Music-Musical Instruments-Piano & Keyboard

From the swelling synths of Depeche Mode to the dance-friendly grooves of Thomas Dolby, and from the power ballads of Journey to the New Power Generation of Prince, the music of the '80s was infused with the sound of keyboards. You'll learn: - How...

Teach bass with the popular Suzuki Bass School. The Suzuki Method(R) of Talent Education is based on Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Shinichi Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and...

These supplementary collections provide that indispensable aspect of any keyboard curriculum, musical 'dessert' -- music in lighter popular styles and a variety of rich, diverse character pieces. Effective antidotes to lagging student interest, the pieces are primarily recreational in nature, but also promote rhythmic...

Title: Piano Concerto No. 2 Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff Original Publisher: Gutheil Rachmaninoff's arrangement of his Piano Concerto No. 2 for 2 Pianos, in the first edition as originally published by Gutheil in 1901. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score...

To find out more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Author: Floyd A. StevensISBN-10: 0830415939ISBN-13: 9780830415939Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 8.98h x 8.41w x 0.66d

(Yorktown). A unique collection of rediscovered keyboard gems from Baroque to modern. Over 40 pieces, including Haydn's The Viennese Clock, Lalo's Spanish Dance (El Tripili), and Lutoslawski's Three Polish Folk Melodies.Author: Denes AgayISBN-10: 0825680921ISBN-13: 9780825680922Publisher: Yorktown PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1996Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.89h x...

(Music Sales America). Expert blues piano teacher and player Eric Kriss presents clear step-by-step directions to the major styles and techniques essential for mastering the blues. He explains chord structure, bass lines, slides and syncopation, and more.Author: Eric KrissISBN-10: 0825623537ISBN-13: 9780825623530Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

(Piano Instruction). A brilliant and instructive treatise on the principles of jazz piano improvisation. It deals with all aspects, including a survey of piano styles from 1900 (stride piano) to the present day (contemporary jazz piano). A book which will prove of immense value...

(Piano). The Concert Performer Series brings you 12 well-known piano pieces, beautifully presented on strong, high-sheen card, complete with online audio to help you practice for a truly great performance. About the online audio: Track 1 contains an audio concert performance. Track 2 is...

(Music Sales America). Learn to play Beethoven's "Fur Elise" with The Concert Performer Series, complete with a special CD-ROM which contains both audio and MIDI to help you practise for a truly great performance. Track 1 contains an audio concert performance, Track 2 is...

In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 18 articles on the teaching, preparation, and performance of works by the greatest composers in the standard piano repertoire. The contributors--all recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions as performing artists, teachers, recording...

In The Craft of Piano Playing, master pianist Alan Fraser offers readers an original and comprehensive approach to piano technique, offering over 100 illustrations and a series of unique exercises to guide the reader.Author: Alan FraserISBN-10: 0810877139ISBN-13: 9780810877139Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2011Pages: 510Format: PaperbackWeight:...

In The Craft of Piano Playing, master pianist Alan Fraser offers readers an original and comprehensive approach to piano technique, offering over 100 illustrations and a series of unique exercises to guide the reader.Author: Alan FraserISBN-10: 0810877120ISBN-13: 9780810877122Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2011Pages: 510Format: HardcoverWeight:...

A culmination of Friedberg's years of performing and teaching, offering piano students, teachers, and performers useful advice for many stages along the path to becoming a pianist.Author: Ruth C. FriedbergISBN-10: 0810843064ISBN-13: 9780810843066Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 153Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d

This lavishly illustrated book treats the history of the piano from its invention in 1700 to the present in terms of its technology. Looking at the technologies of design, materials, and manufacture, and focusing its description on specific existing pianos, it describes the changes...

In Beethoven's Kiss, Kevin Kopelson takes you on a journey through a unique literary style which is both scholarly and meditative. It interweaves the issues of gender, sexuality and erotic romanticism and presents them against the backdrop of romantic pianism. Exploring quasi-sexual myths of...

(Piano Collection). A newly corrected and very affordable Schirmer Library edition of these 20th-century piano masterpieces. Contents: BOOK I: Danseuses de Delphes * Voiles * Le Vent dans la Plaine * "Les Sons et les Parfums Tournent dans l'Air du Soir" * Les Collines...

(Educational Piano Library). Hal Leonard Student Piano Library mascots Spike, Party Cat and friends guide the student through fun, 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...

(Artist Transcriptions). Another folio of spectacular improvisations by one of the great piano masters of the century. Includes: All the Things You Are * Caravan * Cherokee (Indian Love Song) * In a Sentimental Mood * Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) *...

(Piano Method). A preliminary book that can be used to introduce young beginners to Piano Course Book 1, "Teach Me" covers approximately the first half of the first year.Author: Howard KasschauISBN-10: 079355294XISBN-13: 9780793552948Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 11.74h x 9.10w...

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

(Piano Collection). Recognized as one of Spain's premiere composers and pianists, the Album For Piano highlights some of his best compositions for this instrument. 14 pieces featured are based on folksongs and dances of his homeland. Contents: Allegro de Concierto * Andaluza * Barcarola...

(Piano Collection). Contents: Andante Con Moto * Choral * Echoes from the Theatre * Figured Choral * First Loss * Folk Song * The Happy Farmer Returning from Work * Harvest Song * The Horseman * Humming Song * Hunting Song (Jagerliedchen) * In...

(Organ). This revised book features 26 favorites from the Fab Four arranged specifically for organ. Includes: Can't Buy Me Love * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * Michelle * Ticket to Ride * Yesterday * and more.Author: The BeatlesISBN-10: 0793529174ISBN-13: 9780793529179Publisher: Hal...

(Piano Solo Personality). Ten songs: Autumn Leaves * Cara Mia * Fragile Heart * Lisbon Antigua * Love Is Blue * Poor People of Paris * Stranger of Paris * Stranger on the Shore * Unchained Melody * Volare * Wonderland by Night.Author: Richard...

(Piano Solo Songbook). A collection of the original sheet music for 39 classic standards, featuring the arrangements of 'Fats' Waller, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Count Basie, Clarence Williams, Jay McShann, Billy Kyle, Zez Confrey. Songs include: "A"...

Following the best-selling Jazz Piano Chords, this informative volume provides a scale reference and practice tool for any pianist wanting to learn to play jazz.Author: Misha V. StefanukISBN-10: 0786657820ISBN-13: 9780786657827Publisher: Creative Keyboard PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2003Pages: 104Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 11.90h x 8.74w x 0.26d

The pipe organ, an instrument whose origins date to ancient Greece, is prominent in the development of secular and church music, and its builders were as artistic as the composers like Bach, Pachelbel and Handel who played them. This book describes the mechanics, fabrication,...

This early intermediate to intermediate piano volume features the most widely taught preludes by twentieth-century Russian composer Samuel Maykapar. Maykapar wrote these preludes to introduce piano students to many different types of pedal technique. The preludes, written in a highly Romantic style, are valuable...

This volume of the piano solo music of Claude Debussy includes many of his more well-known works: Clair de Lune * Arabesques 1 and 2 * La Soiree Dans Grenade * Jardins Sous La Pluie * Reflets Dans L'Eau * Prelude in A Minor...

One hundred titles in six categories: pop hits; movie and TV music; pop, rock and country classics; folk and children's songs; classical themes; and all-time favorites. Titles include: All for Love * I Swear * Charlie Brown Theme * Looking Through Your Eyes *...

Expertly arranged piano solo from our Kalmus Edition.Author: Giacomo PucciniISBN-10: 0769280862ISBN-13: 9780769280868Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 28Format: Paperback

To provide greater availability for a work of such importance, the original publishers secured from Gershwin a solo piano version wherein the orchestral parts are fused together with the solo piano part (PS0047). Due to concerns that the composer's arrangement presented too many technical...

Completely edited, including fingerings and rehearsal letters, this latest volume in the Popular Piano Duet Series is a must for aspiring advanced pianists.Author: Johann PachelbelISBN-10: 0769263712ISBN-13: 9780769263717Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1983Pages: 16Format: OtherWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 12.00h x 9.00w x 0.10d

The unbeatable Gershwin melodies and rhythms provide great rewards for duo pianists This arrangement by Percy Grainger sends one great tune flying to another and another, creating a fantasy-like medley. This is a full-bodied work for accomplished pianists, and a wonderful treat for discriminating...

Alexander Borodin's Scherzo in A-flat major and his Petite Suite (a suite of seven piano pieces), were written in 1885 and were later orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. The Petite Suite consists of 7 movements, with descriptions supplied by the composer: 1. Au couvent, Andante...

Great sounding very easy/big note arrangements by Robert Schultz. Complete lyrics included. Titles are: A Rumor in St. Petersburg * Journey to the Past * Once Upon a December * In the Dark of the Night * Learn to Do It * Paris Holds...

The piano works of Johannes Brahms, Opus 118, in this collection include: No. 1, Intermezzo * No. 2, Intermezzo * No. 3, Ballade * No. 4, Intermezzo * No. 5, Romance * No. 6, Intermezzo.Author: Johannes BrahmsISBN-10: 076924016XISBN-13: 9780769240169Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 24Format:...

The inspiration for Mussorgsky's most famous work came from his friend Victor Hartmann, an artist and architect. When Hartmann died at the early age of 39, Mussorgsky and the rest of the Russian artistic community were stunned, so they organized a memorial exhibit of...

Titles: And I Love You So * Baby Elephant Walk * Charade * Heart and Soul * The Hill Street Blues Theme * I'm Popeye the Sailor Man * (Where Do I Begin) Love Story * Over the Rainbow * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on...

What an exciting arrangement this is Chabrier's popular Espa a comes alive at two pianos in this wonderful arrangement by Richard Simm. Drawing directly from the orchestral score, Simm uses the full resources of the piano to create a setting which will be fun...

Distinctive renditions of Christmastime favorites from the legendary Dave Brubeck. Titles are: Away in a Manger * Cantos Para Pedir las Posadas * Homecoming" Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * O Tannenbaum * Silent Night * To Us Is Given * What...

This eight-movement ballet is presented in this new edition for two pianos/four hands. Points on Jazz is a serious work by the renowned Dave Brubeck, and thus is suitable for inclusion in recitals on the concert stage. Notes on the ballet and performances are...

Giuseppe Concone (1801-1861) was an Italian choral director, originally from Turin, Italy. This collection of 25 easy and progressive" melodic studies, Opus 24, will be especially appropriate for the late intermediate to early advanced pianist in developing touch and finger dexterity."Author: Giuseppe ConconeISBN-10: 0757990452ISBN-13:...

Expertly arranged piano solo from our Kalmus Edition.Author: C駸ar FranckISBN-10: 0757977936ISBN-13: 9780757977930Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1985Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 11.00h x 0.10w x 0.10d

Written when the composer was just 17 to 18 years of age, these romantic-styled pieces for piano trio were dedicated to 3 friends, Natalya, Lyudmila, and Vera Skalon. They feature a short passage that would later be used in Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto, beginning...

AN ADVENTURE IN JAZZ was written for the student pianist. It is intended to be an informative and entertaining picture of the probable origin of jazz. One person can study and play the entire set of pieces in each book, or the performance can...

Students and teachers, parents and children, grandparents, families, and friends can all have fun together playing and listening to these Titles: Frosty the Snowman * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow * The...

This collection is jam-packed with 19 renowned pop hits that have been at the top the charts for the past two decades. It includes songs from Luther Vandross, Bette Midler, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, R. Kelly, Josh Groban, and more. Richard Bradley has carefully...

Practical Piano Pedagogy by Dr. Martha Baker-Jordan is a comprehensive 468-page pedagogy text for ALL piano teachers including those future teachers who are currently enrolled in pedagogy courses in colleges and universities. This definitive pedagogy text will teach readers how to use any teaching...