Gregory Stone has transcribed these three selected preludes for one piano-four hands. For much of his life George Gershwin sought to integrate the worlds of jazz and classical music. These pieces are not jazz improvisations but they do show something of the style of his own playing. Gershwin had intended to compose a set of twelve a sort of jazz Wohltemperierte Clavier but his unexpected death from a brain tumour at the age of 38 prevented this. At least seven survive (others may have ended up as songs) and this set of three as published form a satisfying unit. The first opens with a blue-note riff which forms the basis of the first theme.Contrasting material follows making use of a distinctive repeated note figure then the first idea reappears in a quasi-orchestral climax. The second prelude shows a curious kinship with Chopin???s A minor Prelude with its eerie accompaniment and hypnotic melody. The third exploits a similar major/minor ambivalence but dextrous syncopation gives it driving rhythmic energy.

Pantomimes, pour piano à 4 mains et dispositif électronique stéréo, est pensé comme un rêve, une déambulation, un parcours initiatique se déroulant entre le moment où l'enfant doit aller dormir et celui où il se réveille. Ces rêves nocturnes, peuplés de personnages divers, fantastiques, grotesques, poétiques, ont une évolution constante, le faisant passer par des pays tantôt merveilleux, tantôt e?rayants, et des états allant de l'apaisement à la passion, de la joie à la peur. Puis lorsque la danse devient furie, vient le moment de revenir à la réalité. L'oeuvre se présente comme une suite de tableaux pensée selon une progression pédagogique, abordable dès la ?n du premier cycle de piano (environ la quatrième année selon les normes usuelles en conservatoire) jusqu'aux niveaux préprofessionnels :La Pantomime n'est pas seulement une évocation musicale, elle est aussi perceptible dans la mise en scène et les modes de jeux demandés aux interprètes, puisque chaque tableau demande à l'un ou l'autre, parfois aux deux, des utilisations non conventionnelles de l'instrument (autres que le jeu sur le clavier). Ainsi transformés en marionnettes, les pianistes investissent alors un matériau sonore total et pourtant uniquement dédié au piano (sans préparation ni autres arti?ces), créant un univers repris et développé par la partie électronique avec laquelle ils dialoguent.Tous les fichiers électroniques nécessaires sont disponibles en téléchargement via notre site www.edu.billaudot.com (versions avec clic pour le travail, en plusieurs vitesses, en quadriphonie pour un concert, player?). Ces fichiers sont à déclencher très précisément lorsque le symbole correspondant apparaît dans la partition. / Piano / Billaudot

This collection of 45 piano duets (for one piano, four hands) consists of selections for teachers and students at the elementary to late elementary levels. Duet repertoire from the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries are included by such composers as Cui, Diabelli, Enke, Foote, Godowsky, Gurlitt, Löw, Reinecke, Sartorio, and more. Students will improve in musicianship, ensemble performance, fingering, and rhythmic control while enjoying this delightful duet literature. To facilitate reading, the primo and secondo parts are on separate pages. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance. Essential ornamentation is realized in footnotes, both parts contain measure numbers for convenient reference, and brief composer biographies are included. / Piano 4 Mains

The In Recital: Duets range offers a terrific collection of some of the most musically engaging duets by leading composers and arrangers. The selection is diverse too and you will find original duets as well as duet arrangements of classical themes and popular songs. The purpose of the series is to focus on this fabulous repertoire with the intention of motivating students with entertaining pieces and outstanding arrangements. Comprising six levels that feature a comprehensively levelled curriculum with gentle transitions between each stage In Recital: Duets has something for all students even those who work ahead at their own pace! This is VolumeOne - Book One which contains material suitable for Early Elemenatary Pianists with wonderful pieces such as Yankee Doodle and Beethoven's Ode To Joy addressing a wide variety of different musical and technical abilities as well as different genres. The enclosed companion CD is a superb teaching and learning tool which help to get the best from students. Listen to the demonstration recording as a reference to hear the personality of each track and then Play along with the performance tracks. As a further aid the series provides practice tips rehearsal suggestions and duet performance strategies to help students be even more successful!

The In Recital: Duets range offers a terrific collection of some of the most musically engaging duets by leading composers and arrangers. The selection is diverse too and you will find original duets as well as duet arrangements of classical themes and popular songs. The purpose of the series is to focus on this fabulous repertoire with the intention of motivating students with entertaining pieces and outstanding arrangements. Comprising six levels that feature a comprehensively levelled curriculum with gentle transitions between each stage In Recital: Duets has something for all students even those who work ahead at their own pace! This is VolumeOne - Book Five which contains material suitable for Intermediate Pianists with wonderful pieces such as Debussy’s Clair De Lune and Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag addressing a wide variety of different musical and technical abilities as well as different genres. The enclosed companion CD is a superb teaching and learning tool which help to get the best from students. Listen to the demonstration recording as a reference to hear the personality of each track and then Play-along with the performance tracks. As a further aid the series provides practice tips rehearsal suggestions and duet performance strategies to help students be even more successful!

The In Recital: Duets range offers a terrific collection of some of the most musically engaging duets by leading composers and arrangers. The selection is diverse too and you will find original duets as well as duet arrangements of classical themes and popular songs. The purpose of the series is to focus on this fabulous repertoire with the intention of motivating students with entertaining pieces and outstanding arrangements. Comprising six levels that feature a comprehensively levelled curriculum with gentle transitions between each stage In Recital: Duets has something for all students even those who work ahead at their own pace! This is VolumeOne - Book Three which contains material suitable for Late Elementary Pianists with wonderful pieces such as Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Waltz and the popular traditional piece Chopsticks addressing a wide variety of different musical and technical abilities as well as different genres. The enclosed companion CD is a superb teaching and learning tool which help to get the best from students. Listen to the demonstration recording as a reference to hear the personality of each track and then Play-along with the performance tracks. As a further aid the series provides practice tips rehearsal suggestions and duet performance strategies to help students be even more successful!

The In Recital: Duets range offers a terrific collection of some of the most musically engaging duets by leading composers and arrangers. The selection is diverse too and you will find original duets as well as duet arrangements of classical themes and popular songs. The purpose of the series is to focus on this fabulous repertoire with the intention of motivating students with entertaining pieces and outstanding arrangements. Comprising six levels that feature a comprehensively levelled curriculum with gentle transitions between each stage In Recital: Duets has something for all students even those who work ahead at their own pace! This is VolumeOne - Book 2 which contains material suitable for Elemenatary Pianists with wonderful pieces such as Camptown Races and Beethoven's Ode To Joy addressing a wide variety of different musical and technical abilities as well as different genres. The enclosed companion CD is a superb teaching and learning tool which help to get the best from students. Listen to the demonstration recording as a reference to hear the personality of each track and then Play along with the performance tracks. As a further aid the series provides practice tips rehearsal suggestions and duet performance strategies to help students be even more successful!

Upon entering a painting was written in 2008/09 and it was commissioned with funding from the Britten-Pears Foundation and the RVW Trust by Piano 4 Hands (Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa) to whom it is dedicated. The inspiration of the piece was the kind of painting which as you gaze at it seems to draw the onlooker into the frame indeed into the very paint itself. The specific trigger for the idea of the piece was the Rothko Exhibition at Tate Modern in 2008 Rothko has long been a favourite painter of mine even though his creative world is very different from my own. However there were one or two paintings in the exhibition in which I felt strongly this sense of beingdrawn into the inner life of the painting especially when I was able to incur the wrath of the curators and step close to the paintings and examine the surface in detail. The opening and closing sections of the piece with their gradual thickening of the harmonies and (at the end) equally gradual thinning reflect this sense of stepping forward into and backward out of the works. The inner life of the faster sections while apparently very un-Rothko-like reflects the extraordinary teeming inner life of the brush-strokes.

Tango Tzigane - Jealousy-Tango Jalousie (Tango Tzigane - Jealousy) - Jacob Gade's classic arranged for Piano Duet (four hands) by conductor Esther Bobrova Lange. From the Preface: It is a common misconception that Tango Jalousie (Tango Tzigane) was written for the movie ”Don Q”. The piece was also played at the movie premiere in Paladsteatret on September 14th 1925 but there was no jealousy-based drama in the movie. Nonetheless the melody was well suited to the Zorro legend in a Mexican setting. But in the book “Jacob Gade – et eventyr i musik” (a fairytale in music) by Jørgen GramChristensen one learns that in a 1956 interview Jacob Gade recounted the incident in 1925 which concerned him very much: “One day the magazines featured a dramatic description of a jealousy-based murder and the word “jealousy” stood for me as a title with which the music became more and more attached.”There are many different arrangements of “Tango Jalousie” but I have always found that there was a need for a piano four hands version of this wonderful piece. In the process of working out a piano four hands version I used the full orchestra score and made sure that the most essential orchestra parts were included. Also the melody parts and accompaniment are equally distributed between the primo and secondo parts. (Esther Bobrova Lange)

1 Piano 4 Hands/Early Intermediate Level-Festive Celebration is a fast animated duet that is great fun to play. A jaunty melody in the primo is supported by offbeat seventh chords in the bass all building to an exciting conclusion. Key: C Major.

Another title in this popular series with dual versions of 10 well-known Christmas Carols to give wider access to pupils of all ages. The initial versions are generally straightforward while the second presents a more up-dated and sometimes up-tempo version to give variety and a fresh approach to some familiar tunes. Intended for teacher and pupil in many of these carols the pupil's left hand part is optional widening the scope of these arrangements to suit relative beginners or even to include use with other instruments.

1 Piano 4 Hands Level 2 Upper Elementary Level-NFMC 2016-2020 Piano Duet Event Primary II Selection 5 fun to play equal part duets for two students at one piano: Caissons Go Rolling Along (Edmund L. Gruber) - My Heart Ever Faithful (J.S. Bach) - Romanze (Beethoven) - Skip to My Lou (American folk song) - Swingin' Great (Wesley Schaum).

Piano duet playing has always been very popular in and outside music lessons. Playing piano together is much more fun; thanks to the rich harmony and the extended piano setting even beginners and intermediate players will be able to experience the pleasure of a full piano sound. In addition it improves the players' sense of rhythm and encourages ensemble playing. Apart from classic pieces this anthology in the new 'Piano Classics' series also contains several lesser known pieces.

Works For Piano Duet-'Flee the storms.' Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) put this motto of classical artists at the heart of his music for piano four hands preferring the balance of proportions to the roar of passions the eclecticism of good taste charm and delicacy. Berceuses falls within the French tradition of children's music such as illustrated by Fauré's Dolly and Ravel's Ma mère l’Oye. These seven pieces evoke with refinement the happiness of a cloudless day the effervescence that reigns on Christmas Eve or the gentle syncopated rocking of a young Creole Selfiana. The Variations puériles sur une mélodie de CarlReinecke manifest a free whimsical vein whereas the Trois préludes sur des airs irlandais drink at the pure sources of folk music borrowing their thematic material from the famous collection Songs of Old Ireland which Stanford had brought out in 1882. Published for the first time from a handwritten score the Variations sur un thème de Charles Levadé end with a wild quadrille that takes the heroes of the celebration to the nearest inn. The Pièce en forme d’aria et Bergerie from 1896 finely polished takes up with the ambiance of the pastorale popular in the 17th century.