Scott Joplin Reconsidered. Composed by Scott Joplin (1868-1917). Edited by L...(+)
Scott Joplin
Reconsidered.
Composed by Scott Joplin
(1868-1917). Edited by
Lara
Downes. Collection.
Theodore
Presser Company
#440-40028.
Published by Theodore
Presser
Company
Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ20084 Urtext (1932-1939). Composed by Bela Barto...(+)
Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ20084
Urtext
(1932-1939). Composed
by Bela Bartok. Arranged
by Yusuke Nakahara. EMB
Music of Bela Bartok.
Educational Tool. Book
Only. Composed 2021. 112
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ20084.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ20084).
English-Hungarian.
Bartók's
Mikrokosmos has been one
of the milestones in
pedagogical piano
repertoire for 80 years -
and yet it is also far
more than a classical
piano primer. These 153
piano pieces, organized
in ascending order of
difficulty, engage not
only with technical
aspects of piano playing
but also with the
fundamentals of
composition - from
Imitation and Inversion,
Ostinato, and Free
Variations, concerning
compositional technique,
to mood pieces and pieces
with programmatic ideas
such as Notturno,
Boating, From the Diary
of a Fly, or the famous
Six Dances in Bulgarian
Rhythm. Mikrokosmos first
appeared in 1940 in six
volumes. Based on volume
40 of the Bartók
CompleteEdition published
in 2020(Z. 15040), the
present Urtext edition
offers the series
gathered in three
volumes. This edition
includes Bartók's
preface, exercises, and
notes written for the
first edition.
Furthermore, it also
features a preface and
comments by the editor,
which not only discuss
the genesis and the
compositional sources but
also provide performers,
teachers and pupils
alike, with authentic and
detailed information
about Bartók's
notation and the specific
performing problems of
Mikrokosmos.
(Backing Tracks and Improv Lessons). Composed by Noah Baerman and Jen Allen....(+)
(Backing Tracks and
Improv
Lessons). Composed by
Noah
Baerman and Jen Allen.
For
Keyboard; Piano. Book;
DVD;
Keyboard/Piano;
Method/Instruction.
Complete
Method. Jazz. Beginner.
80
pages. Published by
Alfred
Music
Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ20085 Urtext (1932-1939). Composed by Bela Barto...(+)
Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ20085
Urtext
(1932-1939). Composed
by Bela Bartok. Arranged
by Yusuke Nakahara. EMB
Music of Bela Bartok.
Educational Tool. Book
Only. Composed 2021. 116
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ20085.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ20085).
English-Hungarian.
Bartók's
Mikrokosmos has been one
of the milestones in
pedagogical piano
repertoire for 80 years -
and yet it is also far
more than a classical
piano primer. These 153
piano pieces, organized
in ascending order of
difficulty, engage not
only with technical
aspects of piano playing
but also with the
fundamentals of
composition - from
Imitation and Inversion,
Ostinato, and Free
Variations, concerning
compositional technique,
to mood pieces and pieces
with programmatic ideas
such as Notturno,
Boating, From the Diary
of a Fly, or the famous
Six Dances in Bulgarian
Rhythm. Mikrokosmos first
appeared in 1940 in six
volumes. Based on volume
40 of the Bartók
CompleteEdition published
in 2020(Z. 15040), the
present Urtext edition
offers the series
gathered in three
volumes. This edition
includes Bartók's
preface, exercises, and
notes written for the
first edition.
Furthermore, it also
features a preface and
comments by the editor,
which not only discuss
the genesis and the
compositional sources but
also provide performers,
teachers and pupils
alike, with authentic and
detailed information
about Bartók's
notation and the specific
performing problems of
Mikrokosmos.
(Very First Adventures in Piano Playing). By Joanna MacGregor. For Piano. Book; ...(+)
(Very First Adventures in
Piano Playing). By Joanna
MacGregor. For Piano.
Book; CD;
Method/Instruction; Piano
Method. Faber Edition:
PianoWorld. 32 pages.
Published by Faber Music
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.
11 Miniaturen. Composed by Claus Kuhnl. Edition Breitkopf. In these eleven s...(+)
11 Miniaturen. Composed
by
Claus Kuhnl. Edition
Breitkopf.
In these eleven short
piano
pieces, the composer
follows
the cue of such
modern-day
masters as Olivier
Messiaen,
Karlheinz Stockhausen,
Helmut
Lachenmann and Nicolaus
A.
Huber.
Pedagogical. Breitkopf
and
Haertel #EB-9175.
Published
by Breitkopf and Haertel
Piano SKU: HL.14010480 Piano Solo. Composed by Per Norgard. Music ...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14010480
Piano
Solo. Composed by Per
Norgard. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. 7 pages.
Music Sales #KP00717.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14010480).
ISBN
9788759870082.
Danish.
Esperanza -
Eremitkrebs-Tango (1997)
Hermit Crab Tango,
Esperanza is part of
Norgard's Animals in
Concert, a suite of piano
pieces, so far comprised
of: 1. A Tortoise's
Tango (1984) - dur.:
4' 2. Light of a
Night - Paul meets bird
(1989) - dur.: 6'
3. Hermit Crab Tango -
Esperanza (1997) - dur.:
5' The pieces can
be performed together or
one by one. In
the1980s, quite a few
“finds”
turned up in Per
Norgard's music. The
material could be, say, a
number of song birds'
equilibrist melodic
lines, the overtones of
the ocean surf, or
waltzing themes by the
schizophrenic artist
Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930).
Or again, as heard here,
it can be the rhythms and
motifs of the tango and a
Beatles song (with bird),
explored in three
independent piano pieces
that form the Animals in
Concert suite, about
which the composer
writes: Programme
note for Animals in
Concert: 1. A
Tortoise's Tango (1984) -
dur.: 4' 2. Light
of a Night - Paul meets
bird (1989) - dur.:
6' 3. Hermit Crab
Tango - Esperanza (1997)
- dur.: 5' The
pieces can be performed
together or one by
one. In the1980s,
quite a few
“finds”
turned up in Per
Norgard's music. The
material could be, say, a
number of song birds'
equilibrist melodic
lines, the overtones of
the ocean surf, or
waltzing themes by the
schizophrenic artist
Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930).
Or again, as heard here,
it can be the rhythms and
motifs of the tango and a
Beatles song (with bird),
explored in three
independent piano pieces
that form the Animals in
Concert suite, about
which the composer
writes: “A
Tortoise's Tango”:
The tortoise as tango
dancer must presumably
possess certain rhythmic
peculiarities, which I
have chosen to express by
letting the tune of the
tortoise shuffle broadly,
tripartite through the
strict four partite time
of tango. Tortoise
Tango was the original
title of this piece,
“written for
Achilles” (the
pianist Yvar Mikhashoff),
for his so called tango
project”, including
new tangos for piano by
composers from all over
the world.
“Light of a Night
(Paul meets bird)”
was commissioned by
pianist Aki Takahashi. It
is a
“reworked”
arrangement for piano of
the Beatles song
”Blackbird”.
As some of us will
recall, the Beatles on
“The White
Album” let the
beautiful song to the
blackbird be accompanied
by an (apparently) live
blackbird song. It is
this authentic bird-motif
world that in
“Light of a
Night” weaves
itself into the Beatles
melody and in turn is
gradually infected by it,
so that a completely new
third entity ensues: a
kind of Bird-rock ballad
(or maybe it is a
Beatle-bird?).
“Hermit Crab Tango
(Esperanza)”: The
tango situation is quite
special for a Hermit
Crab. It is a well-known
fact that the hermit crab
- this soft animal - must
run the gauntlet among
the many perils at the
bottom of the sea when it
must move hose. I have
chosen to express the
angers by a.
Over 40 favourite pieces from the popular series. Composed by Pam Wedgwood. Pi...(+)
Over 40 favourite pieces
from
the popular series.
Composed
by Pam Wedgwood. Piano -
Teaching Supplement;
Piano
Supplemental. Faber
Edition:
Jazzin' About. Jazz.
Book. 72
pages. Faber Music #12-
0571542891. Published by
Faber
Music
Primer Level. Arranged by Nancy Faber and Randall Faber. Faber Piano Adventur...(+)
Primer Level. Arranged by
Nancy Faber and Randall
Faber. Faber Piano
Adventures. Chinese.
Softcover. 22 pages.
Faber
Piano Adventures #FF3056.
Published by Faber Piano
Adventures
Piano - Late Intermediate SKU: FJ.E1117 Composed by Kevin Olson. Piano Du...(+)
Piano - Late Intermediate
SKU: FJ.E1117
Composed by Kevin Olson.
Piano Duo; Piano
Supplemental. The FJH
Piano Ensemble Series.
Score. The FJH Music
Company Inc #98-E1117.
Published by The FJH
Music Company Inc
(FJ.E1117).
UPC:
241444402498.
English.
Dedicated
to the students of the
Kitsap Music Teachers
Association, Kitsap, WA.
Once the clock starts
ticking, the rhythmic
energy of the
Latin-infused piece never
lets go! A show-stopper
for two pianos and eight
hands.
About FJH
Piano Ensemble
Series
Cre
ative material especially
written to explore
aspects of artistic
ensemble performance.
By Various. Edited by Helen Marlais. For Piano. The FJH Contemporary Keyboard Ed...(+)
By Various. Edited by
Helen Marlais. For Piano.
The FJH Contemporary
Keyboard Editions.
Contemporary. Level:
Elementary. Book.
Published by The FJH
Music Company Inc.
Piano - easy SKU: HL.50600649 Facsimile with CD. Composed by Gyorg...(+)
Piano - easy
SKU:
HL.50600649
Facsimile with CD.
Composed by Gyorgy
Kurtag. Contemporary
Music. EMB. Classical,
Facsimile, Hungarian.
Softcover with CD.
Composed 2016. 122 pages.
Editio Musica Budapest
#Z15000. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(HL.50600649).
ISBN
9790080150009. UPC:
888680895518.
10.25x13.5x0.622 inches.
Hungarian, English.
Gyorgy Kurtag.
In
the autumn of 1974
György Kurtág began
to copy selected pieces
from the series Games
into a music notebook for
Zoltán Kocsis who had
been his student in
earlier years and who,
even today, is one of its
most authentic
performers. Kocsis played
from this notebook in the
first public performance
of Games in 1974. The
gradually expanding
series of piano pieces
also appeared in print in
the course of later
decades; however, since
then he has used this
collection - expanded
over 32 years since by
Kurtág - whenever he
plays pieces from Games
in concert. Since the
time of this 1974
concert, as he writes: 'I
didn't know that the
spiral notebook I
received at the premiere
would later become, as it
were, my permanent
companion. That I would
take it with me from
Japan to Canada, from
Australia to Iceland,
travelling to the world's
most prominent concert
halls, surviving fire
damage, flood, transport
catastrophes, theft
attempts, forced landings
and so on, and that -
well beyond the intention
of its being 'copied with
love' - it would include
works and sketches for
which this notebook would
become the principal
source.' The manuscript
gives a glimpse into
Kurtág's workshop from
the viewpoint of both
performers and
musicologists. The former
can understand more from
Kurtág's handwriting
about the composer's
intentions than from the
printed score. The
musicologists, however,
can study the historical
origins of the works:
some works can be found
here in more than one
version, others appear in
a version different from
the printed score. The
publication is
accompanied by a booklet
and a CD supplement. The
booklet contains Kocsis's
own personal preface, as
well as András
Wilheim's essay providing
information about the
collection and the pieces
contained therein. On the
CD we hear 11 works
performed by Kocsis, from
a recording made in 1982
which has not previously
been commercially
issued.
Revised Edition with Fingering by 26 Pianists. Composed by Franz Joseph Ha...(+)
Revised Edition with
Fingering by 26 Pianists.
Composed by Franz Joseph
Haydn (1732-1809). Edited
by
Georg Feder. Henle Music
Folios. Classical.
Softcover.
G. Henle #HN1336.
Published
by G. Henle
Book 4. An All-In-One Accelerated Course. Composed by Dennis Alexander, Martha...(+)
Book 4. An All-In-One
Accelerated Course.
Composed
by Dennis Alexander,
Martha
Mier, E. L. Lancaster,
Gayle
Kowalchyk, and Victoria
Mcarthur.
Method/Instruction; Piano
-
Alfred's Premier Piano
Course. Premier Piano
Course. Children. Book;
Digital Download. 96
pages.
Alfred Music #00-47958.
Published by Alfred Music
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.
Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ15000N Facsimile numbered edition with CD. Compo...(+)
Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ15000N
Facsimile numbered
edition with CD.
Composed by Gyorgy
Kurtag. Book with CD.
Composed 2016. 122 pages.
Editio Musica Budapest
#EMBZ15000N. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ15000N).
English-Hungarian.
In the autumn of 1974
György Kurtág began
to copy selected pieces
from the series Games
into a music notebook for
Zoltán Kocsis who was
his student in earlier
years and who, throughout
his entire life, was one
of its most authentic
performers. Kocsis played
from this notebook in the
first public performance
of Games in 1974. The
gradually expanding
series of piano pieces
also appeared in print in
the course of later
decades however, he
always used this
collection - expanded
over 32 years since by
Kurtág - whenever he
played pieces from Games
in concert. Since the
time of this 1974
concert, as Kocsis wrote
later: ''I didn't know
that the spiral notebook
I received at thepremiere
would later become, as it
were, my permanent
companion. That I would
take it with me from
Japan to Canada, from
Australia to Iceland,
travelling to the world's
most prominent concert
halls, surviving fire
damage, flood, transport
catastrophes, theft
attempts, forced landings
and so on, and that -
well beyond the intention
of its being 'copied with
love' - it would include
works and sketches for
which this notebook would
become the principal
source.''The manuscript
gives a glimpse into
Kurtág's workshop from
the viewpoint of both
performers and
musicologists. The former
can understand more from
Kurtág's handwriting
about the composer's
intentions than from the
printed score. The
musicologists, however,
can study the historical
origins of the works:
some works can be found
here in more than one
version, others appear in
a version different from
the printed score.The
publication is
accompanied by a booklet
and a CD supplement. The
booklet contains Kocsis's
own personal preface, as
well as András
Wilheim's essay providing
information about the
collection and the pieces
contained therein. On the
CD we hear 11 works
performed by Kocsis, from
a recording made in 1982
which has not previously
been commercially
issued.