Classics for the Developing Pianist, Book 4

Les cinq livres de cette série présentera 100 chefs-d'oeuvre allant de début-intermédiaire par niveau avancé que les éditeurs croient pianistes en développement devraient étudier et exécuter. Chaque livre contient 20 morceaux choisis parmi les quatre périodes principales des styles ainsi que des suggestions supplémentaires pour le répertoire du 20e siècle. Livre 1 contient les sélections pour début pianistes intermédiaires. / Piano

Les cinq livres de cette série présentera 100 chefs-d'oeuvre allant de début-intermédiaire par niveau avancé que les éditeurs croient pianistes en développement devraient étudier et exécuter. Chaque livre contient 20 morceaux choisis parmi les quatre périodes principales des styles ainsi que des suggestions supplémentaires pour le répertoire du 20e siècle. Livre 5 contient les sélections pour pianistes avancés. / Piano

The Advanced Pianist Book 1 from the Piano Trainer series is for students who are beyond the intermediate stages and want to develop an advanced technique and musicality. Exploring piano technique through a variety of elements, these books include exercises, 'quick study' sight-reading, repertoire and 'concert pianist' hints and tips. The series not only develops students' technique, reading, theory and musicianship, but also provides an invaluable insight into the world of classical music, here focussing both on historical context and key composers for the piano. Book 1 is suitable for students at post grade 6 level.The Advanced Pianist Book 1 from the Piano Trainer series is for students who are beyond the intermediate stages and want to develop an advanced technique and musicality. Exploring piano technique through a variety of elements, these books include exercises, 'quick study' sight-reading, repertoire and 'concert pianist' hints and tips. The series not only develops students' technique, reading, theory and musicianship, but also provides an invaluable insight into the world of classical music, here focussing both on historical context and key composers for the piano. Book 1 is suitable for students at post grade 6 level. / Niveau : 3 / Pédagogie / Etude / Piano

The Advanced Pianist Book 2 from the Piano Trainer series is for students who are beyond the intermediate stages and want to develop an advanced technique and musicality. Exploring piano technique through a variety of elements these books include exercises â??quick studyâ?? sight-reading repertoire and â??concert pianistâ?? hints and tips. The series not only develops studentsâ?? technique reading theory and musicianship but also provides an invaluable insight into the world of classical music here focussing both on historical context and key composers for the piano. Book 2 is suitable for students at post grade 7-8.The Advanced Pianist Book 2 from the Piano Trainer series is for students who are beyond the intermediate stages and want to develop an advanced technique and musicality. Exploring piano technique through a variety of elements these books include exercises â??quick studyâ?? sight-reading repertoire and â??concert pianistâ?? hints and tips. The series not only develops studentsâ?? technique reading theory and musicianship but also provides an invaluable insight into the world of classical music here focussing both on historical context and key composers for the piano. Book 2 is suitable for students at post grade 7-8.

The Classics for the Advancing Pianist series provides motivating, enjoyable literature of substantial quality for developing keyboard artists. The pieces in these books, written by Edward MacDowell and ordered in a logical progression from volume to volume, help the performer work within his or her abilities while developing playing and listening skills. This standard teaching repertoire will help build technique and musicianship, as well as offer hours of personal enjoyment. / Piano

Finger Fitness 3 is an ideal supplement to The Classical Piano Method: Method Book 3 (ED 13536). It contains easy to intermediate technical exercises, suitable for pianists who have completed Method Book 2 of the series, or for those returning to the instrument after a break.This book includes 44 elementary finger exercises, studies and etudes for developing finger strength and independence, evenness, accuracy and speed of playing, as well as articulation and general musicality.The pieces are presented in a progressively graded format, providing you with relevant repertoire as your playing develops. / Piano

Par BLACKWELL DAVID / MARSHALL KAREN. The Foundation Pianist is a set of two books for students beyond the beginner stage who want to develop a technical and musical foundation to help them progress on to intermediate levels. Exploring piano technique through a variety of elements, the books include daily exercises, sight-reading, repertoire and musical time travel. This series not only develops students' technique, reading, theory and musicianship, but also provides an invaluable insight into the world of classical music, from madrigals to symphonies and operas to concertos. / Niveau : Facile / Pédagogie / Etude / Piano

This book teaches the improvisation of classical Piano music through a step-by-step method including the use of chord tone approaches scales arpeggios non-chord tones motivic development ornamentation modulation stylisticvariation and more. By practicing simple tasks the pianist escapes the mental pressure of performing on the spot and develops the ease and freedom of improvising in classical styles. This book also includes 7 variations on a themeby Beethoven illustrating the improvisational concept and technique. Audio available online.

Par LANG LANG. Join the superhero world of Lang Lang and come on a piano adventure! Five progressive books provide a unique and imaginative way for complete beginners to learn the piano with the world's most successful concert pianist, Lang Lang. There's plenty to play all around the keyboard right from the start. Fun, imaginative pieces develop the left and right hands equally and supporting audio features exclusive performances by Lang Lang of the concert pieces. Musicianship is developed through theory pages and listening to exclusive performances by Lang Lang of piano classics for children. Book 1 introduces complete beginners to different five-finger positions and note reading, moving around the keyboard and developing both hands equally right from the start. 'I've written The Lang Lang Piano Method to inspire today's kids with my passion for the piano.” Lang Lang/ Méthode / Piano

This exciting new teaching method, by the renowned piano pedagogue, Hans-Gunter Heumann is ideal for adults and young people looking to learn the piano from scratch, or for those returning to the piano after a break from playing. Using classical music as a basis for learning, this method introduces outset interesting, varied and well-known pieces from the right. The two method books have been carefully designed to progress in small manageable steps, beginning with simple fingering patterns and exercises, onto some of the most beautiful melodies and pieces from the baroque, classical and romantic eras, analyzed as the Ode to Joy, Fur Elise and the Blue Danube Waltz. Leading the student through a range of exercises, repertoire pieces, theory fun checks, tips on practicing, playing and technique, and composer biographies, the process of learning is made interesting, and informed.The four volumes present supplementary material to help further learning at each stage of the students' development, as well as offering up against a range of beautiful pieces, duet for the solo pianist, or piano.The method books and duet collections are accompanied by a CD recording of all pieces performed on a concert grand piano by a professional pianist, as well as some additional accompanying parts, Which can be used as play-along tracks. / Piano

Par ZELENSKI WLADYSLAW. Wladyslaw Zelenski had the Six Character Pieces for piano, op. 17 ready around 1871, although it is quite possible that he composed them earlier, even in 1864. Such is indicated by the opus number. At that time he was giving opus numbers to works in chronological order of composition. This set is dedicated to Auguste Auspitz-Kolár, a pianist whom Zelenski could have met on one of his trips to Vienna. The composer published these works in 1872, with Gotthard of Vienna, in two books under the common title Sechs Charakterstücke. The present edition is based on Ludwig Doblinger?s Viennese edition (cat. no. 1221 comprises the Praeludium, Promenade and Tanz, cat. no. 1222 the Canon, Scherzo and Abschied). The compositions collected in Zelenski?s opus 17 have been unjustly forgotten. Their undeniable qualities include advanced harmonies and expressive melodic writing, as well as a wide range of textural means and composition techniques. Quite ?densely? written, these miniatures may prove challenging, but the right fingering eliminates many difficulties of performance. The second book of Wladyslaw Zelenski?s Six Character Pieces contains three miniatures: Canon, Scherzo and Farewell. They manifest characteristic features of the composer?s style, such as the use of counterpoint and a rich, organ-like texture. The Canon, with its emotional charge and build-up of tension, brings to mind miniatures from the brilliant piano cycles of Robert Schumann. A very simple phrase is imitated canonically between the top voice and the two bottom voices, passing through different keys. A touch of finesse is added by the triplet figuration in the middle plan. The next miniature is a classic Scherzo in ABA form. The outer sections, with an imitated theme, are in G minor. With its rather ominous, perhaps somewhat tragic, character, it contrasts with the middle section, Un poco più tranquillo, in the parallel key of G major, which clearly represents a more luminous, dance-like episode in this set of works. The title Farewell given to the last piece in opus 17 may stir associations with Ludwig van Beethoven?s only programme sonata, Les Adieux. This miniature is far more expansive and texturally richer than the other works in this set. The virtuosic elements are of the highest order, not overwhelming the composition, but emphasising its powerful emotional charge. Each of these miniatures can function as a separate work, but when played as two three-part cycles they fall into logical wholes, in which the climax is reached in the last, most elaborate piece. Yet a performance of all six works from both books, so the whole of Zelenski?s opus 17, allows us to discern an even larger cyclical form, developed in an equally deliberate way. - Anna Miernik/ Répertoire / Piano

This book offers teachers and students a wide selection of literature to help pace musical and technical development evenly and with ease. The book presents appropriate teaching literature by 14 composers who wrote inspirationally for the intermediate student. The pieces in this book are primarily from Levels 7 and 8, according to Jane Magrath's The Pianist's Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature. Titles include: Prelude in D Minor, BWV 926 (J. S. Bach) * Prelude in D Minor, BWV 940 (J. S. Bach) * Sonata in F Major, K. 78 (Scarlatti) * Sonata in G Major, K. 391 (Scarlatti) * Sonata in C Major, K. 309 (Scarlatti) * Sonata in A Minor, K. 149 (Scarlatti) * Viennese Sonatina No. 1 in C Major (1st movement) (Mozart) * Viennese Sonatina No. 2 in A Major (1st movement) (Mozart) * Viennese Sonatina No. 6 in C Major (1st and 3rd movements) (Mozart) * Sonatina in G Major, Hob. XVI: 8 (1st movement) (Haydn) * Sonatina in F Major, Hob. XVI: 9 (1st movement) (Haydn) * Sonatina in C Major, Hob. XVI: 10 (1st movement) (Haydn) * Bagatelle in G Minor, Op. 119, No. 1 (Beethoven) * Bagatelle in D Major, Op. 119, No. 3 (Beethoven) * Bagatelle in A Minor, Op. 119, No. 9 (Beethoven) * German Dance in D Major, D. 783, No. 2 (Schubert) * Waltz in B Minor, D. 145, No. 6 (Schubert) * Waltz in A-flat Major, D. 365, No. 2 (Schubert) * Two Ecossaises, D. 421, Nos. 1 and 2 (Schubert) * Album leaf in F-sharp Minor, Op. 99, No. 4 (Schumann) * From Foreign Lands and Places, Op. 15, No. 1 (Schumann) * Mignon, Op. 68, No. 35 (Schumann) * Important Event, Op. 15, No. 6 (Schumann) * Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7 (Chopin) * Mazurka in F Major, Op. 68, No. 3 (Chopin) * Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 67, No. 2 (Chopin) * Mazurka in G Major, Op. Post (Chopin) * Mazurka in B-flat Major, Op. Post (Chopin) * Song of the Cowherd, Op. 17, No. 22 (Grieg) * Waltz, Op. 38, No. 7 (Grieg) * Norwegian Melody, Op. 12, No. 6 (Grieg) * The Little Shepherd (Debussy) * Album Leaf (Debussy) * Braul (Bartok) * Buciumeana (Bartok) * The Farewell, Op. 21, No. 3 (Borkiewicz) * Venice, Op. 21, No. 7 (Borkiewicz) * Pierrot's Serenade (Martinu) * Columbine Remembers (Martinu) * Prelude (Fragment) (Gershwin) * Merry Andrew (Gershwin) * Promenade (Walking the Dog) (Gershwin).

Pianoworks Duets 2 is the perfect resource for developing pianists to explore duet-playing. They'll develop balance playing in time and sight-reading while learning attractive and accessible arrangements in a huge variety of styles and genres including 'Spring' from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons Joplin's exuberant rag 'The Easy Winners' and the traditional Scottish song 'Afton Water'. In addition the collection contains several new and original gems by Alan Bullard the co-author of this celebrated series. 21 duets with parts of equal standard compiled and arranged for beginner to intermediate pianists (approx.Grades 3-5) Wide range of styles including Classical Romantic jazz folk and contemporary CD contains backing tracks of each part to allow solo practice Useful tips on style and technique and background information on every piece Perfect companion to Pianoworks Book 2 and Pianoworks Collection 2