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The Big Collection from the best-selling Complete Piano Player series includes some of the greatest songs, old and new, from the renowned Piano sheet music songbooks. With exceptional variety, this compendium will never leave you at a loss for something to learn and play.Featuring some timeless arrangements from past editions of The Complete Piano Player songbooks, as well as new arrangements of great contemporary tunes, The Big Collection is one of the the richest companion songbooks ever made available for the legendary Piano tutor system. With 30 massive songs included in easy-to-play solo Piano arrangements, there is something for everyone here as each song is undeniably a classic. From old tunes like At Last and Feeling Good to new tunes like Let It Go and Someone Like You, The Big Collection even has everything in between like Paradise by Coldplay, Primavera by Einaudi as well as Elton John's Tiny Dancer.If you've been working through The Complete Piano Player tutor books, or you just want an assortment of incredible songs to add to your repertoire, The Big Collection is for you. If you're a relative beginner, each song features chord symbols, full lyrics and useful fingering suggestions to help you master these songs. This sheet music songbook is also useful if you're a more advanced player, however, with the arrangements allowing you to improvise, or even improve upon the existing tunes. Each song follows in the footsteps of the original and acclaimed Complete Piano Player tutor system, so if you're aware of that these arrangements will be immediately familiar, but they will work equally well if you're using it as a songbook on its own. The best thing about The Big Collection is the sheer variety on offer. Fans of Bob Dylan, Beyoncé, Pharrell Williams and The Beatles will be catered for, as well as old-school soul fans, modern pop fanatics and contemporary classical enthusiasts, or simply lovers of great music!The Piano sheet music contained within The Complete Piano Player: The Big Collection represents some of the best songs from the past, all the way up to the present. The familiar feel of these arrangements will get you playing these popular pieces perfectly straight away. / Piano

After the success of the previous three volumes, the fourth book in the popular Beat It series is here. This brilliant collection contains 45 favourite hits from the international charts. The popularity of artists and bands ranges from established superstars such as Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran, Adele, Justin Bieber or Katy Perry to classic favourites such as Toto. All songs are arranged for Piano, Voice and Guitar. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

You Raise Me Up , written by Secret Garden's Rolf Løvland and Irish novelist Brendan Graham, achieved its unique success mainly through being recorded by so many artists - around 150 of them to date. Originally intended as an instrumental entitled 'Silent Story' Løvland's melody only acquired lyrics after the Norwegian composer invited Graham - whose novels he knew - to turn it into a song for Secret Garden's 2002 album Once In A Red Moon . It was sung on the album by Irish vocalist Brian Kennedy and although it enjoyed some success in both Ireland and Norway, the song's eventual path to legendary status only began when Josh Groban took it to the number one spot on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart in 2004. Groban performed the song at several high-profile events in the US (including Super Bowl XXXVIII, Oprah Winfrey's 50th birthday celebration, and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show where he was accompanied by the African Children's Choir). Westlife raised the song's profile further when they made it the debut single from their album, Face To Face. It was to become an all-purpose inspirational anthem featured at everything from the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize concert to series 4 of The X-Factor in the UK. Daniel O'Donnell, Aled Jones, Katherine Jenkins, Il Divo, Russell Watson and The Mormon Tabernacle Choir have now all performed it, helping to turn Løvland and Graham's uplifting song into a global phenomenon and a 21st century classic. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Instrumentation: piano Edition: score Publisher: Eberhard Mayer OEuvres pour piano/Klaviermusik/Piano Music Edition en 10 recueils/Edition in 10 Bänden/Edition in 10 volumes Volume 1: Femmes de Légende Editor: Eberhard Mayer Item no.: fue 4180 Difficulty: medium ISMN: 979-0-50012-918-9 Contents: Mélisande, Desdémona, Ophelie, Viviane, Ph?bé, Omphale und Salomé The pieces for piano represent a great stylistic variety. One gets the impression that Mel Bonis may have intended to give a summary of musical development, not quoting historic styles but adapting the past through her personal tone and to translate it into contemporary musical language. The first volume includes an original series of musical portraits dedicated to legendary women, where Mel Bonis explores the enigmatic feminine universe. ?Femmes de légende? A collection we have called ?Femmes de légende? contains seven piano pieces by Mel Bonis named after women whose fates have become legendary. They have not always been arranged in this way. The first piece, ?Mélisande?, was published separately by Alphonse Leduc in 1898. In 1909, a collection called ?Trois pièces pour piano? (Three pieces for the piano), dedicated to the composer Paul Locard and which included ?Ph?bé?, ?Viviane? and ?Salomé?, was published by Leduc. In 1913, ?Mélisande? was added to the four last pieces for a final collection called ?Cinq pièces?. ?Omphale? appeared in a Berlin edition ?Signale für die musikalische Welt? in 1910. As to ?Ophélie?, it was never published in Mel Bonis? lifetime and we discovered a manu-script in 1997 without any indication at all of when it was writ-ten. ?Ophélie? was first published by the publishing house Ar-miane in Versailles in 1998. Mélisande (1898) Written before Debussy?s famous opera, Mel Bonis? piano piece ?Mélisande? was also inspired by the poet Maeterlinck (Mélisande, 1893). These short pages of magical harmonies, of radi-ant impressionist colours use music to describe Mélisande?s hair as described by Pelleas: ?your hair and its beautiful light... It escapes everywhere, it shivers, it shakes, it trembles in my hand like a golden bird.? This piece enjoyed quite a success in Mel Bonis? lifetime. She noted of it ?my favourite? in the margin of her hand-written catalogue. Desdémona (1913) The female heroine in Shakespeare?s ?Othello? inspired Mel Bonis to write a nostalgic piece with a fairly easy, rather classical beginning, a kind of romance without words, of great elegance and of a deep and melancholic beauty. Ophélie Ophelia, the lover of Shakespeare?s Hamlet, is a deeply melan-cholic character who goes mad and drowns in mysterious cir-cumstances. Ophelia inspired the poet Rimbaud and the painter Millais ? each of them created a masterpiece. Mel Bonis too evokes images of water, sadness and death in music for a third work of art. With its delicate and chilling beauty and also with its moments of passion, this impressionist piece - the work which owes most to Debussy - calls for great intelligence when performed. Viviane (1909) The figure of the fairy of the lake is musically described here in a well-structured, many-facetted piece; first of all, the initial dancing theme has an air of the ?salon? about it, typical of its time, evoking the fairy?s charm, her smile. Then follow succes-sions of majestic chords and fluent harmonies which represent the underwater castle and the fairy?s power. This piece is easily approachable. Ph?bé (1909) The sister of Phoebus, the sun, symbolises the moon, the night, chastity. The piece creates an impression of night. Steeped in twilight, languor and a sense of immense space, the atmosphere is one of unreality. This feeling of alienation is reinforced by the incoherence of rhythm between the two hands. Salomé (1909) Inspired by the Orient, Mel Bonis creates a very original musical illustration of the biblical character of Salome. She is characterised by shifting moods in which slow syncopes follow light glissandos, and urgent, mysterious psalmodies accompany sensual melopeias, where surprising tempo varia-tions lead to outbreaks of violence. With its relatively difficult beginning, this piece is especially interesting from the viewpoint of research into interpretation. Omphale (1910) The queen of Lydia is a female character from the violent depths of Greek mythology. This powerful female is described here with glittering sensuality and Oriental subtlety. The impressive work shows a complex structure both in harmony and rhythm, it is a lively and rich work which calls for much thought and great virtuosity on the performer?s part. ?Omphale? was awarded a prize for composition by the Berlin magazine ?Signale für die musikalische Welt? in 1910.

Grazyna Krzanowska From The Classic Hot Licks Video Series Newly Transcribed And Edited!. Par BUDDY GUY. The legendary Hot Licks guitar instruction video series is being made available in book format with online access to all the classic video footage. This book/video provides a unique chance to learn from the greatest Chicago blues guitarist of them all. In these video lessons, Buddy Guy reveals what he learned from such legends as Jimmy Reed, T-Bone Walker, and Lightnin' Hopkins, among others. Includes 40 transcribed examples. You'll learn: 9th chord riffs and licks, playing lead style with fingers, how to emulate slide guitar, boogie riffs, piano-style rhythms and much more./ Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures