Music-Musical Instruments-Piano & Keyboard

A piano is one of the most expensive consumer purchases many people will ever make, yet honest, unbiased price information is mysteriously scarce. In this companion volume to The Best of Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer, Fine provides "list prices" for most piano and...

Composer and virtuoso violinist Antonio Vivaldi is best known for his group of four violin concerti, each of which offers a musical expression of a season of the year. Written around 1716-17, they rank among the earliest examples of program music, or compositions with...

This new volume presents 26 preludes, 21 nocturnes and 19 waltzes - a large amount of music at a value price. There are new urtext editions of seven pieces included: Prelude in A-flat Major, Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Nocturne in C minor, and Waltzes...

(Piano Solo Personality). 14 of Queen's best in artful piano solo arrangements, including: Another One Bites the Dust * Bicycle Race * Bohemian Rhapsody * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Don't Stop Me Now * I Want It All * Killer Queen *...

(Willis). A comprehensive volume of this classic method that features lessons, solos, and theory exercises. This time-tested method is perfect for very young beginners and provides them with an opportunity to learn the piano in a unique and charming way, with each lesson presented...

(Keyboard Recorded Versions). Jon Lord was a pioneer in fusing rock and classical genres for keyboard and the Hammond organ for groups like Deep Purple and Whitesnake. This folio transcribes 14 of his performances, including: Burn * Child in Time * Fireball * Here...

(Instructional). Perfect for musicians, teachers or anyone looking for solid info on scales, chords, and how they work together. Provides right- and left-hand piano fingerings for scales, chords, and complete inversions, covering 20+ different scales, each written in all 12 keys. The Source is...

A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the mystery by journeying back through the prophecies of the...

(Educational Piano Library). From the very first lessons in Book 1, students are making music as they explore the piano keyboard through fun improvisation pieces called My Own Song . The beginning of the book introduces finger numbers, the black-key and white-key groups, and...

"Ravel is one of the rare French composers who have left so strong an imprint on their art that music after them can never be the same." -- Alexis Roland-Manuel. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) ranks as one of the most original French composers of his...

(BH Piano). 40 tangos by the revolutionary tango musician and composer Astor Piazzolla, arranged for solo piano. These crowd-pleasing tangos borrow from classical, jazz, and Latin traditions. Includes Piazzolla's most famous tangos, "Libertango" and "Oblivion." Appropriate for the intermediate to early advanced player. Contents:...

Master the art of stride piano playing, using the never-before explained techniques of masters like Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, and Donald Lambert to turn any song into a stride masterpiece. Stride piano stormed the New York jazz scene of the 1920s and 30s,...

Author: Augsburg Fortress PublishingISBN-10: 0800659066ISBN-13: 9780800659066Publisher: Augsburg Fortress PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2001Pages: 207Format: SpiralWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.90w x 0.70d

Jazz Piano Fundamentals is master-teacher Jeremy Siskind's welcoming, clear, and detailed guide to the first stages of jazz piano study. Each of the book's twelve units presents lessons, exercises, licks, activities, listening guides, and practice plans to keep studies organized, productive, and creative.Step-by-step lessons...

(Educational Piano Solo). Introduce piano students to unique African American history and music with these 24 folk songs arranged for intermediate piano solo. Songs include: By and By * Deep River * Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? * Every Time I Feel the Spirit...

This book is a modern piano lesson book with a new take on the best way to learn piano.How to Play Piano in 14 Days is jam-packed with fundamental piano exercises so you can learn to play piano fast. Introducing a revolutionary new PIANO...

(Piano Solo Personality). 14 piano solo arrangements from Winston's rich catalog of favorites, including: The Cradle * Fragrant Fields * Lullaby 2 * New Orleans Slow Dance * Peace * Remembrance * Sea * Troubadour * Valse de Frontenac * and more.Author: George WinstonISBN-10:...

For beginners and experienced technicians alike.Author: Arthur a. ReblitzISBN-10: 0911572406ISBN-13: 9780911572407Publisher: Vestal PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.25w x 0.51d

(Music Sales America). 50 original piano duets by Stravinsky, Czerny, Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Brahms and others.Author: David GoldbergerISBN-10: 0825640237ISBN-13: 9780825640230Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1992Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 11.93h x 9.10w x 0.44d

(Music Sales America). An illustrated volume of storybook and holiday songs, lullabies, marches, and rounds. Easy-to-read lyrics, piano arrangments, and guitar chords. Includes: Simple Simon * Take Me Out to the Ballgame * This Old Man * and more.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 0825613582ISBN-13: 9780825613586Publisher:...

From Mozart's fabulous legato that "flowed like oil" to Beethoven's oceanlike surge, from Clara Schumann's touch "sharp as a pencil sketch" to Rubinstein's volcanic and sensual playing, The Great Pianists brings to life the brilliant, stylish, and sometimes eccentric personalities, methods, and technical peculiarities...

For several generations of performers and audiences, Medtner has lain overlooked somewhere between the genius of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin and the juggernaut of Prokofiev's 'modernist' masterpieces. But he is not just a quintessential Russian composer; he is a master for all, and now perhaps...

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Major and minor pentascales; intervals through the 6th; C. G, and F major scales. Contents include: Almost Like a Dream * America * American Fiddle Tune * Beach Party * Beethoven's Fifth Symphony Theme * Blues Train * The Boogie...

One of the greatest figures of the French classical school, Fran ois Couperin (1668-1733), called le grand, was royal organist at the court of Louis XIV and the leading French composer of his day. Trained early as an organist, he possessed solid contrapuntal skills...

Brahms's twenty-four chamber works include a number of the most acclaimed masterpieces in the repertoire, and his piano trios -- including the famous Horn and Clarinet Trios -- are among the most admired, performed, and recorded of all. This edition, reprinted from the definitive...

Learning to play the piano has never been easier. With easy-to-follow illustrations and fun practice pieces, this comprehensive step-by-step guide will have students well on your way to playing the music of your choice-even if they've never played a musical instrument. How to Play...

A modern take on a classical icon: this original, entertaining, well-researched book uses the story of when, where, and how Chopin composed his most famous work, uncovering many surprises along the way and showing how his innovative music still animates popular culture centuries later....

Do you want to learn piano playing in an easy to understand way? Are you looking for the perfect guidebook to help you in piano learning? Do you already know how to play the piano but you're looking for a great teaching tool to...

(Faber Piano Adventures ). Contents include: African Celebration * Club Jazz * Down by the Riverside * Everybody Ought to Know * Gallop on the Moor * German Dance * Holiday Fanfare * Mysterious Cavern * Niagra Falls * 'O Sole Mio! * Pale...

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to playing the pianoforte, with information on everything from finding the right notes to playing legato and staccato. "The Visible and Invisible in Pianoforte Technique" will be of utility to both beginner and more advanced students, and...

Author: Taylor Learning Resource Center IncISBN-10: 1441564438ISBN-13: 9781441564436Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/26/2009Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d

(Piano). Includes: Piano Concerto No. 1 * Piano Concerto No. 2 * and Piano Concerto No. 3.Author: Sergei RachmaninoffISBN-10: 1423489160ISBN-13: 9781423489160Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2010Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 11.90h x 9.00w x 0.47d

(Music Sales America). A collection of the world's finest classical and popular music for the developing pianist. Features nearly 140 masterpieces of every musical era in rewarding piano arrangements. Includes favorite piano solos by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Faure, Handel, Haydn, Scott Joplin,...

(Really Easy Piano). Easy piano arrangements of 16 favorites by Rachmaninoff. Complete with song background notes and playing hints and tips. Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and,...

Maybe you're a piano teacher already. Maybe you're a pretty awesome one. But teaching piano to preschoolers is a whole other can of jelly beans. If you try to teach these little ones "traditionally" you're not going to have any fun, and neither are...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). The music biopic of 2018 is destined to be Bohemian Rhapsody, which chronicles the journey of the legendary rock band Queen and its iconic late lead singer, Freddie Mercury. This songbook features 20 Queen songs from the motion picture soundtrack arranged for...

(Artist Transcriptions). 11 note-for-note transcriptions right off the iconic 1962 piano album by Peterson. Includes: Bags' Groove * Band Call * C-Jam Blues * Easy Does It * Georgia on My Mind * The Honeydripper * Hymn to Freedom * I Got It Bad...

Discover How to Get Lightning Fast Piano Scales With 5 Minutes a Day of Practice. You're about to discover how to learn and speed up your scales from scratch, the easy way. A lot of beginners simply practice their scales over and over, without...

The primary goal of this book is to train the ability to read music for piano without being dependent on finger numbers being provided, such as what one would find in a 'Piano-Vocal-Guitar' book - which is the majority of song books for Pop,...

(Super Easy Songbook). It's super easy! This series features accessible arrangements for piano, with simple right-hand melody, letter names inside each note, basic left-hand chord diagrams, and no page turns. This jazz standards collection includes 60 songs: All the Things You Are * Body...

(Jazz Piano Solos). 33 hymns reimagined for jazz piano in piano solo arrangements with chord symbols, including: Abide with Me * All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name * Amazing Grace * Be Thou My Vision * Blessed Assurance * Fairest Lord Jesus *...

(Piano Instruction). From Duke Ellington, to Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and many others, take a look at the genesis of jazz piano. This book with audio provides solo transcriptions in standard notation, lessons on how to play them, biographies, instrument information, photos,...

The supreme melodic master of nineteenth-century Russian music, Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky employed his full powers of composition in his final symphonies. These transcriptions allow intermediate and advanced pianists to re-create the texture and grandeur of the composer's last three symphonic works: the Fourth Symphony...

This concise volume by an expert is not only a practical manual for the performer but also an authoritative history of the instrument. In covering the essentials of performance practice and musical style for the classical repertoire, the text provides important suggestions for mastering...

Born in the same year as Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Scarlatti strongly influenced subsequent trends in keyboard music through his uniquely elegant, embellished, fleet virtuoso style. This new compilation of popular selections by the great master presents favorites drawn from his more than 500...

The foremost pianist-composer of his day, Franz Liszt unselfishly promoted the works of his fellow composers through his brilliant piano transcriptions of their music. Among his most inspired contributions to the literature were his legendary transcriptions of Franz Schubert's songs.This volume -- the third...

In this series of letters written between November 1869 and May 1875, a young American pianist, Amy Fay, recounts the thrilling experience of studying piano with such great teachers as Liszt, Tausig, and Kullak. Printed 21 times in America, published also in London, and...

This original compilation features three superb pieces for piano and orchestra by one of the key composers and pianists of the Romantic era. Composers from Brahms to Grieg have been influenced by Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54. The composer's wife...

Russell Sherman has been hailed as "that rarest of performers--a thinking man's virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune), and Piano Pieces is his scintillating excursion into the world of piano and its multiple spheres of affect and influence. From pithy reflections on tone, technique, and the thorny...

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