Mark Tanner: Eye Tunes Book 4: Piano: Instrumental Album

The Eye-Tunes Series for piano contains 100 newly composed Piano pieces - attractive accessible and pitched at pianists of all ages and abilities. Within each album the pieces are arranged with musical rather than technical concerns in mind in the hope of encouraging profitable dipping! The range of styles is wide - jazz pop ambient reflective humorous minimalist impressionistic. These pieces as the title Eye-Tunes suggests have been written to be read while calling for a degree of spontaneity and flexibility. The titles are thought-provoking and the material intended to spark the imagination. These albums will serve particularly well as an alternative or adjunct toconventional repertoire.Included is a CD with performances by the composer of all the pieces.

New Serie For Piano-The Eye-Tunes Series for piano contains 100 newly composed Piano pieces - attractive accessible and pitched at pianists of all ages and abilities. Within each album the pieces are arranged with musical rather than technical concerns in mind in the hope of encouraging profitable dipping! The range of styles is wide - jazz pop ambient reflective humorous minimalist impressionistic. These pieces as the title Eye-Tunes suggests have been written to be read while calling for a degree of spontaneity and flexibility. The titles are thought-provoking and the material intended to spark the imagination. These albums will serve particularly well as an alternative or adjunct toconventional repertoire.Included is a CD with performances by the composer of all the pieces.

The Eye-Tunes Series for piano contains 100 newly composed Piano pieces - attractive accessible and pitched at pianists of all ages and abilities. Within each album the pieces are arranged with musical rather than technical concerns in mind in the hope of encouraging profitable dipping! The range of styles is wide - jazz pop ambient reflective humorous minimalist impressionistic. These pieces as the title Eye-Tunes suggests have been written to be read while calling for a degree of spontaneity and flexibility. The titles are thought-provoking and the material intended to spark the imagination. These albums will serve particularly well as an alternative or adjunct toconventional repertoire.Included is a CD with performances by the composer of all the pieces.

The Eye-Tunes Series for piano contains 100 newly composed piano pieces (21 of which feature in this volume) - attractive accessible and pitched at pianists of all ages and abilities. Within each album the pieces are arranged with musical rather than technical concerns in mind in the hope of encouraging profitable dipping! The range of styles is wide - jazz pop ambient reflective humorous minimalist impressionistic. These pieces as the title Eye-Tunes suggests have been written to be read while calling for a degree of spontaneity and flexibility. The titles are thought-provoking and the material intended to spark the imagination. These albums will serve particularlywell as an alternative or adjunct to conventional repertoire.

With Plenty To Chew On-Seven concert pieces including 'Carmina Banana' and other favourites!When I began putting together a few piano pieces back in 2007 I didn't imagine they would quickly spawn a thriving eleven-volume series entitled Eye-Tunes taking players from 'easy' to grade 8 level. Nor did I imagine these might trigger a further five volumes of arrangements for flute and piano two called Creature Comforts (which predictably enough are comprised of animal-inspired pieces) or indeed the three volumes in this current series Flute Pastilles. While it goes without saying that not all pieces conceived for piano will work equally well for the combination of flute andpiano I'm a great believer that a good tune is frequently one which will transcribe easily. I like to think of these cherry-picked arrangements concise though they are as being 'proper' pieces in that they can earn their keep beyond the confines of the practice room or flute lesson. From Book 1 you will find a sprinkling of more thoughtful pieces such as Wind over Goonhilly Forget-Me-Not and Follow the North Star to offset the more jaunty pieces. These in particular call for a little extra attention to tone colour dynamics and phrase-shaping with some awareness of what the piano part is doing too. Think hard about choosing your tempo for each piece as this is a major contributor to musical character and in the faster moving music aim to articulate the rhythms as crisply as you can so that the music can really spring off the page and come to life for your audience.I must acknowledge as before the inestimable contribution to the success of these pieces made by Gillian Poznansky whose suggestions over the appearance of the scores has made such a difference to how the music is likely to be played. She also came up with a fair number of the titles to these pieces and has done them further service by performing them with me to great aplomb on innumerable occasions in far-flung corners of the globe.