A selection of 20 pieces by great English composers arranged for piano solo. Includes 'Chanson De Matin' (Elgar) and 'Elegy From A Downland Suite' (Ireland).

Béla Bartók Complete Critical Edition Volume 38. Par BARTOK BELA. The third volume in the Complete Edition contains Bartók's works for piano solo composed between 1914 and 1920. Bartók's pianistic oeuvre from the years of World War I span a broadly varied spectrum; in addition to simple arrangements of folk music (15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sonatina) and original pieces for the concert podium (Suite, op. 14), we find Bartók's audaciously innovative Etudes (op. 18) inspired by Liszt, as well as Improvisations (op. 20), perhaps his most abstract and original folk music adaptations. The appendix of the volume reproduces movements originally intended for, but eventually discarded from, Suite and 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, as well as all original sources for the folk-inspired pieces. The introductory essays in English, Hungarian, and German not only explore the genesis and reception of the works more thoroughly than ever before, but also orient the reader in issues of notation and performance. The critical commentary presents all manuscript and print sources of the works in detail (including folk music sources), it documents the compositional processes and surveys the range of textual variants and problems. / Somfai, László / Répertoire / Piano

For Children Vol. 1. Bartók composed his first pedagogical collection For Children between 1908 and 1911. The first edition was issued between 1909 and 1911 in four volumes, comprising two of Hungarian and two of Slovak folk song arrangements. After moving to America, Bartók considered it important to produce new editions of his earlier works. Thus in autumn 1943, together with his new publisher Boosey

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning Musical Genre : All Styles Number of pages : 48 Piano students of Latin American heritage often do not relate to the folk tunes that most methods use because the majority of those melodies do not flow with the rhythm of the Spanish language. This method is based on melodies original to the Mexican culture. These children's songs flow more naturally with the language, and in accord with the Kodály method of music education, give a better foundation for teaching basic musical elements in a Spanish language culture. Coupled with constant work on sight-reading, this new method is a valuable tool for native Spanish speakers in learning to play the piano, and will serve as a helpful and interesting supplement to English speaking students. Muchas veces los alumnos de piano de herencia latina no se identifican con la música folklórica utilizado en los métodos de piano porque la mayoría de las melodías no fluyen con el ritmo del español. Este método está basado en melodías originales de la cultura mexicana. Estos cantos de niños fluyen con más naturalidad con el idioma, y de acuerdo al método Kodály de la educación musical, dan un mejor fundamento para la enseñanza de elementos musicales básicos en una cultura de habla hispana. Junto con un trabajo constante de la lectura a primera vista, este nuevo método es un instrumento valioso para que aquellos cuya lengua materna es el español aprendan a tocar el piano con más facilidad, y servirá como un suplemento benéfico e interesante a los estudiantes de habla inglesa.

This collection of jazzy arrangements features many well-known melodies. Contrasting styles are presented and typical jazz performance techniques will be employed when playing these pieces.Jean Kleeb is known for his highly sensitive and stylistically solid jazz Piano arrangements of familiar tunes and even classical works. This new selection is based on sharply contrasting pieces that he has transformed into appealing jazz numbers.Among them are El pueblo unido (Sergio Ortega) Jamaica farewell (traditional) Passacaglia Jazz (Jean Kleeb) an English and a German folk song and a new Brahms arrangement.

While living in Mexico Janet Johnson taught Piano and music education at the Mexican Baptist Seminary from 1984 until 2000. She soon found that her Mexican students did not relate to the folk tunes found in translatedPiano methods. Janet wrote this new method which uses many children’s and folk melodies original to the Mexican culture. Even though several of the melodies in the first level book are not currently used orwell-known these songs provide a better foundation for teaching basic musical elements in any Spanish language culture. In order to capture the flow of the music more completely the sequence of the introduction of someelements varies somewhat from traditional methods. For instance eighth notes are taught much earlier than is customary so that the songs can flow with more authenticity. This material has been used successfully as a teaching toolat the Mexican Baptist Seminary and throughout Mexico since 1994.

Par ORFF CARL. Orff-Schulwerk has been translated and adapted for use in many countries and there are editions in numerous languages, with a comprehensive range of supplementary material. Those teachers using the various English editions will find here a rich and exciting source of traditional folk songs, dance melodies and original material from other countries, which will enlarge and enrich the activites and experiences of their pupils./ Recueil / Piano

The New International Edition of Suzuki Piano School, Volume 1 includes French, German and Spanish translations as well as a newly recorded CD performed by internationally renowned recording artist Seizo Azuma. Now the book and CD can be purchased together or separately. While the music selections in Volume 1 remain the same as the earlier edition, the spacious new engraving with minimal editing generally keeps only one piece per page. Instruction material in many pieces from Volume 1 has been removed in lieu of right-hand studies at the top of the page and left-hand studies at the bottom. Tempo markings are now included on many pieces. Titles: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Variations (Shinichi Suzuki) * Lightly Row (German Folk Song) * The Honeybee (Bohemian Folk Song) * Cuckoo (German Folk Song) * Lightly Row (German Folk Song) * French Children's Song (French Folk Song) * London Bridge (English Folk Song) * Mary Had a Little Lamb (American Nursery Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * Au Clair de la Lune (J. B. Lully) * Long, Long Ago (T. H. Bayly) * Little Playmates (F. X. Chwatal) * Chant Arabe (Anonymous) * Allegretto 1 (C. Czerny) * Goodbye to Winter (Folk Song) * Allegretto 2 (C. Czerny) * Christmas-Day Secrets (T. Dutton) * Allegro (S. Suzuki) * Musette (Anonymous).

48 Original Piano Pieces-With Weber's Invitation to the Dance Op. 65 the waltz developed into a great virtuoso form.This art dance was brought to perfection via Schubert and Chopin to Brahms's 'Love Song Waltzes'. Composers such as Smetana Tchaikovsky Dvorak or Grieg added elements from the folk music of their home countries to their waltzes. As a result the waltz may appear as an English Waltz American Boston Polish mazurka or French valse musette. Debussy and Martinu turned it into a mechanical puppet dance Ligeti used its form for his bold experiments while Joplin or Eduard Pütz incorporated it in jazzmusic.This collection provides a musical history of the waltz: sturdy and high-spirited dreamy and melancholic slow and virtuosic mechanical and ironic – waltzes for every day!

The Banks of Green Willow begins in pastorale mode with the title tune established in the Strings with solo clarinet. The work builds to quite a passionate climax before re-establishing the pastorale mood of the opening. The song on which the story is based has a tragic death at its centre which is reflected in the score.English composer and folksong collector George Butterworth who lived at the turn of the last century and lost his life in the First World War is known for his settings of selections of A E Housman’s A Shropshire Lad and for an Orchestral rhapsody he composed on the same theme. As a Recorder of folksongs he was successful in noting more than threehundred mainly from Sussex. One of them The Banks of Green Willow is the basis for the idyll for Orchestra that has been adapted here for Piano.