SKU: HL.302741
ISBN 9781540065261. UPC: 888680967468. 9.0x12.0x0.182 inches.
Introducing the E-Z way to reading music notes, chords, and learning musical terms! Keyboards are among the most versatile of all musical instruments, and many electronic keyboards today have special automatic features and automatic rhythms. These features make making music even more fun and versatile! If you've always wanted to learn how to play the keyboard, this book is your first step to success! Beginnings Book A provides easy-to-understand instructions with popular songs and favorite tunes so you can start playing music you know and love while learning to play! In practically no time, you'll be performing some of your favorite standards, including: Aura Lee • Danny Boy • He's Got the Whole World in His Hands • Kumbaya • Lullaby (Cradle Song) • On Top of Old Smoky • Simple Gifts • When the Saints Go Marching In • Yankee Doodle • and more. This book also includes access to online recordings of demonstration and backing tracks, so you can listen to the demos to hear how the piece should sound, then play along with the backing tracks to sound like a pro! Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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For organs, pianos, and electronic keyboards. E-Z Play Today is the shortest distance between beginning music and playing fun. Now there are more than 300 reasons why you should play E-Z Play Today. * World's largest series of music folios * Full-size books - large 9 x 12 format features easy-to-read, easy-to-play music * Accurate arrangements... simple enough for the beginner, but accurate chords and melody lines are maintained * Eye-catching, full-color covers * Lyrics... most arrangements include words and music * Most up-to-date registrations - books in the series contain a general registration guide, as well as individual song rhythm suggestions * Guitar Chord Chart - all songs in the series can also be played on guitar.
SKU: MN.12-128
UPC: 688670121289.
The three movements that make up Nocturnes, Book I are programmatic pieces that take as their points of departure a painting, the rhythms of a great city, and a poem. 1. The Starry Night is a written down improvisation based on Vincent van Goghs famous picture of the same name. The tonal material is a quite literal transformation of the visual elements of the painting: the melismatic cadenzas mirror van Goghs swirling starlight, and the powerful chords were suggested by the sinister trees that shoot upward to puncture the skys patterns. 2. Stovers Rag is a product of the ragtime revival of the early 1970s, when many composers tried their hand at writing concert rags. The New York night, which was not without its sinister element in those days, is expressed in an updating of the classic ragtime format. The piece looks backward as well, with the old French Baroque basse de trompette making an appearance in the trio section. 3. The Song of Shadows taps the nostalgic mood typical of the poetry of Walter de la Mare. The poem of the same name pictures a lone musician on a winter night, an dog sleeping before a sinking fire, and, at the end, the spirits that are summoned by music. The opening melody, played on an 8 flute with tremulant, suggests the blues-tinged sound of an alto saxophone, and throughout the movement the organs capacity for sustained tone is used to suggest and atmosphere of dreamy timelessness. The pieces were written in 1971 and first performed on July 2, 1972 at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, with the composer at the console.
SKU: SU.80101318
These three fantasies for organ are solo versions of the three movements of Frahm's Organ Concerto No. 1 (#80101370). As solo pieces they can be played as separate works (or a three-movement suite) and also form nos. 2-5 in Frahm's cycle of 10 organ solo fantasies. They are expressive pieces of varied character that are highly effective even on a small instrument; mostly for manuals only (or even with only pull-down pedals). Instrumentation: Organ. Duration: 15' Composed: 2009/12 Published by: Zimbel Press.
SKU: SU.80101350
A five movement work inspired by the writings of John Steinbeck. It is suitable in its entirety as a concert work, or the individual movements may be played on their own for church services. Each movement has both a poetic title from Steinbeck's writings and a musical title (Praembolo, Divertimento, Miserere, Musica de los Paisanos, and Toccata). Instrumentation: Organ. Composed: 2013 Published by: Zimbel Press.
SKU: SU.80101351
This piece is modeled on the North German baroque praeludium (particularly as exemplified by Buxtehude), though re-imagined with Ashdown's contemporary American neo-romantic language. The music is in four sections, played without pause: Jubilaum, Chaconne, Interludium, and Gigue. Instrumentation: Organ. Composed: 2014 Published by: Zimbel Press.
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