SKU: HL.14017987
ISBN 9781846093326.
Part 3 of Barbara Kirkby-Mason's album of pieces for the elementary Pianist, with melodies and exercises intended to develop a keen sense of rhythm, feeling and balance at the keyboard. The book features a full guide to basic music-reading and note-finding at the Piano, followed by a gradual but progressive series of miniature lessons, each covering a different aspect of music. You will learn contrary motion, scalic and arpeggio-based melody, staccato and legato, and much more.
SKU: HL.14017989
ISBN 9781846093333.
Kirkby-Mason's second album of pieces is designed for the pupil who has achieved a preperatory level of Piano playing, offering stimuating pieces that will help expand knowledge and technique. These six solo pieces and two duets will inspire the imamgination and provide a host of simple phrasing ideas, gestures and changes. Pupils will encounter a larger keybpard scope, with exercises for finger-extension and lateral moves.
SKU: JU.JMG1243
ISBN 9798985015393. UPC: 850044279401.
As a leading figure in 19 th century American church music, Lowell Mason composed over 1,600 hymn tunes…many of which became standards in church hymnody known worldwide. This publication not only features playable piano arrangements of Mason’s classic hymn tunes, but offers biographical information and celebrates the life and influence of the man often regarded as “the father of American music education. Titles include When I Survey the Wondrous Cross; Blest Be the Tie; My Faith Looks Up to Thee; There is a Fountain; Nearer, My God to Thee; O For a Thousand Tongues, and more.
SKU: BT.BWH003638
Barbara Kirkby-Mason (1910-2000) was a British composer, pianist and pedagogue. She studied Piano at the Royal Academy of Music before developing a succesful career as a composer, lecturer and adjudicator. She is bestknown for her Piano method books such as The Modern Piano Course and The Adult Beginner, and continued writing books on Piano playing and theory right into her 80s.
Puppy Dog Tunes is asupplementary volume to the Very First Step series for Piano. It contains a selection of appealing tunes for beginner pianists.
SKU: HL.14017985
ISBN 9781844497065. 9.0x12.0x0.116 inches.
For absolute beginners at their first lesson. This book includes a guide to the position of middle C and the notes in the treble and bass. In order to play the first few pieces in the, which are confined to the five-finger group in each hand, you only need to know how to find notes by position from middle C. Daily finger exercises are included at the beginning of the book, containing the various time-signatures and note values used in the album.
SKU: HL.14017994
SKU: HL.14017988
9.0x12.0x0.077 inches.
A selection of easy duets for beginning piano players. The Primo parts will give the beginner a good grasp of ensemble playing, while the Secundo parts expand into the bass clef for more challenging playing.
SKU: HL.14017990
ISBN 9780711992801.
Five pieces of progressive difficulty for 4-hands at one piano! It can be used in conjunction with the Second Album and Third Album books of the Modern Course For Beginners or as supplementary material for other methods. The Primo and Secondo are of similar difficulty so can be played by pupils of the same level who are encouraged to learn both parts.
SKU: HL.14018005
SKU: SU.29120140
An excerpt from Morning at Silver Lake, composed by Todd Mason. This piece depicts the awakening of the day at the beautiful High Sierra lake called Silver Lake, just downstream from June Lake. Level of difficulty - Intermediate to professional Flute & Piano Duration: 5' Composed: 2023 Published by: Todd Mason (ASCAP) Morning at Silver Lake (Youtube excerpt):.
SKU: BR.EB-9246
World premiere: Passau (Festspiele Europaische Wochen), 26. Juni 2016
ISBN 9790004185469. 9 x 12 inches.
In a world of invisible waves: a butterfly is a response to the idea of the butterfly effect: that a small cause can have a disproportionately large effect. Before composing the music I wrote this short poem in order to focus my imagination and help with shaping the most appropriate sonic gestures:In a world of invisible waves: a butterfly Flies into a storm Which it unknowingly created When it took its first flight.This narrative is not literally translated, but maybe you can hear the resonances of delicate flapping and mercurial weather somewhere amid the rippling waves of the music? It is warmly dedicated to Catherine Le Bris. (Christian Mason, 2016) Bibliography: Whittall, Arnold: Questioning the Sound: the Music of Christian Mason, in: The Musical Times 161 (Summer 2017), S. 85-99World premiere: Passau (Festspiele Europaische Wochen), 26. Juni 2016.
SKU: HL.14017979
ISBN 9781847727671. 9.0x12.0x0.148 inches. English.
A well designed course suitable for the adult beginner or as a revision course for the young pianist by Barbara Kirkby-Mason.
SKU: BR.EB-9333
World premiere of the piano version: Orleans (8th Int. Piano Competition of Orleans ,,Brin d'herbe), April 14, 2019
ISBN 9790004187975. 9 x 12 inches.
Inspiring Nature These three piano pieces, composed for the ,,Concours, Brin d'Herbe 2019, may be performed separately or as a collection, in which case they should be played in the given order. Though each piece is aimed at a different technical level (I. Elementary, II. Advanced, III. Intermediate), they have a common artistic aim: to connect musical expression with poetic inspiration. In particular, these pieces meditate on the emotional connection between our interior life and the vast and varied landscapes of the natural world all around us. While composing I found myself re-reading Kathleen Raine (one of my favourite poets) and was struck by her statement (in the foreword to her ,,Selected Poems): ,,'Nature-poetry' is not what we write about nature, but rather the language of images in which nature daily speaks to us of the timeless, age-old mystery in which we participate. Nature communicates today what it told the earliest of humankind, and what it will tell future generations when our modern high-rise cities are no more. Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves. Nature is the common, universal language, understood by all. What she says about nature resonates with my understanding of music, which also sometimes affords us an opportunity to know 'our boundless selves'. And I am especially interested in the way that sounds - which, as vibrations in the air, are another aspect of nature - can reveal and heighten our sense of connectedness to ourselves and our surroundings. Each movement is inspired by a single stanza from the poem ,,Amo Ergo Sum by Kathleen Raine, and I would encourage anyone playing these pieces to devote time to internalising the words as well as the music, for they may contain the key to an accurate expression. As such, the relevant words are quoted at the start of each score. ,,Inner Landscapes is dedicated to Joe Browning, Lexy Oliver and Omar Shahryar. (Christian Mason, 2018)World premiere of the piano version: Orleans (8th Int. Piano Competition of Orleans ,,Brin d'herbe), April 14, 2019.
SKU: BR.EB-9399
ISBN 9790004188736. 9 x 12 inches.
One of my favourite pieces of music as a child - and I still love it - was Schubert's Trout Quintet. It was partly the wonderful music, of course, so light-hearted and joyful on the surface, yet with twists and turns and murky depths of feeling too. But I also liked the picture of a trout on the album sleeve - such beautiful creatures! Last year, while resident at the Villa Concordia in Bamberg, as I took daily walks along the Regnitz river, I observed the trout as they calmly hovered and swayed in the shallows... But if they felt my shadow they were gone in a split second! If you ever get a chance to look closely at brown trout you see that they are covered in myriad brown/red spots of varied sizes; camouflage I suppose. Now those patterns seem to be mixing in my mind with the shifting colours of the spectral arpeggios that flow through this little piece. It's a watery piece, with rippling waves, shimmering surfaces and textural veils around the melodies which flow through it. But it also takes inspiration (and it's title) from a Pablo Neruda poem: the third stanza of Every Day You Play includes the line The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish. There's no singer, but I imagine an invisible or imaginary voice somewhere behind (or beyond) the music, and so the score includes a melodic setting of the text. Even though this is not performed by a voice, the melody is always played by the ensemble - especially high register cello - making the piece something like the inverse of a song without words. (Christian Mason)World premiere: Aix-en-Provence, October 16, 2020 Commissioned by the Grand Theatre de Provence - Aix-en-Provence.
SKU: BT.BWH003633
English.
Very First Step for Piano was written by Barbara Kirkby-Mason for young children, and for pupils who struggle to make use of more than the thumb and first two fingers of each hand.
The minimumof concentration is required by the pupil, as each piece only contains one or two musical ideas. The pieces are built up by means of imitation between the right and left hands an octave apart.
This progressive volume willgive the beginner confidence to move on to further methods when ready.
SKU: BT.BWH003644
Barbara Kirkby-Mason (1910-2000) was a British composer, pianist and pedagogue. She studied Piano at the Royal Academy of Music, and developed a career as a composer, lecturer and adjudicator. She is best known for herPiano method books such as The Modern Piano Course and The Adult Beginner, and continued writing books on Piano playing and theory right into her 80s.
Solo Album for the Adult Beginner is asuperb addition to the rather neglected market of adult beginner pianists. It quickly and carefully covers the basic salient points, allowing the interested adult to make speedy progress.
