts for solo Piano by Mary Magdalen Mageau. Selected and edited by Melvin Stecher Norman Horowitz and Claire Gordon. Includes: Clouds Rain Rain Go Away Feathery Fog and Out Comes The Sun!

All the music from Einaudi's autobiographical fourth album. Includes the tracks with solo Cello. The composer writes: If someone asked me about this album I would say it is a collection of songs linked together by astory. But unlike my other albums it doesn¹t belong to a time in the past. It speaks about me now my life the things around me. My piano which I have nicknamed Tagore my children Jessica and Leo the orange kilim carpet thatbrightens up the living room the clouds sailing slowly across the sky the sunlight coming through the window the music I listen to the books I read and those I don¹t read my memories my friends and the people I love.

The award-winning film adaptation of the classic stage musical Les Misérables stars Hugh Jackman Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway. This songbook features piano solo arrangements of 15 songs from the film including the new title Suddenly and: At the End of the Day ? Bring Him Home ? Castle on a Cloud ? Do You Hear the People Sing? ? Empty Chairs at Empty Tables ? I Dreamed a Dream ? A Little Fall of Rain ? Master of the House ? On My Own ? Stars ? Who Am I? ? and more.

Make your wedding day even more magical with solo Piano arrangements of 21 popular love songs. The Modern Wedding Collection includes: All of Me Everything God Gave Me You I Won't Give Up Just the Way You Are Love Me Like You Do Love Story The Luckiest No One One and Only Thinking Out Loud A Thousand Years The Way I Am We Found Love You're Beautiful and more.

Piano Works Volume I-To mark the 150th anniversary of Debussy?s birth in 2012 Henle are proud to present a tribute to his piano solo works in three volumes available as a paperbound or a clothbound edition. As a publishing house whose main focus ison piano music it was important for Henle to give a special place to the works of Claude Debussy the innovator of piano style. Thus since the early 1980s they have steadily been publishing single editions of all of Debussy?simportant works for the piano. Henle's editor Ernst-Günter Heinemann has worked closely with the French Debussy scholar François Lesure to present Debussy?s elaborate music in high quality Urtext editions. Beginning with the'Danse bohémienne' from 1880 all of the single works from Henle's catalogue have been drawn together in these three volumes arranged according to their date of composition. And as a little 'encore' Henle have included thePrélude to the cantata 'La Damoiselle élue' in volume I. Each of the three volumes contains true highlights for the piano. But the short and lesser known works also offer a glimpse at the modern classical composer Debussy from adifferent angle. In addition each volume contains a helpful glossary with all of Debussy?s often very vivid performance instructions translated into English and German. Bon anniversaire Claude Debussy!

The Piano Prep Test is an ideal introduction to the ABRSM exam experience: it gives students a goal to work towards and a certificate on the day – something to be really proud of. The test covers many elements that beginner pianists will be working on including pitch time tone and performance. This Piano Prep Test book has exciting new pieces easy to follow instructions listening games and entertaining illustrations. For the first time it includes duets as well as solo pieces. Preparing for your Piano Prep Test has never been more fun!

9 superbes arrangements pour piano solo des titres de vos films Disney préférés ! Idéal pour les spectacles, les cours ou tout simplement pour s\'amuser ! Tirés de COCO : Proud Corazon - Remember Me (Lullaby) - Un Poco Loco - Tirés d\'ENCANTO : Dos Oruguitas - Surface Pressure - We Don\'t Talk About Bruno - Tirés de FROZEN II : All Is Found - Into the Unknown - Show Yourself. / Méthodes et pédagogie / Piano et instrument à clavier / Piano / HAL LEONARD

12 kleine Klaviergeschichten-In 12 little Piano stories the young composer Vera Mohrs tells stories about the more than 3000-year-old friendship between cats and humans.Piano teacher Monika Twelsiek about the edition: 'In her very own tonal language the young composer Vera Mohrs recounts touching and amusing incidents in her 'Katzenmusik': the first cautious approach the wild and the purring kitten its desire for freedom and a longing for security.''Katzenmusik' is suitable as a musical story for children to be played and read aloud as a theme of class concerts at music schools and for being played and read by all even older cat lovers.

Welcome to G. Henle Publishers dear Maestro Kissin! We are honoured and proud to be able to publish the first three opuses by world-renowned inspired pianist Evgeny Kissin who for some years now has turned to composing in earnest. The first of these compositions ??? which with this author ought to surprise no one ??? is a cycle of four piano pieces. The ???Toccata??? an insanely virtuosic tour de force in a jazz-inspired idiom has already occasionally been heard performed as an encore at his concerts. With their titles ???Meditation??? and ???Dodecaphonic Tango??? perfectly illustrate the respective moods of these expressive character pieces. The unpretentious ???Intermezzo??? grantsperformer and audience a brief moment of contemplation before the ???Toccata???. Welcome to G. Henle Publishers dear Maestro Kissin! We are honoured and proud to be able to publish the first three opuses by world-renowned inspired pianist Evgeny Kissin who for some years now has turned to composing in earnest. The first of these compositions ??? which with this author ought to surprise no one ??? is a cycle of four piano pieces. The ???Toccata??? an insanely virtuosic tour de force in a jazz-inspired idiom has already occasionally been heard performed as an encore at his concerts. With their titles ???Meditation??? and ???Dodecaphonic Tango??? perfectly illustrate the respective moods of these expressive character pieces. The unpretentious ???Intermezzo??? grantsperformer and audience a brief moment of contemplation before the ???Toccata???.