Edited by Carol Cuellar. Arranged by Robert Schultz. Piano arrangement mixed fol...(+)
Edited by Carol Cuellar.
Arranged by Robert
Schultz. Piano
arrangement mixed folio
(Five-finger piano).
Level: five finger. 68
pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
(based on America the Beautiful ). By Samuel Ward. Arranged by Kevin Olson. For...(+)
(based on America the
Beautiful ). By Samuel
Ward. Arranged by Kevin
Olson. For piano solo.
Arranged for You Series.
Late intermediate. Single
sheet. 8 pages. Published
by The FJH Music Company
Inc
(Standards for Advanced Solo Piano). Arranged by Tony Caramia. For Piano. Book; ...(+)
(Standards for Advanced
Solo Piano). Arranged by
Tony Caramia. For Piano.
Book; Piano Collection;
Piano Supplemental. Jazz
Performer Series. Jazz;
Light Concert. Advanced.
32 pages. Published by
Alfred Music Publishing
4 - Something Light. By Lynn Freeman Olson, Marvin Blickenstaff. Edited by Louis...(+)
4 - Something Light. By
Lynn Freeman Olson,
Marvin Blickenstaff.
Edited by Louise Bianchi;
Lynn Freeman Olson;
Marvin Blickenstaff.
Arranged by Lynn Freeman
Olson. Solo piano. For
Piano Solo. Solo part. 16
pages. Published by Carl
Fischer.
Arranged by Nancy Faber, Randall Faber. For Piano. PreTime to BigTime Piano Supp...(+)
Arranged by Nancy Faber,
Randall Faber. For Piano.
PreTime to BigTime Piano
Supplementary Library.
These traditional,
ever-popular melodies are
presented in pianistic
arrangements for the
intermediate piano
student. The pieces are
in the keys of C, F, G,
D, A minor, and D minor,
and feature a variety of
sounds. Contents include:
Beautiful Dreamer; Bill
Bailey, Won't You Please
Come Home?; Cielito
Lindo; Clair de Lune;
Fanfare on America; Good
Morning Blues; Halloween
Sonatine; I Love a Piano;
I'm Henery the Eight, I
Am; Morning Has Broken;
Oh! You Beautiful Doll;
The Spy; Tarantella
Italiana; Theme from the
Moonlight Sonata.
Favorites. Level: 4.
Book. Published by The
FJH Music Company, Inc.
Piano SKU: HL.14001903 Composed by Per Norgard. Music Sales America. Clas...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14001903
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #KP00981. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14001903).
ISBN
9788759859605.
Danish.
Animals In
Concert - Three pieces
for Piano solo by Per
Norgard. Programme Note
1. A Tortoise's
Tango (1984) - dur.: 4'
2. Light of a Night
- Paul meets bird (1989)
- dur.: 6' 3.
Hermit Crab Tango -
Esperanza (1997) - dur.:
5' The pieces can
be performed together or
one by one. In the1980s,
quite a few finds turned
up in Per Norgard's
music. The material could
be, say, a number of song
birds' equilibrist
melodic lines, the
overtones of the ocean
surf, or waltzing themes
by the schizophrenic
artist Adolf Wolfli
(1864-1930). Or again, as
heard here, it can be the
rhythms and motifs of the
tango and a Beatles song
(with bird), explored in
three independent piano
pieces that form the
Animals in Concert suite,
about which the composer
writes: A
Tortoise's Tango: The
tortoise as tango dancer
must presumably possess
certain rhythmic
peculiarities, which I
have chosen to express by
letting the tune of the
tortoise shuffle broadly,
tripartite through the
strict four partite time
of tango. Tortoise
Tango was the original
title of this piece,
written for Achilles (the
pianist Yvar Mikhashoff),
for his so called tango
project, including new
tangos for piano by
composers from all over
the world. Light of
a Night (Paul meets bird)
was commissioned by
pianist Aki Takahashi. It
is a reworked arrangement
for piano of the Beatles
song Blackbird. As some
of us will recall, the
Beatles on The White
Album let the beautiful
song to the blackbird be
accompanied by an
(apparently) live
blackbird song. It is
this authentic bird-motif
world that in Light of a
Night weaves itself into
the Beatles melody and in
turn is gradually
infected by it, so that a
completely new third
entity ensues: a kind of
Bird-rock ballad (or
maybe it is a
Beatle-bird?).
Hermit Crab Tango
(Esperanza): The tango
situation is quite
special for a Hermit
Crab. It is a well-known
fact that the hermit crab
- this soft animal - must
run the gauntlet among
the many perils at the
bottom of the sea when it
must move hose. I have
chosen to express the
angers by a tango pattern
- sharp as a cactus -
through which the tune,
optimistic, slips to its
new shelter. I have
borrowed the tune from
songwriter Hanne
Methling's Introduction:
'I want to get through
this time!' she sings in
a ecstatically ascending
melody line - and I
believe that these words
must correspond very well
to the mood of the hermit
crab: 'Esperanza'- the
green runners of hope
wind among the
latticework formed by the
tango rows.
Piano SKU: HL.14010480 Piano Solo. Composed by Per Norgard. Music ...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14010480
Piano
Solo. Composed by Per
Norgard. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. 7 pages.
Music Sales #KP00717.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14010480).
ISBN
9788759870082.
Danish.
Esperanza -
Eremitkrebs-Tango (1997)
Hermit Crab Tango,
Esperanza is part of
Norgard's Animals in
Concert, a suite of piano
pieces, so far comprised
of: 1. A Tortoise's
Tango (1984) - dur.:
4' 2. Light of a
Night - Paul meets bird
(1989) - dur.: 6'
3. Hermit Crab Tango -
Esperanza (1997) - dur.:
5' The pieces can
be performed together or
one by one. In
the1980s, quite a few
“finds”
turned up in Per
Norgard's music. The
material could be, say, a
number of song birds'
equilibrist melodic
lines, the overtones of
the ocean surf, or
waltzing themes by the
schizophrenic artist
Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930).
Or again, as heard here,
it can be the rhythms and
motifs of the tango and a
Beatles song (with bird),
explored in three
independent piano pieces
that form the Animals in
Concert suite, about
which the composer
writes: Programme
note for Animals in
Concert: 1. A
Tortoise's Tango (1984) -
dur.: 4' 2. Light
of a Night - Paul meets
bird (1989) - dur.:
6' 3. Hermit Crab
Tango - Esperanza (1997)
- dur.: 5' The
pieces can be performed
together or one by
one. In the1980s,
quite a few
“finds”
turned up in Per
Norgard's music. The
material could be, say, a
number of song birds'
equilibrist melodic
lines, the overtones of
the ocean surf, or
waltzing themes by the
schizophrenic artist
Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930).
Or again, as heard here,
it can be the rhythms and
motifs of the tango and a
Beatles song (with bird),
explored in three
independent piano pieces
that form the Animals in
Concert suite, about
which the composer
writes: “A
Tortoise's Tango”:
The tortoise as tango
dancer must presumably
possess certain rhythmic
peculiarities, which I
have chosen to express by
letting the tune of the
tortoise shuffle broadly,
tripartite through the
strict four partite time
of tango. Tortoise
Tango was the original
title of this piece,
“written for
Achilles” (the
pianist Yvar Mikhashoff),
for his so called tango
project”, including
new tangos for piano by
composers from all over
the world.
“Light of a Night
(Paul meets bird)”
was commissioned by
pianist Aki Takahashi. It
is a
“reworked”
arrangement for piano of
the Beatles song
”Blackbird”.
As some of us will
recall, the Beatles on
“The White
Album” let the
beautiful song to the
blackbird be accompanied
by an (apparently) live
blackbird song. It is
this authentic bird-motif
world that in
“Light of a
Night” weaves
itself into the Beatles
melody and in turn is
gradually infected by it,
so that a completely new
third entity ensues: a
kind of Bird-rock ballad
(or maybe it is a
Beatle-bird?).
“Hermit Crab Tango
(Esperanza)”: The
tango situation is quite
special for a Hermit
Crab. It is a well-known
fact that the hermit crab
- this soft animal - must
run the gauntlet among
the many perils at the
bottom of the sea when it
must move hose. I have
chosen to express the
angers by a.
Edited by Maxwell Eckstein. For piano. Format: piano solo book. With fingerings....(+)
Edited by Maxwell
Eckstein. For piano.
Format: piano solo book.
With fingerings. Series:
Everybody's Favorite
Series #3. 191 pages.
9x12 inches. Published by
Music Sales.
Piano SKU: HL.14014940 Composed by Hans Gunter Heumann. Music Sales Ameri...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14014940
Composed
by Hans Gunter Heumann.
Music Sales America. Pop.
Book Only. 24 pages.
Music Sales #BOE4346.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14014940).
ISBN
9783936026016.
9.0x12.0x0.09
inches.
The
Romantic Pop Piano series
provides a tremendous
collection of some of the
most beautiful and best
known romantic works.
This is the eighth volume
of dream melodies for
Piano, in easy
arrangements by
Hans-Gunter Heumann.
SKU: HL.14035939 Composed by James Whitbourn. Music Sales America. Publis...(+)
SKU: HL.14035939
Composed by James
Whitbourn. Music Sales
America. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14035939).
Enjoy 35 of the
most beautiful piano
solos including hits from
The Beatles, Norah Jones,
Coldplay, The Fray and
Elton John together with
classical favourites by
Debussy, Chopin, Einaudi
and Beethoven. All pieces
are arranged for easy
piano solo, complete with
fingerings and chord
symbols where
appropriate.
Piano (Piano) - Grade 4 SKU: HL.14030097 Cinq Morceaux Op. 75 No. 2(+)
Piano (Piano) - Grade 4
SKU: HL.14030097
Cinq Morceaux Op. 75
No. 2. Composed by
Jean Sibelius. Music
Sales America. 20th
Century. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2002. 4 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH17705.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030097).
ISBN
9788759853511.
8.25x11.75x0.053 inches.
International (more than
one language).
A
fabulous work for Solo
Piano by Finnish composer
Jean Sibelius, one of the
most influential
symphonic composers of
the late 19th and early
20th century. The
Solitary Fir Tree is a
beautiful piece from the
second movement of his
Five Pieces or Cinq
Morceaux Op.75.
Piano SKU: HL.14033376 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Music Sales Ame...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14033376
Composed
by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2007. 8 pages. Chester
Music #CH02252. Published
by Chester Music
(HL.14033376).
One of the most
beautiful of all Bach's
melodies, is this one
taken from the alto aria
of the 127th Cantata, and
was accompanied by string
quartet and oboe. As this
accompaniment mainly
consists of chords held
by the strings, this
adaptation was fraught
with exceptional
difficulties and it was
only after three months'
experiment that the
adapter chose this form.
Die seele ruht in Jesu
handen.
Piano SKU: HL.14040983 Piano. Composed by Theodor Grigoriu. Music ...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14040983
Piano. Composed by
Theodor Grigoriu. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Editions Musicales
Transatlantiques
#ETR001822. Published by
Editions Musicales
Transatlantiques
(HL.14040983).
French.
The
Modal Column is a cycle
of paired pieces for
piano, starting from the
classical structure-
prelude-fugue - used by
Bach in Das
wohltemperierte Klavier.
The modes that are being
used have a relatively
simple octavizing
structure, hence an
almost infinite variety
of combinations that can
generate a large number
of pieces, impossible to
exhaust by a composer.
Therein lies the idea of
a column, in the sense
given by Brancusi, i.e.
an endless succession of
modules.
In the
vision of the author, the
mechanism of the mode is
a secondary (ancillary)
aspect, the primary goal
is deciphering the ethos
incorporated in it.
The prelude-fugue
structure hypostatizesthe
musical discourse at the
two possible extremes.
free-constructed. While
Romanian music rules in
free areas, like any old
music with an (especially
oral) tradition, the
constructed pieces start
from Dutch (Flemish) or
Venetian polyphony, which
precedes the idea of
fugue, understood as a
technology of the
movement (dynamics) of
sound, after the models
of Giovanni Gabrieli or
Ockeghem.
The
Modal Column is first of
all the presentation of a
melodic world but, as the
subtitle indicates, also
an investigation into the
ethos of Romanian music.
The forms in which the
pieces are thought are
simple, non-ostentatious,
the whole cycle being in
fact a musical workshop,
whose better parts may be
worth including in ampler
works. Before the
succinct description of
the six couples in Books
I and II, a few
observations, necessary
from a musicological
point of view:
1. The modes are rich
in nostalgia, with even
graver nuances in the
livelier movements.
2. It is well-known,
that all the columns -
Egyptian obelisks,
ancient ornamental
columns - have scenarios
engraved on them.
Trajan's Column describes
the wars against the
Dacians and their defeat.
George Calinescu says,
'Trajan's Column is
beautiful, but let us not
forget that the Dacians
are in chains on it.' The
Romanian melos is
millennia-old and was but
little influenced by
historical.
Piano - Late Elementary SKU: AP.47853 Book 6. 12 Late Intermedi...(+)
Piano - Late Elementary
SKU: AP.47853
Book 6. 12 Late
Intermediate Arrangements
of Classical Themes and
Folk Songs. Piano
Collection; Piano
Supplemental. Grand
Favorites for Piano.
Book. 32 pages. Alfred
Music #00-47853.
Published by Alfred Music
(AP.47853).
ISBN
9781470641825. UPC:
038081548708. English.
Arranged by Melody
Bober.
Grand
Favorites for Piano, Book
6 contains arrangements
of best-loved classical
themes and folk
favorites. The pieces in
this six-book series have
the distinctive Bober
sound and are fun to
play, in addition to
helping pianists progress
technically and
musically. Whether
performed on a concert
grand, a digital piano,
or the family upright,
these solos will truly
sound grand. Titles:
America * Beautiful
Dreamer (Foster) * Blue
Danube Waltz (Strauss II)
* Choucoune (Monton) *
The Erie Canal (Allen) *
Greensleeves * Hornpipe
(Handel) * Hungarian
Dance No. 5 (Brahms) *
Minuet (Boccherini) *
Scarborough Fair * The
Yellow Rose of Texas *
You're a Grand Old Flag
(Cohan).
By Wynn-Anne Rossi. For Piano. Piano Suite; Piano Supplemental; Sheet; Solo. Rec...(+)
By Wynn-Anne Rossi. For
Piano. Piano Suite; Piano
Supplemental; Sheet;
Solo. Recital Suite
Series. Form: Suite.
Recital. Intermediate. 12
pages. Published by
Alfred Music
Piano SKU: HL.14028848 Composed by Robert Saxton. Music Sales America. Cl...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14028848
Composed
by Robert Saxton. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover].
Composed 1999. 12 pages.
Chester Music #CH61325.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14028848).
ISBN 9780711963481.
8.25x11.75x0.046
inches.
Written by
Robert Saxton in 1988 for
piano, left hand only.
'The Chacony was
commissioned by the
Aldeburgh Festival and
first performed there in
1988 by the American
pianist Leon Fleisher. In
rising to the challenge
of writing for left hand
alone, Saxton has reduced
the basic material (the
underlying ground bass
theme) to the simplest
element: a whole tone
scale. Thus, the opening
section gradually
reveals, via a clear
indication that D major
is the central tonality
of the work, the scale
through a series of
hesitant gestures, the
main body of the piece
bursting out of the
tensions created in the
intervals of the scale,
especially the tritone
(which plays an important
part in the melodic
version throughout). As
with, say, the finest
variation sets or grounds
of a composer like Byrd,
the considerable
virtuosity of the
keyboard writing always
stems from the musical or
intellectual stimulus,
and is never mere empty
show. This is a virtuosic
response to the challenge
of the imposed
limitations, beautifully
written for piano and
culminating in a final
section in which D is
once more resoundingly
affirmed as the centre of
the work, though, with
equal resonance, the
tritone has the last
word. Duration c.
6mins.
Piano SKU: HL.14030976 Piano. Composed by Bent Sorensen. Music Sal...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14030976
Piano. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. 24
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP01588.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030976).
ISBN
9788759853757.
9.5x14.25x0.086 inches.
English.
The
composer writes, 'Quite
some time ago I heard -
through a conversation in
a mobile phone - a
wonderful concert of
ringing church bells from
an European capital. I
found it very hard to
concentrate about the
conversation, because I
was so engrossed by the
chaotic world of bell
sound. The night after, I
dreamt that the sound of
those low singing bells
was rising up from a
piano in a huge empty
concert hall. That
experience became the
starting point for my
piano piece, 'The Shadows
of Silence'. But before
the piece gets to the
ringing bells it moves
through a landscape of
shadows - Shadows of the
silence before the bells
- Silence before the
storm - Shadows of
melodies which all the
time leaves traces even
in the short passages of
storm. After the passage
with the low ringing
bells the shadows of
silence returns melted in
to a lament, which are
sending two regards. One
to two small beautiful -
not very well known -
bars by Mozart, and one
to the sextet in my own
opera, 'Under the
Sky'.
Piano SKU: HL.14030096 Cinq Morceaux Op. 75 No. 1. Composed by Jea...(+)
Piano
SKU:
HL.14030096
Cinq
Morceaux Op. 75 No.
1. Composed by Jean
Sibelius. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Composed
2002. 4 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH17704.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030096).
ISBN
9788759852118.
8.25x11.75x0.044
inches.
A fabulous
work for piano by Finnish
composer Jean Sibelius,
one of the most
influential symphonic
composers of the late
19th and early 20th
century. When the Rowan
Tree Is In Flower is a
beautiful piece from the
first movement of Five
Pieces Op.75. For Solo
Piano.