SKU: BT.PWM12177020
Chopin composed his ''Mazurkas'' continuously from 1825 to 1849. The half-utilitarian genre was a point of departure, gradually becoming a form of meditative lyricism - the most personal statement of expression. Chopin's''Mazurkas'' present a number of specific performance problems resulting from such causes as the diversity of individual mazurkas, their collection in opus groups byChopin and his drawing inspiration from dance forms of Polishfolk music. Volume No. 4 contains 43 mazurkas. Of the variants in musical notation, those designated ''ossia'' were marked in this way by Chopin himself or inscribed in his hand in pupils' copies, while those without thisindication result from textual divergences in authentic copies or from difficulties in reading the text in an unambiguous way. The miniature version of the National Edition does not contain source commentary or performance notes.
SKU: BT.ALHE18387
French.
Having been considered as a 'fashionable' and 'cliché' composer of his day, Hahn's compositions are possibly not as well-known as they ought to be. Portraits De Peintres for Pianohowever, is one of many compositions that shatter these prejudices held, representing the engaging diversity of the composer's music. Venezuelan-born Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) entered the Paris Conservatoireat 10 years old. He received a high standard of musical education from Decombes, Lavignac, Dubois and Massenet before becoming a prolific and versatile composer himself, writing works for all genres. For Hahn, music wasamagical art and his compositions often contain expressions of his otherwise hidden emotions and moods. Portraits De Peintres is made up of four movements based on the poems of Marcel Proust, depictingfour different artists. Hahn's Portraits De Peintres contains a variety of different features, making for a pleasant and evocative work for intermediate pianists.
SKU: BO.BC0006
Despite a strong vocation for the cello, which he studied and began to play with a distinctive character, Pau Casals, like most ambitious, creative musicians, wrote at the piano and for the piano, as it is the ultimate teaching instrument, summarising the full vision of the creative process. Any creative musician habitually worked at the piano, whether for this instrument alone or for piano accompanied by other solo instruments. To date, it has not been possible to document whether Casals had systematic training on this instrument, although at that time it was more common than it is today because, considering its qualities of timbre and combination, it was particularly attractive for creating test pieces and different kinds of compositions.The piano works contained in this second volume include part of the salon repertoire, a continuation of the first volume, and four sardanas for piano of diverse origin: some are reductions of more complex forms and others sketches for instrumental groups. In the first group, some works intended for children are published, a demonstration of the tenderness the ‘cellist felt for the children of his closest friends. In the second case, the sardanas are works from his first exile in Prada and show the nostalgia of the composer, away from his country against his will.In general, the works are not especially complex; their purpose and nature are diverse. They come in the context of salon music, with the appearance of creative entertainments characterised by a basically tonal, transparent language with a widespread tendency to modulate to nearby keys more as a momentary expressive resource than as a structural evolutionary procedure. They show a lack of systematic work on the instrument as well as the commonplaces of piano composition of their time. In some of these works, the piano thread breaks, the works do not have the thrust of finished products; the occasional appearance of chords that are difficult or impossible to finger leads us to think of intentions closer to test pieces than to products intended for normal performance. But not all these piano works are circumstantial. There is also a prelude and a minuet of a certain piano writing complexity.
SKU: HL.360543
ISBN 9781789361940. 9.0x12.0 inches.
The new RSL Classical Piano syllabus aims to reflect the widening tastes of young people, positioning itself at the forefront of thevast array of music available to pianists, encompassing the rich heritage of music from the Baroque right through to the modern day and emerging composers. The repertoire strikes a balance between a radical redesign and maintaining a recognisable structure, and sticks to four key principles: championing ethnically diverse composers, representing genders, acknowledging the history and tradition of piano learning, and enabling students to feel comfortable studying music in a popular and classical environment. The syllabus books are all beautifully presented, and to the high standard for which RSL books have become renowned from their market-leading Rockschool examinations for contemporary music. Each contains 10 pieces from a diverse range of composers and include everything students need to take their exams, including technical exercises and supporting texts for sight-reading, ear tests and general musicianship questions.
SKU: HL.1115748
ISBN 9781705180099. UPC: 196288105992.
Welcome to Earth is a collection for diverse solo piano pieces that capture the imagination of the piano player in multiple ways. Featuring a total of 10 short pieces, plus a bonus one in the end, each piece holds the interest of the pianist, or piano student, by moving from style to style with great ease, but always offering the personal touch of the composer, Thanos Fotiadis, who is a piano teacher, a pianist and a composer, living in the Netherlands.
SKU: HL.360544
9.0x12.0 inches.
SKU: IS.PN7287EM
ISBN 9790365072873.
Natural Light, by composer Louis Anthony deLise is a diverse collection of pieces for piano solo, including: American Darkness, Autumn Twilight, But Not Forgotten, Early January, In the Edge of the Water, Mosaic, Natural Light, And Then She Was Gone, Spring Rain, Three Little Dancers, Winter's Chill, and Variations on Moonlight.
SKU: HL.1115751
ISBN 9781705180129. UPC: 196288106029.
Composer Scott Aaron Miller has created a collection of seven short preludes, for solo piano, in different styles. Some follow a style close to Scriabin while others go further back to even reach Rameau. However, each one holds the individual personality that Mr. Miller has acquired over the years as a seasoned composer.
SKU: AP.1-ADV9032
UPC: 805095090321. English.
Beyond Dreams contains nine stylistically diverse soundscapes for the piano with suggestions for motivic improvisation. The pieces in this book were conceived as tonal short stories that emphasize melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, and form individually, but never neglecting the others.
SKU: HL.360545
ISBN 9781789361964. 9.0x12.0 inches.
SKU: BR.EB-8902
ISBN 9790004185308. 9 x 12 inches. German / English.
Equally Easy Teaching the twins Rosalie and Finn piano was both a challenge and inspiration for piano pedagogue and composer Bertram Schattel. Based on Anton Diabelli's idea of giving piano beginners pieces to play that are not only immediately easy to master, but still sound good, Schattel invented 20 diversified little pieces in the five-tone range for piano duet. The pianistic challenges are consistently similar for both players. Since Little Song in Tears sounds musically very different from Always nicely cool! or Tango Under the Sun, the piano book is at one and the same time a fun introduction to various keys and rhythms and styles of playing.
SKU: BT.WA-4089-401
ISBN 9789043141963. English.
This beautiful melody from the French master of romance makes an ideal piano which can be used in a great variety of circumstances from weddings to funerals. Composés entre 1909 et 1912, les deux livres de Préludes pour Piano comptent parmi les œuvres tardives de Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Elles révèlent une grande diversité de styles, de textures, de climats et d’émotions, et constituent un condensé de toutes les particularités du langage de Debussy. La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin est le huitième prélude du premier livre. Il est célèbre pour sa profondeur émotionnelle malgré sa simplicité technique et harmonique. Nul ne sait qui fut la fille aux cheveux de lin, mais cette miniature merveilleusement subtile réveille notre imaginaire.
SKU: AP.36-M296291
UPC: 679360762097. English.
A diverse collection of piano miniatures, 13 Pieces contains several very popular works composed between 1911 and 1919. Highlights include Etude, a violinistic technique exercise; Arabesque, a swift and light piece in the style of Liszt; Linnaea, a poetic lyrical piece; Cappriccietto, an exciting and ever-modulating selection; and Harlequinade, a whimsical and mercurial piece similar to Debussy's preludes.
These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.
SKU: BR.EB-9450
ISBN 9790004189276. 9 x 12 inches.
It is quite amazing that the piano works of the English composer Ethel Smyth had remained unpublished until 2003. All of them were written during her Leipzig study years after 1877, a period that Ethel Smyth herself described as the happiest time of her life. In Leipzig, she met such musical giants as Brahms, Clara Schumann, Dvorak, Grieg and Tchaikovsky. It should come as no surprise that these encounters left stylistic traces in Ethel Smyth's piano oeuvre.Smyth wrote the three piano sonatas in 1877, yet they are stylistically diverse: Smyth raced through a kind of musico-historical evolution. Her point of departure was Haydn and Mozart, who clearly inspired her sonata in C major. It was followed by the impassionate sonata in C sharp minor, which was inspired by the actress Marie Geistinger. The two-movement fragment in D major, reflecting Ethel Smyth's admiration for Brahms, concludes the sonatas.Most of the other piano pieces borrow their atmosphere and titles from Baroque models (dance movements, genre pieces) and are technically undemanding. They have been arranged in this edition in order of progressive difficulty.It is quite amazing that the piano works of the English composer Ethel Smyth had remained unpublished to this day. She wrote all of these pieces during her years of study in Leipzig, after 1877.