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Piano Exam Pieces 2021 & 2022 - Grade 1 + CD (Sheet music): Abrsm Piano Exam Pieces 2021 & 2022 - Grade 1 + CD (Sheet music)
Abrsm
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 1 Piano syllabus for 2021 & 2022, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C. The pieces have been carefully selected to offer an attractive and varied range of styles, creating a collection that provides an excellent source of repertoire to suit every performer. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information. The enclosed CD features inspiring recordings of all 30 pieces on the Grade 1 syllabus, performed by Nikki Iles, Dinara Klinton, Robert Thompson and Anthony Williams.

Piano Lessons Book 2 (Paperback): Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Piano Lessons Book 2 (Paperback)
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation; Fred Kern, Mona Rejino
R247 R191 Discovery Miles 1 910 Save R56 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Book 2 opens with a new My Own Song improvisation on CDEFG. Unit 1 introduces phrasing and legato touch, and also presents harmonic 2nds and 3rds with staccato touch. The following two units are dedicated to the introduction of 4ths and 5ths. Also in Unit 3, sharps are introduced in a diatonic setting starting on D, and flats are introduced as blues notes. Most pieces in the second half of Book 2 coordinate hands playing together. This book works very well for transfer students.

Piano Adventures Lesson Book Primer Level - 2nd Edition (Staple bound, 2nd Revised ed.): Nancy Faber, Randall Faber Piano Adventures Lesson Book Primer Level - 2nd Edition (Staple bound, 2nd Revised ed.)
Nancy Faber, Randall Faber 1
R284 R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Save R42 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Faber Piano Adventures ). The 2nd Edition Primer Lesson Book introduces the keyboard, note values, and the grand staff. Students play in C 5-finger scale patterns, develop recognition of steps and skips, and learn letter names independent of finger number. Musicianship is built through the use of dynamics and coloristic experimentation with the pedal. The book is organized into units which represent the major concepts and skills. As new units are introduced, earlier concepts and skills are constantly reviewed.

Muzio Clementi and British Musical Culture - Sources, Performance Practice and Style (Hardcover): Luca Sala, Rohan Stewart... Muzio Clementi and British Musical Culture - Sources, Performance Practice and Style (Hardcover)
Luca Sala, Rohan Stewart MacDonald
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recent scholarship has vanquished the traditional perception of nineteenth-century Britain as a musical wasteland. In addition to attempting more balanced assessments of the achievements of British composers of this period, scholars have begun to explore the web of reciprocal relationships between the societal, economic and cultural dynamics arising from the industrial revolution, the Napoleonic wars, and the ever-changing contours of British music publishing, music consumption, concert life, instrument design, performance practice, pedagogy and composition. Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) provides an ideal case-study for continued exploration of this web of relationships. Based in London for much of his life, whilst still maintaining contact with continental developments, Clementi achieved notable success in a diversity of activities that centred mainly on the piano. The present book explores Clementi's multivalent contribution to piano performance, pedagogy, composition and manufacture in relation to British musical life and its international dimensions. An overriding purpose is to interrogate when, how and to what extent a distinctive British musical culture emerged in the early nineteenth century. Much recent work on Clementi has centred on the Italian National Edition of his complete works (MiBACT); several chapters report on this project, whilst continuing to pursue the book's broader themes.

John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano 2 (Paperback, Revised edition): John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano 2 (Paperback, Revised edition)
R285 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Piano Adventures All-In-Two Level 2A Lesson/Theory - Lesson & Theory - Anglicised Edition (Paperback): Piano Adventures All-In-Two Level 2A Lesson/Theory - Lesson & Theory - Anglicised Edition (Paperback)
R441 R398 Discovery Miles 3 980 Save R43 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Premier Piano Course Lesson Book, Bk 1b - Book & CD (Staple bound): Dennis Alexander, Gayle Kowalchyk, E. L. Lancaster,... Premier Piano Course Lesson Book, Bk 1b - Book & CD (Staple bound)
Dennis Alexander, Gayle Kowalchyk, E. L. Lancaster, Victoria McArthur, Martha Mier
R318 R258 Discovery Miles 2 580 Save R60 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Beautifully presented and intelligently paced, the Lesson Books combine unusually attractive music and lyrics. The books feature note reading, rhythm reading, sight-reading and technical workouts. Each piece on the CD was recorded at a performance tempo and a slower practice tempo.

Clementi and the woman at the piano - Virtuosity and the market for music in eighteenth-century London (Paperback): Erin Helyard Clementi and the woman at the piano - Virtuosity and the market for music in eighteenth-century London (Paperback)
Erin Helyard
R2,553 Discovery Miles 25 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music in a set of six sonatas (Op. 2) by Muzio Clementi. The difficult passages contained in this opus are unique amongst keyboard music published for a market that was understood at the time to consist almost entirely of female amateur keyboardists. Previously actively discouraged from practicing or improving their skills due to the restrictive ideologies in place, Clementi's music increasingly affords female pianists a new kind of musical expression. Clementi and the woman at the piano: Virtuosity and the market for music in eighteenth-century London maps the social, musical, and gendered implications of technically difficult music and helps to underline important changes in Enlightenment culture and keyboard practice. Clementi's activities initiated the now familiar and modern concepts of repetitive musical practice, the work-concept, virtuosity itself, and the division between amateur and professional. Additionally, Clementi promotes a radical new mode of expression for female pianists that is at first highly controversial but slowly gains acceptance due to a widespread promotion of his music, instruments, and methods. Clementi's career is in many respects a perfect case study for the tensions between Enlightenment thinking and new Romantic ideologies.

Nocturnes - Piano Solo (Paperback): Frederic Chopin Nocturnes - Piano Solo (Paperback)
Frederic Chopin; Edited by Ignacy Jan Paderewski
R789 R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Save R134 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Abrsm Piano Prep Test 2017+ (Sheet music): Christopher Norton, Sarah Watts, Nicholas Scott-Burt, Ruth Gerald, Nikki Iles, Alan... Abrsm Piano Prep Test 2017+ (Sheet music)
Christopher Norton, Sarah Watts, Nicholas Scott-Burt, Ruth Gerald, Nikki Iles, …
R189 Discovery Miles 1 890 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Piano Prep Test is an ideal introduction to the ABRSM exam experience: it gives students a goal to work towards and a certificate on the day - something to be really proud of. The test covers many elements that beginner pianists will be working on, including pitch, time, tone and performance. Our Piano Prep Test book has exciting new pieces, easy to follow instructions, listening games and entertaining illustrations. For the first time it includes duets as well as solo pieces. Preparing for your Piano Prep Test has never been more fun!

Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician (Hardcover): Cole Burger Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician (Hardcover)
Cole Burger
R4,090 Discovery Miles 40 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* For undergraduate music majors at colleges, universities, and conservatories who take the Class Piano course. * The pedagogical text is on separate pages from the musical content/notation, creating fewer distractions in the narrative, while helping students to focus on the music more readily * Includes music by women, persons of color, and from outside the United States have a prominent place throughout the textbook. * contains sections on fundamentals such as scales and arpeggios, as well as sightreading, keyboard theory, harmonizing melodies, improvising in both classical and blues styles, score reading, accompanying, and solo, duet, and ensemble repertoire

Speaking the Piano - Reflections on Learning and Teaching (Hardcover): Susan Tomes Speaking the Piano - Reflections on Learning and Teaching (Hardcover)
Susan Tomes
R670 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Save R64 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is a book to appeal to a wide range of readers - pianists of every level from beginner to professional, piano teachers, musicians of all kinds, and the broader community of music-lovers. In Speaking the Piano, renowned pianist Susan Tomes turns her attention to teaching and learning. Teaching music encompasses everything from putting a drum in a child's hands to helping an accomplished musician unlock the meaning and spirit of the classics. At every stage, some fundamental issues keep surfacing. In this wide-ranging book, Susan Tomes reflects on how her own experience as a learner, in different genres from classical to jazz, hasinfluenced her approach to teaching. She tells us how her performing career has given her insight into what young performers need to know, and how discussions with students have fed into her own practice. She describes the brilliant and intriguing teachers whose masterclasses opened her ears to the many ways in which music can be brought alive and communicated. This is a book to appeal to a wide range of readers - pianists of every level from beginnerto professional, piano teachers, musicians of all kinds, and the broader community of music-lovers. In a passionate contribution to the ongoing debate about the place of music in education, Susan Tomes argues that this most inspiring of arts can play a unique role in personal development. This is a lovely, wise, elegantly written book, filled with tips and anecdotes which could be helpful and encouraging for any pianist, whether a beginner or aprofessional. Above all it is a book in which one senses constantly the deep love the author has for music itself, for its ability to inspire, touch and, indeed, change lives. STEPHEN HOUGH SUSAN TOMES is a multi-award-winning pianist whose career encompasses solo, duo and chamber music playing; she has been at the heart of the internationally admired ensembles Domus, the Gaudier Ensemble and the Florestan Trio. Her lecture-recitals have enabled many listeners to engage with the classics on a new level. She is the author of four acclaimed books about performance: Beyond the Notes (Boydell Press 2004), A Musician's Alphabet (Faber, 2006), Out of Silence (Boydell Press, 2010), and Sleeping in Temples (Boydell Press, 2014).

Dynamic Group-Piano Teaching - Transforming Group Theory into Teaching Practice (Hardcover): Pamela Pike Dynamic Group-Piano Teaching - Transforming Group Theory into Teaching Practice (Hardcover)
Pamela Pike
R4,068 Discovery Miles 40 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 instruction. This book encourages teachers to transfer learning and group dynamics theory into classroom practice. As a piano pedagogy textbook, supplement for pedagogy classes, or resource for graduate teaching assistants and professional piano teachers, the book examines learning theory, student needs, assessment, and specific issues for the group-piano instructor.

Really Easy Piano - The Beatles (Book): Really Easy Piano - The Beatles (Book)
R302 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Save R29 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas (Paperback): Barry. Cooper The Creation of Beethoven's 35 Piano Sonatas (Paperback)
Barry. Cooper
R1,204 Discovery Miles 12 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Beethoven's piano sonatas are a cornerstone of the piano repertoire and favourites of both the concert hall and recording studio. The sonatas have been the subject of much scholarship, but no single study gives an adequate account of the processes by which these sonatas were composed and published. With source materials such as sketches and correspondence increasingly available, the time is ripe for a close study of the history of these works. Barry Cooper, who in 2007 produced a new edition of all 35 sonatas, including three that are often overlooked, examines each sonata in turn, addressing questions such as: Why were they written? Why did they turn out as they did? How did they come into being and how did they reach their final form? Drawing on the composer's sketches, autograph scores and early printed editions, as well as contextual material such as correspondence, Cooper explores the links between the notes and symbols found in the musical texts of the sonatas, and the environment that brought them about. The result is a biography not of the composer, but of the works themselves.

Piano Time 2 (Sheet music, New): Pauline Hall Piano Time 2 (Sheet music, New)
Pauline Hall
R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Piano Time 2 builds on the techniques acquired in Piano Time 1, extending the range of notes and time signatures and including tones and semitones, chords and triads, arpeggios, major and minor scales, and keep-fit exercises for the left hand. It also introduces simple pedalling, new signs and symbols, and pieces to help players get around the whole keyboard.

Interpreting Chopin: Analysis and Performance (Paperback): Alison Hood Interpreting Chopin: Analysis and Performance (Paperback)
Alison Hood
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Music theory is often seen as independent from - even antithetical to - performance. While music theory is an intellectual enterprise, performance requires an intuitive response to the music. But this binary opposition is a false one, which serves neither the theorist nor the performer. In Interpreting Chopin Alison Hood brings her experience as a performer to bear on contemporary analytical models. She combines significant aspects of current analytical approaches and applies that unique synthetic method to selected works by Chopin, casting new light on the composer's preludes, nocturnes and barcarolle. An extension of Schenkerian analysis, the specific combination of five aspects distinguishes Hood's method from previous analytical approaches. These five methods are: attention to the rhythms created by pitch events on all structural levels; a detailed accounting of the musical surface; 'strict use' of analytical notation, following guidelines offered by Steve Larson; a continual concern with what have been called 'strategies' or 'premises'; and an exploration of how recorded performances might be viewed in terms of analytical decisions, or might even shape those decisions. Building on the work of such authors as William Rothstein, Carl Schachter and John Rink, Hood's approach to Chopin's oeuvre raises interpretive questions of central interest to performers.

Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the Early Music Revival (Paperback): Peter Watchorn Isolde Ahlgrimm, Vienna and the Early Music Revival (Paperback)
Peter Watchorn
R1,621 Discovery Miles 16 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Isolde Ahlgrimm (1914-1995) was an important pioneer in the revival of Baroque and Classical keyboard instruments in her native city, Vienna, and later, throughout Europe and the United States. She trained as a pianist at the Musikakademie in Vienna under the instruction of Viktor Ebenstein, Emil von Sauer and Franz Schmidt. In 1934 she met the musical instrument collector, Dr Erich Fiala, whom she married in 1938. His activities opened up the world of early instruments to her. Using a 1790 fortepiano by Michael Rosenberger, Isolde Ahlgrimm began her career as a specialist on early keyboard instruments with the first in her notable series of Concerte fA1/4r Kenner und Liebhaber, given in Vienna's Palais Palffy in February 1937. Ahlgrimm's career as a harpsichordist also began in 1937, when a new instrument was commissioned from the Ammer brothers in Eisenberg, Germany. In 1943 Ahlgrimm performed her first all-harpsichord programme, which consisted of the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach. From 1949 to 1956, she devoted herself to performing and recording nearly all of Bach's harpsichord music for the newly-founded Dutch label, Philips, presenting her new approach to the harpsichord to a wider audience. Ahlgrimm's performances of Baroque music represented a radical departure from the distinctly twentieth-century interpretations by the much more famous Wanda Landowska and her followers. Most obviously, Ahlgrimm's harpsichord performances eliminated frequent registration changes (her instrument had hand stops rather than pedals to change registers), and largely eschewed the massive ritardandi and other anachronistic performance practices that were hallmarks of Landowska's essentially Romantic style. Ahlgrimm researched and emphasized rhetorical traditions on which the music was based. This became more pronounced throughout the course of her later performing, writing and teaching career, and it was the beginning of an approach to the performance of eighteenth-century music which was later further developed by Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and their students. Peter Watchorn provides an engaging study of this pioneer, and argues that Isolde Ahlgrimm's contribution to the harpsichord and fortepiano revival was pivotal, and that her use of period instruments and the inspiration she instilled in younger musicians, including Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt, has been almost entirely overlooked by the wider musical world.

John W. Schaum Piano Course - A-The Red Book : Leading to Mastery of the Instrument (Paperback, Revised ed.): John W. Schaum John W. Schaum Piano Course - A-The Red Book : Leading to Mastery of the Instrument (Paperback, Revised ed.)
John W. Schaum 1
R268 R218 Discovery Miles 2 180 Save R50 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A time-honored tradition just got better! The John W. Schaum Piano Course has been newly revised with 100 percent new engravings and typesetting, color highlighting for concept emphasis, updated song titles and lyrics, and full-color illustrations.

Keyboard Music Before 1700 (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Alexander Silbiger Keyboard Music Before 1700 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Alexander Silbiger
R4,787 Discovery Miles 47 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe. Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and Portugal. The book concludes with a chapter on performance practice, which addresses current issues in the interpretation and revival of this music.

Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 7 (Paperback, New edition): Paul Harris Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 7 (Paperback, New edition)
Paul Harris
R272 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R26 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 7 (Early Advanced) is part of the best-selling series by Paul Harris, guaranteed to improve your sight-reading! This workbook helps the player overcome problems by building up a complete picture of each piece, through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally by 'going solo' with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. This edition now includes supporting audio available online for students to check their performances against. The Improve your sight-reading! series will help you improve your reading ability, and with numerous practice tests included, will ensure sight-reading success in graded exams.

Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Robert Marshall Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Robert Marshall
R4,787 Discovery Miles 47 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Piano Pedagogy - A Research and Information Guide (Paperback): Gilles Comeau Piano Pedagogy - A Research and Information Guide (Paperback)
Gilles Comeau
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or training in piano pedagogy. Like its companion volumes in the Routledge Music Bibliographies series, it serves beginning and advanced students and scholars as a basic guide to current research in the field. The book will includes bibliographies, research guides, encyclopedias, works from other disciplines that are related to piano pedagogy, current sources spanning all formats, including books, journals, audio and video recordings, and electronic sources.

Piano Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, Grade 4 (Staple bound): Piano Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, Grade 4 (Staple bound)
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for the ABRSM Grade 4 Piano exams. The book is written in attractive and approachable styles and representative of the technical level expected in the exam.

The Art of Piano Playing (Paperback, New edition): Heinrich Neuhaus The Art of Piano Playing (Paperback, New edition)
Heinrich Neuhaus; Translated by K.A. Leibovitch
R562 Discovery Miles 5 620 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Neuhaus taught at the Moscow Conservatory and his pupils included some of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century: Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Nina Svetlanova, Alexei Lubimov and Radu Lupu. His legacy continues today and many teachers around the world regard this book as the most authoritative on the subject of piano playing.

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