A Kind of Miniatures / Panta Rhei. By Lutz Gerlach. For Piano. Solos. AMA Verlag. Contemporary. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book. Size 9x12. 144 pages. Published by AMA Verlag. ISBN 3899220102.

(Book/USB Flash Drive Play-Along Pack). By Various. For C Instruments. Real Book Play-Along. USB Flash Drive. 462 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Piano Transcriptions Piano

SKU: HL.285972

By Bill Evans. Jazz Transcriptions. Jazz. Softcover. 360 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.285972).

ISBN 9781540039538. UPC: 888680892463. 9.0x12.0x0.834 inches.

The ultimate collection for jazz keyboardists to learn 40 Evans classics with exact note-for-note transcriptions. Includes: Alice in Wonderland • Autumn Leaves • Bill's Hit Tune • Blue in Green • Days of Wine and Roses • Emily • Everything Happens to Me • Five • For Nenette • How About You? • How My Heart Sings • I Loves You, Porgy • It Could Happen to You • Just You, Just Me • Letter to Evan • My Foolish Heart • My Funny Valentine • My Romance • Nardis • Night and Day • One for Helen • Peace Piece • Peri's Scope • Quiet Now • Re: Person I Knew • Skating in Central Park • A Sleepin' Bee • Some Other Time • Stella by Starlight • Song from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless) • 34 Skidoo • Time Remembered • The Touch of Your Lips • Turn Out the Stars • Very Early • Waltz for Debby • What Kind of Fool Am I? • Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me) • You Go to My Head • You Must Believe in Spring • and more. Spiral bound.

Piano - Grade 7-8

SKU: ST.C463

Composed by Federico Ruiz. Edited by Clara Rodriguez. Piano and keyboard music. Collection. Clifton Edition #C463. Published by Clifton Edition (ST.C463).

ISBN 9790570814633.

This volume contains contrasting works by Federico Ruiz spanning quite a large and rich period of his compositional output that goes from his early Micro-Suite (1971), to lilting, sweet and rhythmic Venezuelan waltzes passing by the mysterious, intimate, and intense Nocturno (1994) plus pieces originally composed for film, and theatre. Real eclecticism in styles, moods and atmospheres that show Ruizâ??s talents and scope.

The Nocturno is a deep, intriguing, substantial piece presenting a satisfying length which moves from different paths of the mind and the heart written in an abstract, chromatic idiom, that does not dissociate itself from the Venezuelan waltz and the joropo. One could perhaps say that there is a deconstruction of the latter. For the interpretation, the composer has suggested to me that it is allowed to have some flexibility in the tempo. Ruiz kindly dedicated it to me, and I have had the pleasure of performing it in many concerts.

Although all highly expressive, the Three Venezuelan Waltzes present in this collection as well as the piece titled Aliseo, are works that are close to the colourful Venezuelan folk tradition. Federico Ruiz had given me two of them when we first met: â??Tu Presenciaâ?? (1981) and â??Eloísaâ?? (1989) and then I attended a performance of the play â??Office Number Oneâ?? by Miguel Otero Silva with a fantastic actor, Elba Escobar in the role of Carmen Rosa and, I just fell in love and was very moved by the incidental music that I later discovered, by reading the programme, had been written by Federico Ruiz. Later that evening, I called him and asked to please make a piano score of the composition, so I could have the desired piece in my hands. That is how â??Carmen Rosaâ? waltz (1987) came to exist in a piano version.

â??Eloisaâ?? is another Venezuelan waltz with more jazzy harmonies where precision in the rhythm and elegant playing is also essential, as it is in most of his pieces.

â??Tu Presenciaâ?? was dedicated to his mother, Margarita. It is written with the structure of the Venezuelan waltz, which consists of a nostalgic subject that leads to a faster, happier middle section where the typical graceful rhythm is given by the left-hand accompaniment figure of a dotted crotchet followed by a quaver and a crotchet.

The craft and magic found in the five movements of the Micro-Suite is based on a dodecaphonic row by Ernst Krenek. They remind us of the idiom of the Second Viennese School. These real miniatures seem to tell short stories. The â??Preludioâ?? is full of humour. I imagine dancing figures given by the jumps all over the keyboard and extreme dynamics; the phrases give the impression of a conversation with many questions and answers. The â??Invenciónâ?? is a kaleidoscopic piece where the hands mirror each other. The â??Passacagliaâ?? is the longest movement, at just over a minute where the prime motif is repeated three times on the bass line. For its construction Federico Ruiz uses as well the retrograde and the retrograde inversion of the twelve-tone series. It must be played expressively with dynamic contrasts between pianissimo and louder events. The â??Scherzoâ?? has repetitive motifs of a minor third in both hands and the â??Finalâ?? displays virtuosic passages for the pianist.

Aliseo was originally written for the film â??Aire libreâ? (1995), by Luis Armando Roche. It contains elements of diverse types of Venezuelan joropo. In the film, the character of Aliseo Carvallo is played by the composer himself who performs this piece on a harpsichord to welcome scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland one day at the turn of the 1800â??s, as a sample of the new music from the South American land. It presents the refinement of the late European classical era in fusion with Venezuelan folk music.

Piano - easy to intermediate

SKU: HL.49017545

Little Piano Pieces. Composed by Niels Vilhelm Gade. Edited by Hans Musch. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Piano. Softcover. Op. 36. 16 pages. Schott Music #ED8688. Published by Schott Music (HL.49017545).

ISBN 9790001149570. UPC: 840126938890. 9.0x12.0x0.075 inches.

Niels Gade (1817-1890), who was born in Copenhagen and spent most of his life there, went to Leipzig in 1843 for further training on a royal scholarship. There he became friends with Robert Schumann and found an eager patron in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. He is regarded as the most important figure of the Danish musical scene in the 19th century.His charming cycle 'Der Kinder Christabend' was published in 1859 with titles and texts in Danish. Although the first German edition was published in Leipzig in 1860, the English edition was not published in London until 1880. With his five mood pictures 'Weihnachts-Glocken' - 'Weihnachtsbaum-Einzugs-Marsch' - 'Ringeltanz der Knaben' - 'Tanz der kleinen Madchen' - 'Gute Nacht', Gade portrays the typical atmosphere of a middle-class Christmas evening in the 19th century.

Piano

SKU: M7.DUX-638

Arranged by Susi Weiss. This edition: Ring/Spiral binding. Sheet music. Performance book. 118 pages. Edition Dux Verlag #DUX 638. Published by Edition Dux Verlag (M7.DUX-638).

ISBN 9783868493238.