Level 3B continues to build musicianship with challenging and motivating pieces. Concepts include the octave, A minor and D minor scales (natural and harmonic minor), motive and sequence, all 12 major and minor triads, triad inversions, syncopation, and introduction to sixteenth notes / Piano

Jóhann Jóhannsson was an award-winning Icelandic composer, renowned for his compositions across film, television, theatre and dance, including his stunning score to James Marsh?s Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything (2014), which earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works brings together for the first time transcriptions of his best-loved works in a special limited-edition collection for solo piano, which celebrates music from his solo albums alongside his highly acclaimed and powerfully moving film scores. Featuring 30 pieces accurately transcribed for solo piano, this collection will allow fans of Jóhannsson to immerse in his unique sound-world with music from across his career including The Theory of Everything, Odi et Amo and Flight From the City. Suitable for intermediate piano.With only a thousand copies available, Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works is presented as a stunning high-end cloth-bound hardback limited-edition book. Alongside the scores, it includes a wealth of striking photographs and a specially written introduction from American composer Dustin O?Halloran, a longtime friend of Jóhannsson.?I believe that music acts as a time capsule, preserving the very essence of an individuals heart. When we play music from the past, we possess the ability to summon their spirit and bring them back to life. Jóhann?s music, in its timelessness, will forever remain vibrant and alive. By playing these pieces, you will find yourself drawing closer to his musical world, ensuring its eternal resonance?. Dustin O?Halloran, composer.?Jóhann Jóhannsson: Piano Works offers a superb tribute and testament to the musical achievement of this much-missed composer.? Andrew Eales, pianodao.com A Game of Croquet (from The Theory of Everything) A Model of the Universe (from The Theory of Everything) Bað A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder Be Over (from The Shadow Play soundtrack) Beauty (from Blind Massage) By the Roes, and by The Hinds of the Field Dressing Up (from Personal Effects) The Drowned World Eleven Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty-Nine Died of Natural Causes Englabörn (piano version) Flight From the City Flugeldar II Good Morning, Midnight He Says It?s the Future Indian Wedding (from Personal Effects) Innocence (from Free the Mind) Já, Hemmi Minn Jói and Karen Linda and Walter (from Personal Effects) Melodia (III) Odi et Amo / Krókódíll Payphone (from McCanick) The Radiant City Ruslpóstur The Sun?s Gone Dim and the Sky?s Turned Black Theme from ?Varmints? soundtrack The Theory of Everything (soundtrack) Time to Say Goodbye (from White Black Boy) Will?s Story (from Free the Mind) / Piano / Faber Music

Par NG YING YING / O'SULLIVAN FARRELL MARGARET. Book 3 introduces the concepts of key, key signature, scales, triads, tones and semitones in a novel and exciting way: each key is a group of characters or objects with note-names (i.e. a band, a birthday party, a clothes-line with garments). Certain notes belong, while all other notes (accidentals) are outsiders. Transposition is a natural outcome of this concept, with a tune moving from one group to another. The child masters eight new notes (up to High G and down to Low F), which facilitates the playing of more adventurous repertoire. The semiquaver, semiquaver rest, dotted crotchet and dotted quaver are introduced, and tempo markings are now in Italian. As in the previous two books, ensemble-playing is encouraged. / Methods & Tutors, Miscellaneous / Méthode / Piano

Par NG YING YING / O'SULLIVAN FARRELL MARGARET. Book 1 introduces the child to the keyboard, staves, clefs, simple time signatures, note values and rests. Reading encompasses notes to a 5th above and a 5th below Middle C. The notes A and E are introduced first, played by a braced 3rd finger of each hand. This encourages free movement of the whole arm from the shoulder, and develops a natural, balanced hand position, before the 5-finger position is gradually mastered. The first line of the treble stave and the fifth line of the bass stave are highlighted, and further lines are similarly treated as the child learns more notes. Staccato, slurs, ties, upbeats and repeat signs are all experienced in Book 1. Tempo and dynamic markings encourage musical playing, and are in English. / Methods & Tutors, Miscellaneous / Méthode / Piano