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This book will guide students through everything they need to know
to become a confident sight reader, working up towards
exam-standard practice tests. The accompanying CD demonstrates
every piece in the book, offering spoken hints and encouragement
along the way. It is designed to help students check and improve
their own playing when they are working away from their teacher,and
has been written and composed by two experienced teachers and
examiners.
Film Themes: The Piano Collection brings together 30 favourite
themes and songs from such films as Star Wars, Frozen, Hunger
Games, How To Train Your Dragon and Twilight, plus several pieces
from the Harry Potter film series and "Mia and Sebastian's Theme"
from the acclaimed new movie La La Land. All pieces have been
arranged for the intermediate pianist.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Playing 5-finger scales has significant
value for early-level pianists. This innovative book helps students
chart progress through all major and minor 5-finger scales,
cross-hand arpeggios, and primary chords. Engaging teacher duets
for each key are used for scale exercises. Students also enjoy
improvisation activities for each key with creative prompts to
inspire imagery, character, and tempo.
Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Award for Storytelling 2020 'A
rich, endlessly fascinating book.' Philip Pullman 'One pleasure
after another.' Gramophone 'The delightful musings of a wise and
worldly polymath.' Financial Times, Books of the Year Stephen Hough
is indisputably one of the world's leading pianists, winning global
acclaim and numerous awards for his concerts and recordings, as
well as being a writer and composer. In Rough Ideas, Hough writes
about music and the life of a musician, from exploring the broader
aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a
recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room.
He also writes vividly about people, places, literature and art,
and touches on more controversial subjects, such as the possibility
of the existence of God, and the challenge involved in being a gay
Catholic. Rough Ideas is an illuminating and absorbing introduction
into the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.
The popular beginner instruction books for kids with fun exercises,
theory and easy songs to play. This book contains over 30 carols
for the beginner pianist, featuring a range of techniques and
quizzes to support musical development from the very first lessons
to Grade 2. Full of festive favourites such as Jingle bells, Silent
night and Deck the halls, with a few lesser known carols included
for good measure, many of the pieces have simple but effective
teacher duet parts to encourage ensemble playing from the start.
The book is illustrated throughout in the charming Get Set! style,
and students are encouraged to decorate and colour in the drawings
to reflect their progress. Packed with fantastic, tried-and-tested
arrangements and a variety of fun activities to reinforce learning,
this is the ultimate beginner piano Christmas book! Expertly put
together by award-winning authors, pieces include: * Good King
Wenceslas * Jolly old Saint Nicholas * O come, all ye faithful * Up
on the housetop * Jingle, bells * Away in a manger * Infant holy,
Infant lowly * Under Bethl'hem's star so bright * The holly and the
ivy * The first Nowell * O little town of Bethlehem * We wish you a
Merry Christmas * Once in royal David's city * Hark! the herald
angels sing * Silent night * Deck the hall * The Virgin Mary had a
baby boy * Ding dong! merrily on high * God rest you merry,
gentlemen * Huron carol * Patapan * Gabriel's message * Cantemos a
Maria * While shepherds watched their flocks * Mary rocked her
baby! * I saw three ships * Y Gelynnen (The holly) * We three kings
of Orient are * Go, tell it on the mountain
SIX the musical by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss has been hailed as,
'the most uplifting piece of new British musical theatre' (The
Evening Standard) and is the phenomenon everyone is losing their
head over! Critically acclaimed across the UK with a soundtrack
storming up the UK pop charts, the sell-out intoxicating musical
tells the story of the six wives of Henry VIII. This official Easy
Piano songbook remixes five hundred years of historical heartbreak
into a celebration of 21st century girl power, with easy
arrangements of all nine songs from the show specially arranged by
the SIX Musical Supervisor, Joe Beighton. Special content includes
an introduction about the songs and costume illustrations.
This book may be used by students in Level 1A or the Complete Level
1 of Alfred's Basic Piano Library or in the first or second book of
any method. Titles: The Christmas Song * Frosty the Snowman * Happy
Holiday * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * I'll Be
Home for Christmas * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! *
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer * We Need a Little Christmas.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 2 Piano syllabus
for 2023 & 2024, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B
and C - ideal for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. 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.Audio recordings of all 39 pieces on
the Grade 2 syllabus, performed by expert musicians, are included
(via the download code in the book). A version of this book without
audio download is also available.
This volume explores twentieth-century organ music through in-depth
studies of the principal centers of composition, the most
significant composers and their works, and the evolving role of the
instrument and its music. The twentieth-century was a time of
unprecedented change for organ music, not only in its composition
and performance but also in the standards of instrument design and
building. Organ music was anything but immune to the complex
musical, intellectual, and socio-political climate of the time.
Twentieth-Century Organ Music examines the organ's repertory from
the entire period, contextualizing it against the background of
important social and cultural trends. In a collection of twelve
essays, experienced scholars survey the dominant geographic centers
of organ music (France, the Netherlands, Scandinavia, the United
States, and German-speaking countries) and investigate the
composers who made important contributions to the repertory (Reger
in Germany, Messiaen in France, Ligeti in Eastern and Central
Europe, Howells in Great Britain). Twentieth-Century Organ Music
provides a fresh vantage point from which to view one of the
twentieth century's most diverse and engaging musical spheres.
Jazz, Rags & Blues, Books 1 through 5 contain original solos
for late elementary to early advanced-level pianists that reflect
the various styles of the jazz idiom. An excellent way to introduce
your students to this distinctive American contribution to 20th
century music. Available separately (item #18115), the CD includes
dynamic recordings of each song in Books 1-3 of this series.
Using a replica of Beethoven's Erard piano, scholar and performer
Tom Beghin launches a striking reinterpretation of a key period of
Beethoven's work. In 1803 Beethoven acquired a French piano from
the Erard Freres workshop in Paris. The composer was "so enchanted
with it," one visitor reported, "that he regards all the pianos
made here as rubbish by comparison." While Beethoven loved its
sound, the touch of the French keyboard was much heavier than that
of the Viennese pianos he had been used to. Hoping to overcome this
drawback, he commissioned a local technician to undertake a series
of revisions, with ultimately disappointing results. Beethoven set
aside the Erard piano for good in 1810. Beethoven's French Piano
returns the reader to this period of Beethoven's enthusiasm for all
things French. What traces of the Erard's presence can be found in
piano sonatas like his "Waldstein" and "Appassionata"? To answer
this question, Tom Beghin worked with a team of historians and
musicians to commission the making of an accurate replica of the
Erard piano. As both a scholar and a recording artist, Beghin is
uniquely positioned to guide us through this key period of
Beethoven's work. Whether buried in archives, investigating the
output of the French pianists who so fascinated Beethoven, or
seated at the keyboard of his Erard, Beghin thinks and feels his
way into the mind of the composer, bringing startling new insights
into some of the best-known piano compositions of all time.
(Willis). Part 1 of a comprehensive step-by-step course
specifically designed to suit the needs of all students beginning
the piano. Includes: characters and illustrations * writing
exercises * sight reading drills * review work * accompaniments *
accompaniments for teacher or parent. Beloved worldwide since 1955
and now with audio tracks accessible online!
Now available in paperback, the critically acclaimed, lyrical,
analytical, yet deeply affecting (The Washington Post) memoir about
one woman's obsessive search for the perfect piano-- and about
finding and pursu- ing passion at any age. The daughter of a pro-
fessional musician, Perri Knize was raised in a home saturated in
classical music, but it wasn't until adult- hood that she returned
to the one instrument that mesmer- ized her most: the piano. When,
in her forties, Perri decides to buy a piano of her own, she begins
by searching for a modestly priced upright, but falls madly,
illogically, in love with a rare German grand she discovers in a
New York showroom. After a long dalliance, Knize refinances her
house to purchase her piano and has the instru- ment shipped to
Montana. But when it arrives, the magical sound that enthralled her
is gone, and the tone is dead and dull. One piano tuner after
another arrives to fix it, but no one can. Knize sets out on an
epic journey to restore the instru- ment to its rightful sound and
to understand its elusive power. This quest leads her into an
international subculture of piano aficionados, all intrigu- ing and
eccentric characters-- concert artists, dealers, tech- nicians,
composers, designers, and builders--whose lives have been
transformed by the spell of a piano. She even hikes into the
Austrian Alps to learn how the special trees used to build her
piano are grown and harvested. Beautifully composed, passionately
told, Grand Obsession is itself a musical masterpiece-- and will
resonate with anyone who has ever expe- rienced deeply passionate
desire.
While Chopin composed only a few works in variation form, he
employed variations and variation technique in the majority of his
works. Multiple modified repetitions of musical units on different
levels of a work are so typical of Chopin's works that this may be
considered one of the chief determinants of his style. Focusing on
a broad range of Chopin's works, this book explores the extent to
which Chopin's oeuvre is suffused with variations, the role that
variation technique plays in his work, to what extent it interacts
with other techniques for developing and modifying musical
material, and how the variation technique itself evolved. Beginning
with a comprehensively documented investigation of the concept of
variation in its own right, Zofia Chechlinska employs Riemannian
and Schenkerian theory to consider, in turn, the ways in which
Chopin constructs variations on the level of microstructure (motif
and phrase) and macrostructure (thematic areas, sections, movements
and form). This is the first English translation of one of the
classics of musicological literature in Poland and is essential
reading for scholars of Chopin and nineteenth-century music and
music analysts.
Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to
his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric
rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical
avant-garde during the 1950s. His most recent published work is a
solo piano piece, Une page d'ephemeride, written some sixty years
after his first attempts at composition. The piano has remained
central to Boulez's creative work throughout his career, and
although his renown as a conductor has to some extent overshadowed
his other achievements, it was as a performer of his own piano
music that his practical gifts first found expression. Peter
O'Hagan has given performances of various unpublished piano works
by Boulez, including Antiphonie from the Third Sonata and Trois
Psalmodies. In this study, he considers Boulez's writing for the
piano in the context of the composer's stylistic evolution
throughout the course of his development. Each of the principal
works is considered in detail, not only on its own terms, but also
as a stage in Boulez's ongoing quest to invent radical solutions to
the renewal of musical language and to reinvigorate tradition. The
volume includes reference to hitherto unpublished source material,
which sheds light on his working methods and on the
interrelationship between works.
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