Piano Solo

SKU: IS.PN7604EM

Composed by Peter Knockaert. Keyboards - Piano. Metropolis Music Publishers #PN7604EM. Published by Metropolis Music Publishers (IS.PN7604EM).

ISBN 9790365076048.

In difficult times, it’s important to experience a little tenderness. Teneritas (Latin for ‘tenderness’ ) is what the world needs so much more. By expressing tenderness we will come closer to one another and only by understanding each other there will be respect for each other. With the words of the Dalai Lama: We need to develop a sense of the oneness of humanity by considering other human beings as brothers and sisters. This is how we will build a more peaceful world. Genuine peace comes about through mutual understanding and respect for each other’s wellbeing..

Piano (Piano Solo)

SKU: HL.49046717

For Piano Solo. Composed by Emile Naoumoff. Piano Solo. Classical. Softcover. Duration 6900 seconds. Schott Music #ED23432. Published by Schott Music (HL.49046717).

UPC: 842819114024. 9.0x12.0x0.405 inches.

The 24 Soul Etudes constitute a kaleidoscope of soulful landscapes nested in human souls depth. These pieces are destined for pianists yearning to express their utter sensitivity and poetry in perfect osmosis with their audiences. These compositions can be savored as chosen flower bouquets in completion of a given piano recitals varied repertoire program by coloring through such sound paintings approaches revealing infinitely cap-tivating atmospheric and evocative universes. Alternatively, they could be presented in their entirety for a total immersion experience combining compelling meditative and reflective daydreamed worlds which lay in each of us. Their performance valorizes the pianist interpreter in a fusional communion with the listener merging both in a transcendental longing into a truly blossomed unison of human feelings. (Emile Naoumoff).

Piano

SKU: SU.28040130

For Piano. Composed by John Newell. Keyboard, Piano/Harpsichord. Score. Abierto Music #28040130. Published by Abierto Music (SU.28040130).

A motley set of four short works for piano solo. The movements are: 1. Aardvark Dreams2. Procession of Days3. Totentanz: To Man's Inhumanity4. A Pleasant Fugue. Piano Duration: 12' Composed: 1979-83 Published by: Abierto Music Audio and score previews are available at: johnnewellmusic.com/works /instrumental-solo/.

Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Edited by Peter Jost. Henle Music Folios. Softcover. 28 pages. G. Henle #HN1076. Published by G. Henle

Piano solo

SKU: OT.21123

Composed by Tal Weissman. Published by OR-TAV Music Publications (OT.21123).

Israeli pianist Tal Weissman was born in Haifa in 1972, and began his musical training at age four. While a youth, he performed as a soloist with most of the orchestras in Israel, including the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. He was awarded an Outstanding Israeli Competitor at the Arthur Rubenstein Competition in 1992, and has won prizes in international piano competitions in Europe.

In 1995, Weissman was accepted for piano studies with the internationally renowned pianist and pedagogue Maria Curcio Diamand in London. During this period of study in London, he was awarded many prizes and performed in most of the major concert venues in England. In 1999, he made a concert tour of the United States.

Tal Weissman returned to Israel in 2004, where he teaches piano privately and continues to perform both in Israel and abroad. His compositions for piano and other instruments express the human sprit as it faces the challenges of the world.

By Alexis Ffrench. Piano Solo Personality. Pop. Softcover. Duration 160 seconds. Published by Hal Leonard

Piano (Piano Solo)

SKU: HL.49047037

Piano Solo. Composed by Vijay Iyer. Piano Solo. Classical. Softcover. 11 pages. Duration 600 seconds. Schott Music #ED30416. Published by Schott Music (HL.49047037).

ISBN 9781705182024. UPC: 842819116998. 9.0x12.0x0.123 inches.

My father, Y. “Raghu” Raghunathan, came from India to the U.S. in 1963, followed soon after by my mother Sita. Dad enjoyed a substantial career as a pharmaceutical chemist, but he drew satisfaction from a simple life among family and friends, never allowing professional demands to overshadow his devotion to loved ones. Modest, compassionate, and ardently egalitarian, he was careful not to take anything too seriously, especially himself. He embraced his own ordinariness because it connected him to everyone else; it made him no better or worse than his neighbor, no more or less deserving of friendship or kindness than any of his fellow human beings. He showed us how to live with dignity, compassion, grace, and boundless love. His last piece of advice to me: “Go slow.” Several weeks after his passing, I happened upon a recording of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, opus 87. I couldn’t understand why at the time, but the sixteenth prelude and fugue took hold of me and would not let go. I completely immersed myself in that piece for ten days, until it became a mystical conduit for something else: in this semi-trance state I produced a prelude and fugue of my own, in prayer (orison) and in praise (upastuti). It shadows Shostakovich’s form, but it somehow expresses my father’s unhurried, loving spirit. I’ve come to believe that he sent me this piece as a blessing. I hope you feel his presence in it as I do. Vijay Iyer.

(The Music That Inspired the Movie). By Michael Jackson. Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. This edition: Easy Piano. Piano - Personality Book. Pop. Easy Piano. Book. 76 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Composed by Aleksandr Skrjabin. Edited by Christoph Flamm. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Alexandr Skrjabin. Samtliche Klaviersonaten 3 \| BARENREITER URTEXT. Performance score, anthology. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA09618. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

Piano - Intermediate

SKU: YM.GTP01100873

Composed by Various. Piano Educational. Yoshiko Kurokawa. Studies, Exercises. Method Book. Yamaha Music Media #GTP01100873. Published by Yamaha Music Media (YM.GTP01100873).

ISBN 9784636106282.

The scale training exercise complete book, supervised by Yoshiko Kurokawa. This is a revolutionary collection of all-key scale exercises designed to help both aspiring and practicing pianists practice essential scales efficiently. The major and minor (harmonic and melodic minor) scales in the 12 keys are an important part of the practice for learning tonality and training the muscles and joints of the hand. The human hand is flexible, and the thumb and other fingers bend in different directions, making it easy to turn and play a wide range of notes. However, it is important to learn scales from an early age because the correct playing style is required, such as knowing how to turn the fingers when playing speed is faster, the position of the black keys and white keys, and how to use the wrist. To play scales smoothly with all five fingers (one hand), the turn of the first finger is significant. It is advisable to practice scales from an early age to improve the turns. The fingering of the scale changes depending on the key. It takes a lot of time to learn them because fingering is different for the right hand and the left hand as well. Also, although the scale is written in two-fourths time, if you are not used to it, you may end up playing one octave at a time. Various exercises are described in this book to help you solve these problems. It takes a lot of time to play scales well by nature, but that is why it is important to practice efficiently.

Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), edited by Riemenschneider. For piano. Format: piano solo book. With piano reduction, introductory text, instructional text, lyrics and performance notes. Baroque. 184 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Schirmer

Piano

SKU: BR.DV-8084

Composed by Paul-Heinz Dittrich. Solo instruments; Softcover. Deutscher Verlag. World premiere Berlin, February 17, 1991. Music post-1945. Score. Composed 1990. 24 pages. Duration 20'. Deutscher Verlag fur Musik #DV 8084. Published by Deutscher Verlag fur Musik (BR.DV-8084).

ISBN 9790200482690. 9 x 12 inches.

world premiere Berlin, February 17, 1991

Bibliograph y
Ernst Helmuth Flammer: Paul-Heinz Dittrich, Wanderer zwischen den Welten. Notate zu Paul-Heinz Dittrichs Klavierwerk, in: Programmbuch 5. Internationales Pianoforum Heilbronn, 12.-16. September 2001, S. 41-66

 

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The composition was inspired by the sculpture La Meditation by Auguste Rodin which the composer came into contact with during an exhibition at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Rilke wrote about this sculpture: never before has a human body been concentrated like this around its inner essence never before has it been strained like this by its own soul and eased again by the elasticity of its own blood.

By Kathryn Mishell. For piano. Piano. Level: Intermediate. Music Book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

Piano solo

SKU: HH.HH421-SOL

Composed by Avi Schonfeld. Piano Solo. Playing score. Duration 20 minutes. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH421-SOL. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH421-SOL).

ISBN 9790708146223.

The three pieces that make up Quasis appear, at first glance, to have little in common, but nothing could be further from the truth. Although the dances and songaEURdances come from disparate parts of the world -- Poland, Austria, America -- and from different periods, Avi Schonfeld unifies them stylistically and brings them up to date through his own musical language. He also juxtaposes contrasting forms and compositional procedures -- songaEURdance versus danceaEURsong; intimate, introvert small-scale mazurka v. epic, extrovert waltz; improvisation v. more structured writing -- and in so doing portrays different human temperaments. His aim in 'Quasi Blues' was not so much to write a traditional blues number as to create a link between his own compositional idiom and the characteristic elements of the blues.

Piano - Intermediate

SKU: SB.SBMP-1693

Composed by Jacob Narverud. Classical. Octavo. 16 pages. Santa Barbara Music Publishing #SBMP1693. Published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing (SB.SBMP-1693).

UPC: 000308159653.

Ever clever, composer Narverud came up with a highly rhythmic celebratory composition. The title translates “We are one”, the theme being that all human beings have much in common. The energetic djembe sets the tone, the piano adds its own rhythmic design, and the singers deliver the message, at times sounding as though there should be a campfire at the center of their circle. This BEST SELLER is great fun, a profound message, and an intriguing piece. See composer notes below for pronunciation.

Chamber Music Bass, Djembe, Piano

SKU: PR.141400980

Composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. Stanley Moss, Ubuntu. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. 12+4 pages. Duration 6 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #141-40098. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.141400980).

ISBN 9781491112953. UPC: 680160671229. 9 x 12 inches. Text: Stanley Moss. Stanley Moss, Ubuntu.

The opening of Stanley Moss’s poem unfurls the spirit captured in Zwilich’s musical setting for Bass Voice, Djembe (African drum), and Piano: “I salute a word, I stand up and give it my chair, because this one Zulu word, ubuntu, holds what English takes seven to say: ‘the essential dignity of every human being.’ I give my hand to ubuntu —” Zwilich’s six-minute work proudly declaims Moss’s message, using a djembe to add African-inspired color and punctuation to the musical whole.

By Various. Piano Solo Songbook. Softcover. 88 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Piano Pop Vocal/Liu Xing Gang Qin. Book. Yamaha Music Media #GTP01097752. Published by Yamaha Music Media

Piano

SKU: HL.233283

Piano Solo. Composed by John Luther Adams. Music Sales America. Classical. Softcover. 6 pages. Duration 420 seconds. Chester Music #CH86053. Published by Chester Music (HL.233283).

12.0x9.0x0.486 inches.

Nunataks are mountains that rise up out of icefields and glaciers. The jagged contours of nuntaks contrast sharply with the smooth whiteness that surrounds them. As the ice melts and the sea rises, these solitary peaks stand as start reminders of human isolation and vulnerability. - John Luther Adams.

Piano solo

SKU: HH.HH131-SOL

Composed by Jeremy Arden. Piano Solo. Playing score. Duration 27 minutes. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH131-SOL. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH131-SOL).

ISBN 9790708041672.

Infi nite Sets And Double Binds is a term coined by Margaret Arden in her book The Midwifery Of The Soul(1). It refers to the circumstances of human relationships where communications are so full of emotional confusions that people drive one another mad. Let me say here that there is no direct equivalence between the psychoanalytical theory and the music and I certainly don’t want to drive listeners to madness.

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.140401210

Hommage à Messiaen. Composed by Gerald Levinson. Performance Score. With Standard notation. 4 pages. Theodore Presser Company #140-40121. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401210).

ISBN 9781491114438. UPC: 680160642106. 9 x 12 inches.

Written in honor of the Béla Bartók centennial, MUSIQUE NOCTURNES is inspired by one of his most characteristic and original works, the fourth piece (by the same title), from the suite Out of Doors. Both pieces feature overlapping “night musics” – atmospheric cluster figures, sharply contrasting motifs suggesting nocturnal bird, frog, or insect sounds, and an element of human, folksong-like melody as Levinson alludes to the authentic Hungarian folksong, “Tiszán innen, Dunán túl.”.
This simple piece was written in 2015 as a birthday present for the composer’s wife, poet and fellow bird lover Nanine Valen, and is a distant sequel to Canons and Chorale, which he wrote for her in 1969. The ornithological character is an affectionate tribute as well to his teacher Olivier Messiaen. The titular birds are a highly stylized chickadee and two song sparrows.First public performance: Swarthmore College, November 13, 2016, by Marcantonio Barone, whose editorial assistance in the preparation of this edition is gratefully acknowledged. Recorded by Marcantonio Barone on Innova 948.

Piano

SKU: BT.EMBZ8189

Années de Pèlerinage. Composed by Franz Liszt. EMB Liszt Works. Book Only. Composed 1977. 80 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #EMBZ8189. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (BT.EMBZ8189).

English-German.

Franz Liszt was barely 20 years old when he first read Dante s Divine Comedy, but it left a lasting impression on him throughout his entire life that only a truly impactful creation can have on the human soul. This is what inspired the Dante Sonata which Liszt premiered in Vienna in 1837. Stemming from this, he created a revised version entitled Apres une lecture du Dante, Fantasia quasi Sonata which appeared in 1856 within the second cycle of his Années de pelerinage (Years of Pilgrimage).In the appendix of the present edition, the work s earlier version entitled Paralipomenes a la Divina Commedia, Fantaisie symphonique is also included. It has survived in the handwritingof Liszt s secretary, Gaetanio Belloni, and it contains autograph notes by Liszts. This revised (2016) edition contains not only musical scores of excellent quality, but also a detailed foreword in English and German as well as critical notes in English.

Chamber Music Percussion, Piano

SKU: PR.11440751B

Composed by Daniel Dorff. Part. Duration 20 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-40751B. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11440751B).

UPC: 680160685769.

Commi ssioned by Marta Ptaszynska for the 1992 Bydgoszcz Percussion Symposium in Poland, Dorff’s concerto bears a secret program reflecting the proud strength of Polish Solidarnosc standing up to Soviet oppression. Lurking in the drama’s background were the ironies of Poland’s financial dependence on the USSR, and Dorff’s ancestry with Russian and Polish roots. The first movement was completed in August 1991, and an hour later Gorbachev was deposed by a coup; the remainder of the concerto was composed as the USSR fell. This glorious development for human freedom also meant the end of financial commitments from the USSR to its satellite countries, leading to the cancellation of the Bydgoszcz Festival. Percussionist Dean Witten premiered the work with the Haddonfield (NJ) Symphony, conducted by Maestro Alan Gilbert, then in his 20s.

Piano - Beginning

SKU: SB.SBMP-1694

Composed by Jacob Narverud. Classical. 16 pages. Santa Barbara Music Publishing #SBMP1694. Published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing (SB.SBMP-1694).

UPC: 000308159660.

†œEvery door you enter you find a piece of something inside you never knew.” Choirs will love this inspiring text that brings comfort to those in times of struggle. Character building texts of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and self-worth are set beautifully to music that is accessible for choirs of any level. It features unison melodies that are excellent opportunities to build your choir’s legato tone, along with part writing that is quick to learn and satisfying to sing. This piece speaks to the heart of what it means to be human, and it is sure to be an all-time favorite of singers and audience alike!

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.110418140

Composed by James Matheson. Performance Score. 24 pages. Duration 25 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #110-41814. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.110418140).

ISBN 9781491129432. UPC: 680160640379.

Mathe son’s five-movement work is a setting of stained glass windows created by Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse for a rustic country church adjoining the Rockefeller estate near Sleepy Hollow on the Hudson River. Matheson’s suite draws from four Chagall windows: 1. Jeremiah, 2. Isaiah, 3. Crucifixion, 4. The Good Samaritan, and culminates with Matisse’s 5. The Rose.
In 1954, the Rockefeller family asked Henri Matisse to create a stained glass Rose Window for the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, New York as a memorial to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, the great art patroness and a founder of the Museum of Modern Art. It was to be the artist’s last work. A few years later, Mrs. Rockefeller’s youngest son, David, acting on behalf of the family, commissioned Marc Chagall to create an entire series of stained glass windows to fill the rest of the small church resulting in the large, majestic “Good Samaritan” window and eight sublime smaller windows, each depicting a biblical figure or scene. In 2015, Premiere Commission commissioned James Matheson to compose WINDOWS to celebrate the centennial of the Union Church of Pocantico Hills and the 100th birthday of David Rockefeller.  This deeply touching, epic cycle distills into music the intimate, often heart-rending, visions of Chagall as well as the powerful simplicity of Matisse’s modern design which utilizes the striking collage forms he employed in his final years. Matheson’s work also reflects the influence of Olivier Messiaen’s own theologically-inspired music. Like the French master, Matheson utilizes large-scale blocks of harmonies with organ-like sonorities to support and shift the music’s kaleidoscopic planes of color and set into relief the work’s piercing motifs and intricate patterns. The universal themes of love and sacrifice (“Jeremiah” and “Isaiah†), loss and altruism (“Crucifixionâ€� � and “The Good Samaritan”) and the jubilant celebration of life and nature (“The Rose”) are memorably portrayed in this poignant tribute to the human spirit.—Bruce Levingston.

(Ragtime, Blues and Boogie Arrangements nach beruhmten Strauss-Walzern im Stil von Scott Joplin). By Gerald Schwertberger. For piano. Level 3. 60 pages. Published by Doblinger Music Publishers