Piano Solo Piano

SKU: HL.50399750

Easy Piano Solo. Composed by Various. Edited by Marthe Morhange-Motchane. Piano Collection. Classical. 32 pages. Editions Salabert #SEAS15643. Published by Editions Salabert (HL.50399750).

UPC: 073999319644. 10.75x7.25x0.095 inches.

Very young pianists are within easy reach of the little treasures in this volume by beloved classic composers. Each piece is on a small scale, and the author has added descriptive titles to stimulate the young imagination. Contents: Air on G-A-B (Rousseau) * Chorale * Country Dance (Beethoven) * Ecossaise No. 1 * Festival (Haydn) * First Steps (Mozart) * In Merry Mood (Haydn) * Landler (Haydn) * Le Carillon (Haydn) * Little Russian Dance (Beethoven) * Menuetto (Mozart) * Peasant Dance (Beethoven) * Promenade (Beethoven) * Rigaudon (Daquin) * Rigaudon (Rameau) * Rustic Dance (Haydn) * Theme (Mozart) * Theme (Haydn) * Theme by Purcell.

By David Karp. For Piano. Composers In Focus. These pieces for students of all ages are easy to learn, fun to practice, and exciting to perform. Contents include: Song of Spring; Gypsy Dance; Morning Prayer; A Mysterious Moment; Petite Ballade; Festival in Granada; Tropical Paradise; Walk and Talk Rag; Macy's Tune; Circus Frolics. Level: Late Elementary/Early Intermediate. Book. Published by The FJH Music Company, Inc

(14 Piano Solos). By John W. Schaum. For Piano. Piano Collection. Festival of Favorites. Level: Elementary. Book. 36 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

(Thirty Pieces in Saibei Folk Style). Edited by Alton Chan. Huang, An-Lun. For Piano. Piano Collection. Masterwork. Level: Intermediate. Book. 56 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Arranged by Renee And David Karp. For Piano. The FJH Piano Teaching Library. Sacred. Level: Elementary/Late Elementary. Collection. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc.

By Kevin Olson. For Piano. Composers In Focus. Includes: Jazz Prelude, with its walking bass line; Spanish Serenade with the spirit and passion of the flamenco dances; and Medieval Festival written in the lydian mode. Also includes: Ghostdance; Coming Home. Level: Early Intermediate/Intermediate. Book. Published by The FJH Music Company, Inc.

Nine pieces for left hand or right hand. Composed by Joyce Grill. Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Belwin Studio Series. Elementary level piece for the SCJM (Specially Capable Junior Musician) 1 Hand event with the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) Festivals Bulletin 2008-2009-2010. Book. 12 pages. Belwin Music #00-EL03775. Published by Belwin Music

Lynn Freeman Olson Signature Collection - Volume 2 (Exceptional Piano Solos for Developing Pianists). By Lynn Freeman Olson. Edited by Elizabeth Gutierrez. For solo piano. With historical recordings by the composer. Late Elementary to Early Intermediate. Book and CD. Standard notation. Published by Carl Fischer

by Manfred Schmitz. For Piano. solos. AMA Verlag. Contemporary. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book. Size 9x12. 216 pages. Published by AMA Verlag.

Orchestra Piano

SKU: PR.11641861SP

Composed by William Kraft. Part. 35 pages. Duration 21 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #116-41861SP. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11641861SP).

UPC: 680160685202.

What?! - my composer colleagues said - A concerto for the piano? It's a 19th century instrument! Admittedly we are in an age when originally created timbres and/or musico-technological formulations are often the modus operandi of a piece. Actually, this Concerto began about two years ago when, during one of my creative jogs, the sound of the uppermost register of the piano mingled with wind chimes penetrated my inner ear. The challenge and fascination of exploring and developing this idea into an orchestral situation determined that some day soon I would be writing a work for piano and orchestra. So it was a very happy coincidence when Mona Golabek phoned to tell me she would like discuss the Ford Foundation commission. After covering areas of aesthetics and compositional styles, we found that we had a good working rapport, and she asked if I would accept the commission. The answer was obvious. Then began the intensive thought process on the stylistic essence and organization of the work. Along with this went a renewed study of idiomatic writing for the piano, of the kind Stravinsky undertook with the violin when he began his Violin Concerto. By a stroke of great fortune, the day in February 1972 that I received official notice from the Ford Foundation of the commission, I also received a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation informing me I had been awarded my second fellowship. With the good graces of Zubin Mehta and Ernest Fleischmann, masters of my destiny as a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, I was relieved of my orchestral duties during the Hollywood Bowl season. Thus I was able to go to Europe to work and to view the latest trends in music concentrating in London (the current musical melting pot and showcase par excellence), Oslo, Norway, for the Festival of Scandinavian Music called Nordic Days, and Warsaw, Poland, for its prestigious Autumn Festival. Over half the Concerto was completed in that summer and most of the rest during the 72-73 season with the final touches put on during a month as Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. So much for the external and environmental influences, except perhaps to mention the birds of Sussex in the first movement, the bells of Arhus (Denmark) in the second movement and the bells of Bellagio at the end of the Concerto. Primary in the conception was the personality of Miss Golabek: she is a wonderfully vital and dynamic person and a real virtuoso. Therefore, the soloist in the Concerto is truly the protagonist; it is she (for once we can do away with the generic he) who unfolds the character and intent of the piece. The first section is constructed in the manner of a recitative - completely unmeasured - with letters and numbers by which the conductor signals the orchestra for its participation. This allows the soloist the freedom to interpret the patterns and control the flow and development of the music. The Concerto is actually in one continuous movement but with three large divisions of sufficiently contrasting character to be called movements in themselves. The first 'movement' is based on a few timbral elements: 1) a cluster of very low pitches which at the beginning are practically inaudibly depressed, and sustained silently by the sostenuto pedal, which causes sympathetic vibrating pitches to ring when strong notes are struck; 2) a single powerful note indicated by a black note-head with a line through it indicating the strongest possible sforzando; 3) short figures of various colors sometimes ominous, sometimes as splashes of light or as elements of transition; 4) trills and tremolos which are the actual controlling organic thread starting as single axial tremolos and gradually expanding to trills of increasingly larger and more powerful scope. The 'movement' begins in quiescent repose but unceasingly grows in energy and tension as the stretching of a string or rubber band. When it can no longer be restrained, it bursts into the next section. The second 'movement,' propelled by the released tension, is a brilliant virtuosic display, which begins with a long solo of wispy percussion, later joined in duet with the piano. Not to be ignored, the orchestra takes over shooting the material throughout all its sections like a small agile bird deftly maneuvering through nothing but air, while the piano counterposes moments of lyricism. The orchestra reaches a climax, thrusting us into the third 'movement' which begins with a cadenza-like section for the piano. This moves gently into an expressive section (expressive is not a negative term to me) in which duets are formed with various instruments. There are fleeting glimpses of remembrances past, as a fragmented recapitulation. One glimpse is hazily expressed by strings and percussion in a moment of simultaneous contrasting levels of activity, a technique of which I have been fond and have utilized in various fixed-free relationships, particularly in my Percussion Concerto, Contextures and Games: Collage No. 1. The second half of the third 'movement; is a large coda - akin to those in Beethoven - which brings about another display of virtuosity, this time gutsy and driving, raising the Concerto to a final climax, the soloist completing the fragmented recapitulation concept as well as the work with the single-note sforzando and low cluster from the very opening of the first movement.

Piano

SKU: BR.EB-9082

Composed by Jorg Birkenkotter. Solo instruments; Softcover. Edition Breitkopf.

World premiere: Seoul (Pan Music Festival), October 8, 1991

Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Score. Composed 1991. 22 pages. Duration 12'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9082. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9082).

ISBN 9790004179567. 11.5 x 16.5 inches.

Jorg Birkenkotter im Gesprach mit Carolin Naujocks (DeutschlandRadio Berlin, Juli 1994) zum Klavierstuck Schwebung und Strenge: Das Stuck ist ziemlich gefahrlich ..., wenn man es nicht in einem ganz guten Raum hort, mit einer Akustik, in der man wirklich diese Nachhallsachen alle hort, dann kann man ganz schnell sagen, dass ist so traditionelle Wiener Schule-Musik ... Und wenn man dahinter hort, dann hort man eben schon, dass all diese traditionellen Klavier-Figurationen, die so an der Oberflache da sind, standig diese Nachhall-Welt auslosen. Und die ist dann eben doch eine andere, die dahinter ist. Aber es ist eben beides und es halt sich ... in Schach irgendwie. Zumindest am Anfang hort man ganz aufmerksam zu ... sonst hort man nur die virtuose Oberflache. ... Ich wollte nur auf den Tasten spielen: Also ganz normales, konventionelles Klavierspiel, das ist das eine. Und dann, was das auslost bzw. wo das aufgefangen wird ..., da fangt die Klangspielerei an, die vom traditionellen Klavierspiel wegfuhrt. Bezug zur Tradition ist riskant. Aber das macht ja auch nichts. Mir wurde es naturlich etwas ausmachen, wenn das umkippt zur falschen Seite, wenn es doch eben nicht die Ohren auf eine neue Art von Wahrnehmung richtet, was ich schon mochte. Ich will nur nicht die neue Wahrnehmung in irgend einer Wuste suchen, die es, glaube ich, auch gar nicht mehr gibt ... Ich glaube nicht, dass das ein vermittelnder Ansatz ist: Es geht von bestimmten Dingen aus und versucht dann, woanders hin zu kommen. Was soll ich vermitteln: Tradition und Avantgarde? Es ist eine ganz komische Sache: Ich habe Lust, ganz abseits von diesen Sachen etwas auszuprobieren, Sachen zu machen, die ich noch gar nicht gemacht habe, dass diese Sachen bis zu einem gewissen Grad ausgereizt sind. Das ist jetzt alles Spekulation: Da muss ich selbst abwarten, was mit mir passiert. CDs: Schwebung und Strenge Hwa-Kyung Yim (piano) CD col legno WWE 20055 Thomas Oesterdiekhoff (percussion), Hwa-Kyung Yim (piano) CD Cavalli Records CCD 247 Bibliography: Birkenkotter , Jorg: Schwebung und Strenge fur Klavier, in: Noten und Notizen, Mitteilungen der Hannoverschen Gesellschaft fur Neue Musik, Nr. 27 (Juli 2000), pp. 4-11.

World premiere: Seoul (Pan Music Festival), October 8, 1991.

Composer Showcase Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Intermediate Level. By Matthew Edwards. Educational Piano Library. Size 9x12 inches. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.