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Reflections on a Winter's Morning
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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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Matthew Nunes
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Reflections on a Winter's Morn
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1263486 Composed by Matthew Nunes. Chamber,Christmas,Classical. Score. 32 pages. Matthew...
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1263486 Composed by Matthew Nunes. Chamber,Christmas,Classical. Score. 32 pages. Matthew Nunes Music #856450. Published by Matthew Nunes Music (A0.1263486). Listen to this piece hereCommissioned by James EhmerReflections on a Winter’s Morning is a piece especially composed for James Ehmer, a composer, euphonium player, and soon to be medical student, as a personal thank you for his generous donation to my “Get Matt to Maryland†Rally via rally.org. James came to me with two wonderful poems describing idyllic winter scenes and the awe of a morning’s sun. These instantly reminded me of the first mornings I would ever wake to snow fall. The two pianos share multiple roles in recalling these moments: the persistence of an alarm clock in a drowsy morning, the first few fluttering snowflakes, a child teeming with excitement, and finally the grandeur of the sun reigning over the flurry.Orlando, May 2014- Matthew Nunes.
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Hymns of Reflection for Two Pianos (A Collection of 5 Piano Duets for 2 Pianos, 4 Hands)
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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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Sharon Wilson
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Sharon Wilson
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Hymns of Reflection for Two Pi
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1458057 By Sharon Wilson. By American Folk Song, Grant Colfax Tullar, Henri A. C. Malan,...
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1458057 By Sharon Wilson. By American Folk Song, Grant Colfax Tullar, Henri A. C. Malan, Horatio G. Spafford, James L Nicholson, Lowell Mason, Philip P. Bliss, and William G. Fischer. Arranged by Sharon Wilson. 19th Century,Christian,Folk,Lent,Sacred. Score. 75 pages. Sharon Wilson #1037027. Published by Sharon Wilson (A0.1458057). This collection contains 5 uplifting worship hymns arranged as PIANO DUETS (for 2 Pianos, 4 Hands). These arrangements are straight-forward and suitable for intermediate pianists. These cheerful, uplifting arrangements are a welcome addition to the piano repertoire for intermediate students and suitable for performances in a church setting (prelude, offertory, postlude).PIANO 1 and PIANO 2 alternate leading with the melody throughout each song, making these arrangements fun and equally challenging for both players while adding variety for the listeners. For each song there is a combined score (Grand Staff) with both piano parts on each page plus an alternate format with each piano part on separate pages (PIANO 1 and PIANO 2). Each song is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples. The audio sample plays Face to Face and the YouTube video features It Is Well with My Soul.Song titles included in this collection: Face to FaceIt Is Well with My SoulTake My Life and Let It BeThere Is a FountainWhiter Than SnowVisit Sharon Wilson's website: https://www.SharonWilsonMusic.com/Subscribe to her YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@SharonWilsonMusic
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SURRENDER, Between the Octaves, A Piano Duo Suite (Movement 2 of 7)
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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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dislocation I mean a degree of
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Jenni Roditi
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Instrumental Duet,Keyboard - Digital Download SKU: A0.1497843 Composed by Jenni Roditi. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. 12 pages. Jenni Roditi #1074...
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Instrumental Duet,Keyboard - Digital Download SKU: A0.1497843 Composed by Jenni Roditi. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. 12 pages. Jenni Roditi #1074255. Published by Jenni Roditi (A0.1497843). Piano Duo - 2 pianos, 4 hands. Surrender, Between the Octaves was the piece that was composed first in the suite. It exposes a simple call to return to the beginning, to return to a pure act of listening. This note..ah, now that note.. oh. This is how the piece was written - one note at a time. Listening from within a space (its original title) of resonance, of edges and meetings, of disappearances and repetitions that reflect on this gentle body of notes. There is a slow hearing that may, or may not create a tone-journey.Names of all the movements in the suite Between the Octaves in the right order are Initiate, Surrender, Thread, Curve, Encircle, Ritualise, Ignite. The whole suite follows a long line from movement 1 to movement 7. However, individual pieces are well suited to be played alone too. Piano Duo is ideally two Steinway grands, otherwise, whatever is available. An enjoyment of the tensions and relationships generated between the two instruments: grand-upright, upright-electronic keyboard is to be explored as a positive. Each piece creates its own world in the suite and can be part of smaller subgroups taken from the suite, in any combination, but the order of the pieces needs to be maintained if more than one is played. Here is a taste of the background to the musical world of this 53 minute compositional suite. During a reflective time I read the following: The whole philosophy of dharma art (Buddhist art) is that you don't try to be artistic, but you just approach objects as they are, and the message comes through automatically. (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, from 'True Perception The Path of Dharma Art.' Shambhala 2008, p.133.) The 'objects as they are' became the 'octaves as they are'. As the pieces were composed the octaves had a centring and clarifying role that allowed other material to circulate around or play against them. They acted as pivots, repetitions, drones, ostinati, pointillist nodes, pedals, melodic features, struts, harmonic turnpikes, breathing spaces, bass lines: musical imperatives. The octaves called the musical shots most of the time. When the music pulled a semitone up or down and away from the octaves (as it did quite often) it was especially telling in the context of the ringing spaces the octaves were creating. I became interested in the subtle dislocation that two pianos could provide. By dislocation I mean a degree of tension between the natural acoustics of the two instruments in the room and the players idiosyncrasies as musicians. The whole point of this work was to examine the nature of my syntax, grammar, and compositional thinking. The title demanded one thing above all: what notes am I going to use between these octaves?? My choice of notes was derived in most instances from the tempo, pitch, and rhythm of the initial octaves at the beginning of each piece alongside the individual word titles that I set out to explore as musical images. The audio was developed from Sibelius software, via MIDI to Logic samples of a Steinway grand piano.
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Take My Life and Let It Be (2 Pianos, 4 Hands Duet)
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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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Sharon Wilson
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Take My Life and Let It Be
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1458066 By Sharon Wilson. By Frances R. Havergal, Henri A. C. Malan, and Lowell Mason. A...
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1458066 By Sharon Wilson. By Frances R. Havergal, Henri A. C. Malan, and Lowell Mason. Arranged by Sharon Wilson. 19th Century,Christian,Lent,Romantic Period,Sacred. Score. 13 pages. Sharon Wilson #1037036. Published by Sharon Wilson (A0.1458066). The classic hymn tune HENDON by Henri A. Malan has been arranged as a dual piano duet (for 2 pianos, 4 hands). Both parts carry the melody at times making it fun and equally challenging for both players while adding variety for the listeners. The song begins in the key of G major and then transitions to the key of C major for the second verse.This slightly rhythmic, yet flowing arrangement will encourage reflection as the listeners are reminded of the lyrics penned by Frances R. Havergal: Take my life, and let it be Consecrated, Lord, to Thee; Take my moments and my days, Let them flow in ceaseless praise.The purchase price includes a 7-page score with combined PIANO 1 and PIANO 2 parts on each page (Grand Staff) plus an alternate format with the PIANO 1 and PIANO 2 parts on separate pages (2 pages each). This arrangement is one of the 5 hymns in the collection Hymns of Reflection for Two Pianos.Visit Sharon Wilson's website: https://www.SharonWilsonMusic.com/Subscribe to her YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@SharonWilsonMusic
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Whiter Than Snow (2 Pianos, 4 Hands Duet)
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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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Sharon Wilson
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Sharon Wilson
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Whiter Than Snow
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Sharon Wilson
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1458061 By Sharon Wilson. By James L. Nicholson and William G. Fischer. Arranged by Shar...
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1458061 By Sharon Wilson. By James L. Nicholson and William G. Fischer. Arranged by Sharon Wilson. 19th Century,Christian,Easter,Lent,Sacred. Score. 16 pages. Sharon Wilson #1037031. Published by Sharon Wilson (A0.1458061). Here is the beautiful hymn Whiter Than Snow by William G. Fischer arranged as a dual piano duet (for 2 pianos, 4 hands). Both parts carry the melody at times making it fun and equally challenging for both players while adding variety for the listeners. The song begins in the key of C major and then transitions to the key of G major for the second verse.This relaxed and flowing arrangement will encourage reflection as the listeners are reminded of the lyrics penned by James L. Nicholson: Lord Jesus, I long to be perfectly whole; I want Thee forever to live in my soul . . . Whiter than snow, yes, whiter than snow, Now wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.The purchase price includes an 8-page score with combined PIANO 1 and PIANO 2 parts on each page (Grand Staff) plus an alternate format with the PIANO 1 and PIANO 2 parts on separate pages (3 pages each). This arrangement is one of the 5 hymns in the collection Hymns of Reflection for Two Pianos.Visit Sharon Wilson's website: https://www.SharonWilsonMusic.com/Subscribe to her YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@SharonWilsonMusic
$5.99
There Is a Fountain (2 Pianos, 4 Hands Duet)
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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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Sharon Wilson
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Sharon Wilson
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There Is a Fountain
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Sharon Wilson
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1458068 By Sharon Wilson. By American Folk Song, Folk Song, and William Cowper. Arranged...
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1458068 By Sharon Wilson. By American Folk Song, Folk Song, and William Cowper. Arranged by Sharon Wilson. Christian,Easter,Folk,Lent,Sacred. Score. 16 pages. Sharon Wilson #1037039. Published by Sharon Wilson (A0.1458068). The beautiful American folk tune CLEANSING FOUNTAIN has been arranged as a dual piano duet (for 2 pianos, 4 hands). Both parts carry the melody at times making it fun and equally challenging for both players while adding variety for the listeners. Flowing reverently throughout, this piano duet is ideal for a prelude or offertory, or whenever a meditative musical interlude is desired. The purchase price includes a 8-page score with combined PIANO 1 and PIANO 2 parts on each page (Grand Staff) plus an alternate format with the PIANO 1 and PIANO 2 parts on separate pages (3 pages each). This arrangement is one of the 5 hymns in the collection Hymns of Reflection for Two Pianos.Visit Sharon Wilson's website: https://www.SharonWilsonMusic.com/Subscribe to her YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@SharonWilsonMusic
$5.99
IGNITE, Between the Octaves - A Piano Duo Suite (Movement 7 of 7)
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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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dislocation I mean a degree of
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Jenni Roditi
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IGNITE, Between the Octaves -
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Instrumental Duet,Keyboard - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1497866 Composed by Jenni Roditi. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. 24 pages. Jenni Ro...
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Instrumental Duet,Keyboard - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1497866 Composed by Jenni Roditi. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. 24 pages. Jenni Roditi #1074279. Published by Jenni Roditi (A0.1497866). Piano Duo - 2 pianos/4 hands. Ignite, Between the Octaves began with the impetus of static ‘pulsation’ (its original title) on repeated octaves. The piece is a fizzing dash of nodal vortices, small, then larger, spinning and tumbling and all the way to the finish line. This piece brings the complete suite of 7 pieces to a dynamic close, with a sense of ignition to new beginnings. The music echoes the opening F octaves of Initiate (movement 1). Names of all the movements in the suite Between the Octaves in the right order are Initiate, Surrender, Thread, Curve, Encircle, Ritualise, Ignite. The whole suite follows a long line from movement 1 to movement 7. However, individual pieces are well suited to be played alone too. Piano Duo is ideally two Steinway grands, otherwise, whatever is available. An enjoyment of the tensions and relationships generated between the two instruments: grand-upright, upright-electronic keyboard is to be explored as a positive. Each piece creates its own world in the suite and can be part of smaller subgroups taken from the suite, in any combination, but the order of the pieces needs to be maintained if more than one is played. Here is a taste of the background to the musical world of this 53 minute compositional suite. During a reflective time I read the following: The whole philosophy of dharma art (Buddhist art) is that you don't try to be artistic, but you just approach objects as they are, and the message comes through automatically. (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, from 'True Perception The Path of Dharma Art.' Shambhala 2008, p.133.) The 'objects as they are' became the 'octaves as they are'. As the pieces were composed the octaves had a centring and clarifying role that allowed other material to circulate around or play against them. They acted as pivots, repetitions, drones, ostinati, pointillist nodes, pedals, melodic features, struts, harmonic turnpikes, breathing spaces, bass lines: musical imperatives. The octaves called the musical shots most of the time. When the music pulled a semitone up or down and away from the octaves (as it did quite often) it was especially telling in the context of the ringing spaces the octaves were creating. I became interested in the subtle dislocation that two pianos could provide. By dislocation I mean a degree of tension between the natural acoustics of the two instruments in the room and the players idiosyncrasies as musicians. The whole point of this work was to examine the nature of my syntax, grammar, and compositional thinking. The title demanded one thing above all: what notes am I going to use between these octaves?? My choice of notes was derived in most instances from the tempo, pitch, and rhythm of the initial octaves at the beginning of each piece alongside the individual word titles that I set out to explore as musical images. The audio was developed from Sibelius software, via MIDI to Logic samples of a Steinway grand piano.
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Vltava (Moldau)
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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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ADVANCED
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Richard Simm
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Richard Simm
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Vltava
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Richard Simm
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1464123 By Richard Simm. By Bedrich Smetana. Arranged by Richard Simm. 19th Century,Clas...
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1464123 By Richard Simm. By Bedrich Smetana. Arranged by Richard Simm. 19th Century,Classical,Folk,Multicultural,Romantic Period,World. Score. 9 pages. Richard Simm #1042836. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1464123). Smetana struggled hard for recognition in his life as a composer, but in his later years his major contribution to a Czech national style in music was acknowledged. Vltava is a marvellous orchestral depiction of the river that flows through Prague, reflecting the aspect of realism which was part of his romantic inspiration.This 2-piano arrangement by Richard Simm is pianistically advanced in order to retain as much as possible of the original's rich orchestral texture, but the focus is on the beautiful main theme of the work, concluding with Smetana's rather Wagnerian coda. Polished pianists will enjoy taking part in the powerful, surging flow of this descriptive work.
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