By Various. Arranged by Helen Marlais. For piano. The FJH Pianist's Curriculum. Christmas. Level: Early Advanced. Book. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc.

Orchestra Piano

SKU: PR.11641861SP

Composed by William Kraft. Part. 35 pages. Duration 21 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #116-41861SP. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11641861SP).

UPC: 680160685202.

What? ! - my composer colleagues said - A concerto for the piano? It's a 19th century instrument! Admittedly we are in an age when originally created timbres and/or musico-technological formulations are often the modus operandi of a piece. Actually, this Concerto began about two years ago when, during one of my creative jogs, the sound of the uppermost register of the piano mingled with wind chimes penetrated my inner ear. The challenge and fascination of exploring and developing this idea into an orchestral situation determined that some day soon I would be writing a work for piano and orchestra. So it was a very happy coincidence when Mona Golabek phoned to tell me she would like discuss the Ford Foundation commission. After covering areas of aesthetics and compositional styles, we found that we had a good working rapport, and she asked if I would accept the commission. The answer was obvious. Then began the intensive thought process on the stylistic essence and organization of the work. Along with this went a renewed study of idiomatic writing for the piano, of the kind Stravinsky undertook with the violin when he began his Violin Concerto. By a stroke of great fortune, the day in February 1972 that I received official notice from the Ford Foundation of the commission, I also received a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation informing me I had been awarded my second fellowship. With the good graces of Zubin Mehta and Ernest Fleischmann, masters of my destiny as a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, I was relieved of my orchestral duties during the Hollywood Bowl season. Thus I was able to go to Europe to work and to view the latest trends in music concentrating in London (the current musical melting pot and showcase par excellence), Oslo, Norway, for the Festival of Scandinavian Music called Nordic Days, and Warsaw, Poland, for its prestigious Autumn Festival. Over half the Concerto was completed in that summer and most of the rest during the 72-73 season with the final touches put on during a month as Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. So much for the external and environmental influences, except perhaps to mention the birds of Sussex in the first movement, the bells of Arhus (Denmark) in the second movement and the bells of Bellagio at the end of the Concerto. Primary in the conception was the personality of Miss Golabek: she is a wonderfully vital and dynamic person and a real virtuoso. Therefore, the soloist in the Concerto is truly the protagonist; it is she (for once we can do away with the generic he) who unfolds the character and intent of the piece. The first section is constructed in the manner of a recitative - completely unmeasured - with letters and numbers by which the conductor signals the orchestra for its participation. This allows the soloist the freedom to interpret the patterns and control the flow and development of the music. The Concerto is actually in one continuous movement but with three large divisions of sufficiently contrasting character to be called movements in themselves. The first 'movement' is based on a few timbral elements: 1) a cluster of very low pitches which at the beginning are practically inaudibly depressed, and sustained silently by the sostenuto pedal, which causes sympathetic vibrating pitches to ring when strong notes are struck; 2) a single powerful note indicated by a black note-head with a line through it indicating the strongest possible sforzando; 3) short figures of various colors sometimes ominous, sometimes as splashes of light or as elements of transition; 4) trills and tremolos which are the actual controlling organic thread starting as single axial tremolos and gradually expanding to trills of increasingly larger and more powerful scope. The 'movement' begins in quiescent repose but unceasingly grows in energy and tension as the stretching of a string or rubber band. When it can no longer be restrained, it bursts into the next section. The second 'movement,' propelled by the released tension, is a brilliant virtuosic display, which begins with a long solo of wispy percussion, later joined in duet with the piano. Not to be ignored, the orchestra takes over shooting the material throughout all its sections like a small agile bird deftly maneuvering through nothing but air, while the piano counterposes moments of lyricism. The orchestra reaches a climax, thrusting us into the third 'movement' which begins with a cadenza-like section for the piano. This moves gently into an expressive section (expressive is not a negative term to me) in which duets are formed with various instruments. There are fleeting glimpses of remembrances past, as a fragmented recapitulation. One glimpse is hazily expressed by strings and percussion in a moment of simultaneous contrasting levels of activity, a technique of which I have been fond and have utilized in various fixed-free relationships, particularly in my Percussion Concerto, Contextures and Games: Collage No. 1. The second half of the third 'movement; is a large coda - akin to those in Beethoven - which brings about another display of virtuosity, this time gutsy and driving, raising the Concerto to a final climax, the soloist completing the fragmented recapitulation concept as well as the work with the single-note sforzando and low cluster from the very opening of the first movement.

Intermediate to Advanced Level. Arranged by Glenda Austin. Willis. Christmas Sacred. Softcover. Published by Willis Music

By Jason Derlatka. Pianosoft (Yamaha software for the Disklavier pianos - this is NOT sheet music). Floppy disk. Published by Hal Leonard.

Piano Solo Mixed Folio (Intermediate to advanced piano arrangements with no lyrics). Size 9x12 inches. 232 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Piano - intermediate

SKU: BT.SLB-00597300

Composed by Eric Tanguy. Contemporary Music. Book Only. Composed 2016. 7 pages. Editions Salabert #SLB 00597300. Published by Editions Salabert (BT.SLB-00597300).

PIANO inches. French.

Nouvelle Etude for solo piano premiered by Steven van Hauwaert in Los Angeles in the Piano Sphere concert series on June 2nd 2015.

Born in Caen in 1968, Eric Tanguy has become one of the most widely performed and broadcast French composers ofour days. His output comprises more than hundred works to this day, ranging from solo pieces to concertos, vocal pieces and symphonic works. They have been included into the repertoire of major performers of our time. His reputation as a composer andprofessor has brought him invitations for masterclasses and lectures all around the world.

Né Caen en 1968, Éric Tanguy est ce jour l’un des compositeurs français de sa génération les plus joués et diffusés travers le monde. Né en 1968 et élu compositeur de l’année par les Victoires de la musique classique 2004 et 2008, Éric Tanguy asuivi l’enseignement d’Horatiu Radulescu, puis celui d’Ivo Malec et de Gérard Grisey et Betsy Jolas au Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris (Prix de composition en 1991).

En novembre 2012, il a reçu le Grand prix de la SACEMpour sa carrière et en novembre 2014 le Grand prix Lycéen des compositeurs.Les œuvres de son catalogue,quatre-vingt-di x pièces, du solo jusqu’aux concertos, pièces vocales et symphoniques figurentau répertoire des interprètes majeurs de notre temps.

Composed by Various. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook. Movies. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard

By Joe Hisaishi. For Piano. Piano. Book only. 84 pages. Hal Leonard #ZN179015. Published by Hal Leonard

Hardcover Boxed Set. By ABBA. Legendary Series. Pop and Rock. Book Only. 256 pages. Wise Publications #MUSAM1002716. Published by Wise Publications

From 1945. By Various. Arranged by John York. (Piano). Boosey and Hawkes Piano. Size 9x12 inches. 66 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. Piano - Easy Piano Collection. Level: Easy Piano. Book. 88 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Piano. Composed by Magnus Lindberg. BH Piano. Classical. Softcover. 36 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060130847. Published by Boosey & Hawkes

Piano - intermediate to advanced

SKU: HL.49007897

Composed by Tatiana Komarova. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Classical. Composed 1990. 16 pages. Duration 9'. Schott Music #ED 8299. Published by Schott Music (HL.49007897).

ISBN 9790001084536. 9.0x12.0x0.072 inches.

Die fruhe Sonata kann als Schlusselwerk fur Tatjana Komarovas internationale Bekanntheit bezeichnet werden. 1992 fuhrte ihr Ehemann Lars Vogt sie in allen grossen Stadten der USA von New York bis Los Angeles auf und stellte sie bis 1995 in ganz Europa der Offentlichkeit vor. Frankfurt, Leipzig, Amsterdam, Paris, Prag und Athen sind nur einige Beispiele. Das Werk eignet sich hervorragend fur den Vortrag in allen Arten von Konzertsalen und beinhaltet einen weiten Blick auf die grosse Spannweite von Komarovas kompositorischen Fahigkeiten.

By John W. Schaum. For Piano. Piano - Schaum Method. John W. Schaum Piano Course. Level: Grade 3. Book. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Piano

SKU: HL.50490700

Piano. Composed by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. Piano. Classical. Softcover. 22 pages. Sikorski #SIK8652. Published by Sikorski (HL.50490700).

8.25x11.75x0.104 inches.

This work may be performed independently or as part of the musical theatre work Angelus Novus (HL50490701). 9 minutes.

Piano

SKU: HL.1298846

For Piano. Composed by Angeline Bell. Piano. Blues, Classical, Jazz, Tango. Softcover. 36 pages. Musica Ferrum Editions #FERR9790708147855. Published by Musica Ferrum Editions (HL.1298846).

UPC: 196288171256.

A collection of 20 fun, jazzy, bluesy, tangoy, pieces for the intermediate pianist.

Piano

SKU: HL.1298847

For Piano. Composed by Angeline Bell. Piano. Classical, Romantic. Softcover. 48 pages. Musica Ferrum Editions #FERR9790708147862. Published by Musica Ferrum Editions (HL.1298847).

UPC: 196288171263.

A collection of 20 lyrical, romantic, pieces for the intermediate pianist.

Piano - Elementary

SKU: HL.645049

Level 1 Elementary Level. Composed by Paul Wachs. Arranged by Wesley Schaum. Sheet music. Educational Piano. Christmas. Softcover. Op. 4/2. 32 pages. Schaum Publications, Inc. #1105. Published by Schaum Publications, Inc. (HL.645049).

ISBN 9781495080999. UPC: 008148011056. 9.0x12.0 inches.

23 easy to play pieces with lyrics and illustrations: Angels We Have Heard on High * As With Gladness Men of Old * Auld Lang Syne * Away in a Manger * Beautiful Savior * Christmas Is Coming * Coventry Carol * First Noel * Friendly Beasts * God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen * Go Tell It on the Mountain * Hark the Hearld Angels Sing * Here We Come A-Caroling (Wassail Song) * Holly and the Ivy * It Came Upon the Midnight Clear * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * Little Town of Bethlehem * March of the Three Kings * Nazareth * O Come All ye Faithful * Silent Night * Twelve Days of Christmas.

Piano solo - Level 4

SKU: FV.FUE-2340

Composed by Barbara Heller. Piano (Harpsichord), 2-hands. Work premiere: 21.03.1985 Tilburg (NL) Barbara Heller. Instrumental Music. Full score. Duration 40'. Furore Verlag #FUE 2340. Published by Furore Verlag (FV.FUE-2340).

ISBN 979-0-50012-134-3.

This work can be understood as the daily diary entries of a piano composer in an unusual situation. Suitable for elementary and advanced piano study as well as for concert performance. Selections vary from simple, easy to demanding short poetic pieces. Some are of didactic and some of minimalistic nature. Inspirational in the development of independence in interpretive decision-making.

W P: 21.03.1985 Tilburg (NL) Barbara Heller

CONTENT
Ein Zug fahrt ab..., Perpetuum, Schmerz: Energie verebbt, Anklange, ...niemand weiss..., Schwebend, Einwurf, Verwirrung, fruher (vormals), ...und..., Erinnerung (Kindheit: schwarz-weiss), good night, Triangel, Courante, This chord, Anruf aus Rom, slow (langsam), im Traum..., Tagtraum, Aus der Ferne, Einfall, Ratsel, Bruchstucke, Fermate, Ein Versuch, Ein Zeichen.