Music-Musical Instruments-Piano & Keyboard

Sparkling, graceful and tinged with an ineffable melancholy, Chopin's waltzes succeed in conveying an air of mystery while retaining their ballroom splendor. His scherzos are truly novel metamorphoses of the form -- tumultuous emotional outpourings that frequently attain tragic heights. Prepared by Carl Mikuli,...

Gillespie discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Includes 116 musical examples, illustrations, and a glossary of musical terms.Author: John GillespieISBN-10: 048622855XISBN-13: 9780486228556Publisher: Dover PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1972Pages: 512Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.19h x 6.49w x...

Artur Schnabel's reputation as a pianist and teacher has grown steadily, and his innovative approach to the pianist's art has attracted increasing interest. This book--originally prepared while its author was studying with Schnabel, and supervised by the master himself--is unique for two reasons: it...

An essential resource for scholars and performers, this study by a world-renowned specialist illuminates the piano music of four major French composers, in comparative and reciprocal context. Howat explores the musical language and ethos of this repertoire, juxtaposing structural analysis with editorial and performing...

(Willis). A fun repertoire of easy-to-play tunes for beginning pianists, specially created and graded to be used with John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course series. The pieces in this book are ideal for students reaching Part Two, Part Three or Part Four of the course....

(Easy Piano Vocal Selections). A modern day music theatre phenomenon, Tim Minchin's Matilda The Musical is the multiple Oliver Award-winning adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel from the Royal Shakespeare Company. This official songbook presents ten songs from the show arranged for easy...

Revised and edited by Richard Epstein with a biographical sketch of the composer by Philip Hale. All text is written both in English and Spanish.Author: Richard EpsteinISBN-10: 1607964783ISBN-13: 9781607964780Publisher: www.bnpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2012Pages: 322Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 11.69h x 8.27w x 0.67d

(Piano Instruction). The First 15 Lessons series provides a step-by-step lesson plan for the absolute beginner, complete with audio tracks, video lessons, and real songs Designed for self-teaching or for use with an instructor, you'll build a solid foundation as you work through each...

10 Easy To Play Christmas Carols For KeyboardsThis Christmas Book contains 10 popular Carols. I have written this book with all keyboard players in mind. Each line of music contains three staves, one treble clef and two bass clefs and chord symbols for the...

Robert Schumann's "Album for the Young, Op. 68", edited by Clara Schumann. Sheet music for the piano. This edition contains the following 43 pieces of music: 1. Melodie, C major2. Soldatenmarsch (Soldiers' march), G major3. Tr舁lerliedchen (Humming song), C major4. Ein Choral (Chorale), G...

(Piano Solo Songbook). 15 classic Disney tunes arranged with a ragtime flair: The Bare Necessities * Be Our Guest * Cruella De Vil * I Just Can't Wait to Be King * It's a Small World * Little April Shower * Mickey Mouse March...

(Personality). Nine of the most popular covers by these YouTube superstars whose video mashups featuring creative piano and cello arrangements have brought them a worldwide audience. This collection features piano solo arrangements with an optional cello part for the songs: Bless the Broken Road...

Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Ensemble Music, Book 1 is designed to be used in conjunction with Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 1. Included in the book is repertoire for piano duet, two pianos, and multiple pianos. The pieces were chosen to appeal...

Grand Favorites for Piano, Book 3 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...

This collection includes 12 easy arrangements of the most popular Christian songs from 2016. From ballads to up-tempo styles, these songs will be inspirational for all pianists. Titles: Call It Grace (Unspoken) * Even So Come (Come Lord Jesus) (Chris Tomlin) * Ever Be...

The Fun Books provide additional recital pieces designed for students who require more solo material and are particularly useful when two students are from the same family (Recital Book for one, Fun Book for the other).Author: Willard A. Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick LethcoISBN-10:...

This collection features a selection of classical pieces by the world's most renowned composers: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johann Strauss II, Edvard Grieg, Johann Pachelbel, Giuseppe Verdi, Edward Elgar, Richard...

It's A Christmas sheet music book for piano players This Christmas Piano Book includes: 1. Good King Wenceslas2. All I Want For Christmas Is You3. Winter Wonderland4. Merry Christmas Everyone5. A Holly Jolly Christmas6. Hard Candy Christmas7. Do They Know It's Christmas Time8. Wonderful...

The Music Tree series continues the development of complete musicianship by providing the beginner with delightful and varied repertoire. The pupil learns a variety of idioms encompassing folk, jazz and pop. The creativity of the students is emphasized since they are given musical segments...

The Michael Aaron Piano Course Lesson books have been completely re-engraved, expanded (adding more definitions of musical terms and more musical pieces), updated (with modernized artwork), and re-edited (with less emphasis on fingerings and more on note-reading).Author: Michael AaronISBN-10: 0898988551ISBN-13: 9780898988550Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Easy boogie-woogie aims to help the beginning boogie pianist take their first steps into the timeless sound of boogie-woogie. It covers the basics with easy to understand clear explanations and includes example pieces throughout that start off easy and gradually increase in difficulty, while...

Contains 40 exercises by Hanon and 40 by Schmitt to cover the various aspects of finger technique necessary to acquire agility and strength of fingers, freedom of execution, clarity and perfect control of finger-work and touch and many other qualities. Designed for piano students...

(Keyboard Instruction). This comprehensive book and audio package will teach you the basic skills you need to play post bop jazz piano. From comping to soloing, you'll learn the theory, the tools, and the tricks used by the pros. The accompanying audio features many...

The title of this collection of essays refers to a tailor's mannequin that Alfred Brendel spotted in a shop window in Arezzo, a small Tuscan town. Who is this strange lady? And why is she carrying an egg on her head? What is she...

Conlon Nancarrow has written the most rhythmically complex music the world has ever known, so complex that it can only be realized on a mechanical player piano. Yet Nancarrow's whirlwinds of notes, sometimes as many as eighty per second, are jazzy and infectiously joyous....

From the ancient Spanish ballad "Roman Castillo" to "La Paloma," "El Choclo," "La Cumparista," and other tango tunes, this beginner's compilation abounds in zesty, traditional music. More than two dozen simplified renditions of beloved songs also include "La Cintura," an Ecuadorian folksong; the ever-popular...

These original transcriptions of fifty popular opera melodies for solo piano constitute about half of the current performance repertoire. From A da to Turandot and more, the collection includes contributions from nearly all of the major composers. Individual introductions offer a brief synopsis of...

Volume I of this multi-part treatise features precise but creative exercises for serious pianists looking to build flexibility and skill. All of these original exercises were written specifically for this book by world-famous masters -- including Leopold Godowsky, Joseph Lhevinne, Ignaz Friedman, Ernst von...

This beginner's piano book spotlights the music of one of the Romantic movement's most influential composers, Robert Schumann. Its easy-to-play renditions of Schumann's beloved works progressively increase in difficulty and are accessible to novices of all ages. Contents include selections from Forest Scenes, Scenes...

From the hopeful anticipation of Mary, do you fancy me? to the bitterness of Hag, you've killed me, this extraordinary compilation of Irish melodies runs the emotional gamut, with melancholy airs and sprightly reels aplenty. Its source material, The Petrie Collection of the Ancient...

Sometimes termed the "Romantic Classicist," Brahms successfully merged the seemingly contradictory qualities of romanticism and classicism, blending poetry with elegance, balance, and restraint.This treasury of 38 works for solo piano, spanning forty years of Brahms's long and prolific life, includes the famous "Edward" ballade;...

Early in his career, Bach began to transcribe for the keyboard a number of concertos for violin, oboe, and other instruments by such baroque masters as Vivaldi and Telemann. His purpose: to study and explore the works of other composers as well as to...

Although Franck's output for the organ was small, it was influential; his work is considered to have laid the foundation of the French school of organ music. This volume includes all his best-known works for organ: the Six Pi鐵es (Liszt ranked them with the...

The towering composer who perfected the early symphonic form and invented the modern string quartet also left his indelible mark on the sonata. During 50 years of inspired creative effort, Haydn experimented constantly with the sonata form, adding a clear thematic structure to the...

Developed over many years of classroom experience by members of the music faculty at Queens College, it offers a substantial body of graded keyboard exercises organized by specific skills. Topics covered include chord progressions, sequences, modulations, realization of both figured and unfigured basses, improvisation,...

"The reader must have noted in the favorite magazines of the practicing pianist how often the same troubled queries reappear: How can memorizing be made easier and more secure? How can the fourth and fifth fingers be strengthened? What produces musicianship? These and many...

Acclaimed for its creative approach and diverse repertoire, Contemporary Class Piano provides a student-friendly introduction to basic piano skills. In short, progressive chapters that mirror the standard two-semester curriculum, it explains the essential elements of piano playing, incorporating diagrams, practice exercises, and musical examples...

(Guitar Solo). Chord melody arrangements of 27 Disney classics in standard notation and tablature, including: Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Candle on the Water * Colors of the Wind * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart...

(Keyboard Instruction). This book presents a concise history, or "survey" of jazz piano. In 13 hands-on lessons and 4 bonus performances, Dick Hyman explores the styles, musical vocabulary, and performers who have defined and shaped this elusive American art form over the last century....

(Faber Piano Adventures ). The new Level 4 Technique & Artistry Book combines two elements of pianism: technical skill and artistic performance. This smooth, integrated approach builds basic elements of piano technique, always directed toward an artistic goal. Four powerful exercises called "Technique Secrets"...

(Faber Piano Adventures ). PlayTime Piano Kids' Songs is a collection of popular songs that brings special joy to children. The songs are arranged primarily in stationary hand positions. Where the student moves out of position, a circled finger number will help show the...

(Easy Piano Songbook). Are you ready to try your piano chops on some R&B classics? Then this book is for you 50 songs arranged at an easier level so developing players can sound great as they expand their repertoire. Songs include: Ain't No Sunshine...

(Piano Instruction). This book contains tips, suggestions, advice, musical examples, and other useful information garnered through a lifetime of Hammond organ study and professional gigging. Included in the book are dozens of entries gleaned from firsthand experience, including: funky scales and modes; unconventional harmonies;...

The Notespeller & Sight-Play Book 2 reinforces note-reading skills based on the concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Book 2. Each page has two activities---a written activity and a playing example. The written activity reinforces notes on the keyboard and staff through coloring, circling,...

This book offers a fresh look at how to learn chords on the piano. Made with the beginning piano player in mind, this book is perfect for the person desiring to learn and play their favorite song on the piano. For more information about...

The renowned Flor Peeters is known as an organist and composer from his native Belgium to all of Europe and both Americas. Little Organ Book, consisting of hymn tunes and original compositions, has won special favor among teachers and students because of the clear...

(Music Sales America). A collection of the world's finest classical and popular music arranged for the advanced pianist. Here you will find the great masterpieces of every era from classical and romance to ragtime and blues. Enjoy three centuries of all-time favorite piano solos....

Blind Tom was the stage name of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a blind black pianist born into slavery in 1849. Noted by many musical authorities to be a musician of amazing skill, expressive playing, and incredible memory, he was nonetheless considered by his "admirers" still...

(Educational Piano Library). Spike, Party Cat and friends guide the student through fun and creative assignments that introduce the language of music and its symbols for sound, silence, and rhythm. Ear training and basic theory exercises help students learn to write and play the...

Johann Friedrich Burgmuller (1806-1874) published several albums of piano studies that have become standard works. This collection consists entirely of 25 Progressive Pieces, Op. 100. Mr. Schaum has renamed some of the exercises with appealing titles and purposely abridged some of the exercises thereby...