SKU: FJ.FJH2314

ISBN 9781619282391. UPC: 241444394656. English.

Playing Piano with Three Chords is an introduction to basic chord playing and hands-together playing written for the late elementary pianist. This collection features seasonal favorites that are harmonized with no more than three chords in easy key signatures. Titles include Snow Lay On the Ground; O Christmas Tree; Jingle Bells; Deck the Halls; Up On the Housetop; Silent Night; and eight others. A diagram of the basic chord progression is shown in the root position and then in the inversions used in the arrangement. Lyrics included.

SKU: BT.MUSWMR000231

ISBN 9780711956926. English.

A revised edition of the best-selling piano course by John Thompson. Part 3 of this easy and fun approach to learning the piano begins by showing the importance of playing and listening to music phrase by phrase rather than note by note. Examples of touch follow in proper sequence.

In celebration of 120 years of Willis Music, the beloved characters in John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course Parts One - Four have been redrawn. The content remains the same, so, like countless others before them, today's young students can continue to benefit from the Easiest Courses's clear and simple approach.

SKU: FJ.FJH2321

ISBN 9781619282612. UPC: 241444402566. English.

This is Book 4 of Kevin's latest series of fresh-sounding, exciting pieces. Most titles are four pages. There is the Nocturne romantique in 5/8 meter, a lazy blues piece titled Over Easy, a tarantella called Spiderdance and four others. All are pupil savers and will keep students practicing and performing!

SKU: M7.DUX-961

ISBN 9783868493344.

Songs - found and written on the road. World music in the style of the globe-touring band Quadro Nuevo. Their bags full of tunes, picked up here and there, yesterday and today. In addition to original compositions such as 'Mocca Swing', 'Giovanni Tranquillo' and 'Ikarus Dream', there are classics like 'Parole Parole', 'Miserlou', 'Für mich soll's rote Rosen regnen' ('Let it rain red roses for me') and many others. Newly arranged for piano, varying in their level from easy to moderately difficult.

SKU: HL.50600649

ISBN 9790080150009. UPC: 888680895518. 10.25x13.5x0.622 inches. Hungarian, English. Gyorgy Kurtag.

In the autumn of 1974 György Kurtág began to copy selected pieces from the series Games into a music notebook for Zoltán Kocsis who had been his student in earlier years and who, even today, is 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, since then he has used this collection - expanded over 32 years since by Kurtág - whenever he plays pieces from Games in concert. Since the time of this 1974 concert, as he writes: 'I didn't know that the spiral notebook I received at the premiere 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.