SKU: HL.49019759
ISBN 9790001191692. UPC: 840126938760. 9.0x12.0x0.157 inches.
The anthology 'Klangspuren' by Barbara Heller contains 76 works for piano which have been written for the Barbara Heller Piano Competition. Each title has its own personal message: Music can show an image or remind of something, be a short story and put one in a special mood.Arranged in a progressive order, the pieces are divided into two volumes: Vol. 1 contains easy to intermediate pieces, Vol. 2 intermediate to difficult pieces.
SKU: BT.MUSME0282
English.
The 30 pieces contained within this tutorial are aimed exclusively at piano beginners. All pieces are easy to play and will enable you to rapidly gain substantial experience in piano playing and, since they are adapted versions of real musical pieces, you will at no time lose your pleasure of playing. In order not to overwhelm you, the level of difficulty of the pieces to be performed increases progressively, allowing you to work in a fluent and coherent manner. The piano pieces put together in this tutorial will also allow you to discover musical styles which are totally different from one another, forming a large panorama of contemporary and classic music. You will get a tasteof popular music, jazz, ragtime, blues and rock. So you can rest assured, there’s something for everyone in here(!) The CD attached to the book will make your study even more enjoyable. Every musical piece appears twice: the first time for demonstration purposes (with the piano) and the second in the form of a backing track (without the piano), in order to give you the opportunity to play the piano and enjoy the accompaniment of other musicians.
SKU: HL.49018180
ISBN 9790543500976. UPC: 884088540364. 9.0x12.0x0.166 inches. Arranged and edited by Gerard Nauwelaers.
From exercises to piano repertoire, through nursery rhymes and folk melodies, this collection has a broad range of recognizable tunes in progressive order from late beginner to intermediate level.
SKU: BT.SY-2909
German-English.
With appealing melodies that would be right at home in catchy pop songs, Giuseppe Di Girolamoâ??s Guitar Poems indulges in the overwhelming beauty of the sound of the acoustic guitar. This publication contains all twelve pieces from Letters for You, supplemented by eight newly-composed titles that complete the collection. The pieces are presented progressively and contain comprehensive fingerings to make them as technically accessible as possible. Guitar Poems also includes first-rate demo recordings of all the pieces, performed especially for this edition by the young concert guitarist and international prize-winner Julia Trintschuk.Man schwelgt in der ganzen Klangschönheit der akustischen Gitarre und in eingängigen Melodien, die aus guten Pop-Songs stammen könnten: Das ist Guitar Poems von Giuseppe Di Girolamo. Die Ausgabe enthält sämtliche zwölf Stücke aus Letters for You, ergänzt um acht neu komponierte Titel, welche die Sammlung ideal abrunden. Alle Stücke wurden progressiv angeordnet und mit Fingersätzen versehen, um sie technisch noch leichter zugänglich zu machen. Ein zusätzliches Bonbon von Guitar Poems sind die erstklassigen Demo-Aufnahmen aller Stücke, die von der jungen Konzertgitarristin und mehrfachen internationalen Preisträgerin Julia Trintschuk eigens für diese Ausgabe eingespielt wurden.
SKU: HL.49045430
ISBN 9790001161640. UPC: 841886031647.
This collection tells little stories on the piano, written for some very young pianists. Each title sets a musical and technical challenge. Individual pieces may be put together to tell a longer story. The pieces are ordered progressively, with some requiring simple preliminary exercises. Easy to start with (using grace notes, playing legato and staccato), they become gradually more demanding as different fingerings, pedal use, phrasing and dynamics are introduced. Articulation, phrasing and tempo markings in this edition represent one possible interpretation; they may be changed or varied at will. The composer is delighted for her creative work to be developed further: titles presented in two versions give examples of this, showing that the bird can shimmer in different colours.
SKU: BR.DV-32027
ISBN 9790200425192. 9 x 12 inches.
Bicinia - unaccompanied duos - have been known to us from the fifteenth century onwards. So quite early on it was customary tu practise this type of musical exercise, which later, especially during the Romantic period, achieved great popularity as the duo or duett. Equal numbers of this sort of instrumental duo were composed for nearly all wind and string instruments. On the other hand, only a small amount of compositions for two trumpets have come down to us. In order to play any music which progresses beyond pure fanfare on a natural (valueless) trumpet, it is necessary to make use of the clarion register (the top third of the natural harmonic). And if such a melody is to be accompanied by a second part, only the few natural notes lying below it are left, or else this high register itself, which calls for great virtuosity on the part of the trumpeter. As well as this, we must remember the fact that trumpet-playing was only allowed for the trumpeters of a royal court, army, staff, or for the field-trumpeter of a prince, plus a few council, city, and church musicians, who were bound by strict guild and corporation rules. Thus in spite of the preference for its festive sound, the spread and handing down of trumpet music was almost reduced to nothing under these circumstances. As well as this, pride of place and profession rivalry and envy amongst musicians contributed in large part. In England the situation was somewhat freer. Here pretty little trumpet duos originated, including, amongst others, those written by Handel for his master-trumpeter Valentin Snow and the Royal Sergeant-trumpeters of the Shore family. An especially happy exception was the diocese of Olmiitz. Here there was a capable group of musicians of the chapel royal with the brilliantly talented group of trumpeters and the field-trumpeter Pavel Vajvanovsky, who also composed himself. These trumpeters in the service of his prince-bishop played many sacred and secular pieces, all for several instruments. It was for them also that Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber wrote the 12 double trumpet sonatas we present here. On the other hand, the representatives of the authorities in Germany ensured strict observation of all edicts and regulations. Even the celebrated Bach-trumpeter and towm-piper Gottfried Reiche was never allowed to be portrayed with a proper trumpet due to the priveleges of court and field trumpeters. In order to represent him as one of the greatest masters of his time and art, however, the painter placed an instrument similar to a corno-di-caccia in his hand, together with a sheet with a small piece for virtuoso clarion. When we try in spite of these difficulties and adverse circumstances to gather a collection of musically valuable and characteristic examples of popular pieces for two trumpets from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it is in the first, place in order to acquaint modern trumpeters with something of the wealth of music, which can also be well played on a modern trumpet with valves. The originally used trumpets correspond to modern ones in the keys of C and D, but this does not mean that many of the pieces cannot be transposed to a more comfortable register. On top of this, we have tried to give a picture of the baroque court and field trumpeter, as well as of the mysterious clarion trumpeter, with the help of musically popular material. The origin of most of the pieces used is no longer clearly discernable. In most cases we possess second- or third-hand copies which have been handed down, and show signs of frequent use. A few cases where modernization of the second part obviously did not take place until the invention of stops, have been re-shaped into their supposed original form. A series of further dynamic details were left, and marked as optional suggestions in brackets. Kurt Janetzkyz.T. mit Pauken und B.c.
SKU: HL.49046443
ISBN 9783795719067. UPC: 840126925128.
The three-volume collection Mini Maestro presents little piano pieces advancing progressively from very easy to intermediate level, presented in chronological order across five centuries from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras through to jazz, pop and minimal music. At the end of each volume - under the heading More fun to play together - there are three additional pieces for piano duet. All the pieces are easy to learn and offer varied repertoire as an ideal supplement to any piano tutorial method with music suitable for concert performance, tuition purposes, examinations and competitions. Book 1 contains pieces in the five-finger range at various pitches, followed by pieces spanning an octave range with simple rhythms and easy chord sequences. Also featured are differing styles of articulation, melody in the left hand, octave or ottava signs, pieces in major and minor keys with key signatures of up to one sharp or flat.
SKU: HL.49046444
UPC: 840126925142.
The three-volume collection Mini Maestro presents little piano pieces advancing progressively from very easy to intermediate level, presented in chronological order across five centuries from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras through to jazz, pop and minimal music. At the end of each volume - under the heading More fun to play together - there are three additional pieces for piano duet. All the pieces are easy to learn and offer varied repertoire as an ideal supplement to any piano tutorial method with music suitable for concert performance, tuition purposes, examinations and competitions. Book 2 contains pieces with an extended range of two octaves and chord sequences with three or four parts, including inversions. Other features include using the pedal, simple ornaments, basic polyphony, differentiating melody and accompaniment, pieces in majorand minor keys with key signatures of up to two sharps or flats.
SKU: HL.49046445
UPC: 840126925159.
The three-volume collection Mini Maestro presents little piano pieces advancing progressively from very easy to intermediate level, presented in chronological order across five centuries from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras through to jazz, pop and minimal music. At the end of each volume - under the heading More fun to play together - there are three additional pieces for piano duet. All the pieces are easy to learn and offer varied repertoire as an ideal supplement to any piano tutorial method with music suitable for concert performance, tuition purposes, examinations and competitions. Book 3 contains pieces with a range of up to four octaves with more demanding rhythms and speeds. Also included are subtle contrastsin tone, playing with expression, playing more than one part with one hand and advanced polyphony in major and minor keys with key signatures of up to three sharps or flats.
