Music-Musical Instruments-Piano & Keyboard

(Music Sales America). Learn to play Beethoven's "Fur Elise" with The Concert Performer Series, complete with a special CD-ROM which contains both audio and MIDI to help you practise for a truly great performance. Track 1 contains an audio concert performance, Track 2 is...

In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 18 articles on the teaching, preparation, and performance of works by the greatest composers in the standard piano repertoire. The contributors--all recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions as performing artists, teachers, recording...

In The Craft of Piano Playing, master pianist Alan Fraser offers readers an original and comprehensive approach to piano technique, offering over 100 illustrations and a series of unique exercises to guide the reader.Author: Alan FraserISBN-10: 0810877139ISBN-13: 9780810877139Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/29/2011Pages: 510Format: PaperbackWeight:...

In The Craft of Piano Playing, master pianist Alan Fraser offers readers an original and comprehensive approach to piano technique, offering over 100 illustrations and a series of unique exercises to guide the reader.Author: Alan FraserISBN-10: 0810877120ISBN-13: 9780810877122Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/16/2011Pages: 510Format: HardcoverWeight:...

A culmination of Friedberg's years of performing and teaching, offering piano students, teachers, and performers useful advice for many stages along the path to becoming a pianist.Author: Ruth C. FriedbergISBN-10: 0810843064ISBN-13: 9780810843066Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1993Pages: 153Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d

In Beethoven's Kiss, Kevin Kopelson takes you on a journey through a unique literary style which is both scholarly and meditative. It interweaves the issues of gender, sexuality and erotic romanticism and presents them against the backdrop of romantic pianism. Exploring quasi-sexual myths of...

(Piano Collection). A newly corrected and very affordable Schirmer Library edition of these 20th-century piano masterpieces. Contents: BOOK I: Danseuses de Delphes * Voiles * Le Vent dans la Plaine * "Les Sons et les Parfums Tournent dans l'Air du Soir" * Les Collines...

(Educational Piano Library). Hal Leonard Student Piano Library mascots Spike, Party Cat and friends guide the student through fun, creative assignments that introduce the language of music and its symbols for sound, silence, and rhythm. Ear training and basic theory exercises help students learn...

(Artist Transcriptions). Another folio of spectacular improvisations by one of the great piano masters of the century. Includes: All the Things You Are * Caravan * Cherokee (Indian Love Song) * In a Sentimental Mood * Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) *...

(Piano Method). A preliminary book that can be used to introduce young beginners to Piano Course Book 1, "Teach Me" covers approximately the first half of the first year.Author: Howard KasschauISBN-10: 079355294XISBN-13: 9780793552948Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/01/1986Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 11.74h x 9.10w...

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...

(Piano Collection). Recognized as one of Spain's premiere composers and pianists, the Album For Piano highlights some of his best compositions for this instrument. 14 pieces featured are based on folksongs and dances of his homeland. Contents: Allegro de Concierto * Andaluza * Barcarola...

(Piano Collection). Contents: Andante Con Moto * Choral * Echoes from the Theatre * Figured Choral * First Loss * Folk Song * The Happy Farmer Returning from Work * Harvest Song * The Horseman * Humming Song * Hunting Song (Jagerliedchen) * In...

(Organ). This revised book features 26 favorites from the Fab Four arranged specifically for organ. Includes: Can't Buy Me Love * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * Michelle * Ticket to Ride * Yesterday * and more.Author: The BeatlesISBN-10: 0793529174ISBN-13: 9780793529179Publisher: Hal...

(Piano Solo Songbook). A collection of the original sheet music for 39 classic standards, featuring the arrangements of 'Fats' Waller, Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Count Basie, Clarence Williams, Jay McShann, Billy Kyle, Zez Confrey. Songs include: "A"...

The pipe organ, an instrument whose origins date to ancient Greece, is prominent in the development of secular and church music, and its builders were as artistic as the composers like Bach, Pachelbel and Handel who played them. This book describes the mechanics, fabrication,...

Book 2 continues your journey towards making the musical experience with your piano or keyboard a gratifying one. We continue with the same fixed hand position throughout this second book. This makes it easier to focus on the other aspects of playing that enter...

The definitive work on the organ throughout history starting with a documented chronological history of the instrument, especially in England and Germany. When originally published in 1877 this work was the introduction to The Organ: Its History and Construction by Edward J. Hopkins, which...

Originally published in 1913. A concise and comprehensive step by step instruction book on all aspects of piano playing. Many of the earliest books on music, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Books...

Author: Dino P. AscariISBN-10: 1403373450ISBN-13: 9781403373458Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2003Pages: 136Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.42w x 0.60d

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

""How The Piano Came To Be"" is a historical and informative book written by Ellye Howell Glover and published in 1913. The book explores the origins and evolution of the piano, from its earliest predecessors to the modern-day instrument we know today. It delves...

""Singing and Playing: The Beginners' Book of the Oxford Piano Course for Class and Individual Instruction"" by Ernest Schelling is a comprehensive guide for those who are new to playing the piano. The book is designed for both class and individual instruction and covers...

Dynamic Group-Piano Teaching provides future teachers of group piano with an extensive framework of concepts upon which effective and dynamic teaching strategies can be explored and developed. Within fifteen chapters, it encompasses learning theory, group process, and group dynamics within the context of group-piano...

Roderick Chadwick and Peter Hill give a detailed account of the evolution of Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux for piano solo, from its initial conception in the Black Forest in 1953 to its completion and premiere in the Parisian 'Concerts du Domaine Musical' at the...

(Artist Transcriptions). Features exact piano transcriptions of 14 classics from one of the original stride pianists who went on to become a legend in the swing jazz world. Includes the tunes: After You've Gone * Exactly like You * Honeysuckle Rose * I'll Always...

(Jazz Piano Solos). The second edition has been updated to include chord names, and showcases 20 classics, including: Baby, Come to Me * Just the Two of Us * Minute by Minute * Morning Dance * She Likes to Watch * Songbird * Street...

(Jazz Piano Solos). 24 tunes from the '50s and '60s jazz cats who invented "cool"! Includes piano solo arrangements with chord names for: All Blues * Blue in Green * Con Alma * Django * Epistrophy * Jeru * Lullaby of Birdland * Nardis...

(Jazz Piano Solos). 17 Latin jazz classics, including: Adios (Perez Prado, Astor Piazzolla) * Brazil (Xavier Cugat, Django Reinhardt) * A Day in the Life of a Fool (Stan Getz, Paul Desmond) * Desafinado (Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim) * Mambo #5 (Perez Prado,...

(E-Z Play Today). A comprehensive collection of 60 songs, including: Amazing Grace * Do Lord * The Family of God * Get All Excited * He Touched Me * His Eye Is on the Sparrow * I Saw the Light * In the Garden...

(Easy Piano Songbook). Easy arrangements of 29 traditional songs of faith: Amazing Grace * Church in the Wildwood * His Eye Is on the Sparrow * Just a Closer Walk with Thee * In the Garden * Precious Memories * Rock of Ages *...

(Piano Duet). 10 easy piano duets: Alleluia * Ave Maria * Canon * Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy * Hallelujah * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * Morning * Ode to Joy * Panis Angelicus * The Swan.Author: Hal Leonard CorpISBN-10: 063400297XISBN-13: 9780634002977Publisher:...

Who Should Read This Book?You have a piano or keyboard and have you been watching some lesson videos on the Internet. However, you are frustrated and confused by the slow pace of your progress.Or the piano book that you have been using is tough...

Jane Austen's World is a delightful collection of tunes for piano from the recent feature films. Presented here are the main musical themes which include the Oscar winning Emma by Rachel Portman, and other pieces that will transport you into the elegant world of...

Even in Beethoven's day everyone was talking about the "Moonlight" Sonata. This is a comprehensive introduction to Beethoven's most popular piano sonata, together with the four other sonatas in Op. 27 and Op. 31. Aimed at pianists, students and music lovers, it gives an...

This Companion is designed to provide the enquiring music lover with helpful insights into a musical style that recognizes no contradictions between the accessible and the sophisticated, between the popular and the significant.Author: Jim SamsonISBN-10: 0521477522ISBN-13: 9780521477529Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/1994Pages: 356Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Chopin's four ballades are widely regarded as being among the most significant extended works for solo piano of the nineteenth century. In an illuminating discussion, Jim Samson combines history and analysis to provide a comprehensive picture of these popular piano works, investigating the social...

This book, first published in 1984, is the third volume of Peter Williams' important reference work, The Organ Music of J. S. Bach. In this volume, Peter Williams lays before the reader the salient points that serve as an appropriate bckground to the pieces:...

This is the first comprehensive historical and technological study of the pianoforte based on important primary source material. Most histories of the piano begin with its invention by Bartolomeo Cristofori in Florence in about 1700: this study begins with the earliest fifteenth- and sixteenth-century...

How does Franz Liszt's career compare when viewed from the perspective of European cultural history? This book examines how Liszt's contemporaries perceived and interpreted his significance. Dana Gooley explains why the cultural context of his concert career contributed to his unprecedented popularity and focuses...

This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony, and his...

Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi dominated the opera world for most of the nineteenth century, and his works remain a mainstay of theaters around the world. From Rigoletto's sprightly "La donna é mobile" to the rousing "Anvil Chorus" of Il Trovatore, the composer's music is...

These practical methods for piano playing, written by a world-famous expert, have been used by teachers and students for well over 100 years. Featuring basic studies that help pianists acquire the necessities for a strong piano education, this volume distills Carl Czerny's exercises into...

Welcomed throughout Europe in the seventeenth century as a virtuoso organist and harpsichordist, Johann Jakob Froberger (1616-67) composed brilliantly for both instruments, his works a rich and appealing amalgam of Italian, French, and German keyboard styles. Especially through his organ music, this prolific German...

Many of the most admired of Debussy's piano works, reprinted from authoritative French editions, among them the Etudes (1915), a late work that richly displays the full range and depth of Debussy's genius for the piano, and the magical Children's Corner (1906-8). Also included:...

Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937), the greatest French organist of his day, called the ten solo compositions in this two-volume edition organ symphonies to reflect both their secular spirit and the orchestral wealth of the timbres of the new French organs. Cast in the distinctive new...

Franz Schubert's piano pieces for four hands are among the most varied and significant works in the entire repertoire. Schubert wrote more of these works than any other major composer, and generations of teachers, students, and concert musicians have enjoyed their enduring beauty and...

This volume is the definitive playing edition of Brahms's complete works for four-hand piano, containing 81 compositions in all. These include the Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 23; the delightful Waltzes, Op. 39; the Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52a; Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes,...

Paul Badura-Skoda is considered to be one of the great pianists of his generation, as well as an important scholar who has created definitive editions of many of the works of the Viennese masters, most notably Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart. With his wife, the noted...

First Published in 2004. 19th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 19th-century repertoire, beginning with 2 chapters giving a general overview of the repertoire and keyboard technique of the era, and then individual chapters on Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann,...