Fascinations: Piano: Instrumental Album

35 pieces on the quirky side-Fascinations is a volume of quirky juxtapositions and intriguing pieces of music. Lœillet is cheek-by-jowl with Liszt Schumann with Scarlatti and Sjögren. There are some fine newly-written miniatures but also some extraordinary pieces by well-known composers such as Mozart’s bizarre Funeral march of Signor Maestro Contrapunto or the unsophisticated music-making faithfully represented in Gounod’s Bagpipers and Tchaikovsky’s The peasant plays the mouth-organ. Dance movements by Telemann Schubert Rameau Jiŕovec and Zilcher all have something unexpected or piquant about them although they are technically straightforward anda joy to play.For intermediate-level pianists.Piano Moods is an exciting new piano series from Boosey & Hawkes. Each volume is devoted to a particular mood. The pieces chosen draw on Boosey & Hawkes' extensive collection of wonderful music as well as lesser-known gems from the past - some of them from surprising sources - and newly composed works.

Level 3A-3B. FunTime Piano Music from China is a special collection of folk songs and original Chinese works arranged for early intermediate students (Level 3A-3B). These pieces offer dance-like rhythms, dramatic movement across the keyboard, sonorous use of the pedal, and fast tempi with crisp articulations. Music and text explore fascinating aspects of China such as flowing canals, majestic elephants, peacock dances, mooncakes, and mountain songs. The delightful character LeLe the panda lends a paw with questions for interpretation, and students create their own Chinese sounds in improvisation and composition activities. Songs include: Elephant · The Flowing Canal · Gazing at the Moon · Mountain Song · Northwest Rains · Peacock Dance.

Songbook Christmas Music for Piano-Arranged for solo Piano this songbook contains all 12 songs from the jazz fusion Christmas album It's Snowing On My Piano by Norwegian jazz musician Bugge Wesseltoft. The It's Snowing On My Piano sheet music songbook is the perfect collection for the pianist who is tired of playing the same old Christmas classics and wants to impress and excite listeners with the criminally under-appreciated fusion of jazz and Christmas. Recorded in 1997 the album was Wesseltoft's first for solo Piano and included jazz updates of old favourites like O Little Town Of Bethlehem and WhatChild Is This (Greensleeves)  as well as compositions like the opening track It's Snowing On My Piano.  Jazz aficionados and Christmas-lovers alike will adore this album being a mix of musically fascinating techniques and style as well as those unmistakeably beautiful Christmas melodies played to perfection. With this songbook you will be able to play all of these brilliant tracks exactly as they were composed by Wesseltoft. Your listeners will be interested to hear you play the familiar tunes before being entranced by the contemporary flourishes and nuances that have been sprinkled throughout. The title track is especially lovely: a relaxing and subtly melodic piece that communicates the softness and delicacy of what we all hope for - falling snow. Bugge Wesseltoft has been acclaimed since having his first big impact on jazz at the outset of the 1990s. Not being confined by any rigid concepts of genre has meant he has consistently been able to innovate and therefore inspire audiences. From jazz to electronica to hip-hop the It's Snowing On My Piano sheet music is your chance to own and learn the festive offering from an award-winning composer.

Easier Piano Pieces 48-Although little known today Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) was a noted Czech composer of his time much influenced by Schumann Listzt and Wagner. Perhaps the most fascinating of his piano works is the extensive collection of 376 highly individual miniatures entitled Moods Impressions and Souvenirs dedicated to his mistress. This album contains 26 of the easier pieces together with two others.â??A pleasing and varied collection of piecesâ?? Music Teacher â??There is much Bohemian charm melody and colour with most of the pieces in a gentle pastoral mood...â?? Piano Journal

Grades 6-7-Beautifully presented and thoroughly readable 'modern' editions of the best of these pre-Baroque masterpieces. Carefully graded.It has often struck me as intriguing that The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book (a collection of keyboard music spanning the period c.1562-1612) occupies a virtually non-existent place in the literature considered viable by pianists.Needless to say harpsichordists continue to hold the music in the highest esteem while a number of transcriptions for instruments and ensembles have been made available in more recent times. How can it be that this ancient heritage - which in keyboard music terms might be regarded as the equivalent to the DeadSea Scrolls - has hitherto seemed a no-go area for pianists? It is as if the first 'proper' keyboard music tumbled miraculously out of some parallel universe around Bach's time i.e. the first half of the 18th century. While our modern piano is perhaps as different from a virginal as a washing machine is from a mangle there are in fact a good many facets of virginal music which read across perfectly well to today's instruments. For this to be possible we need to take the time to look beyond peculiarities in translation which to a significant extent comes down to issues resulting from burgeoning notational practices. It also becomes necessary to re-imagine the music in light of what is possible as well as what is desirable. Problems with accessing the sound-world of pre-Baroque keyboard music can be overcome quite easily just as it is possible to become better in resonance with avant garde musical styles given appropriate immersion. Since the writing of the performance notes to The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book more than a century ago (by J.A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay Squire) the momentum generated by the Early Music Revival has brought about immeasurable insights into the intentions of Renaissance and Baroque composers. Performances on period instruments continue to reacquaint us with a bygone age and stimulate a healthy fascination for the

Did you know that Bruckner wrote for the piano? Or that Liszt wrote some pieces that are not fiendishly difficult? Contemplations is selection of fascinating pieces for intermediate-level pianists. The music is drawn from a wide range of periods and styles creating intriguing juxtapositions of pieces by well-known and lesser-known composers. Bernstein's tribute to Sondheim rubs shoulders with Erik Satie; Bartók Benjamin and Bortkiewicz are bedfellows; Mozart and Tchaikovsky are represented alongside their contemporaries Koželuh and Cui. There are some thoroughly accessible new pieces too by contemporary masters.Piano Moods is an exciting new piano series from Boosey & Hawkes.Each volume is devoted to a particular mood. The pieces chosen draw on Boosey & Hawkes' extensive collection of wonderful music as well as lesser-known gems from the past - some of them from surprising sources - and newly composed works.

In Portraits For Piano Bonnie von Reis Doe has 'painted' a musical portrait of each of her grandchildren each piece is characterised by their principal personality traits. This collection of pieces reflects thecomposer's fascination with harmonies chord qualities and progressions and how a simple change can profoundly alter the emotional effect of a motif or theme. In general these pieces were composed with young people inmind. There are some rewarding technical challenges and all are stepping stones to more advanced works. All the pieces leave plenty of room for interpretation and self expression so that each performer can make them his or herown.

Vol. 1/Early Intermediate Level-18 meaningful songs for the Hanukkah season including Hannah Hanukkah and I Have a Little Dreydl. Also features many original songs by Judith Berman (music) and Rose Engel (lyrics) that communicate the fascinating stories and traditions of Hanukkah through music and brief textual descriptions. The layout is piano-vocal and each piece is 1-2 pages. Includes illustrations.

Includes instructional pages and exercises exploring the 12-bar blues swing rhythm and the blues scale; historical information; and an explanation of jazz and blues styles (64 pages). Contents include: After You've Gone; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Basses Loaded; Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home?; Crazy Blues; Early Morning Blues; Fascination; Fat Cat Boogie; Frankie and Johnny; House of the Rising Sun; I Ain't Got Nobody; I Love a Piano; Quiet Waters; Royal Garden Blues; The St. James Infirmary; St. Louis Blues; Tishomingo Blues; When the Saints Go Marching In.

A Treasury of Favorite Songs to Play-This collection contains 26 timeless classics from the masters of musical theatre George and Ira Gershwin. All of the pieces in My First Gershwin Song Book are arranged for easy Piano and presented with beautiful full-colour illustrations. A biography of the Gershwin brothers is included along with vintage photographs of them performing. Songs include: An American in Paris But Not for Me Embraceable You Fascinating Rhythm I Got Rhythm Love Is Here to Stay The Man I Love Rhapsody in Blue Someone to Watch over Me Summertime They Can't Take That Away from Me and more.