Chamber Music Piano

SKU: PR.140401340

Sketches for Piano. Composed by Harry T. Burleigh. Edited by Lara Downes. 16 pages. Duration 18 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #140-40134. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.140401340).

ISBN 9781491134450. UPC: 680160684953.

Best known for his settings of spirituals and influence on Dvorák, Henry T. Burleigh was a celebrated baritone, and a prolific composer of original works. FROM THE SOUTHLAND is a suite of six atmospheric scenes of the American south, inspired by Black musical and cultural traditions. FROM THE SOUTHLAND is within reach of intermediate pianists and artistically suited for professional recitals.
In 1835, Henry T. Burleigh’s maternal grandfather purchased his own release from slavery for the sum of $50, and traveled north out of Maryland to begin a new life as a free man. He established his family in Ithaca, NY, and then moved to the bustling lakefront city of Erie, PA, where three decades later his grandson Henry would be born and raised.For Burleigh, the “Southland” that inspired this collection of piano sketches was a distant place that could not have been more different from the physical world he knew, up there in the northern snowbelt. And yet these southern landscapes and vignettes must have been intensely present in his consciousness, absorbed through the stories and songs he first learned at his grandfather’s knee.The music of the South – the spirituals and work songs he heard as a child –would travel with Burleigh throughout his long and illustrious musical life. Even as he progressed through his early classical training, his career as a baritone soloist in Erie’s churches and synagogue, his move to New York to study at the National Conservatory of Music, and his rise to national prominence as a concert soloist, these ancestral melodies stayed firmly centered in his musical identity.When he wrote From the Southland, his only composition for solo piano, Burleigh was just beginning his career as a composer. The art songs that would establish him as one of America’s best known composers in the genre were still to come. And so were his iconic arrangements of spirituals that would bring the songs of slavery onto concert stages around the world, transformed into timeless and uniquely American music.These little piano sketches bring together all the things that made Burleigh the musician he was – the lush, late-romantic style of his time; a broad vision for American music; and a profound respect for his heritage, a memory of the world his grandfather left behind, and a love of the music he brought with him.

Composed by John Brimhall and Raquel Abril. For Piano. Paperback. Reference, Method. Book. 88 pages. Published by Santorella Publications

(For the Beginning Pianist). Arranged by David Dutkanicz. For Piano. Book; Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Dover Edition. Blues. Published by Dover Publications

(Beginning Piano Solo Play-Along Volume 7). By The Beatles. Beginning Piano Solo Play-Along. Softcover with CD. 24 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Composed by Helen Marlais. For piano. All-In-One Approach to Succeeding at the Piano. Preparatory A. Method book and CD. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc

Composed by Helen Marlais. For piano. All-In-One Approach to Succeeding at the Piano. Preparatory B. Method book and CD. 51 pages. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc

A Guide for Complementing Melodies on the Keyboard. Piano Instruction. Improvisation, Instruction. Softcover Audio Online. 72 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

By Kevin and Julia Olson. For piano. The Perfect Start. Instructional. Beginning. Book

Eras - Volume I - Very Easy / Moderately Easy. By Easy Piano Pieces of the Classical and Romantic Eras. Edited by Walther Georgii. Piano (Harpsichord), 2-hands. Pages: 52. Urtext edition-paper bound. Published by G. Henle.

by Gail Smith. For Piano. method. All Styles. Level: Beginning. Book. Size 8.75x11.75. 80 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Piano (Piano)

SKU: HL.14003415

Arranged by Carol Barratt. Music Sales America. Tuition. Book [Softcover]. 64 pages. Chester Music #CH71775. Published by Chester Music (HL.14003415).

ISBN 9781846097355. UPC: 884088433659. 9.0x12.0x0.204 inches. English.

More than forty favourite Christmas songs and carols for the beginning pianist, arranged by Carol Barratt. Many of the songs include both the English and American versions of the traditional carols. Carols include lyrics and chord symbols and are ideal for use alongside The Classic Piano Course books 1 and 2.

Arranged by Paul Sheftel. Collection for Piano. This comprehensive volume for beginning piano students offers the player 132 original masterpieces from Beethoven to Bartok and covers a wide range of styles. Selected by noted piano pedagogue Paul Sheftel, this collection will offer the beginning student challenging repertoire as well as hours of enjoyment. 157 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.

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.

A bumper collection of film themes. Great Piano Solos. TV-Film-Musical-Show. Book Only. Wise Publications #MUSAM982795. Published by Wise Publications

An Adult Approach. By Allen Giles. For piano. Student Book. Tablature. 113 pages. Published by Theodore Presser Company.

Piano

SKU: HL.50512016

Earlier versions and other works. Composed by Ferenc Liszt. Romantic. EMB. (Suppl.13). Critical Complete Edition. Book Only. Composed 2011. 264 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #Z14711. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (HL.50512016).

ISBN 9790080147115. 23 x 30 cm inches. Hungarian, English, German. Ferenc Liszt; Adrienne Kaczmarczyk.

The content of this volume consists partly of works that have survived in the composer's manuscript and are now published for the first time, and partly of the original versions of pieces that were published during Liszt's lifetime but later reworked. Of the earlier versions connected with Years of Pilgrimage, 2nd Year, Italy, the most noteworthy are the two completed versions of the Dante sonata, which are now appearing in print for the first time. Further important compositions belonging to the Italy cycle are the Petrarch sonnets. The first versions of these that we are publishing were actually published by the composer, and he also included them in his concert repertoire. Another particularly significant piece being published for the first time is the Freischutz fantasia, a characteristic, fine example of the type of opera fantasia Liszt developed at the beginning of the 1840s. Of the waltzes that feature in this volume, in addition to the first version of the concert pieces - the Grande valse di bravura and the Valse melancolique - we have also included three complete, technically less demanding little pieces that Liszt intended primarily as mementos.Territorial restrictions may apply. Please ask before ordering.

(20 Carols for the Beginning Pianist). Composed by Kimberly Meiste. For piano. Christmas. Easy. Published by Lillenas Publishing Company

By James Bastien. For Piano. Bastien Piano. Bastien Intermediate Piano Course. Theory. Level: Level 1. Music Book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

(A Fun and Comprehensive Overview of Classical Piano Playing). By Cathy Schane-Lydon. For Piano. Book; CD; Method/Instruction; Piano Method. The Total Pianist. Masterwork Arrangement. 128 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Music for the Beginning Pianist with Downloadable MP3s. Edited by David Dutkanicz. Masterworks; Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Christmas; Masterwork Arrangement; Romantic; Winter. Book. Alfred Music #06-826872. Published by Alfred Music

Edited by Denes Agay. For piano. Format: piano solo book. With fingerings. Baroque, Classical Period and Romantic Period. 80 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Yorktown Music Press. (MS.YK21376) A selected repertoire of classical pieces for the beginning pianist. Includes inventions, minuets, gavottes, and airs from such well-known composers as Bach, Handel, Schumann, Haydn, Mozart and Purcell.

Selected and arranged by Denes Agay and Frank Metis. Book. Published by Music Sales. (YK21826) Featuring easy-to-play arrangements of Handel's best-loved music, including favorite selections from "The Messiah." Although simplified, all of the settings are true to the beloved originals, making this folio a joy for the beginning to intermediate pianist.

(21 Arrangements for the Beginning Pianist). Arranged by David Dutkanicz. For Piano. Book; Piano Collection; Piano Supplemental. Dover Edition. Jazz. Published by Alfred Music

Composed by Judith Harvey, Cassia Harvey. 114 pages. Published by C. Harvey Publications (CH.CHP302).