Toy Box - Very First Pieces For Piano contains 26 simple yet impressive Piano songs composed by experienced teacher June Armstrong. This book is ideal for a beginner to put theory into practice with a wide variety of pieces in a number of styles.Each title in this songbook is evocative of the way the piece is meant to be played, with songs like Ballerina, Hula Hoop and Kaleidoscope suiting the instructions that Armstrong has provided like ?Daintily? and ?Steadily?. Unique touches like this make Toy Box perfect for a young child who is working their way towards grade one standard, as the composer has skilfully attempted to represent the nature of various toys through the medium of music. This will help a young musician to learn the basic concepts of musical theory in a fun and familiar context, with songs like Jumbo and Slinky sure to entertain all who are within earshot through humour and musicality. If you would like to listen to audio recordings of all the songs included in Toy Box, they are all available to download free of charge from the author's website.What sets this songbook apart from other beginner books is the personality and dedication that June Armstrong brings to her compositions, noting that her pieces are all inspired by her own Piano students and giving detailed and informative notes for each song at the beginning of the book. For the song Dinosaur, Armstrong writes that ?You will want to create a very scary atmosphere?The right hand note heads are strange bird calls in the forest. The left hand Ds, Es and Fs are the dinosaur??. The care that has been put into creating this sheet music shows that Armstrong is acutely aware of the best way for students to learn, and that she truly wants students to learn effectively, but in a fun and light-hearted way.Each song in Toy Box occupies a single page making it easy for a player to track their progress and learning, while there are additional helpful bits of information peppered throughout to clarify anything that may be unfamiliar to the student. Armstrong is keen on developing a student's ear for tone and atmosphere, so these extra notes not only reinforce how to play the piece physically, but also how to include emotion and feeling in music, for example how to conjure imagery like that of Blowing Bubbles. The songbook will be perfect for a child who already understands basic musical terms, will be able to play in a few keys other than C Major and is able to play in simple time signatures. As a first step into new compositions, Toy Box will introduce new concepts as well as reinforce what a student is already accustomed to, nevertheless, Armstrong's message is clear - ?Have fun!?. / Piano

1. Basic Elements 2. Exercises 3. Perpetuum mobile (objet trouvé) 4. Prelude and Waltz in C 5. Palm Stroke (1) 6. Palm Stroke (2) 7. Wrong Notes Allowed (1) 8. Wrong Notes Allowed (2) 9. Flowers We Are, Frail Flovers... (1a) 10. Dot-strumming 11. Flowers We Are, Frail Flowers... (1b) 12. ...flowers also the stars... 13. Out and In (1) 14. Objet trouvé (2) 15. Elbows 16. Hommage a Verdi (sopra: Caro nome che il mio cor) 17. Walking 18. C's Night Song 19. Little Chorale (1) 20. Toddling 21. Staggering 22. Staggering 23. Bored 24. Rocking 25. Hommage a Bartók 26. Let's Be Silly 27. (silent palms) 28. Hommage a Kocsis Zoltán - Playing with Overtones (1) 29. Sound Eclipse 30. Hommage a Máriássy István - (detecting chords) 31. The Bunny and The Fox 32. Legato 33. Waltz (1) 34. Hommage a Farkas (1) The Stone-frog Crawled Along... 35. Hot Cockles 36. Flowers We Are... (2) 37. Fifths (2) 38. (the young boxer's lighter moments) 39. (sleepily) 40. Portrait (1) 41. (five little piano pieces) 42. Three-finger Play 43. Gallop 44. Boisterous Csárdás 45. Jerking 46. Sound and Sound-ball (1) 47. Melancholic Overtones 48. Little Chorale (2) 49. Flowers We Are... (3) 50. Sound and Sound-ball (2) 51. Sarabande 52. Out and In (2) 53. (scherzando) 54. Fifths and Fourths and Palm Strokes 55. (Hommage a Beethoven) 56. Playing with Overtones (2) 57. Falling Asleep 58. Scale from One to Eight 59. Knots (1) 60. Flowers We Are... (4a) 61. Flowers We Are... (4b) 62. Meandering Tune 63. Twittering 64. Quarrelling (1) 65. Dumb-show (Quarrelling 2) 66. Mikro-rondo 67. Hommage a Ligeti 68. Sidling Palms 69. Beating (3x3 - 3 tones, 3 rhythm patterns) 70. Hommage a Tchaikovsky 71. Hommage a Eötvös Péter 72. Hommage a Paganini (la nuova campanella) 73. Preliminary Exercises to the Hoquetus 74. Hoquetus 75. Perpetuum mobile (objet trouvé) 76. ...and once more: Flowers We Are...

Par HOLLIGER HEINZ. Heinz Holliger has dealt intensively with Friedrich Hölderlin and Robert Schumann. The third movement of his Partita, a Barcarole, is preceded by the motto: ‘We should let ourselves be cradled | As if on a boat rocking on the sea.’ These lines have been taken from the poem ‘Mnemosyne’ (Memory) by Hölderlin. The piece starts in the rhythm of old gondola songs. But sometimes it loses its typical steady ?ow of music, lapsing into speech tones and rhythms. The fourth and sixth movements are headed ‘Sphynxen für Sch.’, reminiscent of the term ‘Sphinxes’ used by Schumann in Carnaval to turn his name into tones. The second movement ‘Fuga’ refers back to Schumann’s fugues for pedal piano. The code BACH, a transposition from Schumann’s Op. 60, appears right in the middle. Holliger‘s Partita clearly shows how he refers to a historical background which he has arranged and structured in many layers. Composed in anticipation of the Bach anniversary in 2000. The forms and religious symbolism in Holliger’s piece are not restricted in their reference to the Cantor of St Thomas’ Leipzig, but include the interwoven contradictory attitudes towards Bach of Schumann and Liszt. A technically and musically demanding concert piece./ Répertoire / Piano

Cet album combine piano classique Schumann travaille dans une pratique, rapport qualité-prix édition. Une excellente ressource pour l'élève et l'enseignant Piano. / Piano