Partitions de Spartan Press pour Piano seul

'Tall Stories for Short Pianists' is an album of a dozen approachable Piano solos along with 5 duets (for pupil and teacher) pitched at the younger Pianist. Each piece connects with a tale or story (some will be more immediately familiar than others) while the level of difficulty starts at ABRSM Prep Test/Trinity College Initial with a couple nudging Grade 3.While in some cases the technical and reading difficulties have been kept to a minimum other pieces include hand-positon changes hand-crossing isolated high/low notes or brief chromatic features in order to widen the interest. The intrepid Pianist is warmly invited to take up a commanding presenceat the Piano (or Keyboard) and perform with authority!Mark Tanner's compositions encompass an impressively wide range of attractive styles. A number of his pieces written or adapted for a variety of instruments feature in current ABRSM TCL and LCM exam syllabuses drawing from a growing oeuvre (60 volumes) of music published by Spartan Press. You will find a few of his pieces within an appealing new ABRSM series due to appear later in 2016: 'Piano Star'. Mark's 'Scapes' series was shortlisted for the 'Best Print Resource' Award at the 2015 Music Teacher Awards and he is co-author of ABRSM's Teaching Notes an informative book to support the latest Piano syllabus. His thought-provoking book 'The Mindful Pianist' was published by Faber Music in 2016.

Good Times Past comprises a series of nine short and contrasting piano pieces in a light yet essentially modern idiom. Glancing affectionately back in time to an era of traditional pastimes and board games these pieces where published on the occasion of Spartan's 25th birthday and are musically related to a set of flute duets written in 1982 which became 'Tricks and Games' - Spartan's first published book.Nine easy pieces including:- Chinese Chequers Draughts Cowboys American Indians Ragtime etc. - each presents a different challenge yet with the emphasis on fun. Ragtime was selected to be published in Pianist Magazine March 2015.

These pieces where published on the occasion of Spartan's 25th birthday and are musically related to a set of Piano duets written in 2001 'Whirligig'.

Un ouvrage de référence utile pour compléter votre connaissance des différents styles musicaux et la façon de les recréer au piano ou au clavier. Que cela fait partie des leçons que vous prenez déjà, ou pour les plus courageux d'entre vous qui font cavalier seul, vous y trouverez quelques conseils pratiques utiles étant donné le long du chemin. / Piano

Quirky New Piano Pieces-'In choosing to call this set of 25 pieces The FitzTanner Collection I make a tongue-in-cheek allusion to the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.The FitzTanner Collection doffs its cap in the direction of this seminal ancient tome by borrowing some of the more fanciful and suggestive titles from which it is comprised but beyond this there is no musical connection with the original pieces at all. And yet stirred into the mix is my fondness for melding together bygone musical styles. Hence this album of piano pieces pitched at the more robust intermediate pianist combines quirky originality with older musical styles drawinginspiration not just from Renaissance dances and fantasies but from more elaborate Baroque and Classical styles too. That said the music is conceived very much with the qualities of the modern piano in mind and hence requires a good many pedal effects dynamics and plenty of expression. What emerges is I hope a collection of attractive piano pieces which cheerfully bear the traces of a time when the modern piano was but a twinkle in the eye.There is an enjoyable charisma to the Old English spellings of these pieces (as well as a healthy margin for idiosyncrasy I might add) and to my own creations I have taken great delight in adding a few light-hearted directions which I trust won't cause too much consternation. Not all of the Fitzwilliam titles are easily fathomed but the playful risqué and politically incorrect overtones are sometimes quite striking leading me to contemplate a similarly unserious vein in my own writing. To what (or indeed to whom) you may ask does 'Quodlings Delight' refer? I'm not sure I'd recognise a Quodling if it crawled out of my porridge (and likewise who the eponymous Barafostus might have been is anybody's guess). Perhaps on balance the music is best left to speak for itself and regardless of how many ways an old title can be reworked it will always come down to living breathing

Federico Ruiz finds constant inspiration in the rich popular and folkloric music of his country.No. 10 The little Peruvian girl is featured by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in their Grade 4 piano exam pieces 2013 & 2014.Clara has recorded these pieces on CD: The Music of Federico Ruiz - on Nimbus Alliance Records (Catalogue No. NI6179).They first met in 1993 and she became acquainted not only with his music but through it discovered the precision and the soft expressiveness of each of the numerous rhythms of Latin America and the Caribbean. His music is a sophisticated synthesis of Latin American styles that amongst manyother traits expresses the subtle interface between 'classical' and 'popular' music of the continent.Clara Rodriguez is often described as an Ambassador of Latin-American piano music recognising the great number of concerts she has given and CDs where this music features prominently. Born in Caracas Clara studied there with Giomar Narváez and with Phyllis Sellick after winning a scholarship from the Venezuelan Arts Council to train in London at the Royal College of Music. At the age of sixteen she made her debut playing Mozart's last piano concerto with the Simón Bol var Orchestra under the baton of José Antonio Abreu which was the starting point of her international career as a concert pianist.Her discography includes CDs of the piano music of Venezuelan composers Moises Moleiro (Nimbus NI6104) Teresa Carreño (Nimbus NI6103) VENEZUELA (Nimbus NI 6122) receiving glowing reviews from international publications such as Gramophone Magazine: 'Clara Rodriguez makes the most of her innate feel for the exuberant and languorous dispatching the toe-tapping cross-rhythms with panache and a light touch. This is a treasure chest from which to cherry-pick.' She regularly plays in London's Wigmore Hall Southbank Centre St. John's Smith Square St. Martin in-the-Fields and at Barbican Centre. Clara Rodriguez teaches the

Solo Piano-Bryan Kelly's six Somerset Preludes for solo Piano.'The Piano was my first study as a student at the Royal College of Music. I taught the Piano for some years and gave many recitals as a soloist and as an accompanist. Oddly I have not written much for the instrument and this set of pieces is my first venture in the field for a long while. I live in Somerset where these preludes were composed hence the title.' - Bryan Kelly

Book Two of Laurie Holloway's Piano Sparklers contains a set of Preludes for Piano Solo suitable for players of Grade 1-3. Holloway is best known for his decades of work in television working with the UK's biggest names but he wrote the Piano Sparklers series all of which feature very playable preludes with his grandson Freddie to whom they are dedicated.

Clementi's Sonatinas for piano were some of the first Classical piano works to be written in a style distinct from that of the harpsichord. The brightness and clarity of the writing has provided a rich source of piano teaching material ever since.Compiled and edited by Mark Goddard these pieces are between Grades 4-6 in standard.

Easy Piano-Ten varied original sketches for piano in the jazz idiom for the elementary piano student. A useful book for teaching jazz improvisation Jazz Sketches includes a set of 'Notes & Ideas' to help with each piece.Grade: 2 - 5

New Serie For Piano-The Eye-Tunes Series for piano contains 100 newly composed Piano pieces - attractive accessible and pitched at pianists of all ages and abilities. Within each album the pieces are arranged with musical rather than technical concerns in mind in the hope of encouraging profitable dipping! The range of styles is wide - jazz pop ambient reflective humorous minimalist impressionistic. These pieces as the title Eye-Tunes suggests have been written to be read while calling for a degree of spontaneity and flexibility. The titles are thought-provoking and the material intended to spark the imagination. These albums will serve particularly well as an alternative or adjunct toconventional repertoire.

13 Duets For 4-Hand Piano. Par ARENS BARBARA. 13 duets by Barbara Arens for Piano 4-hands. / Date parution : 2018-05-04/ Recueil / Piano

This pair of attractive intermediate Piano pieces were written to commemorate the births of Prince George (2013) and Princess Charlotte (2015). Also enjoyed by readers of Pianist Magazine the music inhabits a gentle soporific mood: a lullaby and a nocturne. Quick-witted pianists may spot the allusion to the bells of Westminster in the opening chords of the Nocturne; cast in the key of C major the top notes spell out the initials of Charlotte Elizabeth Diana: CDE. The faintest whiff of an oft-quoted Piano piece by Debussy might also be detected in the penultimate line.

9 Images For Piano-Sample pages of each composition with audio extracts are at www.lolaperrinsheetmusic.comInspired by the photography of Ansel Adams. This music has the feel of open spaces rivers and canyons fireflies and hot summer afternoons. Nine lyrical reflective compositions for solo piano.

2nd Movement-Transcription of the slow movement of Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto op 1. Programme note by Murray McLachlan: Rachmaninov's first concerto in F sharp minor op 1 was composed in 1891 and dedicated to Alexander Siloti. The work was substantially revised in 1917 with textures made much lighter. The revised version is also more concentrated and disciplined with the material eliminating some of the earlier episodic sections entirely from the score. The second movement is an exquisite 74 bar miniature a nostalgic nocturne that is contrapuntally rich. In this soloversion the use of all three pedals and the middle pedal in particular make it possible to project the multifaceted textures the 'colour counter-point' that along with Rachmaninov's chromaticism enhances his considerable melodic gifts. Was Rachmaninov the 'Russian Bach?' Certainly his genius for 'inner voices' 'inner melodies' and counter-melodies make his music an inexhaustible treasure house of possibility for the creatively charged solo pianist. In Rachmaninov's piano writing there is simply no such thing as 'padding' or anonymous accompaniments- every line can be vocally or orchestrally charged making the music glow with richness and inspiration. This transcription was given its world premiere on April 1- Rachmaninov's birthday- in 2017 in New York as part of a recital for the Lezetizky society. Further performances were given on what was an intense US Easter tour in Washington Texas Boston and Vermont. I've also performed the transcription in Canada and the UK.