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Piano adventures Lesson Book 1 - 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Nancy Faber, Randall Faber Piano adventures Lesson Book 1 - 2nd Edition (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Nancy Faber, Randall Faber 1
R259 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R16 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

(Faber Piano Adventures ). The 2nd Edition Level 1 Lesson Book introduces all the notes of the grand staff, elementary chord playing, and the concept of tonic and dominant notes. Students play in varied positions, reinforcing reading skills and recognizing intervals through the 5th. Musicianship is built with the introduction of legato and staccato touches. This level continues the interval orientation to reading across the full range of the Grand Staff. The 5-finger approach is presented here in a fresh, musically appealing way.

Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Sheet music): Ralph Vaughan Williams Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Sheet music)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Vaughan Williams's Prelude and Fugue in C minor (1921) is characterized by a sense of drama and punctuated by bristling dissonances. The Prelude's ritornello-like alternation of chordal grandeur and rapid imitative sections recalls Bach's great organ Prelude and Fugue in the same key, while the rhythmically complicated Fugue, whose subject looks ahead to the composer's Sixth Symphony, displays great ingenuity in its counterpoint, fully justifying the assertiveness of its final peroration in C major.

Organ Music for Manuals Book 2 (Sheet music): C. H. Trevor Organ Music for Manuals Book 2 (Sheet music)
C. H. Trevor
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

for organ manuals
This collection of 25 titles includes preludes, postludes, and other music for services and concerts. All pieces can be played effectively on a one-manual organ with appropriate stops. This is the second book in a progressive series.

The Easiest Original Pieces (Paperback): Ludovico Einaudi The Easiest Original Pieces (Paperback)
Ludovico Einaudi; Compiled by Sam Lung
R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

(Piano Solo Personality). The original Einaudi pieces featured in this 64-page collection have been selected for their simplicity and ease of playing. Over the years the distinguished Italian pianist and composer has worked in many different styles, some of them quite challenging for the beginning player. Now pianists at a Grade 2 to 4 level can play some of his most memorable works in their original form. This book includes the pieces Corale, Primavera, Questa Volta, Sarabande and more.

Piano Lessons Book 2 (Paperback): Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Piano Lessons Book 2 (Paperback)
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation; Fred Kern, Mona Rejino
R234 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Save R14 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 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.

The Piano on Film (Paperback): David Huckvale The Piano on Film (Paperback)
David Huckvale
R999 Discovery Miles 9 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. Film's fascination with the piano, both in soundtracks and onscreen as a status symbol and icon of popular romanticism, offers a revealing opportunity to chart the changing perception of the instrument. From Mozart to Elton John, this book surveys the cultural history of the piano through the instrument's cinematic functions. Composer biopics, such as A Song to Remember, romantic melodramas like the Liberace vehicle Sincerely Yours, and horror films such as The Hands of Orlac, along with animated cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry demonstrate just how pervasive the cinematic image of the piano once was during a period when the piano itself began its noticeable decline in everyday life. By examining these depictions of the piano onscreen, readers will begin to understand not only the decline of the piano but also the decline of the idealistic culture to which it gave birth in the nineteenth century.

Toccata (Sheet music): Georgi Mushel Toccata (Sheet music)
Georgi Mushel
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Noel Rawsthorne, who was the first British organist to play in the USSR, met Mushel while on tour and was dismayed to find the young composer prohibited by the Soviet authorities from performing his own compositions. Rawsthorne took this piece back to Britain and edited it for publication. It is very much in the spirit and style of a Ukrainian Cossack dance; the feel is improvisatory, with contrasting sections allowing different dancers to express themselves, before typically culminating in a fast and furious finish.

Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique (Hardcover): John R. Near Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique (Hardcover)
John R. Near
R1,718 R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Save R125 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Widor's pedagogical writings, translated for the first time, offer essential guidance for interpreting his organ compositions as well as those of his followers in the French Romantic organ school. Renowned organist, composer, and Paris Conservatory professor Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) was a leading figure of the French Romantic organ school. In the extensive Preface he wrote for his edition of the complete organ worksof J. S. Bach, Widor conveyed what he considered to be the essential maxims of organ performance practice and technique. Given that he felt that "the art of organ playing has not changed at all since Johann Sebastian Bach," the principles detailed in his highly articulate writings can be seen today as relevant to his own organ compositions as well as those of his circle of followers. In Widor on Organ Performance Practice and Technique,John Near translates for the first time all the statements from Widor's Bach Preface that reflect his distinctive and influential approach to performance style and artistic awareness. Correlative source material that clarifies andaugments these passages is included after the translations. To complement the pedagogical material and bring a broader view of Widor's involvement in all things pertaining to the organ, his four most significant writings about the organ and organ playing are included in the appendixes. JOHN R. NEAR is Professor Emeritus of Music, Principia College. His publications include Widor: A Life beyond the Toccata, available from theUniversity of Rochester Press.

Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback): Anne Swartz Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Anne Swartz
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century is a richly detailed thematic study of the history of the piano in Russian society from its beginnings with the European artisans who settled in St. Petersburg in the early decades of the century through the transition to Russian-owned family firms. The piano played a defining role in the shaping of Russia's musical culture in the nineteenth century, as artisans and entrepreneurs provided the foundation for the great tradition of the Russian virtuoso in the performance and the composition of piano music. It also helped bring about a transformative change in the material culture as the piano expanded its reach from the court and the nobility to include music enthusiasts from all social classes and Russian families in their homes. This historical study brings to light the impact of neglected piano artisans in nineteenth-century Russia, and presents a fresh view of the social and economic ties between the state and the piano-manufacturing artisans in an era largely defined by handcrafting and entrepreneurship. It contributes significantly to current issues surrounding the role of the piano and the entrepreneur-artisans in the urban centers of imperial Russia and represents an expansion of what is currently known about the piano builders who established workshops in Russia beginning in the late 1830s and 1840s, well before the heyday of the virtuoso in that country. Rare documents, including letters, memoirs, gazettes, exhibition catalogs, music journals, and administrative reports, form the nucleus of this book and provide fascinating insights about state and private patronage and the class/economic issues related to the affordability and prestige of the piano in Russia. Issues surrounding the transformation of the music industry in Russia, the role of women as patrons and performers, the exportation of instruments to the Russian Far East, and the complex system of tariffs and trade protection that benefited domestic piano manufacturers provide this book's thematic links. Conclusions indicate that while favorable tariff laws and state-imposed economic policies benefited the family-owned firms in the nineteenth century, they remained in effect in the decades after the nationalization of the piano industry in 1917.

Hamilton Piano Solo (Sheet music): Lin-Manuel Miranda Hamilton Piano Solo (Sheet music)
Lin-Manuel Miranda
R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Play 10 favourites from the critically acclaimed musical Hamilton. This collection features carefully-crafted piano solo arrangements from the music penned by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Including Burn, Helpless and My Shot, all the pieces are fun to play and faithful to the original performances. The show debuted on Broadway in August 2015 to unprecedented advanced box office sales and has become one of the most successful stage musicals ever.

Muzio Clementi and British Musical Culture - Sources, Performance Practice and Style (Paperback): Luca Sala, Rohan Stewart... Muzio Clementi and British Musical Culture - Sources, Performance Practice and Style (Paperback)
Luca Sala, Rohan Stewart MacDonald
R1,407 Discovery Miles 14 070 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Studies in English Organ Music (Paperback): Iain Quinn Studies in English Organ Music (Paperback)
Iain Quinn
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Studies in English Organ Music is a collection of essays by expert authors that examines key areas of the repertoire in the history of organ music in England. The essays on repertoire are placed alongside supporting studies in organ building and liturgical practice in order to provide a comprehensive contextualization. An analysis of the symbiotic relationship between the organ, liturgy, and composers reveals how the repertoire has been shaped by these complementary areas and developed through history. This volume is the first collection of specialist studies related to the field of English organ music.

Along the Mississippi (Sheet music): Wynn-Anne Rossi Along the Mississippi (Sheet music)
Wynn-Anne Rossi
R187 Discovery Miles 1 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wynn-Anne Rossi's Along the Mississippi takes a trip down the Mississippi River in four distinct movements. The journey begins with "Swiftly Flowing River," a flowing movement that highlights where the river begins in Itasca State Park in Minnesota. Next, "Stride Through St. Louie" depicts the jazz roots of St. Louis, Missouri with a stride left-hand accompaniment and swing rhythm. "A Tribute to Mark Twain," featuring a warm and expressive melody, honors the spirit of this American icon whose writing evoked the spirit of the Mississippi. The suite closes with full, rich chords and a nostalgic melody in "View of the Delta Queen," a majestic tribute to the steamboat that is now considered an historical landmark.

My First Book Of Bach - Favourite Pieces In Easy Piano Arrangements (Staple bound): David Dutkanicz My First Book Of Bach - Favourite Pieces In Easy Piano Arrangements (Staple bound)
David Dutkanicz
R249 R233 Discovery Miles 2 330 Save R16 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Students of all ages will delight in these 26 simple piano arrangements of familiar melodies such as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and "Wachet Auf," plus other fun-to-play pieces.

Jazz, Rags & Blues for 2 Book 1 (Staple bound): Martha Mier Jazz, Rags & Blues for 2 Book 1 (Staple bound)
Martha Mier
R270 Discovery Miles 2 700 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The magic of Martha Mier's Jazz, Rags & Blues is captured in her duet series---Jazz, Rags & Blues for Two. Book 1 features all-new music in six duets for early-intermediate pianists. Syncopated rhythms, colorful sounds and rich harmonies are highlighted in the variety of styles found in this collection.
"These duets would be a great addition to any recital or performance experience is excellent for sight reading at a lesson with the teacher; or used to provide personal pleasure as the music is shared with the duet partner."
Jean Ritter, Progressions

Suite 'Laudate Dominum' (Paperback) (Book): Peter Hurford Suite 'Laudate Dominum' (Paperback) (Book)
Peter Hurford
R440 Discovery Miles 4 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Each of the six movements of this fine suite is an exquisite character sketch based on a Psalm text. The movements are easily diverse enough to make the entire suite a very satisfying, and indeed virtuosic, recital piece. The highly original language is replete with piquant harmonies and bracing rhythms, and the composer explores a wide variety of organ texture with great deftness.

Piano Scales & Arpeggios, ABRSM Grade 4 - from 2021 (Sheet music): Abrsm Piano Scales & Arpeggios, ABRSM Grade 4 - from 2021 (Sheet music)
Abrsm
R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for ABRSM's Grade 4 Piano exam. It covers all the new requirements from 2021.

The Peanuts Piano Collection (Book): Vince Guaraldi The Peanuts Piano Collection (Book)
Vince Guaraldi
R542 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Across Centuries and Cultures - Musicological Studies in Honor of Joachim Braun (Paperback, New edition): Kevin Karnes, Levi... Across Centuries and Cultures - Musicological Studies in Honor of Joachim Braun (Paperback, New edition)
Kevin Karnes, Levi Sheptovitsky
R2,254 Discovery Miles 22 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this volume, twenty-three scholars pay tribute to the life and work of Joachim Braun with musicological essays covering the breadth of Professor Braun's several fields of research. Topics covered include Jewish music and music in ancient Israel/Palestine, musical cultures of the Baltic States, and the historical study of musical instruments. Its collected essays range in approach from archival to analytical and from iconographic to critical, and consider a wide range of subjects, including the music of Jewish displaced persons during and after World War II, Roman and Byzantine organology, medieval hymnody, and Soviet musical life under Stalin.

The Pianist's Craft 2 - Mastering the Works of More Great Composers (Hardcover): Richard P Anderson The Pianist's Craft 2 - Mastering the Works of More Great Composers (Hardcover)
Richard P Anderson
R1,948 Discovery Miles 19 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In The Pianist's Craft 2, pianist and scholar Richard P. Anderson gathers together a new collection of essays by renowned performing artists and teachers and discusses the preparation, pedagogy, and performance of selected works by an entirely different set of composers whose works are standard in the piano literature. In this volume, readers will find an invaluable collection of contributions on C.P.E. Bach, Antonio Soler, Felix Mendelssohn, Gabriel Faure, Erno Dohnanyi, Francis Poulenc, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Alberto Ginastera, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Olivier Messiaen, and John Cage. The contributors-all nationally and internationally recognized as performing artists, teachers, recording artists, and clinicians-write thoughtfully about the composers whose work they have studied and played for years. Each author addresses issues unique to an individual composer, examining questions of phrasing, tempo, articulation, dynamics, rhythm, color, gesture, lyricism, instrumentation, and genre. Valuable insight is provided into teaching, performing, and preparing these great works-information otherwise available only in conferences, master classes, and private lessons. This collection, with more than 250 musical illustrations, is intended for teachers and students of the intermediate and advanced levels of piano, instructors and performers at the university level, and those who love piano and piano music.

Images - The Piano Music of Claude Debussy (Paperback, New edition): Paul Roberts Images - The Piano Music of Claude Debussy (Paperback, New edition)
Paul Roberts
R802 Discovery Miles 8 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. It was a time when artists and writers spoke of poetry as music, sounds as colors, and paintings as symphonies. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique textures and dazzling colors, was the perfect counterpart to the bold new styles of painting in France. Paul Roberts probes the sources of Debussy's artistic inspiration, relating the "impressionist" titles to the artistic and literary ferment of the time. He also draws on his own performing experience to touch on all the principal technical problems for a performer of Debussy's piano music. His many suggestions about interpreting the music will be particularly valuable to performers as well as listeners.

Johana Harris - A Biography (Hardcover): Ethel Paquin Johana Harris - A Biography (Hardcover)
Ethel Paquin
R2,213 Discovery Miles 22 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Johana Harris was a musical prodigy who began her education in her native Canada, then moved to New York at the age of 12. The youngest student ever admitted to the Juilliard Graduate School of Music, Harris was destined for greatness on the world stage. However, exploitation by her mother and then by her husband Roy Harris, coupled with the prejudice shown women during the mid-20th century kept her from achieving that pinnacle. Johana Harris: A Biography brings to light the life of an unheralded musical genius, as well as providing new information on her husband Roy Harris, about whom very little is known. This revealing look at the lives of two important musicians who were referred to in the middle years of the last century as "Mr. and Mrs. American Music" is the first book published about these two people.

Harry Potter Wizards Unite (Book): Alfred Music Harry Potter Wizards Unite (Book)
Alfred Music
R368 R337 Discovery Miles 3 370 Save R31 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Dreams of Love - Playing the Romantic Pianist (Hardcover): Ivan Raykoff Dreams of Love - Playing the Romantic Pianist (Hardcover)
Ivan Raykoff
R1,263 Discovery Miles 12 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Romantic pianist-the solo pianist who plays nineteenth-century piano music-has become an attractive figure in the popular imagination, considering the innumerable artworks, literature, and films representing this performer's seductive allure. Dreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach to understanding the "romantic" pianist as a cultural icon, focusing on the role of technology in producing and perpetuating this mythology over the past two centuries. Sound recording and cinema have shaped the pianist's music and image since the early twentieth century, but these contemporary media technologies build upon practices established during the early nineteenth century: the influence of the piano keyboard on early telegraphs and typewriters, the invention of the solo recital alongside developments in photography, and the ways that piano design and the placement of the instrument on stage structure our viewing-listening perspectives. The concept of technology can be broadened to include the performance of gender and sexuality as further ways of making the pianist into an attractive cultural figure. The book's three sections deal with the touch, sights, and sounds of the Romantic pianist's playing as mediated through various forms of technology. Analyzing these persistent Liebestraume and exploring how they function can reveal their meaning for performers, audiences, and music lovers of the past and present too.

Aspects of Early English Keyboard Music before c.1630 (Hardcover): David Smith Aspects of Early English Keyboard Music before c.1630 (Hardcover)
David Smith
R4,472 Discovery Miles 44 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

English keyboard music reached an unsurpassed level of sophistication in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as organists such as William Byrd and his students took a genre associated with domestic, amateur performance and treated it as seriously as vocal music. This book draws together important research on the music, its sources and the instruments on which it was played. There are two chapters on instruments: John Koster on the use of harpsichord during the period, and Dominic Gwynn on the construction of Tudor-style organs based on the surviving evidence we have for them. This leads to a section devoted to organ performance practice in a liturgical context, in which John Harper discusses what the use of organs pitched in F may imply about their use in alternation with vocal polyphony, and Magnus Williamson explores improvisational practice in the Tudor period. The next section is on sources and repertoire, beginning with Frauke Jurgensen and Rachelle Taylor's chapter on Clarifica me Pater settings, which grows naturally out of the consideration of improvisation in the previous chapter. The next two contributions focus on two of the most important individual manuscript sources: Tihomir Popovic challenges assumptions about My Ladye Nevells Booke by reflecting on what the manuscript can tell us about aristocratic culture, and David J. Smith provides a detailed study of the famous Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. The discussion then broadens out into Pieter Dirksen's consideration of a wider selection of sources relating to John Bull, which in turn connects closely to David Leadbetter's work on Gibbons, lute sources and questions of style.

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