The companion CD for book two of the Piano Gefällt Mir! series, featuring son...(+)
The companion CD for book
two of the Piano
Gefällt Mir! series,
featuring songs compiled
and arranged by
Hans-Günter Heumann .
This CD includes a
professionally-recorded
demonstration of the full
song, as well as a
version with the Piano
removed for you to play
along with. Please note
that this is the CD Only.
You can purchase
the , book here , or
the , book and CD
here . **Please note: The
CD included with this
title can only be played
through an MP3 compatible
program.**
(13 Brand-New Arrangements by Phillip Keveren). By Various. Arranged by Phil...(+)
(13 Brand-New
Arrangements by
Phillip Keveren). By
Various.
Arranged by Phillip
Keveren.
Piano Solo Songbook. Late
Intermediate to Early
Adv.
Softcover. 48 pages.
Published
by Hal Leonard
(10 Arrangements of Contemporary Christian Favorites). Arranged by Melody Bober....(+)
(10 Arrangements of
Contemporary Christian
Favorites). Arranged by
Melody Bober. For Piano.
Book; Piano Collection;
Piano Supplemental.
Sacred Performer
Collections. Contemporary
Christian; Sacred. Early
Advanced; Late
Intermediate. 44 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Publishing
65 of the World's Most Popular and Best Loved Traditional and Contemporary Chris...(+)
65 of the World's Most
Popular and Best Loved
Traditional and
Contemporary Christmas
Songs. Arranged by Dan
Fox. For Piano. Piano
Collection. World's
Greatest. Family/Group.
Level: Easy Piano. Book.
144 pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
Piano - Grade 5 SKU: FA.MFCD017B By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy an...(+)
Piano - Grade 5
SKU:
FA.MFCD017B
By
Nicolas Horvath. By
Claude Debussy and Robert
Orledge. Rediscoverd
Debussy. Christmas.
Score. Musik Fabrik
#MFCD017B. Published by
Musik Fabrik
(FA.MFCD017B).
8.27 x
11.69
inches.
Contains Le
Roi Lear:
Prelude,Premiere Fanfare,
and La Mort de
Cordelia,Toomai des
elephants, Rodrigue et
Chimene: Prelude a l'acte
1p. Le Martyre de Saint
Sebastien: La Passion ,
and No-ja-li ou Le Palais
du Silence
From
Robert Orledge's
notes:
My interest
in the wonderful music of
Claude Debussy began in
the 1980s when I
researched and published
a book with Cambridge
University Press entitled
Debussy and the Theatre.
During the course of my
studies in Paris, I was
amazed to discover that
Debussy planned over 50
theatrical works but only
finished two of these
entirely by himself (the
opera Pelleas et
Melisande in 1893-1902
and the ballet Jeux for
Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes in 1912-13). Of
the rest, many were never
started musically (like
Siddartha and Orphee-roi
with the Oriental scholar
Victor Segalen, 1907);
some had a few
tantalising sketches
(like the Edgar Allan Poe
opera Le Diable dans le
beffroi, 1902-03); some
were half-finished (like
his other Poe opera La
Chute de la Maison Usher,
1908-17); while others
were musically complete
but had their
orchestrations completed
by other composers (like
Khamma, by Charles
Koechlin, 1912-13; or Le
Martyre de Saint
Sebastien and La Boite a
joujoux by his 'angel of
corrections' ['l'ange des
Corrections'] Andre
Caplet in 1911 and 1919
respectively).
For
it has to be admitted
that what some scholars
call Debussy's
'compulsive achievement'
could equally well be
viewed as laziness,
especially as far as the
minute detail required
for calligraphing his
orchestral scores was
concerned. It was as if
creating the music itself
was of greater importance
than controlling its
final sound, even if
Debussy was an
imaginative orchestrator
when he found the time
and energy to do it. It
also seems true that
Debussy also preferred
inventing ideas to
turning them into
complete pieces. However,
despite the lack of
detail in many of his
sketches (missing clefs,
key signatures, dynamics,
phrasing, etc.) the notes
themselves are
surprisingly accurate,
whether or not they can
be compared with a later
draft. Thus, a large
number of sketches exist
for his Chinese ballet
No-ja-li ou Le Palais du
Silence and it is not too
difficult to see which
parts of Georges de
Feure's 1913 scenario
(see below) inspired
which ideas. But Debussy
hardly made any attempt
to join them together
after the first few
bars.
It was
usually up to his
publisher, Jacques
Durand, to find solutions
when Debussy risked a
breach of contract.
Debussy was supposed to
supervise the
orchestrations completed
by others, but this
supervision was usually
very light and restricted
to quiet, sensitive
moments in which problems
were easier to spot. Far
from jealously guarding
every one of his created
notes, as Ravel did,
Debussy once even went as
far as to ask Koechlin to
'write a ballet for him
that he would sign' on 26
March 1914 when he was
hard-pressed to fulfil
his lucrative contract
for No-ja-li with Andre
Charlot at the Alhambra
Theatre in London. In the
end, Debussy (through
Durand) sent Charlot the
symphonic suite Printemps
instead, whose
orchestration had been
completed by Henri Busser
in the Spring of
1912.
So, when I
was offered early
retirement as Professor
of Music at Liverpool
University in 2004, I
seized the opportunity it
would give me to spend
time trying to
reconstruct some of
Debussy's lost potential
masterpieces from his
existing sketches and
drafts--then
orchestrating them in
Debussy's style when this
was appropriate. I had
begun this mission in
2001 with the most
promising project, the
missing parts of Scene 2
of La Chute de la Maison
Usher and the sheer joy
it gave me at every stage
persuaded me to tackle
other projects,
especially when Debussy
experts were unable to
identify exactly where I
took over from Debussy
(and vice versa) in
Usher.
Well-Tempered Weddings (P/V/G with Instructional CDs). By Various. Arranged by M...(+)
Well-Tempered Weddings
(P/V/G with Instructional
CDs). By Various.
Arranged by Mark Hayes.
For Voice, Piano
Accompaniment, Chamber
Group. Shawnee Press.
Celebrations. Softcover.
209 pages. Shawnee Press
#M5053. Published by
Shawnee Press
Beauty and The Beast Ding-dong! The Witch Is Dead Happy Birthday To You Hedwi...(+)
Beauty and The Beast
Ding-dong! The Witch Is
Dead
Happy Birthday To You
Hedwig's Theme
I'll Be There For You
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie
Yellow Polkadot Bikini
Over The Rainbow
Part Of Your World
The Pink Panther
Theme From New York, New
York
(We're Gonna) Rock Around
The Clock
Famous and Fun Pop - Book
3. For piano. Piano
Collection; Piano
Supplemental. Famous and
Fun. Instructional and
Children's. Elementary;
Late Elementary.
Instructional book. 24
pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
(Easy Piano). Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. Book; Piano - Easy Piano Collec...(+)
(Easy Piano). Arranged by
Dan Coates. For Piano.
Book; Piano - Easy Piano
Collection; Piano
Supplemental. Top 50.
Movie; TV. Easy Piano.
188 pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
Piano Solo - Easy-Intermediate SKU: FP.FBS03 Composed by Sarah Baker. She...(+)
Piano Solo -
Easy-Intermediate
SKU:
FP.FBS03
Composed by
Sarah Baker. Sheet Music
and Books. Nine pieces
on a day time theme
for solo piano, by Sarah
Baker. Suggested grade
4-5. Classical.
Collection. Forsyths
Publications #FBS03.
Published by Forsyths
Publications (FP.FBS03).
ISBN
9790570500192.
Sara
h Baker is Vocal Composer
in Residence at Education
Music Services, an ABRSM
examiner and a well known
composer of songs and
musicals for primary
schools and massed-choral
events.
All this
experience has come
together in the creation
of this album of piano
pieces, inspired by
growing up in the
Chiltern Hills. Suitable
for players of around
grade 4-5 standard, her
evocative sound pieces
describe a crash-landing
hot air balloon, garden
invading cows and a even
a snake in a
pond!
Air
Balloon!: One vivid
memory I have as a child
is of the day that a hot
air balloon passed over
our house and made an
emergency landing on the
road in front! The sound
of the gas being blown
into the balloon to try
to keep it high enough to
pass the house sounded so
loud and intimidating,
and then there was the
bustle of the neighbours
as we all went out into
the street to watch. It
was both terrifying and
exhilarating to watch the
balloon float past and
then land so near
by.
Buzzards
Circling: There is
something so calming and
restful about watching
birds of prey circling in
the thermal currents of a
summer sky. Growing up in
the Chilterns gave me
plenty of opportunity to
watch buzzards and red
kites. This piano solo
captures the beauty of
their flight as they
glide so effortlessly
through the
air.
There’
s A Cow In The Garden
Eating The Flowers:
Inspired by the memory of
seeing an unexpected cow
in the garden! This
surreal image is captured
in a quirky waltz, as I
portray both the
absurdity of the moment
and the sense of wonder I
felt as a child, looking
out of the window and
seeing the cow walking
round and eating the
flowers. The final phrase
articulates my longing:
‘I wish it would
come
again’.
Wat
ching The World Go By: A
short, reflective piece,
remembering what it was
like to have time to just
sit and watch the world
go by from my bedroom
window.
Autumn
Skies: A miniature about
the beauty of Autumn
skies and the poignant
sense of loss for a
summer gone. Friends I
was fortunate to have
several children of my
own age living close by.
We seemed to be forever
making dens, playing out
in the street and
generally enjoying each
other’s company.
This piece reflects that
sense of
well-being.
Snake
In The Pond: One hot
summer I was astonished
and scared to see a grass
snake cooling off in our
garden pond! I watched,
both horrified and
fascinated, as it rose up
from the depths and then
disappeared again. Here I
portray the sense of the
hazy summer afternoon as
I peacefully watched the
tiny movements of fish in
the pond, contrasted with
the fear and excitement
of seeing the snake
appear.
Morning
Commute: I recollect many
mornings stuck in traffic
as my Dad took me to
school on his way to
work. There is one main
road out of the village
where I grew up, and that
got more and more
congested the closer we
got to the town. We may
not have chatted a lot,
but it was always good to
be together with my Dad,
lost in our own
thoughts.
The
Witch’s Cottage:
My siblings and I had a
fascination with a small
cottage nearby. It was
set back from the road in
a dark part of the woods
and we called it 'the
witch's cottage’.
Every time we passed, I
imagined I heard the
distant cackle of the
witch and wished I could
catch a glimpse of
her.
These pieces
are written to complement
my other collection,
Night Time Impressions,
which also draw on
childhood recollections,
particularly of the woods
behind the house where I
grew up. - Sarah Baker
2023.
(60 Heart-Warming Holiday Favorites). Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. Book; ...(+)
(60 Heart-Warming
Holiday Favorites).
Arranged by Dan Coates.
For Piano. Book; Piano
Collection; Piano
Supplemental. Christmas;
Winter. Easy Piano. 176
pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
John Thompson's Adult Piano Course (Book 1) - Elementary Level. Composed by Va...(+)
John Thompson's Adult
Piano
Course (Book 1) -
Elementary
Level. Composed by
Various.
Arranged by Carolyn
Miller,
Eric Baumgartner, and
Glenda
Austin. Willis. Softcover
Audio Online. 24 pages.
Published by Willis Music
Adult Piano Adventures. Arranged by Nancy Faber and Randall Faber. Adult Piano A...(+)
Adult Piano Adventures.
Arranged by Nancy Faber
and Randall Faber. Adult
Piano Adventures.
Christmas, Educational.
Softcover Audio Online.
80 pages. Faber Piano
Adventures #FF1370.
Published by Faber Piano
Adventures
An Innovative Approach for Adults Returning to the Piano. Arranged by Carol Matz...(+)
An Innovative Approach
for Adults Returning to
the Piano. Arranged by
Carol Matz. For Piano.
Piano Method. Nostalgia.
Book. 32 pages. Published
by Alfred Publishing.
Timeless Hits and Popular Favorites. Composed by Nancy Faber and Randall ...(+)
Timeless Hits and
Popular Favorites.
Composed by Nancy Faber
and Randall Faber. Faber
Piano Adventures�®.
Softcover. 80 pages.
Faber Piano Adventures
#FF3031. Published by
Faber Piano Adventures
(HL.159073).