Piano (Piano Solo) SKU: HL.49046935 Solo Piano. Composed by Gregor...(+)
Piano (Piano Solo)
SKU: HL.49046935
Solo Piano.
Composed by Gregory
Spears. Piano Solo.
Classical. Softcover. 98
pages. Duration 6180
seconds. Schott Music
#ED30418. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49046935).
ISBN
9781705169353. UPC:
842819116837.
9.25x12.0x0.5
inches.
SEVEN DAYS
is a cycle for solo piano
in 21 movements, most
lasting between three and
seven minutes,
distributed in the form
of a custom app produced
by the 92Y and released
during their Fall 2021
season. Using the app on
their phones, listeners
are asked to listen to
three movements a day
according to an
approximate schedule -
one movement in the
morning, one in the
afternoon, and another
sometime in the evening -
for seven days. The music
is performed by Pedja
Muzijevic and presented
alongside paintings by
Gloria Maximo. (Please
visit 92Y.org for
information on how to
download the Seven Days
app.) The work is
designed as a listening
experience that tunes us
into the passing of time,
connecting us both to the
present moment as well as
the cycle of the week.
The experience invites
music to inhabit and
structure our everyday -
to find us where we are
in the world. The
morning-afternoonevening
schedule is meant to
focus participants on the
dawn-to-dusk cycle as
well as to create a
communal listening
ritual. It is also an
experiment in large-scale
form, designed to draw
attention to musical
material developing
across a week-long
expanse, interspersed
with vast silences. SEVEN
DAYS was shaped by a year
spent in relative
isolation due to the
pandemic. While it is a
work composed during a
time of quarantine, it
will be experienced first
by an audience in the
process of returning to a
more normal world. In
that sense, it is an
artwork born out of a
year of relatively
cloistered existence that
seeks to preserve aspects
of that experience as we
move forward. The piece
was also inspired by the
work of Morton Feldman
and Chantal Akerman,
whose large-scale works
consider time, process,
and stillness. Their art
struck me with a fresh
relevance during the
silent stretches of the
pandemic year 2020. It
was also a year in which
writings about time,
penned by contemplatives
like Henry David Thoreau
and Thomas Merton, held
new weight. All of this
in turnresonated with
Gloria Maximo's profound
paintings, which I've
long admired. SEVEN DAYS
is an artwork we are
invited to do - using
music to point our
attention to the present
moment, the everyday, and
the seemingly mundane. It
is a piece listeners are
also asked to live within
as it unfolds over a week
rather than to witness it
live. The key players
here are time and the
listener's own
surroundings, starring
together alongside music
and art in a wordless
drama. -Gregory
Spears.
Summer Scenes Piano seul - Intermédiaire Alfred Publishing
Graded Standard Repertoire; Piano Suite; Piano Supplemental; Solo. Recital Su...(+)
Graded Standard
Repertoire;
Piano Suite; Piano
Supplemental; Solo.
Recital
Suite Series. Form:
Suite.
Recital. Sheet. 12 pages.
Alfred Music #00-48034.
Published by Alfred Music
Piano/Keyboard SKU: PE.EP11634 Special Edition in Association with the...(+)
Piano/Keyboard
SKU:
PE.EP11634
Special
Edition in Association
with the Beethoven-Haus
Bonn. Composed by
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Piano (Solo). Edition
Peters. Book. Edition
Peters #98-EP11634.
Published by Edition
Peters (PE.EP11634).
ISBN 9790014136048.
190 x 272mm inches.
English.
Specially
produced in association
with the Beethoven-Haus
Bonn for the 250th
Anniversary of Ludwig van
Beethoven's birth, this
souvenir collection of
some of his most famous
pieces and movements
allows us to rediscover
the joy of experiencing
the full range of his
music in the home and
through our fingers, just
as millions of amateur
musicians got to know and
love this music in the
days before recordings.
The volume contains
original works for piano,
such as the ever-popular
Für Elise, and expert
arrangements of
orchestral movements,
such as the first
movement of the Fifth
Symphony and the Ode to
Joy from the Ninth
Symphony.
Beautifully
illustrated, and with
introductions to all
pieces, this handsome
book comes in a practical
landscape format. Edition
Peters enjoyed a close
working relationship with
Beethoven, as the
original publisher of his
First Symphony among
other works. The book
also tells the
fascinating story of the
connection between
Edition Peters and the
most famous portrait of
Beethoven by Joseph Karl
Stieler.
Piano solo SKU: LB.270 Composed by Jeanie Murrow. Piano solo. Lovebird Mu...(+)
Piano solo
SKU:
LB.270
Composed by
Jeanie Murrow. Piano
solo. Lovebird Music
#270. Published by
Lovebird Music (LB.270).
Nancy
Lichtenwalter lost her
courageous battle with
cancer on January 18,
2020; she spent her last
days at home with her
loving husband Ray
Lichtenwalter. Their
little dog Daisy kept a
keen watch over them,
traveling back and forth
between them, depicted by
the ascending and
cascading lines. The
anthem Abide With Me was
played at Nancy's funeral
and is intertwined
throughout the piece; the
last time it is played
portrays Nancy's soul
ascending into
Heaven.
2 Pianos, 4 Hands (Piano Solo) SKU: HL.48025215 Reduction for Two Pian...(+)
2 Pianos, 4 Hands (Piano
Solo)
SKU:
HL.48025215
Reduction for Two
Pianos. Composed by
Qigang Chen. BH Piano.
Classical. Softcover. 56
pages. Boosey & Hawkes
#M060140105. Published by
Boosey & Hawkes
(HL.48025215).
UPC:
196288133438.
Er
Huang was commissioned by
Carnegie Hall, New York
where, in 2009, it
received its world
premiere with solo
pianist Lang Lang and the
Juilliard Orchestra under
the baton of Michael
Tilson Thomas. Chen wrote
about the work, 'Music
has its own life –
for me the germination of
any musical work is like
a tree growing out of the
ground, and the eventual
outcome of this life is
entirely unknowable in
advance.' Commenting on
the connection between Er
Huang and its source of
inspiration, the Er Huang
tunes from the classical
Peking Opera repertoire,
he says that, 'the way I
applied musical elements
from Peking Opera to my
own writing was not
really based on
musicological studies.
Rather, these tunes were
an essential part of my
childhood in Beijing, and
always intertwined with
memories of my family and
the society I lived in at
the time. Many people
from my generation would
be able to hum these
tunes by heart. These
days, however, these
familiar tunes have been
almost entirely
forgotten, as the younger
generation is much more
occupied by western pop
culture. This is why,
when I quote these tunes,
I often do so with a
great sense of nostalgia.
Traditional Chinese music
has a very strong
character, and the
organic assimilation of
something that I feel
most akin to, over time,
into my own musical
language, has become an
essential part of my
artistic
expression.'.