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(Educational Piano Library). Piano Fun Pop Hits for Adult Beginners
is a collection of lead sheets and arrangements for the beginning
pianist who has learned to read music and wants to play easy
arrangements of familiar melodies. The CD features beautifully
orchestrated accompaniments for every song and is playable on any
CD player. It is also MIDI-enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust
the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch. Songs: All
My Loving * Are You Lonesome Tonight? * Forrest Gump Main Title
(Feather Theme) * He's Got the Whole World in His Hands * Imagine *
Memory * Moon River * My Girl * Que Sera, Sera * The Sound of
Silence * Stand By Me * Welcome to My World * What a Wonderful
World. Pefect for RMM (recreational music making) programs
Teaching Notes offers invaluable guidance for teachers on the 81
pieces included in the graded books of Piano Exam Pieces 2023 &
2024, Initial Grade to Grade 8. For each piece, you will find
teaching ideas relating to three areas of learning - musical
context, technical challenges, and performance and interpretation -
in a clear and easy-to-use layout. Written by experienced piano
teachers and ABRSM examiners, Teaching Notes also includes advice
from ABRSM's Chief Examiner on selecting and interpreting pieces.
Alongside practical solutions to technical challenges, it's full of
creative ideas to support and inspire your teaching.
(Faber Piano Adventures ). Treat your pre-reading students to an
adventurous first Christmas book Young players will be delighted
with familiar carols such as "O Christmas Tree" as well as new
favorites including "Rudolph's Little Brother" and "I Love My Candy
Cane " The My First Piano Adventure "friends" make snowmen, ride a
big sleigh, and enjoy candy canes together. First players will
benefit from the clean presentation of pre-reading notation and
festive teacher duets. The Christmas Music Calendar encourages
students to count down the days until Christmas Songs include: Away
in a Manger * Good King Wenceslas * I Love My Candy Cane * Jingle
Bells * Little Snowmen * Christmas Tree * Rudolph's Little Brother
* Up on the Housetop.
for SATB and organ This setting of Psalm 139 by Chilcott is warm
and mesmerizing. The chant-like texture and shifting tonalities
impart the sensation of being entranced in prayer. The words offer
respite, as one is safe in the omnipresence of God. Tranquil yet
powerful, this work captures a sense of the total stillness after a
storm. The sustained chords in the organ swell and fall, binding
and supporting the choir's phrases while adding to the magical
atmosphere of the anthem.
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.
With a total of 8 million records sold, piano sensation Jim
Brickman continues with a volume of songs of faith and inspiration.
This collection contains 22 selections, featuring songs from the
album Faith (in print for the first time) plus 9 other
inspirational tunes.
This book presents figured harmony as a form of aural training. It
seeks to make the student more keenly aware of chord-relationships
as actual sound. It will increase the student's power to form an
inward realization of what a page of music is going to sound like
without having actually heard it.
This comprehensive study of the piano music of award-winning
American composer Samuel Adler will interest pianists, teachers,
and anyone interested in the musical art of our day. American
composer Samuel Adler has composed a huge and multi-faceted body of
works ranging from symphonies, concertos, and oratorios to solos
for every standard Western instrument, to a rich trove of vocal and
choral music, to pieces for students. Among them, encompassing his
compositional life of some seventy years, is an array of works for
the piano: three concertos; fifteen solo pieces and sets of pieces;
a sonata for two pianos; and four volumes of music for beginning
and intermediate players. Bradford Gowen writes about each of these
works with the knowledge of one who has studied, performed, and
recorded Adler's piano music and has previously written about it.
He begins with an overview of stylistic and pianistic traits found
throughout these pieces and then examines each work chronologically
according to genre, in a two-part format. The first part is an
essay on the work's style, emotional content, and unique features,
which at the same time places the work in the context of other
music by Adler and by additional composers from the present and
past eras. The second part, informal and practical, is directed to
a pianist interested in getting to know this music. As a "lesson"
on the piece, it offers specific suggestions for practicing and
interpretation and many solutions to technical challenges. Rounding
out the book are an in-depth interview with the composer plus six
invaluable appendices.
This is a major collection of organ music for students, players,
and church musicians of all levels and abilities. Compiler and
editor Anne Marsden Thomas has drawn on her long experience of
teaching and playing to select the most attractive, tuneful
repertoire in two sets of graded anthologies, one set (3 volumes)
for manuals only, the second set (3 volumes) for manuals and
pedals. Within each book the pieces are grouped according to
service needs into Preludes, Interludes, Processionals, and
Postludes. The repertoire spans the 16th to the 21st century, with
some new pieces written especially for the collection. A number of
pieces throughout the collection have been selected for the ABRSM
organ syllabus. The result is a wonderful collection of repertoire
for all players, containing a wealth of attractive and varied
pieces that will offer much practical support for church musicians
and enrich and develop their playing.
(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!
Performance is a forum for social action, embodied interaction and
shared authority. Recently, as the various acts and agencies
surrounding a performance have become the target of scholarly
interest, the complex split between theory and practice has been
challenged, as has the idea of a singular, disembodied authorial
ownership of the socio-material meanings surrounding performance.
The Embodiment of Authority approaches performance, issues of
authority and negotiated knowledge production through
multi-material research data and interdisciplinary methods. The
book discusses the relationship between authorial questions and
performances via the following topics: shared authorities,
ontologies of art work, diverse roles of rehearsals in the
performance process, and embodied knowledge.
(Piano). Includes: Piano Concerto No. 1 * Piano Concerto No. 2 *
and Piano Concerto No. 3.
Jazz on a Winter's Night is a Christmas piano album of stylish,
swinging arrangements. Favourite Christmas carols and songs receive
the complete jazz treatment, with rhythm, harmony, grooves, and
solos all carefully notated. The expertise of the arranger, a
celebrated jazz pianist and composer, guarantees an authentic jazz
sound, and a range of styles from Nat King Cole to John Coltrane.
While paying homage to American Christmas jazz, the collection also
reflects a European tradition, in such time-honoured classics as
'In the bleak mid-winter'.
Piano Star is an exciting series for young pianists, offering a
rich selection of new repertoire to help players build confidence
and musical skills. Piano Star 1 is suitable for learners who have
worked through a first tutor and includes compositions by David
Blackwell, Jane Sebba, Nancy Litten, Mike Cornick, Sarah Watts,
Edmund Jolliffe, Andrew Eales, Kathy Blackwell, Aisling Greally,
Alan Bullard, Alasdair Spratt, and Karen Marshall. Key features of
the series: - Solo pieces, plus a number of duets - A rich mix of
musical styles, with techniques introduced progressively - Fun
extension activities - Beautifully illustrated
(Music Sales America). A collection of music arranged for solo
piano, including "Metamorphoses One to Five" collected together for
the first time. Suitable for intermediate to advanced pianists.
Pianoworks Book 2 is the second tutor book in the successful
Pianoworks series, written especially for the older beginner. Like
its predecessor, the book focuses on the traditional concept of
learning to play from music but also includes hints on
improvisation and playing by ear. New techniques are introduced at
a steady pace, and there are useful examples and exercises at every
stage. You'll find attractive and accessible pieces in a huge range
of styles, including well-known Classical works, traditional
melodies, carols, jazz, and new pieces by the authors, and there
are tips on performance and interpretation along the way. The CD
includes performances of all the pieces, accompaniments to play
along with, demonstrations, and additional aural and improvisation
exercises.
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