3 Chinese Pieces

Level 1. PlayTime Piano Music from China is a musical journey featuring energetic dances, quiet folk melodies, and original Chinese pieces. The book is arranged especially for the early elementary student and correlates with Level 1 in the Piano Adventures method. At this level, five-finger positions reinforce tonalities and intervals. Teacher duets provide a full, rich background. Along the way, students meet LeLe the musical panda, their whimsical guide to exploring the Chinese sound through discovery questions, improvisation, and composition activities. A picture tour of China, unique at each level of the series, introduces highlights of history and culture. Songs include: Fengyang Flower-Drum · Frog Dance · Let's Sing · Pouch Embroidering · Song of the Newsboy · Tune from Xinjiang · What Is the Most Beautiful.

Toy Box - Very First Pieces For Piano contains 26 simple yet impressive Piano songs composed by experienced teacher June Armstrong. This book is ideal for a beginner to put theory into practice with a wide variety of pieces in a number of styles.Each title in this songbook is evocative of the way the piece is meant to be played, with songs like Ballerina, Hula Hoop and Kaleidoscope suiting the instructions that Armstrong has provided like ?Daintily? and ?Steadily?. Unique touches like this make Toy Box perfect for a young child who is working their way towards grade one standard, as the composer has skilfully attempted to represent the nature of various toys through the medium of music. This will help a young musician to learn the basic concepts of musical theory in a fun and familiar context, with songs like Jumbo and Slinky sure to entertain all who are within earshot through humour and musicality. If you would like to listen to audio recordings of all the songs included in Toy Box, they are all available to download free of charge from the author's website.What sets this songbook apart from other beginner books is the personality and dedication that June Armstrong brings to her compositions, noting that her pieces are all inspired by her own Piano students and giving detailed and informative notes for each song at the beginning of the book. For the song Dinosaur, Armstrong writes that ?You will want to create a very scary atmosphere?The right hand note heads are strange bird calls in the forest. The left hand Ds, Es and Fs are the dinosaur??. The care that has been put into creating this sheet music shows that Armstrong is acutely aware of the best way for students to learn, and that she truly wants students to learn effectively, but in a fun and light-hearted way.Each song in Toy Box occupies a single page making it easy for a player to track their progress and learning, while there are additional helpful bits of information peppered throughout to clarify anything that may be unfamiliar to the student. Armstrong is keen on developing a student's ear for tone and atmosphere, so these extra notes not only reinforce how to play the piece physically, but also how to include emotion and feeling in music, for example how to conjure imagery like that of Blowing Bubbles. The songbook will be perfect for a child who already understands basic musical terms, will be able to play in a few keys other than C Major and is able to play in simple time signatures. As a first step into new compositions, Toy Box will introduce new concepts as well as reinforce what a student is already accustomed to, nevertheless, Armstrong's message is clear - ?Have fun!?. / Piano

Eighteen pieces edited and annotated by Richard Jones for the ABRSM. Includes the Fantasia In C Minor K.396.

Version With CD-These books each bring together for the first time nine pieces from ABRSM?s Guitar syllabus from 2019. The pieces have been carefully selected to provide an attractive and varied range of music to perform in exams concerts or anywhere else! Covering a broad range of styles these books are an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The books also contain helpful footnotes and for those preparing for exams useful syllabus information. They each features two solos and one duet drawn from each of Lists A B and C giving candidates a choice of repertoire for their exam in one easy-to-use book. Book

Fifteen part pieces for Piano. These pieces are fun to play and conjure up a variety of scenes and pictures to fire the young player's imagination.

The Chinese Pictures for solo flute (s) (1993) were composed for the premiere played by the solo flutist Walter van Hauwe but Yun also wished for a performance by German flutes. The four pieces which Yun composed in June 1993 in Hohegeiß/ Harz are characterised by the reduced structural capacity of his style the memories of far eastern flute-idioms - with the exceprion of the third piece Der Affenspieler - and a Buddhist pattern. Yun consistently limits his work: all pieces come from techniques of the evolved variations and contrastive adaptions from (repsectively different) two- or three-toned themes. The first two pieces have the contemplative tenor as well as the spiraldramaturgy of the upward auched semi-circle the archetypal symbol for heaven in common. However the themes are conflictive: Bigger intervals abound the single tone in I. Der Besucher der Idylle whereas the tight coupling with the 'main tone' through smaller intervals in II. Der Eremit am Wasser evoke a softer sound. This clearly mirrors the impression of the single tone as a brush mark. Both pieces are - just like IV. Die Hirtenflöte - inspired by various variations of the story of the shepherd and his ox which in east Asia is used to name the 'inner child' of a human. The title if the first piece in the autograph is Der Besucher der Eremitage and refers to Buddhist hermitage. The visitor of this idyll is the farmer who leads his ox to the water for him to drink. The continuation of this parable is expressed by the second piece Der Eremit am Wasser. Together with the farmer the hermit comes to the water and rinses his ears. The farmer asks him why he would do that and the hermit responds: 'I was in town at the royal palace. I was to be empoloyed as sergeant and got offered a good payment. But when I asked what I had to do I heard terrible things. That is why I have to rinse my ears. ' The farmer however is disgusted by the contamination of the water; he leaves the fountain without letting his ox drink. The title of the third piece

Instrumental Play-Along-Play along with 10 pieces from the beloved holiday ballet including: Arabian Dance ('Coffee') Chinese Dance (Tea) Dance of the Reed-Flutes Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Final Waltz and Apotheosis March from the Nutcracker Overture Russian Dance (Trepak) Spanish Dance and Waltz of the Flowers. Includes access to online audio.

A wonderful collection of music which will give Western Violinists a set of colourful and entertaining solos which both contrast with existing repertoire and offer a practical introduction to one of the world's most fascinating musical cultures. Fifteen solo recital pieces originally for the 2-String Chinese Fiddle derived from the traditional and contemporary musical repertoires of mainland China and arranged for Violin by Johnathan Stock.