Orchestra Piano

SKU: PR.11641861SP

Composed by William Kraft. Part. 35 pages. Duration 21 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #116-41861SP. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11641861SP).

UPC: 680160685202.

What? ! - my composer colleagues said - A concerto for the piano? It's a 19th century instrument! Admittedly we are in an age when originally created timbres and/or musico-technological formulations are often the modus operandi of a piece. Actually, this Concerto began about two years ago when, during one of my creative jogs, the sound of the uppermost register of the piano mingled with wind chimes penetrated my inner ear. The challenge and fascination of exploring and developing this idea into an orchestral situation determined that some day soon I would be writing a work for piano and orchestra. So it was a very happy coincidence when Mona Golabek phoned to tell me she would like discuss the Ford Foundation commission. After covering areas of aesthetics and compositional styles, we found that we had a good working rapport, and she asked if I would accept the commission. The answer was obvious. Then began the intensive thought process on the stylistic essence and organization of the work. Along with this went a renewed study of idiomatic writing for the piano, of the kind Stravinsky undertook with the violin when he began his Violin Concerto. By a stroke of great fortune, the day in February 1972 that I received official notice from the Ford Foundation of the commission, I also received a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation informing me I had been awarded my second fellowship. With the good graces of Zubin Mehta and Ernest Fleischmann, masters of my destiny as a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, I was relieved of my orchestral duties during the Hollywood Bowl season. Thus I was able to go to Europe to work and to view the latest trends in music concentrating in London (the current musical melting pot and showcase par excellence), Oslo, Norway, for the Festival of Scandinavian Music called Nordic Days, and Warsaw, Poland, for its prestigious Autumn Festival. Over half the Concerto was completed in that summer and most of the rest during the 72-73 season with the final touches put on during a month as Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. So much for the external and environmental influences, except perhaps to mention the birds of Sussex in the first movement, the bells of Arhus (Denmark) in the second movement and the bells of Bellagio at the end of the Concerto. Primary in the conception was the personality of Miss Golabek: she is a wonderfully vital and dynamic person and a real virtuoso. Therefore, the soloist in the Concerto is truly the protagonist; it is she (for once we can do away with the generic he) who unfolds the character and intent of the piece. The first section is constructed in the manner of a recitative - completely unmeasured - with letters and numbers by which the conductor signals the orchestra for its participation. This allows the soloist the freedom to interpret the patterns and control the flow and development of the music. The Concerto is actually in one continuous movement but with three large divisions of sufficiently contrasting character to be called movements in themselves. The first 'movement' is based on a few timbral elements: 1) a cluster of very low pitches which at the beginning are practically inaudibly depressed, and sustained silently by the sostenuto pedal, which causes sympathetic vibrating pitches to ring when strong notes are struck; 2) a single powerful note indicated by a black note-head with a line through it indicating the strongest possible sforzando; 3) short figures of various colors sometimes ominous, sometimes as splashes of light or as elements of transition; 4) trills and tremolos which are the actual controlling organic thread starting as single axial tremolos and gradually expanding to trills of increasingly larger and more powerful scope. The 'movement' begins in quiescent repose but unceasingly grows in energy and tension as the stretching of a string or rubber band. When it can no longer be restrained, it bursts into the next section. The second 'movement,' propelled by the released tension, is a brilliant virtuosic display, which begins with a long solo of wispy percussion, later joined in duet with the piano. Not to be ignored, the orchestra takes over shooting the material throughout all its sections like a small agile bird deftly maneuvering through nothing but air, while the piano counterposes moments of lyricism. The orchestra reaches a climax, thrusting us into the third 'movement' which begins with a cadenza-like section for the piano. This moves gently into an expressive section (expressive is not a negative term to me) in which duets are formed with various instruments. There are fleeting glimpses of remembrances past, as a fragmented recapitulation. One glimpse is hazily expressed by strings and percussion in a moment of simultaneous contrasting levels of activity, a technique of which I have been fond and have utilized in various fixed-free relationships, particularly in my Percussion Concerto, Contextures and Games: Collage No. 1. The second half of the third 'movement; is a large coda - akin to those in Beethoven - which brings about another display of virtuosity, this time gutsy and driving, raising the Concerto to a final climax, the soloist completing the fragmented recapitulation concept as well as the work with the single-note sforzando and low cluster from the very opening of the first movement.

Composed by Various. For Piano/Keyboard. Hal Leonard Fake Books. Classical. Difficulty: medium to medium-difficult. Fakebook. Melody line, chord names and lyrics (on some songs). 413 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Piano

SKU: BT.MUSAM39645

The Complete Piano Player. Tuition. Book Only. Composed 1992. 232 pages. Music Sales #MUSAM39645. Published by Music Sales (BT.MUSAM39645).

ISBN 9780711906723. English.

All five books of The Complete Piano Player series are published in this single volume at a substantial savings over the price of the five individual books. Complete with keyboard chart.

(50 Advanced Arrangements). Arranged by Dan Coates. For Piano. Book; Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. The Professional Pianist. Masterwork Arrangement; Wedding. Advanced. 168 pages. Published by Alfred Music

3 Etudes pour la Methode des Methodes. Composed by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849). Piano (Solo). The Complete Chopin - A New Critical Edition. Score. Edition Peters #EP73229. Published by Edition Peters

Hal Leonard Student Piano Library. By Barbara Kreader, Fred Kern, Phillip Keveren, Mona Rejino, and Karen Harrington. The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library. Book only. Size 9x12 inches. 40 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Composed by Chilly Gonzales. Book Only. Composed 2018. Editions Bourges #EBR532. Published by Editions Bourges

Hal Leonard Student Piano Library. By Barbara Kreader, Fred Kern, Phillip Keveren, Mona Rejino, and Karen Harrington. The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library. Book only. Size 9x12 inches. 40 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Hal Leonard Student Piano Library. By Barbara Kreader, Fred Kern, Phillip Keveren, Mona Rejino, and Karen Harrington. The Hal Leonard Student Piano Library. Book only. Size 11.88x9 inches. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Edited by Gail Lew. Arranged by Gail Lew, Chris Lobdell. Piano method/supplement (late-elementary piano). Level: late elementary, level two. Published by Belwin. {SERIES INFO" Music for the performer in all of us brings together blockbuster movie hits with band and orchestral backgrounds available on CD and MIDI disk. Here are NEW hot hits and performer and audience favorites pianistically arranged by Gail Lew and Chris Lobdell using effective chord substitutions to give a "big" professional sound. Levels correspond with MTNA state affiliates syllabus standards. (THIS PRODUCT) Titles include: Over the Rainbow * Hedwig's Theme * Fawkes the Phoenix * Talk to the Animals * The James Bond Theme * Star Wars Main Theme * The Polar Express * Gollum's Song (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) * Double Trouble (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) * All That Jazz (Chicago).

Edited by Gail Lew. Arranged by Gail Lew, Chris Lobdell. Piano method/supplement (late-elementary piano). Level: late elementary, level two. Published by Belwin. {SERIES INFO" Music for the performer in all of us brings together blockbuster movie hits with band and orchestral backgrounds available on CD and MIDI disk. Here are NEW hot hits and performer and audience favorites pianistically arranged by Gail Lew and Chris Lobdell using effective chord substitutions to give a "big" professional sound. Levels correspond with MTNA state affiliates syllabus standards. (THIS PRODUCT) Titles include: Over the Rainbow * Hedwig's Theme * Fawkes the Phoenix * Talk to the Animals * The James Bond Theme * Star Wars Main Theme * The Polar Express * Gollum's Song (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) * Double Trouble (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) * All That Jazz (Chicago).

Piano - Intermediate-Advanced to Advanced

SKU: YM.GTP01097933

Piano Pop and Vocal. Score. Yamaha Music Media #GTP01097933. Published by Yamaha Music Media (YM.GTP01097933).

ISBN 9784636979336.

The arrangements include in this series of books offer rich and gorgeous sounds and has gotten a good reputation for now. This book is a special issue. All music which this book offers are good to be used for concerts, school activities and as background music in restaurants. This level is set higher so it is challenging and rewarding for all the piano players.

I The sun, the sea - II The earth: her dance - III Clouds, winds, skies. Composed by Christian Mason. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9334. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel

(Volumes 1-5, Complete) Written by Kenneth Baker. For piano. Format: instructional book. With standard notation, chord names, lyrics, instructional text, illustrations, fingerings and pull-out keyboard chart. Learn to play. 240 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Music Sales.

By Kevin and Julia Olson. For piano. Method book. 35 pages. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc

Piano - Intermediate-Advanced

SKU: YM.GTP01098016

Composed by Various. Piano Pop and Vocal. Score. Yamaha Music Media #GTP01098016. Published by Yamaha Music Media (YM.GTP01098016).

ISBN 9784636980165.

This piano solo music sheet collection is consisted of 16 piano arrangements from 15 famous Japanese Rock and ballad songs from Visual Kei bands, including Forever Love by X Japan. The difficulty of the arrangement is indicated in 5 levels for each song. 13 pieces are arranged for intermediate level, while 3 are for advanced level, and it includes the song Anniversary by YOSHIKI, which is originally a piano concerto but arranged in piano solo for advanced players. The score is notated in double staves for piano, but it also can be played on other instruments such as guitar as the chord names are indicated. The pages with only original Japanese lyrics are included. All songs are arranged in the original keys and the same scales as the original songs. The arrangement closely recreates the original sounds and atmospheres while using easier fingering for intermediate level piano skills.

By David Lanz. Piano Solo Personality. Softcover. 104 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Piano

SKU: FG.55011-456-2

Composed by Esa Pietila. Fennica Gehrman #55011-456-2. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-456-2).

ISBN 9790550114562.

Thre e Strides of Light is inspired by the light and its behaviour in different circumstances, appearances and surroundings. The work is in three movements, but they are played together attacca.

The first movement starts off with a headstrong theme on the left hand. This motif has persistent momentum, like a train, and one could think of it as the rays of a setting sun. The beams are straight and relentlessly penetrate our eyes. The seven-bar repetition on the left hand supports this mental image, until the repetition ends and a new thematically central motive starts to emerge, bringing new kind of texture for the last rays and dance of the setting sun. At the end, the light vanishes into the night.

Second movemement, slow rubato, depicts the first rays of the rising sun, they drop behind a morning cloud into the day, growing, developing and becoming yet faster. Eventually the day opens up in all of it sunny glory. The music leads us towards the third movement, in which one bathes in the rays of the sun. The repetative motive of the first movement returns, but by now it has been transformed into something else. A pensive quintuplet-passage emerges, paving ground for the final themes of the work. The ending of the work is thick in sound, depicting the relentless glare of the sun and the heat sun creates. Within the entire work, one can imagine to have gone through a whole 24-hour period on the sea, in which the three strides of light are apparent in different parts of the day.

12 of His Original Piano Solos. Composed by Tom Gerou. Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Recital. Book. 24 pages. Alfred Music #00-47357. Published by Alfred Music

By Melody Bober. For Piano. Piano Solo. Signature Series. Level: Early Elementary. Sheet. 4 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Nancy Faber, Randall Faber. For Piano. Accelerated Piano Adventures. Level: Primer/Level 1. Book. Published by The FJH Music Company, Inc.

(For the Later Beginner) Selected and edited by E. L. Lancaster, Morton Manus. Songbook for easy solo piano. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

By Timothy Brown. For Piano. Written For You Collections. Level: Elementary. Solo Sheet. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc.