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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
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Piano Exercises For Dummies features a wide variety of exervises
and technique-building drills. Beginning with warm-up exercises,
readers will transition to simple drills that help lay the
foundation for exemplary technique. They'll then move on to
specific skill-building drills to build strength, speed, and
precision. Theyll practice correct hand and body posture and
discover how to incorporate facets of musical performance such as
tempo, phrasing, and dynamics into their exercises and drills.
Concluding each lesson is a musical piece for the reader to try.
All practice pieces are included on the bonus audio CD. Whether
theyre studying under a tutor, or looking for a self-paced
resource, readers will find everything they need to build skill and
gain confidence playing the piano with Piano Exercises For Dummies.
The New International Edition of Suzuki Piano School, Volume 2
includes French, German and Spanish translations, new Romantic and
20th-century pieces, as well as a newly recorded CD performed by
internationally renowned recording artist Seizo Azuma. Now the book
and CD can be purchased together or separately. The contents have
changed slightly with minimal reordering of the music. The Mozart
Minuet and Bach Musette from the earlier edition were eliminated
and replaced with two new 20th-century pieces by BartA3k (noted
below), and the Bach "Minuet in G Minor" (from J. S. Bachas
Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach) has been moved to Volume 3. Other
improvements include a cleaner appearance with less editing and
spacious new engravings, as well as more detailed titles that
include the keys, sources, composer dates, and catalog numbers.
Titles: Acossaise (J. N. Hummel) * A Short Story (H. Lichner) * The
Happy Farmer, from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 10 (R.
Schumann) * Minuet in G Major, BWV 822 (J. S. Bach) * Minuet in G
Major, from J. S. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach
(Anonymous) * Minuet in G Minor, BWV 822 (J. S. Bach) * Cradle
Song, Op. 13, No. 2 (C. M. von Weber) * Arietta (W. A. Mozart) *
Hungarian Folk Song, from For Children, Sz. 42 (BA(c)la BartA3k) *
Melody, from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 1 (R. Schumann) *
Minuet in G Major, from J. S. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena
Bach (C. Petzold) * Sonatina in G Major, Anh. 5 (Moderato, Romance)
(L. van Beethoven) * Children at Play, from For Children, Sz. 42
(BA(c)la BartA3k).
The widely held belief that Beethoven was a rough pianist,
impatient with his instruments, is not altogether accurate: it is
influenced by anecdotes dating from when deafness had begun to
impair his playing. Presenting a new, detailed biography of
Beethoven's formative years, this book reviews the composer's early
career, outlining how he was influenced by teachers, theorists and
instruments. Skowroneck describes the development and decline of
Beethoven's pianism, and pays special attention to early pianos,
their construction and their importance for Beethoven and the
modern pianist. The book also includes new discussions of legato
and Beethoven's trills, and a complete annotated review of
eyewitnesses' reports about his playing. Skowroneck presents a
revised picture of Beethoven which traces his development from an
impetuous young musician into a virtuoso in command of many musical
resources.
This book of jazz piano scales will develop the technical skills
you need to play jazz. It introduces patterns characteristic of the
idiom, like the blues scales, the b3 pentatonic and various modes.
It also explores these patterns on the roots and key centres
commonly found in jazz. Regular and flexible practice of these
forms, and using them as the basis for improvisation, will give you
fluency and technical control and make your playing sound
effortless and relaxed. As an accompaniment to the Board's jazz
piano syllabus, this book sets out the scales by grade and gives a
table of recommended speeds. It also provides details of what the
examiner will be looking for in your playing.
This is the first comprehensive historical and technological study
of the pianoforte based on important primary source material. Most
histories of the piano begin with its invention by Bartolomeo
Cristofori in Florence in about 1700: this study begins with the
earliest fifteenth- and sixteenth-century manuscript sources and
extends over Cristofori's rediscovery of the principle of the
hammer action, the early exportation of Florentine pianofortes to
prominent European courts, and the building of copies of these
instruments in Portugal, Spain and Germany. Technical information
is presented in a comparative format and the text is illustrated
with many photographs, measurements, line drawings and tables.
While written primarily for the technical specialist, there is much
here of significance for the history of the piano and performance
practice.
Twelve of today's most distinguished scholar-performers offer
essays in this volume on new and intriguing aspects of baroque
keyboard music. Topics include fresh evidence on music of the
seventeenth century (Frescobaldi, Froberger and Purcell), the place
of the keyboard in concerted music and on comparative teaching
methods (Couperin, Marpurg and Roeser), studies of the repertoire
of J. S. Bach and his sons (including ornamentation in C. P. E.
Bach and the Polonaises of Wilhelm Friedemann), and writing on the
later eighteenth century (including Mozart) and on matters of
repertoire and performance practice (continuo playing,
improvisation). The volume gives a balanced picture of the latest
theories and discoveries in keyboard music, of interest to both
academic and performing musicians, and includes a new arrangement
for keyboard of Bach's D minor Violin Partita, published here for
the first time.
W. Dean Sutcliffe investigates one of the greatest yet least
understood repertories of Western keyboard music: the 555 keyboard
sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti. Scarlatti occupies a position of
solitary splendour in musical history. The sources of his style are
often obscure and his immediate influence is difficult to discern.
Further, the lack of hard documentary evidence has hindered
musicological activity. Dr Sutcliffe offers not just a thorough
reconsideration of the historical factors that have contributed to
Scarlatti's position, but also sustained engagement with the music,
offering both individual readings and broader commentary of an
unprecedented kind. A principal task of this book is to remove the
composer from his critical ghetto (however honourable) and redefine
his image. In so doing it will reflect on the historiographical
difficulties involved in understanding eighteenth-century musical
style.
The name of Ruckers is as important to early keyboard instruments
as Stradivarius is to strings. This book describes in close detail
the art and technique of the Ruckers family, who produced
harpsichords and virginals throughout a period of over 100 years.
Dr O'Brien provides detailed information about the construction and
decoration of Ruckers harpsichords and virginals, as well as the
numbering, pitch, stringing, and the determination of the original
state of their instruments. Like Stradivarius violins, Ruckers
instruments were later altered, and the nature and musical
significance of these alterations are discussed, as is the
influence of the Ruckers style on later building practice. The
instruments in their original and altered states are considered in
relation to the music of the time and to contemporary performance
practice. The text is richly illustrated with diagrams and pictures
of original instruments, and with plan-view photographs reproduced
at a scale of 1: 10. The book also contains a partially illustrated
catalogue of authentic and fake instruments, followed by extensive
appendices.
For the first time ever, musical selections from the first five
Harry Potter movies are available in one jam-packed collection.
Intermediate-level pianists will love playing these Easy Piano
arrangements, which faithfully render the magical music of John
Williams, Patrick Doyle, and Nicholas Hooper. Full color art pages
from each movie are included. Titles: Buckbeak's Flight * The
Chamber of Secrets * Double Trouble * Dumbledore's Army * Fawkes
the Phoenix * Fireworks * Hagrid the Professor * Harry in Winter *
Harry's Wondrous World * Hedwig's Theme * Hogwarts' Hymn *
Hogwarts' March * Loved Ones and Leaving * Nimbus 2000 * Potter
Waltz * Professor Umbridge * The Quidditch World Cup (The Irish) *
The Room of Requirement.
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Harry Abley was a nightmare of a father: depressive, self-absorbed,
unpredictable, emotionally unstable. He was also a dream of a
father: gentle, courageous, artistically gifted. Mark Abley, his
only child, grew up in the shadow of music and mental illness. How
he came to terms with this divided legacy, and how he learned to be
a man in the absence of a traditional masculine role model, are
central to this beautifully written memoir. This extraordinary
story will speak to all those who love music, who struggle with
depression, or who wrestle with the difficult bonds of love between
a parent and a child. Praise for The Organist: "A wise and haunting
book." -Martha Baillie, author of The Search for Heinrich Schloegel
"The Organist is a rich and wonderful book, a deeply insightful and
moving story of a family's journey through the 20th
century....Abley's tale is fearless in its revelations, yet also
loving, funny, and beautifully told." -Ronald Wright, author of A
Scientific Romance and A Short History of Progress "'What does a
life add up to?' This question is central to Mark Abley's haunting
family memoir, The Organist. Both expansive in the themes it raises
and intimate in details required to bring those themes to life,
it's a question that draws on Abley's talents as a remarkably clear
and thoughtful writer. In The Organist, he ventures bravely into
territory that is, for almost everyone, mysterious: what our
parents were like before we, their children, became (so we like to
imagine) central to their lives. What this compelling book makes
clear is that what we don't know about them is often what we don't
know about ourselves." -David Macfarlane, author of The Danger Tree
"Beautiful, tender, and raging, The Organist comes from where the
best writing usually does-deep emotion affirmed by hard-won
experience of how humans are in their relationships, and in their
own hearts. It has taken Mark Abley nearly a lifetime to produce
the book of his life. Not a moment too late, or too soon" -Charles
Foran, author of Mordecai: The Life & Times
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.'
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.
Mozart's piano sonatas form a richly diverse and significant part
of his instrumental output, and span much of his mature composing
career, thereby representing a microcosm of the composer's changing
style. Part I examines the contexts in which the sonatas were
composed and performed, and reviews likely sources of influence.
Part II concentrates on the genesis of the sonatas and the
surviving autographs, which reveal important information about
Mozart's compositional process. In Part III the music is studied
from the standpoint of rhetoric - a discipline featured in numerous
contemporary aesthetic and theoretical textbooks on music - and
proceeds through an investigation of the nature of the musical
ideas, followed by a discussion of formal design and finally a
consideration of the style. The resulting picture affords a
cross-section of Mozart's compositional strategies.
The Second Edition of Alfred's Group Piano for Adults, Book 2
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 2 is 408 pages.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). The 2nd Edition Level 2A Technique &
Artistry Book features effective "Technique Secret" exercises which
train students in firm fingertips, light thumb, fast fingers, hands
together coordination, and wrist float-off. An "Artistry Magic"
piece at the end of each unit explores expressive playing. A useful
reference section presents all twelve major 5-finger scales plus
the seven white key minor 5-finger scales, grouped in easy to
memorize patterns.
Creative Health for Pianists: Concepts, Exercises &
Compositions is a practical method book for musicians of all
abilities. It provides a new way of thinking about the piano,
emphasizing the pianist-reader's innate capacity to respond
creatively to a musical and technical stimulus. Author and veteran
educator Pedro de Alcantara suggests that every pianist, from a
complete beginner to a concert artist, may approach the instrument
with the frame of mind of an improviser and composer, in which
curiosity, inventiveness, and technical skills are inseparable.
Throughout the book, original music snippets that encapsulate one
or more aspects of piano playing are presented and explained, then
developed through tweaks, variations, and compositions of
increasing complexity. Every chapter contains variations suited to
a complete beginner, as well as musical challenges that will
capture the imagination of advanced players. Most chapters contain
improvisational prompts and games with step-by-step rules, leading
to the development of new creative skills combining musical depth
and technical intelligence. Creative Health for Pianists is
supported by a dedicated companion website with 48 pedagogical
video clips.
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