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.14003626
ISBN 9780711942165. UPC: 884088442682. 8.25x11.75x0.125 inches.
Album Of Seven Songs arranged for high voice and piano.
SKU: HL.14060049
ISBN 9781849386173. UPC: 840126950571. 4.75x7.5x0.579 inches.
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.282481
ISBN 9781540034380. UPC: 888680789251. 9.0x12.0x0.965 inches.
The 1990s saw the rise of R&B, boy bands and alternative rock as the 20th century came to a close. This collection features 80 songs from the decade arranged for easy piano with lyrics: Always Be My Baby * As Long As You Love Me * ...Baby One More Time * Black Velvet * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Dreams * Fields of Gold * Friends in Low Places * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) * How Am I Supposed to Live Without You * I Need to Know * I'm the Only One * Ironic * Livin' La Vida Loca * Losing My Religion * More Than Words * Only Wanna Be with You * Smells like Teen Spirit * Smooth * Tears in Heaven * Under the Bridge * You Must Love Me * You're Still the One * and more.
SKU: BR.SON-637
ISBN 9790004803929. 9 x 12 inches.
In 1998, at the end of the 20th century, Breitkopf & Hartel started the publication of the Complete Edition, which is made possible thanks to the cooperation of the various Sibelius publishers. The Editors (Helsinki University Library and The Sibelius Society of Finland) and the Editorial Committee (Chairman: Timo Virtanen, Helsinki) believe that the volumes of JSW will provide the basis for a now conception of the creative work of Jean Sibelius.Reviews: One immediately recognizes the towering production quality of these volumes - a point that can be extended to all volumes thus far published in the set. The music is a joy to read; and the lucidity and thoroughness of the texts … are models of scholarly editions, and should be required reading for all bibliography and music-editing courses. … In sum, the JSW is a remarkable project: the scholarship is impeccable, the music scores and texts are simply a joy to study. Edward Jurkowski, Notes December 2011: 442-443At the back of this magnificent book are pages of critical commentary on a bar-by-bar analysis of an endless supply of musical notation requiring interpretation by the editor. … For the general, non-musically trained, purchaser of the edition there is the magisterial introduction to read, and fascinating reading it is. Edward W. Clark, Sibelius Society Newsletter 2009 The Sibelius pieces, however, are a revelation. I opened this magnificently produced volume - complete with multilingual critical report and generous facsimiles of original manuscripts - expecting Grieg-style quasi-nationalistic character pieces, and was instead presented with an incredible array of styles, textures, harmonic languages and levels of difficulty. Chris White, Piano Professional Summer 2009: 2This is not only a scholarly edition of one of the composer's major works, it is also a model for the philological editing of music in general. … JSW has chosen to have the emendations reflected in two places, in certain cases even in three: as graphic indications in the music text, in prose form in the critical commentary, and sometimes also in the form of a warning footnote on the music page. There can be no doubt that such a procedure is very user-friendly, but it disturbs the appearance of the music and may mislead the user into thinking that there are two or more equally valid readings. Niels Krabbe, Fontes Artis Musicae 54/2, 2007: 248 Editorial standards are high throughout, and maintain a careful balance between the competing demands of practical exigency and the need to provide as much scholarly evidence of variants as possible. The critical commentaries provide concise and effective descriptions of the sources and, where appropriate, information on compositional genesis and historical context. The introduction to each volume provide useful background information on historical reception, including much new material not previously brought to light in Tawaststjerna's biography. Daniel M. Grimley, Nineteenth-Century Music Review 2/2, 2005: 244.
SKU: SA.41335
ISBN 9781608741335. 9.5 x 12.5 inches.
A first publication, this delightful ten-minute work was given its premiere on April 26, 1998 by in Little Rock by pianist Norman Boehm at the University of Arkansas' Artspree Concert Series. Tres Rabos (Three Tails) is presented in three short movements - each a 'tail' devoted to a different animal - preceded in the score by a brief scenario. At an intermediate level, Zajac's work is composed in a contemporary style which is nevertheless quite accessible to piano students anywhere. Beautifully engraved and printed on large size (9 x 12) off-white stock with a quality cover, all saddle-stitched in the traditional sheet music binding.
SKU: UT.QC-3
ISBN 9788881094639. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. Performed by Arthur Schoonderwoerd.
Saggi di Rudolf Angermüller, Bianca Maria Antolini, Luca Aversano, Otto Biba, Ala Botti Caselli, Anik Devriès-Lesure, Arnfried Edler, Markus Engelhardt, Christoph Flamm, Anselm Gerhard, Rudolf Hopfner, Roberto Illiano, Janina Klassen, Laurence Libin, Elena Previdi, Rudolf Rasch, Massimiliano Sala, Guido Salvetti, Duane White, Christian Witt-DörringThis volume offers the reader a journey into the highways and byways of the culture of the pianoforte, covering certain new aspects. The range of themes treated is vast, proof of the central nature of the instrument in European musical life on the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. On the basis of original research, investigations have been made into the different ways in which the spread of instruments and printed music occurred; into the movements of musicians circulating from one end of Europe to the other; into the circulation of genres, forms, musical styles and stylistic elements conveyed including through the teaching of the instrument; into the presence of the pianoforte in the European literature and the arrangements for instruments at the beginning of the nineteenth century; into the role of the pianoforte in certain important centres in Europe and the United States. A rich period for European music, therefore, in which the opportunities for contact and mutual exchange among the musicians were particularly intense and in which the pianoforte acted as a catalyst in private and public musical life in all the cities of Europe.The volume comes with the bonus of a CD, appositely providing pianoforte sonatas by Cramer, Hummel, Eberl and Beethoven.
SKU: FA.MFCD007PN
8.27 x 11.69 inches.
Debussy's friendship with the versatile poet and playwright Gabriel Mourey began in 1899, and in July 1907 Mourey offered Debussy a libretto based on Le roman de Tristan - Joseph Bedier's adaptation of a twelfth-century Breton romance by the Anglo-Norman poet known as Thomas - which had recently been published in Paris. Debussy enthusiastically outlined the four-act plot to Victor Segalen that October, and the main differences from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde are that none of the action takes place in Cornwall and that Isolde of the White Hands is found guilty of cuckolding King Marc with Tristan, who has to rescue her from the leper colony in which she is abandoned in Act 1. She also betrays him when he goes mad at the end.The idea of a Tristan that restored its 'legendary character' and had no connections with Wagner, appealed to Debussy, who was extremely moved by the circumstances of Tristan's death. Even if he thought that Mourey's poetry was 'not very lyrical and many passages do not exactly invite music', he did work on the libretto and the music that summer and sent his publisher, Jacques Durand, 'one of the 363 themes for the Roman de Tristan' in a letter sent from Pourville on 23 August, 1907. The present prelude grows from this theme, together with the poignant Breton folksong Le Faucon. After a short atmospheric introduction, Debussy's dance-like theme (which is definitely not a leitmotif) gradually gains momentum and after it reaches its ecstatic climax, representing the transient happiness of the lovers, it dissolves into an expressive coda and an elegiac close (all growing from Debussy's opening, off-stage trumpet calls), leaving us with the ultimate tragedy of their ill-fated affair.Unfortunately, Mourey's actual libretto has been lost and the project eventually foundered because Bedier's cousin, Louis Artus, wanted Debussy to use the scenario he had prepared and copyrighted for the stage, and would not allow him to proceed with Mourey's version. Debussy, it need hardly be said, would never have dreamed of collaborating with the author of the vaudeville hit La culotte (The pants)!