Music-Musical Instruments-Piano & Keyboard

The contents of this book have been personally selected by Martha Mier as some of her all-time favorite sheet music solos. Many of the solos are among the most requested by piano teachers and students alike. The varied styles of each piece make this...

The contents of this book have been personally selected by Martha Mier as some of her all-time favorite sheet music solos. Many of the solos are among the most requested by piano teachers and students alike. The varied styles of each piece make this...

105 short exercises, leading to thorough and complete mastery of basic timing problems.Author: Allan SmallISBN-10: 0739008919ISBN-13: 9780739008911Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 24Format: OtherWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.60h x 8.80w x 0.20d

From Grieg's Lyric Pieces," Op. 54, this well-known and descriptive 1891 composition was written after the composer's trip to the Jotunheimen mountains in Norway, and is meant to portray mystical nocturnal creatures swarming about "with much boisterous activity." Written in D minor, the dynamic...

The new American edition features beautiful melodies for violin and piano.Author: Pablo De SarasateISBN-10: 0711979049ISBN-13: 9780711979048Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2000Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 11.70h x 8.80w x 0.30d

(Music Sales America). The Trois Novelettes are typical of their composer's charm-with-a-twist and illustrate his accessible yet multi-layered piano writing. Edited by Millan Sachania, with introduction by Caroline Potter. Revised edition 1999.Author: Francis PoulencISBN-10: 0711978131ISBN-13: 9780711978133Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1998Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 11.94h...

A Piano Duet for 2 pianos, 4 hands, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and arranged by Edvard Grieg.Author: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartISBN-10: 0711976554ISBN-13: 9780711976559Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 11.75h x 8.50w x 0.10d

The Jazz Cookbook is the second in a series of Piano Cookbooks byLaura A. Hoffman, a veteran Jazz pianist, composer, and teacher. It startsout with basic Jazz chords, and then presents beginner level songs like"Mack the Knife". The book is divided into five chapters:...

The Architecture of Music Volume 1.0 is the most complete combined chord, scale, and mode encyclopedia for the guitar and piano ever created, an effort almost two decades in the making. The chord encyclopedia includes more than 300 chords, and depicts every possible way...

(Fake Book). The Real Books feature hundreds of time-tested songs in accurate arrangements in easy-to-read, hand-written notation with comb-binding. This volume of songs from the Great White Way includes 149 classics: As Long As He Needs Me * Bewitched * Blue Skies * Caravan...

(Piano Solo Songbook). Our beautiful souvenir folio for this summer blockbuster features 9 songs and a stunning 8-page section of full-color photos from the film. Includes a P/V/G arrangement of Faith Hill's hit single "There You'll Be" and piano solo arrangements of: ... And...

(E-Z Play Today). Easy-to-play arrangements of 23 songs of the season: Angels We Have Heard on High * Away in a Manger * Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella * Deck the Hall * The First Noel * Go, Tell It on the Mountain *...

(Piano Solo Songbook). This coffee-table quality songbook is a celebration of the art of Charles Schulz and the music of Vince Guaraldi. Within its stunning full-color, high-gloss pages are: an introduction by veteran music journalist Hank Bordowitz, which provides background on how the Schulz/Mendelson/Guaraldi...

(World's Greatest Classical Music). The "Waltz King" was one of Vienna's great musical masters of the 19th century. This outstanding collection in our acclaimed World's Great Classical Music Series presents intermediate to advanced solo piano transcriptions of his most famous music: 28 waltzes, polkas...

(Easy Piano Songbook). This great new bilingual book features easy arrangements of 20 romantic Latin standards, with lyrics in English and Spanish. Includes: Amor * Aquellos Ojos Verdes (Green Eyes) * Besame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) * Cuando Caliente El Sol (Love Me with...

The Blues Cookbook is a comprehensive piano method book for pianists of all ages who want to learn timeless secrets of how to play the Blues like the pros! The book is 134 pages and contains: preliminary exercises,"intros" and "endings", licks and patterns, a...

The best-selling Improve Your Sight-Reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris has now been extended to offer a series of editions supporting the Trinity College London sight-reading criteria. The books have been specifically written to reflect Trinity's parameters for each grade and contain new...

Easy Jazzin' About Standards presents your favorite jazz songs, arranged by Pam Wedgwood for elementary level pianists, along with some fun pieces by the composer and a CD with supplementary materials. Altogether an unmissable collection of jazzAuthor: Pam WedgwoodISBN-10: 0571534074ISBN-13: 9780571534074Publisher: Faber & FaberLanguage:...

John Kember's ingenious arrangements bring the sounds of the tropics within the grasp of the intermediate pianist (Grade 4-6). Whether you find yourself in Brazil, Mexico, Cuba or Puerto Rico, this is the spirit of carnival and these rhythms can only mean an unbridled...

The clavichord, forerunner of the piano, was one of the most important instruments in Western keyboard history until the first decades of the nineteenth century. Bernard Brauchli's comprehensive history fills a major gap in the literature on this instrument. Beginning with the earliest-known references,...

This informative and wide-ranging guide places the original piano work in the context of Russian cultural life, considering in particular the work of the artist Victor Hartman, creator of the pictures that inspired Musorgsky's composition. A detailed synopsis takes the reader through each piece...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play...

Although he worked within the traditions of his day, Maurice Ravel forged a distinctive musical language of his own. This collection of 29 specially arranged pieces offers beginners the pleasure and satisfaction of playing the French composer's most popular works. Simplified arrangements include Musette,...

In addition to his skills as a composer and performer, Liszt is famed for his genius in transcribing orchestral works for piano. Thanks to his efforts, pianists in the era before sound recordings could learn from the vast repertoire of orchestral, operatic, and vocal...

Volume III of this critically acclaimed three-part collection features introductory text and performance notes to 30 Scarlatti sonatas, from Sonata LXI to Sonata XC. The works appear in chronological order and with Kirkpatrick numbers. This Urtext edition preserves the sonatas' original presentation, save for...

This generous compilation of Rachmaninoff's piano music reflects the "best of the best" -- selected shorter works that have been most often performed and most frequently recorded by such great keyboard artists as Horowitz, Richter, Gilels, Cliburn, and Rachmaninoff himself. Offered here for the...

Unlike the vast majority of classical music for organ -- which requires both manual and pedal dexterity -- this unique collection of 33 works is devoted solely to organ music originally written on two staves and intended for manuals alone. Some was conceived for...

The most intimate form of chamber music in Beethoven's day, the piano sonata became the composer's vehicle for his boldest and most private thoughts. The five compositions in this collection, the most famous of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, are among the most frequently recorded...

More than anyone else of his century, Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-94) restored to French music the essential French traits of clarity, emotional vitality, wit, and tenderness, at the time when the music of the 1900s was struggling under a Wagnerian hangover on the one hand...

Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), the greatest French organist of his day, called the ten solo compositions in this two-volume edition organ symphonies to reflect both their secular spirit and the orchestral wealth of the timbres of the new French organs. Cast in the distinctive new...

Between 1867 and 1901, Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) wrote ten sets of little mood pictures for piano that display his great musical gifts at their lyrical best. Charming works of elegant simplicity and warmth, they have become cornerstones of the piano repertoire, favorites of both...

This remarkable book brings together in one sturdy, yet inexpensive volume four of the most memorable and frequently played sets of works for the piano by Enrique Granados (1867-1916), one of Spain's greatest modern composers. They are reprinted here from early editions.The piano suite...

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) is still remembered as one of the most interesting early American composers, a composer whose work is still performed and enjoyed. This collection of Gottschalk's major piano music shows the wide range of his talent from the "wild, languishing" derivations...

(Instructional). This method is a truly entertaining approach to learning how to play the piano. Written by Ward Cannel of the Piano Consortium, the method breaks down music theory into visual concepts which are fun and easy to grasp, so you can learn to...

This engaging book discusses the colorful personalities and beloved music of the French romantic organist-composers. Michael Murray draws vivid portraits of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899), the greatest and most influential organ builder of his time, and of seven other musicians with connections to Cavaillé-Coll and...

The Steinway--once called the "instrument of the immortals"--is more than the preeminent American piano. It is also a symbol of Old World craftsmanship combined with American capitalism, of technological innovation, and of remarkable family management. This authoritative and entertaining book tells the story of...

Anyone interested in learning to play blues keyboard can pick up this book and get started right away. This well-paced, comprehensive method covers everything from basic to advanced techniques. Beginning concepts include basic chords, scales, blues melodies, improvisation, turnarounds, intros, the 12-bar blues form,...

Sound Synthesis and Sampling' provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying principles and practical techniques applied to both commercial and research sound synthesizers. This new edition has been updated throughout to reflect current needs and practices- revised and placed in a modern context, providing...

Teaching Piano in Groups provides a one-stop compendium of information related to all aspects of group piano teaching. Motivated by an ever-growing interest in this instructional method and its widespread mandatory inclusion in piano pedagogy curricula, Christopher Fisher highlights the proven viability and success...

In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson explores how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century--Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms--responded to the model of Bach's organ music. The author shows that this quadrumvirate not only borrowed from Bach's organ...

The thirty-two Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven form one of the most important segments of piano literature. In this accessible, compact, and comprehensive guidebook, renowned performer and pedagogue Stewart Gordon presents the pianist with historical insights and practical instructional tools for interpreting the...

Functional Skills for Pianists addresses the need for a comprehensive anthology of musical examples in a wide variety of styles (Baroque through Modern) for keyboard majors (performance, pedagogy, collaborative pianists), keyboard principals (music education, music therapy, music business, church music, liberal arts majors), and...

Learn to play 16 Easy Piano Christmas Songs with our free audio play-along tracks!This beginner piano Christmas songbook is packed with easy-to-follow holiday piano songs so you'll be ready to impress your friends and family during the holiday season!No complicated piano arrangements here! Instead,...

In this eclectic Piano by Ear box set, you will get a great education in the key composers for the piano at varying levels of difficulty. All of these titles were hand-selected by Bill Brown in order to give the student all the basic...

Steve Beresford's polymathic activities have formed a prism for the UK improv scene since the 1970s. He is internationally known as a free improviser on piano, toy piano and electronics, composer for film and TV, and raconteur and Dadaist visionary. His résumé is filled...

In this short book you will find condensed and simplified versions of the Hanon piano finger exercises 1 - 30 as well as the major, harmonic minor and melodic minor scales in every key (two octaves). What is Hanon? The 'Hanon Virtuoso Pianist' is...

This book is designed for the student who has completed most of Book 1 but is not quite ready for the difficulties of Book 2. This in-between book will provide more practice songs, reinforce concepts from Book 1, and teach a few unique things...

The primary goal of Book Three is to teach you to play directly from the hymnal. The first thing you must realize is that the music in the hymnal is not written for piano. It is written for voices singing in four part harmony....

This book is like no other. It won't teach you how to play the piano: there are dozens of effective methods for that. It will teach you how to practice the piano efficiently so that you can improve your piano as quickly as possible...

(Piano Solo Personality). 15 songs from this iconic duo arranged in piano solo notation: America * The Boxer * Bridge over Troubled Water * Cecilia * The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) * For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her * A Hazy...