Piano

SKU: BT.WMP2315

Selected Piano Repertory and Studies. By Josephine Koh. Teachers' Choice. Exam Material. Book Only. 48 pages. Wells Music Publishers #WMP2315. Published by Wells Music Publishers (BT.WMP2315).

ISBN 9789811105562. English.

The latest of this series comprises popular choice pieces and alternative works from the ABRSM Piano Examination syllabi. These pieces have been specially selected for examination purposes and general repertoire study. Meticulously fingered and edited by Josephine Koh, the Teachers ' Choice Selected Piano Repertory & Studies, just like the past series, offers teaching points and performance directionsthat help to develop technical assurance and stylistic awareness in the students. All works in Teachers' Choice are beautifully scored for comfort of reading.  Beyond examinations, the series is enjoyed by music teacherswhouse the studies presented in each grade, for the development of specific technical skills in their students.

24 Traditional Songs Arranged for Intermediate Piano Solo. By Joseph Johnson. Educational Piano Solo. Softcover. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Edited by Denes Agay. For piano. Format: piano solo book. With chord names and fingerings. Ragtime. 80 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Yorktown Music Press. (MS.YK21129) This book includes the best and most durable examples of the unique ragtime style--the music of Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph F. Lamb, Tom Turpin, Charles Hunter, and others--most are in their original forms, though some have been arranged for easier playing.

Piano

SKU: HL.50605476

10 Easy Christmas Melodies for Piano. Composed by Various. Arranged by Andrea Cappellari. Piano Collection. Christmas, Holiday. Softcover Audio Online. Ricordi #ER00309600. Published by Ricordi (HL.50605476).

ISBN 9781705190326. UPC: 196288126096.

Songl ist: 1. A Natale puoi [Francesco Vitaloni] 2. Feliz Navidad [José Feliciano] 3. God Rest You Merry Gentlemen (Traditional) 4. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Hugh Martin] 5. Jingle Bell Rock [Joseph C. Beal] 6. Silent Night [Franz Xaver Gruber] 7. The First Nowell (Tradtional) 8. Tu scendi dalle stelle [Alfonso Maria de' Liguori] 9. We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Traditional) 10. White Christmas [Irving Berlin].

Piano - Grade 4

SKU: FA.MFCD007PN

By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy and Robert Orledge. Rediscoverd Debussy. Classical, Impressionistic. Score. Musik Fabrik #MFCD007PN. Published by Musik Fabrik (FA.MFCD007PN).

8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Debussy's friendship with the versatile poet and playwright Gabriel Mourey began in 1899, and in July 1907 Mourey offered Debussy a libretto based on Le roman de Tristan - Joseph Bedier's adaptation of a twelfth-century Breton romance by the Anglo-Norman poet known as Thomas - which had recently been published in Paris. Debussy enthusiastically outlined the four-act plot to Victor Segalen that October, and the main differences from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde are that none of the action takes place in Cornwall and that Isolde of the White Hands is found guilty of cuckolding King Marc with Tristan, who has to rescue her from the leper colony in which she is abandoned in Act 1. She also betrays him when he goes mad at the end.

The idea of a Tristan that restored its 'legendary character' and had no connections with Wagner, appealed to Debussy, who was extremely moved by the circumstances of Tristan's death. Even if he thought that Mourey's poetry was 'not very lyrical and many passages do not exactly invite music', he did work on the libretto and the music that summer and sent his publisher, Jacques Durand, 'one of the 363 themes for the Roman de Tristan' in a letter sent from Pourville on 23 August, 1907. The present prelude grows from this theme, together with the poignant Breton folksong Le Faucon. After a short atmospheric introduction, Debussy's dance-like theme (which is definitely not a leitmotif) gradually gains momentum and after it reaches its ecstatic climax, representing the transient happiness of the lovers, it dissolves into an expressive coda and an elegiac close (all growing from Debussy's opening, off-stage trumpet calls), leaving us with the ultimate tragedy of their ill-fated affair.

Unfortunat ely, Mourey's actual libretto has been lost and the project eventually foundered because Bedier's cousin, Louis Artus, wanted Debussy to use the scenario he had prepared and copyrighted for the stage, and would not allow him to proceed with Mourey's version. Debussy, it need hardly be said, would never have dreamed of collaborating with the author of the vaudeville hit La culotte (The pants)!

Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.140401320

Composed by Eubie Blake. Edited by Lara Downes. Arranged by Jeremy Siskind. Sws. Score. 8 pages. Duration 3:45. Theodore Presser Company #140-40132. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401320).

ISBN 9781491134177. UPC: 680160684274. 9 x 12 inches. Key: F major.

LOVE WILL FIND A WAY is one of the great hits of the 1920s – an era of remarkable cultural growth giving rise to “The Roaring '20s,” “The Harlem Renaissance,” and a fun-loving society known for the Charleston dance craze and the surge of jazz into the mainstream of American music. A song from Shuffle Along, the first all-Black Broadway musical, LOVE WILL FIND A WAY has been arranged by pianist Jeremy Siskind especially for Lara Downes’ recording that launches the Rising Sun series.
According to Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake’s 1921 Shuffle Along was the real start of the Harlem Renaissance. In Hughes’ words: “Everybody was in the audience, including me. It gave just the proper push, a pre-Charleston kick, to that Negro vogue of the '20s that spread to books, African sculpture, music, and dancing.”As Broadway’s first all-Black hit musical, with an all-star cast including Paul Robeson and a young Josephine Baker, Shuffle Along ran for an unprecedented 504 performances in New York, then toured nationally for three years as the first Black musical to play in white theaters across the United States. The show’s appeal to a multi-racial audience, and its integration of the jazz and Broadway communities, not only changed the history of the American musical theater, but made important strides forward in American race relations.Love Will Find a Way is one of the show’s most popular tunes. This intimate, pensive arrangement by Jeremy Siskind celebrates the song’s centenary by making it a love song for our own time as much as its own – a reminder that no matter how dark the path or how gray the skies, love will always find a way.