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Piano Star: Duets (Sheet music): Abrsm Piano Star: Duets (Sheet music)
Abrsm
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Piano Star Duets is an exciting book of 26 duets at early beginner to Grade 2 level, containing fun new compositions and arrangements in a variety of styles by leading educational composers. All pieces have been tried out - and approved! - by children. This collection will capture the imagination of young pianists everywhere as they are introduced to the joy of ensemble playing. Key features: * New compositions and arrangements from 13 leading composers * Duets in a variety of configurations - for two pupils of a similar standard, for pupil-teacher, or pupils of different standards - plus some trios * A wide range of musical styles, from traditional melodies to jazzy and pop-style pieces * Varied techniques, introduced progressively * Fun musical games and top tips for duet playing

Alfred's Basic Piano Prep Course Theory, Bk B - For the Young Beginner (Staple bound): Willard A Palmer, Morton Manus,... Alfred's Basic Piano Prep Course Theory, Bk B - For the Young Beginner (Staple bound)
Willard A Palmer, Morton Manus, Amanda Vick Lethco
R262 R217 Discovery Miles 2 170 Save R45 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Designed to coordinate page-by-page with the Lesson Books. Contains enjoyable games and quizzes that reinforce the principles presented in the Lesson Books. Students can increase their musical understanding while they are away from the keyboard.

The Companion to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 (Hardcover, New Ed): Derek Carew The Companion to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Derek Carew
R4,227 Discovery Miles 42 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Intended as a supplement to The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850, this Companion provides additional information which, largely for reasons of space but also of continuity, it was not possible or desirable to include in that volume. The book is laid out alphabetically and full biographical entries are provided for all musical figures mentioned, including composers, performers, theoreticians and teachers, as well as piano makers and publishers of music, within the period covered by The Mechanical Muse. There are also entries on figures of importance from outside the period but whose influence is palpably important within it, such as J.S. Bach. As well as biographical information, all these entries contain lists of principal works and a section on further reading so that readers can follow up people and matters of particular interest. Also included in The Companion are entries devoted to particular works and other information of relevance, such as descriptions of musical forms, characteristics of dances and so on, as well as some technical information on music and explanations of technical terms pertaining to keyboard instruments themselves and to ways of playing them. This Companion is not intended to replace existing reference books such as Grove or Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, but will be useful for those who desire to know more about a particular topic and do not necessarily have access to more specialist reference works, or time to visit large or specialist libraries. As such it is indispensable to users of The Mechanical Muse.

The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 (Hardcover, New Ed): Derek Carew The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Derek Carew
R5,147 Discovery Miles 51 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book charts the piano's accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music written for it. Both the piano and piano music were very much the product of the intellectual, cultural and social environments of the period and both were subject to many influences, directly and indirectly. These included character (individualism), the vernacular ('folk/popular') and creativity (improvisation), all of which are discussed generally and with respect to the music itself. Derek Carew surveys the most important pianistic genres of the period (variations, rondos, and so on), showing how these changed from their received forms into vehicles of Romantic expressiveness. The piano is also looked at in its role as an accompanying instrument. The Mechanical Muse will be of interest to anyone who loves the piano or the period, from the non-specialist to the music postgraduate.

First Steps in Keyboard Literature - The Easiest Classics to Moderns in Original Forms (Book): Lynn Freeman Olson First Steps in Keyboard Literature - The Easiest Classics to Moderns in Original Forms (Book)
Lynn Freeman Olson
R177 R145 Discovery Miles 1 450 Save R32 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Perfect for festival and audition lists requiring standard literature at this early level, this book is designed for students who are exploring authentic literature from the Classic to Modern eras for the first time. All selections are in their original form.

The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture - Instruments, Performers and Repertoire (Hardcover, New Ed): Susan Wollenberg The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture - Instruments, Performers and Repertoire (Hardcover, New Ed)
Susan Wollenberg
R4,210 Discovery Miles 42 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since the publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferated in the area of music for the piano during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and into developments in the musical life of London, for a time the centre of piano manufacturing, publishing and performance. But none has focused on the piano exclusively within Britain. The eleven chapters in this volume explore major issues surrounding the instrument, its performers and music within an expanded geographical context created by the spread of the instrument and the growth of concert touring. Topics covered include: the piano trade and how piano manufacturing affected a major provincial town; the reception of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum during the nineteenth century; the shift from composer-pianists to pianist-interpreters in the first half of the century that triggered crucial changes in piano performance and concert structure; the growth of musical life in the peripheries outside major musical centres; the pianist as advocate for contemporary composers as well as for historical repertory; the status of British pianists both in relation to foreigners on tour in Britain and as welcomed star performers in outposts of the Empire; marketing forces that had an impact on piano sales, concerts and piano careers; leading virtuosos, writers and critics; the important role played by women pianists and the development of the recording industry, bringing the volume into the early twentieth century.

Complete Variations For Solo Piano (Book): Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete Variations For Solo Piano (Book)
Ludwig Van Beethoven
R675 R580 Discovery Miles 5 800 Save R95 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

All 21 sets of Beethoven's variations, including the Diabelli Variations, Op. 120, Thirty-Two Variations in C Minor, the Eroica Variations, Op. 35, plus variations on themes by Dressler, Salieri, Sussmayr, Righini, other composers. Reprinted from the authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel edition.

Piano Adventures Performance Book Primer Level - 2nd Edition (Staple bound, 2nd Revised edition): Nancy Faber, Randall Faber Piano Adventures Performance Book Primer Level - 2nd Edition (Staple bound, 2nd Revised edition)
Nancy Faber, Randall Faber
R234 R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Save R40 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Faber Piano Adventures ). The 2nd Edition Performance Book is a solo collection of 28 effective pieces that reinforce the concepts presented in the Primer Lesson and Theory Books. Fanciful lyrics, colorful artwork, and sophisticated teacher duets enrich the learning experience. Contents include: In the Jungle * The Doorbell * The Shepherd's Flute * Hot Cross Buns * Banana Split * Listen to the Drums * Classical March * The Opposite Song * Rex, the Tyrannosauraus * Trumpet Song * and more.

Alfred'S Group Piano for Adults 1 Student 1 (Book, 2nd ed.): E. L. Lancaster, Kenon D Renfrow Alfred'S Group Piano for Adults 1 Student 1 (Book, 2nd ed.)
E. L. Lancaster, Kenon D Renfrow
R1,717 R1,287 Discovery Miles 12 870 Save R430 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Second Edition of Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 1, includes updates inspired by numerous recommendations from group piano teachers and students. This book includes a CD-ROM containing both Audio and General MIDI Files of the 500] accompaniments included in the text, each with an interesting and engaging arrangement coupled with the piano part. Designed for collegiate non-keyboard music majors with little or no keyboard experience, the easy-to-use text contains 26 units, each intended to be covered in one week, thus fulfilling two semesters or three quarters of study. Theory, technique, sight-reading, repertoire, harmonization, improvisation and ensemble activities are taught thoroughly and consistently throughout the text. Book 1 is 360 pages.

The Lost Pianos of Siberia - A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021 (Paperback): Sophy Roberts The Lost Pianos of Siberia - A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021 (Paperback)
Sophy Roberts
R342 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R61 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021 * Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize * A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020 * Now with colour photography by Michael Turek 'Richly absorbing... An impressive exploration of Siberia's terrifying past.' Guardian 'Evocative and wonderfully original.' Colin Thubron __________ Siberia's expansive history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote and beautiful landscape are pianos created during the boom years of the nineteenth century. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos made the journey into this snow-bound wilderness in the first place is remarkable. That they might be capable of making music in such a hostile landscape feels like a miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an absorbing story about a piano hunt - a quixotic quest through two centuries of Russian history and eight time zones stretching across an eleventh of the world's land surface. It reveals not only an unexpected musical legacy, but profound and brave humanity in the last place on earth you might expect to find it. __________ What readers are saying about The Lost Pianos of Siberia: ***** 'You know a book's good when, on finishing it, you just want to start again.' ***** 'Beautifully written, full of compelling anecdotes celebrating Siberia's extraordinary history.' ***** 'The most unusual and intelligent way to tell a travel story.'

The Faber Music Jazz Piano Anthology (Sheet music): The Faber Music Jazz Piano Anthology (Sheet music)
R706 R646 Discovery Miles 6 460 Save R60 (8%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

**WINNER OF BEST JAZZ PUBLICATION AT THE 2020 PRESTO MUSIC AWARDS** The Faber Music Jazz Piano Anthology is a timeless collection of some of the best Jazz music ever written, beautifully presented in progressive order and specially arranged for the intermediate pianist. Featuring Jazz favourites such as Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye, My Baby Just Cares For Me, I Got Rhythm, My Funny Valentine and many more.

Yiruma The Best - Easy Piano Edition (Sheet music): Yiruma Yiruma The Best - Easy Piano Edition (Sheet music)
Yiruma
R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Michael Aaron Adult Piano Course, Book 1 (Book): Aaron Michael Aaron Adult Piano Course, Book 1 (Book)
Aaron
R300 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R48 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The interest in piano and the desire to play, has increased tremendously in the past few years. Especially is this noticeable among adults who have either had some elementary piano instruction in their youth or have been denied this study for various reasons. This increased interest is partly due to the widespread influence of radio. Hearing music almost daily has become an integral part of our lives and it is this constant influence which has awakened a keen and natural desire to become an active participant. it is to the furtherance and stimulation of this natural desire that this course was planned. The adult approach has been kept constantly in mind, however not to the exclusion of certain basic principles which are necessary in order to make rapid and satisfactory progress. The logical and stepwise manner of progression in this course should prove of inestimable aid to both the student and teacher.

'To fill, forbear, or adorne' - The Organ Accompaniment of Restoration Sacred Music (Hardcover, New Ed): Rebecca... 'To fill, forbear, or adorne' - The Organ Accompaniment of Restoration Sacred Music (Hardcover, New Ed)
Rebecca Herissone
R3,900 Discovery Miles 39 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first study to provide a systematic and thorough investigation of continuo realization styles appropriate to Restoration sacred music, an area of performance practice that has never previously been properly assessed. Rebecca Herissone undertakes detailed analysis of a group of organ books closely associated with the major Restoration composers Purcell, Blow and Humfrey, and the London institutions where they spent their professional lives. By investigating the relationship between the organ books' two-stave arrangements and full scores of the same pieces, Herissone demonstrates that the books are subtle sources of information to the accompanist, not just short or skeleton scores. Using this evidence, she formulates a model for continuo realization of this repertory based on the doubling of vocal parts, an approach that differs significantly from that adopted by most modern editors, and which throws into question much of the accepted continuo practice in modern performance of this repertory.

Keyboard Works For Solo Instruments (Paperback): George Frideric Handel Keyboard Works For Solo Instruments (Paperback)
George Frideric Handel
R636 R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Save R100 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection presents 35 of Handel's finest keyboard works for solo instruments, reproduced from the monumental Deutsche Handelgesellschaft edition. Popular, accessible selections include the celebrated Eight Great Suites, including the Harmonious Blacksmith Air and the Passacaille in G Minor as well as sonatas, partitas, and other works.

Max Reger and Karl Straube - Perspectives on an Organ Performing Tradition (Hardcover, New Ed): Christopher Anderson Max Reger and Karl Straube - Perspectives on an Organ Performing Tradition (Hardcover, New Ed)
Christopher Anderson
R3,950 Discovery Miles 39 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Max Reger (1873-1916) is perhaps best-known for his organ music. This quickly assumed a prominent place in the repertory of German organists due in large measure to the efforts of Reger's contemporary Karl Straube (1873-1950). The personal and collegial relationship between the composer and performer began in 1898 and developed until Reger's death. By that time, Straube had established himself as an important artist and teacher in Leipzig and the central authority for the interpretation of Reger's organ music. The Reger-Straube relationship functioned on a number of levels with decisive consequences both for the composition of the music and its interpretation over a period fraught with upheaval on sociopolitical, religious and aesthetic fronts. This book evaluates the significance of the relationship between the composer and organist using primary source materials such as autograph performing manuscripts, reviews, programmes, letters and archival sources from contemporary organ building. The result is a much enhanced understanding of Reger in terms of performance practice and reception history, and a re-examination of Straube and, more broadly, of Leipzig as a musical centre during this period.

The Piano - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Robert Palmieri The Piano - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Robert Palmieri
R6,016 Discovery Miles 60 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This new edition of the award-winning encyclopedia has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded to include new technological advances, scholarship and bibliographic information. An international team of distinguished specialists has contributed over 440 entries including information on everything from builders, composers, and important events to technical descriptions and research discoveries. Uniformly well-written and authoritative, this user-friendly guide will channel anyone's love for the instrument, through social, intellectual, art history and beyond into the electronic age.

Includes entries on:

70 Builders

65 Composers

Over 200 technical terms

History, by country and of the piano's evolution

Important developments, organizations and piano types

Mozart's Piano Concertos (Hardcover, New Ed): John Irving Mozart's Piano Concertos (Hardcover, New Ed)
John Irving
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mozart's piano concertos stand alongside his operas and symphonies as his most frequently performed and best loved music. They have attracted the attention of generations of musicologists who have explored their manifold meanings from a variety of viewpoints. In this study, John Irving brings together the various strands of scholarship surrounding Mozart's concertos including analytical approaches, aspects of performance practice and issues of compositional genesis based on investigation of manuscript and early printed editions. Treating the concertos collectively as a repertoire, rather than as individual works, the first section of the book tackles broad thematic issues such as the role of the piano concerto in Mozart's quasi-freelance life in late eighteenth-century Vienna, the origin of his concertos in earlier traditions of concerto writing; eighteenth-century theoretical frameworks for the understanding of movement forms, subsequent historical shifts in the perception of the concerto's form, listening strategies and performance practices. This is followed by a 'documentary register' which proceeds through all 23 original works, drawing together information on the source materials. Accounts of the concertos' compositional genesis, early performance history and reception are also included here, drawing extensively on the Mozart family correspondence and other contemporary reports. Drawing together and synthesizing this wealth of material, Irving provides an invaluable reference source for those already familiar with this repertoire.

Lyric Moments - Complete Collection (Book): Catherine Rollin Lyric Moments - Complete Collection (Book)
Catherine Rollin
R434 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R62 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Practical Method for Beginners on the Pianoforte, Op. 599 (Paperback): Carl Czerny Practical Method for Beginners on the Pianoforte, Op. 599 (Paperback)
Carl Czerny; Edited by Giuseppe Buonamici
R249 R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 Old Testament. What they find is a series of "S" words that reveal a "spectacular story " With creative characters, humorous dialogue and great music, The "S" Files is a children's Christmas musical your kids will love performing.

Peaceful Piano Playlist: Christmas (Sheet music): Peaceful Piano Playlist: Christmas (Sheet music)
R425 R384 Discovery Miles 3 840 Save R41 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Peaceful Piano Playlist: Christmas presents a chilled collection of over 20 festive piano solos for the intermediate pianist. Inspired by the popular Peaceful Piano playlists available on streaming services, it features both original pieces and arrangements of well-known Christmas songs by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, Luke Howard, Alexis Ffrench and many more. "Peaceful Piano Playlist: Christmas sets the bar high...this is a rewarding collection which offers plenty of fresh value, even to the pianist who already owns other albums of Christmas favourites. Here is a collection which is distinctively different and genuinely magical." Andrew Eales, November 2022, www.pianodao.com

Piano Adventures All-In-Two Level 1 Tech. & Perf. - Technique & Performance - Anglicised Edition (Staple bound): Piano Adventures All-In-Two Level 1 Tech. & Perf. - Technique & Performance - Anglicised Edition (Staple bound)
R369 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Save R36 (10%) In Stock
John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano (Curso Moderno) - First Grade, Part 1 (Spanish) - First Grade, Part 1 -... John Thompson's Modern Course for the Piano (Curso Moderno) - First Grade, Part 1 (Spanish) - First Grade, Part 1 - Spanish (Paperback)
John Thompson
R217 R168 Discovery Miles 1 680 Save R49 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Santa Fe Suite: Seven Bagatelles for Piano (Sheet music): Keith Snell Santa Fe Suite: Seven Bagatelles for Piano (Sheet music)
Keith Snell
R182 Discovery Miles 1 820 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
London College of Music Piano Handbook 2021-2024: Grade 3 (Paperback): London College Of Music Examinations London College of Music Piano Handbook 2021-2024: Grade 3 (Paperback)
London College Of Music Examinations
R295 Discovery Miles 2 950 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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