Piano

SKU: HL.14010915

Le Tombeau De Claude Debussy. Composed by Manuel de Falla. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Composed 2002. 4 pages. Chester Music #CH02086. Published by Chester Music (HL.14010915).

ISBN 9780711960220. 8.25x11.75x0.035 inches.

In 1920, a Parisian magazine asked several leading composers to compose musical tributes to the famous French musician Claude Debussy, who had died in 1918. The great Spanish composer Manuel De Falla (1876-1946) wasone of them: having met Debussy in Paris, he had been heavily influenced by the French impressionists. His Homenaje (Homage) was his only work for solo Guitar, although it was arranged by the composer for soloPiano almost immediately. It is widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of early 20th century music - at only three minutes in length, it is often said it has twenty minutes' worth of music contained within it.

Piano. Composed by Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Edited by Ernst-Guenter Heinemann. Arranged by Hans-Martin Theopold. Sheet music. Henle Music Folios. Classical. Single sheet. G. Henle #HN1087. Published by G. Henle

Piano - advanced

SKU: BT.LCM9790570121533

Exam Material. Book Only. 112 pages. London College Music #LCM9790570121533. Published by London College Music (BT.LCM9790570121533).

English.

These Piano Anthologies contain pieces which have been carefully selected from previous piano exam lists dating from 1988 to 2006. All of the pieces in these volumes have proved popular with piano students, teachers and listeners, and we are pleased to be able to make them available again in these new collections. Pieces from these anthologies may be chosen as List B and C pieces, allowing students to increase their choice of repertoire beyond the already extensive selection offered in the LCM piano repertoire lists for grade, recital grade and leisure play options. It is hoped that these anthologies will also be of interest to piano students generally. The range of styles broadlycovers the late 18th century to the present. Some familiar pieces are present in these volumes, but they include pieces additionally from composers who have had a distinguished career in the role of teacher or student at LCM. Amongst the former are William Lloyd Webber and Martyn Williams, and amongst the latter are Nicholas Grace and John Guilfoyle, who now have eminent academic and professional musical careers.

Composed by Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre. Edited by Carl Simpson. For Piano. Book; Masterworks; Piano Collection. Dover Edition. 20th Century; Masterwork. Advanced; Early Advanced; Intermediate; Late Intermediate. Published by Dover Publications

Composed by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732- 1809), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Scott Joplin (1868-1917), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943), Bela Bartok (1881-1945), George Frideric Handel (1685- 1759), and Manuel de Falla (1876-1946). Edited by Phyllis Alpert Lehrer and Ingrid Jacobson Clarfield. Piano students, teachers, performers. Classics for the Developing Pianist Study Guide Book 5 contains analysis, practice tips, and suggestions for performance addressing 20 piano pieces selected from the four main style periods, found in the companion repertoire book 5. Baroque Period, Classical Period, Romantic Period, 21st Century. Book. Sheet Music Plus #CDPSG5. Published by Sheet Music Plus

Composed by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). Masterworks; Piano Solo; Solo; Solo Small Ensembles. Kalmus Edition. 20th Century; Masterwork. 16 pages. Kalmus Classic Edition #00-K02269. Published by Kalmus Classic Edition

54 Pieces from Janacek to Chick Corea. By Various Composers. Arranged by Fritz Emonts, Rainer Mohrs. (Piano). Schott. Book only. Size 9x12 inches. 132 pages. Published by Schott.

Piano

SKU: LM.1881P

Composed by Jean-Michel Damase. Classical: 20th Century (Contemporary). DVD. Editions Henry Lemoine #1881P. Published by Editions Henry Lemoine (LM.1881P).

ISBN 689076349635. UPC: 689076349635.

Piano - Grade 4

SKU: FA.MFCD007PN

By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy and Robert Orledge. Rediscoverd Debussy. Classical, Impressionistic. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFCD007PN. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFCD007PN).

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Debussy's friendship with the versatile poet and playwright Gabriel Mourey began in 1899, and in July 1907 Mourey offered Debussy a libretto based on Le roman de Tristan - Joseph Bedier's adaptation of a twelfth-century Breton romance by the Anglo-Norman poet known as Thomas - which had recently been published in Paris. Debussy enthusiastically outlined the four-act plot to Victor Segalen that October, and the main differences from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde are that none of the action takes place in Cornwall and that Isolde of the White Hands is found guilty of cuckolding King Marc with Tristan, who has to rescue her from the leper colony in which she is abandoned in Act 1. She also betrays him when he goes mad at the end.

The idea of a Tristan that restored its 'legendary character' and had no connections with Wagner, appealed to Debussy, who was extremely moved by the circumstances of Tristan's death. Even if he thought that Mourey's poetry was 'not very lyrical and many passages do not exactly invite music', he did work on the libretto and the music that summer and sent his publisher, Jacques Durand, 'one of the 363 themes for the Roman de Tristan' in a letter sent from Pourville on 23 August, 1907. The present prelude grows from this theme, together with the poignant Breton folksong Le Faucon. After a short atmospheric introduction, Debussy's dance-like theme (which is definitely not a leitmotif) gradually gains momentum and after it reaches its ecstatic climax, representing the transient happiness of the lovers, it dissolves into an expressive coda and an elegiac close (all growing from Debussy's opening, off-stage trumpet calls), leaving us with the ultimate tragedy of their ill-fated affair.

Unfortunately, Mourey's actual libretto has been lost and the project eventually foundered because Bedier's cousin, Louis Artus, wanted Debussy to use the scenario he had prepared and copyrighted for the stage, and would not allow him to proceed with Mourey's version. Debussy, it need hardly be said, would never have dreamed of collaborating with the author of the vaudeville hit La culotte (The pants)!

Piano Solo - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: FP.FSC05

Composed by Cyril Scott. Sheet Music and Books. Three pieces for piano by Cyril Scott, one of the most influential composers of the early 20th century. Classical. Collection. Forsyths Publications #FSC05. Published by Forsyths Publications (FP.FSC05).

ISBN 9790570504169.

Cyril Scott’s music is currently the subject of major revival, having lain largely ignored for much of the 20th Century. Once described as 'the father of modern British music' by Eugene Goossens, and admired by Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky and his lifelong friend Percy Grainger, he composed four hundred works including: four Symphonies, three Operas, two Piano Concertos, four Oratorios, Concertos for Violin, Cello, Oboe and Harpsichord, several Overtures, Tone Poems, many Chamber works and innumerable songs.

There is a story that when Bernard Shaw commented to Elgar on the (then) daring harmonies of his Second Symphony Elgar replied 'You mustn’t forget, it was Cyril Scott started all that!'.

'a pioneer of British piano music, producing more piano works in the period 1903-1914 than any other British composer and any other international one, with the exception of Scriabin... (He) was a key figure before World War I in helping Britain to break away from musical conservatism and the prevailing Germanic influences.' (Lisa Hardy, The British Piano Sonata 1870-1945).

Piano - Grade 3

SKU: BT.MUSTH978360

Composed by Percy Turnbull. Classical. Book Only. 16 pages. Thames Publishing #MUSTH978360. Published by Thames Publishing (BT.MUSTH978360).

English.

Having been demobilised from the Royal Artillery after the second World War, Percy Turnbull became principal piano teacher at the Surry College of Music at Fitznells and it was during this period that he composed his Sonatina for Piano. This is a skilled piece that shows similar merits to that of works by Debussy and other late 19th and early 20th Century French composers.

(36 Original Pieces Schott Piano Classics). By Various. Edited by Monika Twelsiek. Piano. Softcover. 70 pages. Schott Music #ED9048. Published by Schott Music