SKU: HL.14003446

ISBN 9780711954489. 9.0x12.0x0.088 inches. English.

Repertoire pieces for the young beginner, easy tunes compiled by Carol Barratt. Contents: Double Basses * Gigue * I Got Shoes * Minuet in C * Moderato * Naomi's Number * Ober the Hills and Far Away * Strolling Sam * Superfrog * The Bagpipers * The C Major Scale * The Fox Jumped Over the Person's Gate * The G Major Scale * The Juniper Tree * Twins * Variations On 'Ah Vous Dirai-Je, Maman?' (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star) * What You Will.

SKU: HL.49045098

ISBN 9790001159951. 9.0x12.0x0.215 inches.

In a film portrait of dancer, painter and sculptor Antje Tesche-Mentzen, I learned that in former times she was a proficient pianist. When she told me that she intended to begin playing again, I promised to compose her a cycle for her new beginning: 34 miniatures, some of them with a direct connection to her paintings and sculptures.The main part of Kosmos was composed in 2014, 400 years after Albrecht Durer created his copperplate engraving 'Melencolia I', in which a magic square appears. In a magicsquare, numbers are arranged in a grid so that their sum in each column, row, and the two diagonals is the same number. In the square I have chosen, the magic number is 34. Wilfried Hiller.

SKU: FJ.FJH2285

UPC: 241444369074. English.

A set of 108 color flash cards with topics in four categories: Pre-Reading (identification of piano key names, step direction, etc.), Notes on the Staff (identifying and naming notes), Music Symbols and Technique Reminders (dynamics, basic note values, corresponding lesson terms, etc.), and Rhythm (basic rhythm exercises). Each card is numbered so they can be kept in sequence with the corresponding Lesson and Technique Book pages in this series. All answers are printed on the reverse side of each individual flashcard. These cards can be used in lessons, or at home to drill and reinforce new concepts as they are introduced.

SKU: BT.EMBZ15000N

English-Hungarian.

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who was his student in earlier years and who, throughout his entire life, was one of its most authentic performers. Kocsis played from this notebook in the first public performance of Games in 1974. The gradually expanding series of piano pieces also appeared in print in the course of later decades however, he always used this collection - expanded over 32 years since by Kurtág - whenever he played pieces from Games in concert. Since the time of this 1974 concert, as Kocsis wrote later: ''I didn't know that the spiral notebook I received at thepremiere would later become, as it were, my permanent companion. That I would take it with me from Japan to Canada, from Australia to Iceland, travelling to the world's most prominent concert halls, surviving fire damage, flood, transport catastrophes, theft attempts, forced landings and so on, and that - well beyond the intention of its being 'copied with love' - it would include works and sketches for which this notebook would become the principal source.''The manuscript gives a glimpse into Kurtág's workshop from the viewpoint of both performers and musicologists. The former can understand more from Kurtág's handwriting about the composer's intentions than from the printed score. The musicologists, however, can study the historical origins of the works: some works can be found here in more than one version, others appear in a version different from the printed score.The publication is accompanied by a booklet and a CD supplement. The booklet contains Kocsis's own personal preface, as well as András Wilheim's essay providing information about the collection and the pieces contained therein. On the CD we hear 11 works performed by Kocsis, from a recording made in 1982 which has not previously been commercially issued.