Piano - Grade 4

SKU: FA.MFRO001P

Composed by Claude Debussy and Robert Orledge. Rediscoverd Debussy. Classical : Impressionistic. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFRO001P. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFRO001P).

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Over the years 1908-16, Debussy had produced a viable scenario for Usher on his third attempt. Butwhen he came to making a complete draft of the music, he seems to have lost interest during Roderick Usher's long monologue, even though he was setting his own text. As in No-ja-li he jumped to the next passage that interested him, in this case the exciting final melodrama and the collapse of the Usher house itself. In the process of completing the missing half of the score, I discovered that by reusing Debussy's material for similar psychological situations across the opera, and by metamorphosing existing ideas (as Debussy does with Melisande's theme in his opera Pelleas et Melisande), the only things I really needed to add were linking material and any passages where fast music was required. So the 'nightmare scherzo', and Lady Madeline's escape from her coffin and her final bloody revenge on her brother are all mine, but most of the rest is existing Debussy in changing contexts (in which the Russian technique of 'changing backgrounds', both harmonic and textural, proved extremely useful, as it did to Debussy in his Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune). Eventually, both my completed ballet No-ja-li and the House of Usher were successfully premiered in 2006 and the latter soon began to find its way into the established repertoire in Europe and the US. To further support this, I transcribed some of the highlights of Debussy's score as A Night in the House of Usher for organ, and subsequently piano--with a focus on Scene 2 and the final, horrific and maca-bre melodrama. This climaxes in the double deaths of Roderick Usher and his Sister Madeline, together with the disintegration of the ill-fated House of Usher into the stagnant lake-all beneath a blood-red moon.In this form it was first performed by Ian Buckle in the Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds in 2010.

Editions, Transcriptions and Arrangements for Piano Solo. By Alexander Scriabine; Anatoli Liadov; Camille Saint-Saens; Christophe Von Gluck; Franz Liszt; Frederic Chopin; Johann Sebastian Bach; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Richard Strauss; Sergei Rachmaninoff; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Edited by Alexander Siloti. Text: Dr. Charles Barber. Solo piano. For Piano Solo. Soft Cover. 288 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.

By Carol Barratt. For Piano. Folk, Blues, Classical. 64 pages. Published by Music Sales

By Franz Liszt. Edited by Maurice Hinson. For Piano. Piano Collection. Masterwork. Level: Intermediate / Early Advanced (grade 4/5/6/6+). Book. 64 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

(33 Pieces by 23 Composers). By Various. BH Piano. Softcover. 224 pages. Boosey and Hawkes #M051246601. Published by Boosey and Hawkes

Piano

SKU: FG.55011-481-4

Sonata for Piano op. 16. Composed by Einari Marvia. Fennica Gehrman #55011-481-4. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-481-4).

ISBN 9790550114814.

Einari Marvia (1915-1997) was a Finnish composer, music publisher and musicologist. He studied composition with Erkki Melartin, Leevi Madetoja and Selim Palmgren. His style is harmonically rich and original. The influence of Brahms is particularly apparent in the keyboard idiom, which is quite dense at times and very demanding for the left hand. The legacy of European late Romanticism is also present in the rapidly shifting harmonies. The sonority of the texture, meanwhile, owes something to the Russian piano school. Piano Sonata Op. 16 (1945) is published now for the first time - and directly as an Urtext edition. Pianist DMus Risto-Matti Marin has delved into the deep end of the manuscript world; as a result of the research, a notable piano work now gets an edition it deserves.

(Complete Piano Sonatas, Volume 1). By Alexandr Skrjabin. Edited by Christoph Flamm. For piano. This edition: Urtext edition. Performance score, Anthology (paperbound). Text language: German, English. 123 pages. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

By Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915). Edited by Valentina Rubcova. For Piano (Piano). Henle Music Folios. Softcover. 40 pages. G. Henle #HN1109. Published by G. Henle