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Twentieth-Century Organ Music (Hardcover): Christopher S. Anderson Twentieth-Century Organ Music (Hardcover)
Christopher S. Anderson
R5,099 Discovery Miles 50 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Piano - Grade 6 (Paperback, New edition): Paul Harris Piano - Grade 6 (Paperback, New edition)
Paul Harris
R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 6 (Late Intermediate) 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.

Piano Lessons Book 2 & Audio - Hal Leonard Student Piano Library (Paperback): Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 2 & Audio - Hal Leonard Student Piano Library (Paperback)
Hal Leonard Student Piano Library 1
R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Piano Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, Grade 5 (Staple bound): Piano Specimen Sight-Reading Tests, Grade 5 (Staple bound)
R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This volume contains valuable practice material for candidates preparing for the ABRSM Grade 5 Piano exams. The book is written in attractive and approachable styles and representative of the technical level expected in the exam.

A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England - William Sweetland of Bath (Hardcover, New Ed): Gordon D.W. Curtis A Provincial Organ Builder in Victorian England - William Sweetland of Bath (Hardcover, New Ed)
Gordon D.W. Curtis
R4,619 Discovery Miles 46 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

William Sweetland was a Bath organ builder who flourished from c.1847 to 1902 during which time he built about 300 organs, mostly for churches and chapels in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, but also for locations scattered south of a line from the Wirral to the Wash. Gordon Curtis places this work of a provincial organ builder in the wider context of English musical life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. An introductory chapter reviews the provincial musical scene and sets the organ in the context of religious worship, public concerts and domestic music-making. The book relates the biographical details of Sweetland's family and business history using material obtained from public and family records. Curtis surveys Sweetland's organ- building work in general and some of his most important organs in detail, with patents and other inventions explored. The musical repertoire of the provinces, particularly with regard to organ recitals, is discussed, as well as noting Sweetland's acquaintances, other organ builders, architects and artists. Part II of the book consists of a Gazetteer of all known organs by Sweetland organized by counties. Each entry contains a short history of the instrument and its present condition. Since there is no definitive published list of his work, and as all the office records were lost in a fire many years ago, this will be the nearest approach to a comprehensive list for this builder.

Danny Elfman: Piano Quartet (Sheet music): Danny Elfman Danny Elfman: Piano Quartet (Sheet music)
Danny Elfman
R904 R839 Discovery Miles 8 390 Save R65 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Danny Elfman's Piano Quartet comprises thematic variations for piano and string trio cast in five movements: Ein Ding, Kinderspott, Duett fur Vier, Ruhig and Die Wolfsjungen. The idea behind the work stems from a familiar children's playground taunt which can be heard in the second movement. The work playfully cycles through a variety of moods and textures, from the agitated intensity of the first movement so reminiscent of the composer's iconic film music, through to the delicate Adagio, all culminating in Elfman's energetic and impassioned finale.

Improve your scales! Piano Grade 3 (Sheet music): Paul Harris Improve your scales! Piano Grade 3 (Sheet music)
Paul Harris
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Paul Harris's brilliant Improve your scales! Piano Grade 3 workbook contains the complete scales, arpeggios and broken chords for the current ABRSM, Trinity, LCM and MTB Grade 3. It also uses finger fitness exercises, key pieces, sight-reading and simple improvisations to help you play scales, arpeggios and broken chords with real confidence. An invaluable resource for students, the Improve your scales! Piano series covers all the keys and ranges required for each syllabus, helping you pick up valuable extra marks in exams. New edition, revised to support all major exam syllabuses from 2020.

Stride! - Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers (Hardcover): John L. Fell, Terkild Vinding Stride! - Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, and All the Other Ticklers (Hardcover)
John L. Fell, Terkild Vinding
R1,885 Discovery Miles 18 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Stride traces the stride piano style from its roots in minstrel shows and ragtime, through the contributions of itinerant entertainers, to its joyful birth in Harlem, where it became known as Harlem Piano. Stride developed over a period spanning World War I to the depression years, though younger players maintain its traditions today. It is a musical style marked by friendly rivalry and shared pleasures. Drawing on the authors' personal interviews and biographies, the book traces stride from generation to generation, from the originators Eubie Blake, Luckey Roberts, and James P. Johnson, through a succession of pianists like Willie the Lion Smith. Fell and Vinding also examine its influence on Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Joe Sullivan, and Johnny Guarnieri, concluding with third and fourth generations that include Ralph Sutton, Dick Hyman, and Dick Wellstood. The authors describe the exceptional Donald Lambert from personal experience. Throughout, influences are traced and documented by way of CD and LP citations. Stride finishes the tune with appendixes that itemize the compositions of Luckey Roberts, Fats Waller and Willie the Lion Smith.

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
R2,632 Discovery Miles 26 320 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

Easy Piano - Michael Jackson (Book): Easy Piano - Michael Jackson (Book)
R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Really Easy Piano - Elton John (Paperback): Really Easy Piano - Elton John (Paperback)
R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Features easy piano arrangements of 24 hits from Elton John complete with background notes and playing hints and tips.

Organ (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Arthur Wills Organ (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Arthur Wills
R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Really Easy Piano - 80'S Hits (Book): Really Easy Piano - 80'S Hits (Book)
R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This work features 24 fantastic hits from the 1980s, including "Eye Of The Tiger", "The Power Of Love" and "I Should Be So Lucky", all arranged for easy piano with song notes and useful hints and tips to help you perfect your performance. Songs include: "Into The Groove" - Madonna, "Eternal Flame" - The Bangles, "Eye Of The Tiger" - Survivor, "Karma Chameleon" - Culture Club, "Tainted Love" - Soft Cell, "Thriller" - Michael Jackson, "Purple Rain" - Prince, "I Want You Back" - Bananarama, and "The Power of Love" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Cavaille-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome - Bigger Than Them All (Paperback): Ronald Ebrecht Cavaille-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome - Bigger Than Them All (Paperback)
Ronald Ebrecht
R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Aristide Cavaille-Coll (1811-1899) is often referred to as the greatest organ builder of all time. The pipe-organ, being the most complicated musical instrument mechanically and tonally, as well as the most expensive, adds significantly to that world's greatest designation. The talents required to be such a person range far from music-making to advanced physics, architecture, and engineering. That, plus the obvious knack to raise vast sums of money. Cavaille-Coll's Monumental Organ Project for Saint Peter's, Rome: Bigger Than Them All, by Ronald Ebrecht, is the story of the quest to build the largest-ever mechanical-action organ in the biggest church at the time. Cavaille-Coll's model for that organ and the book he wrote outlining his proposal are the core of Ebrecht's discussion. Cavaille-Coll bestrode a century as well as an art-form. His century complicated the project with the most intricate, intractable problems. Saint-Peter's Square, now a part of the Vatican City State, was then part of the newly-united Italy, which had just deposed the pope as ruler of the center of Italy and taken the papal lands. The east end of the basilica facing the square and the Tiber became a much disputed boundary. It was a part of the Italian state so hotly contested that the Italian Republicans would not accept the concept of an organ hanged from the basilica wall, lest it shift. Before, or since, has the music sphere ever provoked such a question that could bring nations to swords?

Jazz Piano Comping (Paperback): Suzanne Davis Jazz Piano Comping (Paperback)
Suzanne Davis; Edited by Jonathan Feist
R650 R582 Discovery Miles 5 820 Save R68 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Berklee Guide). Learn the essentials of accompanying soloists and playing in jazz ensembles. Comping is the practice of using chords to accompany a melody. Whether supporting a soloist, playing in an ensemble, or performing solo, this book will help you to use chords effectively and appropriately to create a rich jazz feel and enhance the sound of your whole ensemble. It begins with triads and voice leading, and progresses through altered seventh-chord spread voicings for two hands, covering many different techniques for using harmony and rhythm. The accompanying CD lets you practice with a small jazz combo. Suitable for all major jazz styles.

Piano For Dummies, 3rd Edition - 4th Edition (Paperback, 3rd Edition): H Leonard Corp Piano For Dummies, 3rd Edition - 4th Edition (Paperback, 3rd Edition)
H Leonard Corp
R686 R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Save R148 (22%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The key to fast and fun piano proficiency! Whether you're a wannabe Mozart or are an experienced hand at tinkling the ivories, the latest edition of Piano For Dummies has what you need to take you to the next level in making beautiful music using this much-loved and versatile instrument. Working as an introductory course--or as a refresher to keep those fingers nimble--you'll find information on getting started, improving your technique and performance, and the best ways to practice until you hit finely tuned perfection. And, along the way, you'll pick up the techniques for different styles, including classical, blues, and rock. In an easy-to-follow style, the book also helps you sharpen your sight-reading. You can also tune in to audio and video online to help you improve your creativity and discipline, as well as hear and see that you're hitting the right notes. Choose the right piano Know your keys Scale up for success Care for your instrument Whatever you want from your love affair with the old "88," you'll find enough right here to keep you hammering happily--and even more proficiently--away for years to come! P.S. If you think this book seems familiar, you're probably right. The Dummies team updated the cover and design to give the book a fresh feel, but the content is the same as the previous release of Piano For Dummies (9781118900055). The book you see here shouldn't be considered a new or updated product. But if you're in the mood to learn something new, check out some of our other books. We're always writing about new topics!

Visions (Sheet music, Organ part): John Rutter Visions (Sheet music, Organ part)
John Rutter
R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

for solo violin, upper-voice choir (women's and/or advanced children's choir), with harp, and strings or organ This four-movement work is inspired by the idea of 'Jerusalem' both as a Holy City and a utopian ideal of heavenly peace and seraphic bliss. The composer has selected four biblical texts, in English and Latin, that express different aspects of this vision. This organ part is for use with the reduced instrumentation.

Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy - Bright Futures, Dark Pasts (Paperback): Ian Pace, Nigel McBride Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy - Bright Futures, Dark Pasts (Paperback)
Ian Pace, Nigel McBride
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The composer and pianist Michael Finnissy (b. 1946) is an unmistakeable presence in the British and international new music scene, both for his immeasurable generosity as prolific composer for many different types of musicians, major advocate for the works of others, and performer and conductor who has also been a driving force behind ensembles; he was also President of the International Society for Contemporary Music from 1990 to 1996. His vast and enormously varied output confounds those who seek easy categorisations: once associated strongly with the 'new complexity', Finnissy is equally known as composer regularly engaged with many different folk musics, for working with amateur and community musicians, for a long-term engagement with sacred music, or as an advocate of Anglo-American 'experimental' music. Twenty years ago, a large-scale volume entitled Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy gave the first major overview of the output of any 'complex' composer. This new volume brings a greater plurality of perspectives and critical sensibility to bear upon an output which is almost twice as large as it was when the earlier book was published. A range of leading contributors - musicologists, composers, performers and others - each grapple with particular questions relating to Finnissy's music, often in ways which raise questions relating more widely to new music, and provide theoretical foundations for further of study both of Finnissy and other composers.

Piano Pedagogy - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover): Gilles Comeau Piano Pedagogy - A Research and Information Guide (Hardcover)
Gilles Comeau
R4,937 Discovery Miles 49 370 Ships in 12 - 19 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 Exam Pieces 2023 & 2024, ABRSM Grade 3 - Selected from the 2023 & 2024 syllabus (Sheet music): Abrsm Piano Exam Pieces 2023 & 2024, ABRSM Grade 3 - Selected from the 2023 & 2024 syllabus (Sheet music)
Abrsm
R334 Discovery Miles 3 340 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 3 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.A version of this book with audio download is also available.

Piano Scales & Arpeggios, ABRSM Grade 1 - from 2021 (Book): Abrsm Piano Scales & Arpeggios, ABRSM Grade 1 - from 2021 (Book)
Abrsm
R210 Discovery Miles 2 100 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book contains all the scales and arpeggios required for ABRSM's Grade 1 Piano exam. It covers all the new requirements from 2021.

Aspects of Early English Keyboard Music before c.1630 (Paperback): David Smith Aspects of Early English Keyboard Music before c.1630 (Paperback)
David Smith
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 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.

The Piano Player: British Classics (Sheet music): The Piano Player: British Classics (Sheet music)
R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Piano Player: British Classics presents 20 iconic pieces of British classical music, specially arranged for intermediate piano solo. The collection includes the theme from Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar and Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis alongside music by Rachel Portman, Benjamin Britten, Howard Goodall and more, as well as traditional classics from across the British Isles. All the books in The Piano Player series feature a collectible pull-out print of the stunning cover artwork by the 20th century British painter Edward Bawden, alongside some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist.

Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises - Book 2 - Piano Technique (Paperback): Virtuoso Pianist in 60 Exercises - Book 2 - Piano Technique (Paperback)
R211 R199 Discovery Miles 1 990 Save R12 (6%) 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.

Jesus Maria Sanroma - An American Twentieth-Century Pianist (Paperback): Alberto Hernandez Jesus Maria Sanroma - An American Twentieth-Century Pianist (Paperback)
Alberto Hernandez
R1,951 Discovery Miles 19 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Puerto Rican born Jesus Maria Sanroma (1902-1984) was one of the leading pianists in the United States. After graduating from the New England Conservatory, he embarked on an enviable concert career as official pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as well as soloist with other leading American orchestras. He was an accompanist, a recording artist, and a teacher, and he also stimulated and commissioned composers to write new music, fueled by his eagerness to present it to the general public. Jesus Maria Sanroma: An American Twentieth-Century Pianist is the first biography of this talented performer and one of the first books written about a native Puerto Rican classical musician. The book depicts many facets of Sanroma's life: his youth in Puerto Rico; his training at the Conservatory and abroad; his amazing concert career and collaboration with first-class musicians, conductors, and composers; his historical performances and recordings; and the zenith of his musical life when he returned home. Alberto Hernandez provides abundant information about Sanroma's life, career, and professional relationships, uniquely documenting the pianist's close association and collaboration with Paul Hindemith, Serge Koussevitzky, Walter Piston, Nicolas Slonimsky, Vladimir Dukelsky, Mrs. Edward MacDowell, Arthur Fiedler, William Primrose, and many others. Two appendixes offer the complete sound archives and a list of Sanroma's impressive orchestra repertory, making this book a valuable reference as well as an informative read for music lovers and students of American and Latin American history.

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