SKU: HL.14028848

ISBN 9780711963481. 8.25x11.75x0.046 inches.

Written by Robert Saxton in 1988 for piano, left hand only. 'The Chacony was commissioned by the Aldeburgh Festival and first performed there in 1988 by the American pianist Leon Fleisher. In rising to the challenge of writing for left hand alone, Saxton has reduced the basic material (the underlying ground bass theme) to the simplest element: a whole tone scale. Thus, the opening section gradually reveals, via a clear indication that D major is the central tonality of the work, the scale through a series of hesitant gestures, the main body of the piece bursting out of the tensions created in the intervals of the scale, especially the tritone (which plays an important part in the melodic version throughout). As with, say, the finest variation sets or grounds of a composer like Byrd, the considerable virtuosity of the keyboard writing always stems from the musical or intellectual stimulus, and is never mere empty show. This is a virtuosic response to the challenge of the imposed limitations, beautifully written for piano and culminating in a final section in which D is once more resoundingly affirmed as the centre of the work, though, with equal resonance, the tritone has the last word. Duration c. 6mins.

SKU: YM.GTP01100247

ISBN 9784636101744. 8.5 x 12 inches.

The music rhythm game DEEMO II was released simultaneously around the world on January 2022, and in February, the piano arrangement CD album DEEMO II Piano Collection was released. Now comes the CD's complete matching score collection! Continuing from the previous work, the arrangements are done by Tomoko Asaka, a pianist and composer who is also active as the piano YouTuber Asapi. In addition to the magnificent song Away from the rain arranged for piano duet (1 piano 4 hands), you can also experience the excitement of the beautiful images and music with your own piano performance! Check out more DEEMO sheet music in the same series!

SKU: BT.MUSWMR101035

ISBN 9781847726629. English.

This easy and fun approach to learning the Piano has a modern look with clear and straight-forward layouts plus amusing new characters who help emphasise the information being taught. As new notes are introduced, the pupil is given the opportunity to play examples in which only one hand is required.
Each book of the course contains its own writing exercises, sightreading drills, review work and later, technical studies. Accompaniments for teacher or parent are supplied with most of the examples.
The accompanying online audio is a wonderful tool for enhancing this method with highly acclaimed midi-orchestrated backingtracks. Practice becomes so much fun!
Each track is split to enable the pupil to hear both Piano part and accompaniment if the balance is centred, the accompaniment without Piano if the balance is to the left, and the Piano part alone if the balance is all the way to the right. There are also two tempos for each song, allowing slower practice while it's needed - an ideal accompaniment for learning!