SKU: YM.GTP01098016

ISBN 9784636980165.

This piano solo music sheet collection is consisted of 16 piano arrangements from 15 famous Japanese Rock and ballad songs from Visual Kei bands, including Forever Love by X Japan. The difficulty of the arrangement is indicated in 5 levels for each song. 13 pieces are arranged for intermediate level, while 3 are for advanced level, and it includes the song Anniversary by YOSHIKI, which is originally a piano concerto but arranged in piano solo for advanced players. The score is notated in double staves for piano, but it also can be played on other instruments such as guitar as the chord names are indicated. The pages with only original Japanese lyrics are included. All songs are arranged in the original keys and the same scales as the original songs. The arrangement closely recreates the original sounds and atmospheres while using easier fingering for intermediate level piano skills.

SKU: PE.EP11570B

ISBN 9790014133320. 232 x 303mm inches. English.

Clara Schumann (née Wieck) was undoubtedly the most important female pianist of the 19th century. As a young child she toured Europe as a prodigy: her entire career as a celebrated piano virtuoso spanned more than 60 years. Equally important, but less well known, is the composer Clara Schumann, who published her Opus 1 at the age of eleven. Despite the domestic duties expected of a woman at that time, she created numerous outstanding piano works and songs that are at least the equal of those of her male contemporaries. However, society at that time did not allow women to be regarded as fully-fledged composers or for their works to be appreciated adequately.

To help give this important composer the recognition she deserves, Edition Peters, in collaboration with the Schumann-Haus Leipzig, is now, on the occasion of her 200th birthday, publishing this Anniversary Songbook for Medium-Low Voice. The 14 songs, representing the pinnacle of Clara's art, were composed mainly in the period after her marriage in Leipzig to Robert Schumann - who was her greatest champion.

This volume includes:

• new practical editions of 14 of Clara Schumann's greatest songs
• introductions to each song, written by Frances Falling, Schumann-Haus Leipzig
• new English translations of the song lyrics
• a CD containing recordings of the piano accompaniments