Originally published in 1933, this book provides a detailed history of the piano-forte from its invention in Italy in the eighteenth century until the presentation of the first European cast-iron frame for a piano at the 1851 Great Exhibition. Harding also analyses the role of the piano as a replacement for a chamber orchestra and its history as a domestic instrument. The text is richly illustrated with images of pianos produced by a variety of makers over time, as well as with images of piano machinery taken from patent registrations. This thoroughly-researched book will be of value to anyone with an interest in one of the most ubiquitous instruments in the Western world and the history of its development.

A piece a week Piano Grade 6 is ideal to be used alongside the Improve your sight-reading! graded piano books to support and improve the reading skills so fundamental to successful sight-reading. These fun, short pieces are specifically written to be learnt one per week. By continually reading accessible new repertoire, the crucial processing of information and hand-eye coordination are established and improved, developing confident sight-reading. The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling students to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve your sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to develop sight-reading skills, especially in the context of graded exams.

Essays by prominent scholars and organists examine the music of Franck and other nineteenth-century French organist-composers through stylistic analysis, study of compositional process, and exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance-practice traditions developed and became codified. Nineteenth-century French organ music attracts an ever-increasing number of performers and devotees. The music of Cesar Franck and other distinguished composers-Boely, Guilmant, Widor-and the impact upon this repertoire of the organ-building achievements of Aristide Cavaille-Coll, are here explored through stylistic analysis, the study of the compositional process, and the exploration of how ideas about organ technique and performance practice traditions developed and became codified. New consideration is also given to the political and cultural contexts within which Franck and other French organist-composers worked. Contributors: Kimberley Marshall, William J. Peterson,Benjamin van Wye, Craig Cramer, Jesse E. Eschbach, Karen Hastings-Deans, Marie-Louise Jaquet-Langlasi, Daniel Roth, Edward Zimmerman, Lawrence Archbold, Rollin Smith

The most influential compositional movement of the past fifty years, spectralism was informed by digital technology but also extended the aesthetics of pianist-composers such as Franz Liszt, Alexander Scriabin and Claude Debussy. Students of Olivier Messiaen such as Tristan Murail and Gerard Grisey sought to create a cooperative committed to exploring the evolution of timbre in time as a basis for the musical experience. In The Spectral Piano, Marilyn Nonken shows how the spectral attitude was influenced by developments in technology but also continued a tradition of performative and compositional virtuosity. Nonken explores shared fascinations with the musical experience, which united spectralists with their Romantic and early Modern predecessors. Examining Murail's Territoires de l'oubli, Jonathan Harvey's Tombeau de Messiaen, Joshua Fineberg's Veils, and Edmund Campion's A Complete Wealth of Time, she reveals how spectral concerns relate not only to the past but also to contemporary developments in philosophical aesthetics.

The Faber Music Soundtracks Piano Anthology is an essential collection of some of the best-loved music from film and television, specially arranged for solo piano for the intermediate pianist. Featuring music from television favourites such as Sherlock, Downton Abbey, Killing Eve and Planet Earth, and movies including Lord of the Rings, Pan's Labyrinth, The Piano, The Favourite and Manchester by the Sea.

Diese Bibliographie bietet einen umfassenden UEberblick uber die Literatur der letzten 100 Jahre zum Thema Klaviermusik (seit etwa 1550) in deutscher, englischer, franzoesischer und italienischer Sprache. Aufgenommen wurden selbstandige Schriften, Zeitschriftenaufsatze, Artikel in Sammelpublikationen, Jahrbuchern, Festschriften und Kongressberichten sowie Dissertationen. Der erste Teil listet die Literatur zu einzelnen Komponisten auf. Umfangreiche Kapitel werden nach Werkgruppen und einzelnen Werken gegliedert. Der zweite Teil verzeichnet die Literatur zur Klaviermusik einzelner Zeitabschnitte, Lander und zu anderen Stichworten.

These pieces are of tremendous charm, and make ideal tutorial material as they are very easy, with simple pedal parts. They are ideal as quiet voluntaries for liturgical use.

Zum 350-jahrigen Geburtsjubilaum von F. W. Zachow erscheint erstmals in Buchform diese innovative, provokative und auch uberraschende Forschungsarbeit. Zachow war Handels Lehrmeister. Die Arbeit erschliesst die Handschriften der Vokalwerke Zachows mit historisch-quellenkundlicher Methodik und stellt erstmals ein Quellenverzeichnis zusammen. Sie untersucht die gattungs- und stilbildenden Aspekte seiner Kompositionen und seine musik-historische Sonderbedeutung. Ausserdem eroertert sie die Bewerbung von J. S. Bach 1713 in Halle und seine Teilnahme am Orgelneubau, Bachs ideale, recht schoene und recht grosse Orgel. Diese Arbeit wendet sich an Kirchenmusiker, Chorleiter, Organisten und Sanger und alle, die die musica sacra des Halleschen Spatbarockkomponisten F. W. Zachow wiederentdecken moechten.

Zeitgemasse Vermittlung und Qualitatssteigerung des Orgelspiels ist seit Jahrhunderten ein zentrales Anliegen von Organisten. Dies spiegelt sich auch in den Orgelschulen wider. Diese Untersuchung betrachtet schwerpunktmassig reprasentative Lehrwerke des 18. bis 20. Jahrhunderts aus dem deutschen, belgischen, franzoesischen und italienischen Raum, erganzend angloamerikanische sowie zeitgenoessische Schulen. Was aus diesen lehr- und lernbar ist, warum und wie gerade altere Schulen den Orgelunterricht bereichern koennen, wird aufgezeigt.

Up-Grade! Pop Piano Grades 0-1 is part of Pam Wedgwood's hugely successful Up-Grade! Series, allowing pianists of all ages repertoire to bridge the gap between grades. Up-Grade! Pop offer's Pam's own take on songs such as Robbie Williams' Angels, Queen's Another One Bites The Dust and James Blunt's You're Beautiful as well as her own specially composed pieces. The varied pieces in this lively collection are demonstrated on the online audio and are designed to ease you gently on towards the next grade! There are several other spin-offs to the Up-Grade! series for piano, including jazz and Christmas.

(Easy Piano Vocal Selections). A modern day music theatre phenomenon, Tim Minchin's Matilda The Musical is the multiple Oliver Award-winning adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's novel from the Royal Shakespeare Company. This official songbook presents ten songs from the show arranged for easy piano with chord symbols, as well as an eight-page photo section. Songs include: Bruce * The Hammer * My House * Naughty * Quiet * Revolting Children * School Song * The Smell of Rebellion * Telly * When I Grow Up.

(Music Sales America). Modeled after the popular standard Hanon technique, here are authentic progressive exercises and etudes to enable the contemporary piano student to master the art of playing in the boogie-woogie style.