SKU: HL.14003415
ISBN 9781846097355. UPC: 884088433659. 9.0x12.0x0.204 inches. English.
More than forty favourite Christmas songs and carols for the beginning pianist, arranged by Carol Barratt. Many of the songs include both the English and American versions of the traditional carols. Carols include lyrics and chord symbols and are ideal for use alongside The Classic Piano Course books 1 and 2.
SKU: M7.ART-42140
ISBN 9783866421400. German.
Die in 'Traumhafte Klaviermusik' enthaltenen 22 mittelleichten bis mittelschweren Klavierstücke erzählen kurze Geschichten aus dem Leben, vermitteln Stimmungen von heiter bis bewölkt und verweben bekannte und neue Klangassoziationen mit spannenden Harmonien, Rhythmen und Motiven. Sie eignen sich sehr gut, um das expressive Spielen zu entwickeln. Ziel ist es, die Stimmung des Stückes durch leichte Veränderungen des Anschlags, der Dynamik und des Tempos gefühlvoll und ausdrucksstark wiederzugeben. Zu den Melodien der rechten Hand spielt die linke Hand wiederkehrende Begleitmuster, welche oftmals in traditioneller und moderner Klavierliteratur zu finden sind und so dem Lernenden eine gute technische Grundlage vermitteln. Die rechte Hand ist betonter und bewegter und übernimmt die Rolle des Erzählers. Stilelemente aus der klassischen und modernen Musik, aus Filmmusik und romantischen Pop-Balladen sind kunstvoll verwoben, um neue Klangerlebnisse zu schaffen. Ton- und Taktarten sind so gewählt, dass die Stücke leicht zu erlernen sind und der Spieler sich auf die Interpretation der Musik, sowie auf ein flüssiges und unabhängiges Spielen beider Hände konzentrieren kann. Das spielerische Erlernen von schnellen Läufen, Synkopen und Sprüngen wird zudem moderat gefördert. Die Fingersätze sind sorgfältig gesetzt, um ein flüssiges und müheloses Legatospiel zu ermöglichen. Der Einsatz des Haltepedals wird bei allen Stücken empfohlen, jedoch klingen die Kompositionen durch das Legato auch ohne diesen vollständig. Viel Freude beim Träumen!
SKU: HL.49046935
ISBN 9781705169353. UPC: 842819116837. 9.25x12.0x0.5 inches.
SEVEN DAYS is a cycle for solo piano in 21 movements, most lasting between three and seven minutes, distributed in the form of a custom app produced by the 92Y and released during their Fall 2021 season. Using the app on their phones, listeners are asked to listen to three movements a day according to an approximate schedule - one movement in the morning, one in the afternoon, and another sometime in the evening - for seven days. The music is performed by Pedja Muzijevic and presented alongside paintings by Gloria Maximo. (Please visit 92Y.org for information on how to download the Seven Days app.) The work is designed as a listening experience that tunes us into the passing of time, connecting us both to the present moment as well as the cycle of the week. The experience invites music to inhabit and structure our everyday - to find us where we are in the world. The morning-afternoonevening schedule is meant to focus participants on the dawn-to-dusk cycle as well as to create a communal listening ritual. It is also an experiment in large-scale form, designed to draw attention to musical material developing across a week-long expanse, interspersed with vast silences. SEVEN DAYS was shaped by a year spent in relative isolation due to the pandemic. While it is a work composed during a time of quarantine, it will be experienced first by an audience in the process of returning to a more normal world. In that sense, it is an artwork born out of a year of relatively cloistered existence that seeks to preserve aspects of that experience as we move forward. The piece was also inspired by the work of Morton Feldman and Chantal Akerman, whose large-scale works consider time, process, and stillness. Their art struck me with a fresh relevance during the silent stretches of the pandemic year 2020. It was also a year in which writings about time, penned by contemplatives like Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton, held new weight. All of this in turnresonated with Gloria Maximo's profound paintings, which I've long admired. SEVEN DAYS is an artwork we are invited to do - using music to point our attention to the present moment, the everyday, and the seemingly mundane. It is a piece listeners are also asked to live within as it unfolds over a week rather than to witness it live. The key players here are time and the listener's own surroundings, starring together alongside music and art in a wordless drama. -Gregory Spears.
SKU: PR.140401310
ISBN 9781491134153. UPC: 680160684250. 9 x 12 inches. Key: G major.
NORA’S DANCE is a jazz-influenced rag from 1921, and among the only surviving compositions by Nora Douglas Holt. A charming and exciting work rejuvenated by Lara Downes’ 2021 recording for the Rising Sun label, the rag is both a fun 2 minutes for pianists and audiences, and also a fascinating time capsule. Composed several years after Scott Joplin’s death, and several years before the Charleston pervaded popular music, NORA’S DANCE blossoms with the energy and jazz harmony starting to emerge as The Roaring 20’s, using ragtime and stride as the seed for pianistic style.My own life in music has been driven by a quest to find strong female role models, trails to follow, shoulders to stand on. In Nora Douglas Holt, I find an inspiring example of creativity, independence, and resilience – with a dash of troublemaking. She was a free spirit, a force of nature, and she lived a fascinating and eventful life on her own terms. She reinvented herself through five marriages and at least as many careers. From her beginnings at the piano at age four, she explored many avenues of musical expression – performing, composing, music journalism, broadcasting, teaching – all with inventiveness, style, and zeal.She made the most of the Roaring ’20s, as an artist, socialite, jetsetter, muse, and patroness of the Harlem Renaissance. In 1921 she started an independent arts journal called “Music and Poetry,†where the charming piano solo Nora’s Dance was first published. I think the piece captures beautifully, in a little under 2 minutes, the energy and excitement of those heady years.In 1926, Nora left New York to travel the world, performing in nightclubs throughout Europe and Asia. She put her belongings in storage before she left, and when she came back she discovered that many of her things had been stolen, including more than 200 of her musical compositions. She never composed again.When the Depression hit, she moved out to Los Angeles, where she studied music education at USC, taught music in the LA public schools, and opened her own beauty salon. She returned to New York in the ’40s and worked as a music critic for several major newspapers, then launched yet another career, this time in broadcasting. Her popular radio concert series “Nora Holt’s Concert Showcase†broadcast to New York’s classical music audience, with a focus on Black composers and performers.Ahead of her time, larger than life, full of ideas…. I am so pleased to introduce you to the feisty and free spirited Nora Douglas Holt!
SKU: BR.BG-925
ISBN 9790004131824. 9 x 12 inches.
When the mathematically oriented compositional method started losing favour, composers began turning again more strongly to the piano, from the midsixties on, and discovered, as it were, the new poetry of the instrument through effects obtained with harmonics and preparation. For this reason, only a few pieces dating from before 1965 have been selected. Most of the following pieces were composed especially for this anthology. They are arranged in order of increasing difficulty. While the first volume is intended more for the amateur, the second volume presupposes a greater degree of skill. Due to the great number of composers, it was impossible even to pretend to offer a representative cross-section of contemporary German piano music. Several composers had to be excluded because they wrote no notable works for piano. Another criterion influencing the selection of pieces was the effort to present the most varies styles of piano writing possible. Moreover, special notice has been given to the works which display originality, even though their authors are not among the most widely known and marketable musicians of the day.
SKU: BR.BG-922
ISBN 9790004140192. 9 x 12 inches.
SKU: HL.349166
ISBN 9781705103265. UPC: 840126932133. 9.0x12.0x0.092 inches.
I attended a birthday party for my friend, the writer Gail Godwin, at the home of another friend, Frances Halsband. Frances played for me the birdsong of a Wilson's Warbler, a new species to me. Attracted by this sound I proceeded to compose a set of pieces called Mimesis, the individual movements of which are related to creatures of nature. The first movement, Warblemusic, is written for Frances Halsband, remembering Robert Kliment; Owls is for Gail Godwin, remembering Robert Starer; Snail and Parakeet, remembering Richard W. Zingler (my grandfather, who had a parakeet); and Frog Chorus, remembering John Thompson's First Grad Book out of which I studied at age seven, its Frog's Chorus being my favorite selection. -Richard Wilson.
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