Composed by Various. For Piano/Keyboard. Hal Leonard Fake Books. Classical. Diff...(+)
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
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), edited by Riemenschneider. For pi...(+)
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750), edited by
Riemenschneider. For
piano. Format: piano solo
book. With piano
reduction, introductory
text, instructional text,
lyrics and performance
notes. Baroque. 184
pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Schirmer
Piano - late intermediate SKU: BT.EMBZ7783 Composed by Charles-Louis Hano...(+)
Piano - late intermediate
SKU: BT.EMBZ7783
Composed by Charles-Louis
Hanon. Studies &
Exercises. Book Only.
Composed 1977. 136 pages.
Editio Musica Budapest
#EMBZ7783. Published by
Editio Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ7783).
International.
'
'Learning the piano is so
widespread these days and
good pianists so numerous
that mediocrity on the
instrument can no longer
be accepted. In effect,
the piano must be studied
for eight or ten years
before performance of a
harder piece is
attempted. Few can spare
the years for this. It
takes one hour to play
the volume in full. Once
it has been mastered, it
is enough to set aside
for it a little time each
day and the difficulties
will disappear almost
like magic. Playing will
become as attractive,
accurate, fluent and
pearly as that of the
best performers.'' This
piano method by the
French music teacher
Charles-Louis Hanon
(1819-1900) appeared in
1874, with these
introductory
wordsaddressed to the
realm of pianists. Almost
a century and a half
later, it remains among
the most popular systems
of piano tuition all
around the world, and
Hanon's name has become
generic for systematic
instrumental methods,
even in types of popular
music. The Virtuoso
Pianist appears as a
publication in six
languages: English,
German, French, Italian,
Spanish and Hungarian.
The volume in a
new, decorative cover is
useful to every pianist.
Students with a years
study behind them will
succeed in mastering the
exercises. Advanced
pianists after working
through the exercises
will be able to tackle
even serious
technicaldifficulties. In
the volume different
forms of technical
difficulty are
encountered. The
exercises may be
performed on more than
one piano simultaneously,
so that students become
accustomed to ensemble
playing.
Das
Erlernen des
Klavierspiels ist
gegenwärtig so sehr
verbreitet, und es gibt
so viele gute Pianisten,
dass wir uns auf diesem
Instrument mit
Mittelmäßigkeit
nicht mehr zufriedengeben
können. Das führt
dazu, dass acht bis zehn
JahreKlavierunterricht
erforderlich sind, bevor
wir riskieren können,
ein schwieriges Stück
zu spielen. Es gibt
jedoch nur Wenige, die
dem Erlernen dieses
Instruments so viele
Jahre widmen! Man
benötigt etwa eine
Stunde, um diesen Band
voll und
ganzdurchzuspielen. Wenn
wir uns die Ãœbungen
bereits perfekt
angeeignet haben,
genügt es, sich
täglich nur kurze Zeit
mit ihm zu
beschäftigen, und
unsere Schwierigkeiten
werden wie von
Zauberhandverschwinden:
Unser Spiel wird so
schön, so akkurat,
soleicht und perlend wie
das der hervorragendsten
Künstler.
Orchestra Piano SKU: PR.11641861SP Composed by William Kraft. Part. 35 pa...(+)
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.
Joplin's Greatest Rags for Easy Piano with CD composed by Scott Joplin (1868-191...(+)
Joplin's Greatest Rags
for Easy Piano with CD
composed by Scott Joplin
(1868-1917). Arranged by
James Progris. For easy
piano. This edition:
Paperback. Collection.
Ragtime. Easy. Book and
CD. Text Language:
English. 64 pages.
Published by Santorella
Publications
Piano SKU: BT.MUSAM39645 The Complete Piano Player. Tuition. Book Only. C...(+)
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.
(Volumes 1-5, Complete) Written by Kenneth Baker. For piano. Format: instruction...(+)
(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.
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.
8 Classic Hits for the Early Beginner. By The Beatles. Arranged by Christopher...(+)
8 Classic Hits for the
Early
Beginner. By The Beatles.
Arranged by Christopher
Hussey. Willis. Pop,
Recital, Solos.
Softcover.
32 pages. Published by
Willis Music
Piano - Easy to Intermediate Levels SKU: YM.GTP01101652 The Ultimate S...(+)
Piano - Easy to
Intermediate Levels
SKU:
YM.GTP01101652
The
Ultimate Studio Ghibli
Piano Solo
Collection. Composed
by Joe Hisaishi. Studio
Ghibli. Anime Song;
J-Pop. Book. Yamaha Music
Media #GTP01101652.
Published by Yamaha Music
Media (YM.GTP01101652).
ISBN 9784636113334.
8.75 x 12
inches.
Here is the
ultimate, official,
complete edition of
Studio Ghibli Piano Solo
Collection, featuring 77
of Studio Ghibli's
essential musical
masterpieces, fully
supported in three
languages: Japanese,
English and Simplified
Chinese! From 20 of
Studio Ghibli's most
beloved films, including
My Neighbor Totoro,
Princess Mononoke,
Spirited Away, and more,
comes a piano solo
collection featuring 77
iconic songs. In addition
to timeless favorites,
songs from popular
soundtracks such as
Kiki's Delivery Service
and Porco Rosso are
included. Featuring
Studio Ghibli's musical
masterpieces in solo
piano arrangements, this
collection includes the
film's theme songs as
well as fan-favorite
instrumental music. The
difficulty levels range
from easy to
intermediate, making them
accessible to a wide
range of players, and the
simpler arrangements can
be fully enjoyed by
players who can feel the
essence and atmosphere.
The book cover features
official Studio Ghibli
artwork. The book is
supported in Japanese,
English and Chinese. This
single volume offers a
comprehensive, special
collector's edition for
enjoying the music of
Studio Ghibli. Studio
Ghibli 77 Selections is
sure to take you on a
musical journey through
20 Studio Ghibli
films!
Book/Online Audio and Video Piano The Best Step-by-Step Guide to Start Playing...(+)
Book/Online Audio and
Video
Piano
The Best Step-by-Step
Guide to
Start Playing. Do It
Yourself.
Instruction, Method.
Softcover
Media Online. 128 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
Piano seul [Partition] - Débutant Alfred Publishing
(52 Titles to Play and Sing). Arranged by Willard A. Palmer, Morton Manus, and D...(+)
(52 Titles to Play and
Sing). Arranged by
Willard A. Palmer, Morton
Manus, and Dennis
Alexander. For easy piano
and voice. Piano -
Alfred's Basic Adult
Piano Course. Alfred's
Basic Adult Piano Course.
Classical and Folk.
Difficulty: easy-medium.
Collection. Easy piano
notation, fingerings and
lyrics (on some songs).
96 pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
Piano seul [Partition] - Intermédiaire EBR Editions Bourges
Performed by Gonzales. By Gonzales. Arranged by Gonzales. For piano. This editio...(+)
Performed by Gonzales. By
Gonzales. Arranged by
Gonzales. For piano. This
edition: Editions Bourges
R. Recueil 1.
Instrumental. Songbook.
36 pages. Published by
Editions Bourges (French
import).
Piano - Grade 8 SKU: BT.RSK200097 Rockschool Piano 2019. Exam Material. B...(+)
Piano - Grade 8
SKU:
BT.RSK200097
Rockschool Piano 2019.
Exam Material. Book Only.
Composed 2019. Rockschool
#RSK200097. Published by
Rockschool
(BT.RSK200097).
ISBN
9781789360530.
English.
The
essential syllabus for
the aspiring,
contemporary pianist.
Piano Grade 8 will
provide you with
everything you need for
your Grade 8 exam,
including a diverse range
of repertoire, a truly
innovative range of
supporting tests and a
vast array of
professionally recorded
backing tracks and audio
examples.
(Easily Prepared Piano Arrangements). Arranged by Carol Tornquist. For Piano. Bo...(+)
(Easily Prepared Piano
Arrangements). Arranged
by Carol Tornquist. For
Piano. Book; Piano
Collection; Piano
Supplemental. Sacred
Performer Collections.
Sacred. Early Advanced;
Late Intermediate. 230
pages. Published by
Alfred Music
Jazz Piano Cocktails * Volume 3 with CD composed by Various. Arranged by Craig S...(+)
Jazz Piano Cocktails *
Volume 3 with CD composed
by Various. Arranged by
Craig Stevens. For jazz
piano. This edition:
Paperback. Collection.
Jazz Standards. Book and
CD. Text Language:
English. 48 pages.
Published by Santorella
Publications