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(Faber Piano Adventures ). This inventive sightreading course uses
sets of exercises based on melodic and rhythmic patterns from the
2nd Edition Primer Lesson Book. Students play one exercise a day,
completing one set per week. Entertaining musical art helps guide
the sightreading process and each page presents a new learning
vignette in a spirit of fun.
Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists brings together
information from biomechanics, ergonomics, physics, anatomy,
medicine, and piano pedagogy to focus on the subject of
small-handedness. The first comprehensive study of its kind, the
book opens with an overview of historical, anatomical, and
pedagogical perspectives and redresses long-held biases concerning
those who struggle at the piano because of issues with hand size. A
discussion of work efficiency, the human anatomy, and the
constraints of physics serves as the theoretical basis for a
focused analysis of healthy movement and piano technique as they
relate to small-handedness. Separate chapters deal with specific
alternative approaches: redistribution, refingering, strategies to
maximize reach and power, and musical solutions for technical
problems. Richly illustrated with hundreds of examples from a wide
range of piano repertoire, the book is an incomparable resource for
piano teachers and students, written in language that is accessible
to a broad audience. It balances scholastic rigor with practical
experience in the field to demonstrate that the unique physical and
musical needs of the small-handed can be addressed in sensitive and
appropriate ways.
This comprehensive book and CD package will teach you the basic
skills you need to play smooth jazz piano. From comping to soloing,
you'll learn the theory, the tools, and the tricks used by the
pros. The accompanying CD features many of the examples in the book
performed either solo or with a full band. Specifically, you'll
learn: scales and chords, harmony and voicings, progressions and
comping, rhythmic concepts, melodies and soloing, characteristic
stylings, the history of jazz, and more. THE HAL LEONARD KEYBOARD
STYLE SERIES provides focused lessons that contain valuable how-to
insight, essential playing tips, and beneficial information for all
players. Comprehensive treatment is given to each subject, complete
with a companion CD.
(Five Finger Piano Songbook). 8 Disney greats arranged for
beginning piano players: Be Our Guest * Can You Feel the Love
Tonight * If I Didn't Have You * Kiss the Girl * My Funny Friend
and Me * Two Worlds * A Whole New World * Written in the Stars.
(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.
A fascinating celebration of the piano, including tales of its
masters from Mozart and Beethoven to Oscar Peterson and Jerry Lee
Lewis, told with the expertise of composer and author of
"Temperament," Stuart Isacoff.
This history takes us back to the piano's humble genesis as a
simple keyboard, and shows how everyone from Ferdinando de' Medici
to Herbie Hancock affected its evolution of sound and influence in
popular music. Presenting the instrument that has been at the core
of musical development over the centuries in all its beauty and
complexity, this explores the piano's capabilities and the range of
emotional expression it conveys in different artists' hands. "A
Natural History of the Piano" is fast-paced and intriguing, with
beautiful illustrations and photos, a must-read for music lovers
and pianists of every level.
This full size book, CD & DVD pack is an easy to follow Piano
method for the complete beginner. Covers note reading, music
fundamentals, finger technique and playing chords with the left
hand. Includes many well known songs in a variety of styles.
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.
Peaceful Piano Playlist presents a collection of 35 piano solos for
the intermediate pianist. Inspired by the popular peaceful piano
playlists available on streaming services, it features original
pieces by Ludovico Einaudi, Agnes Obel, Max Richter, Ryuichi
Sakamoto, Joep Beving, Poppy Ackroyd, Alexis Ffrench, Keaton
Henson, Alexandre Desplat, and many more.
A treasury of pieces for easy piano that have captured the
imagination of music lovers. Includes: Clair de Lune * Country
Gardens * Melody in F * Pachelbel's Canon * Albeniz's Tango * and
much more. Spiral bound.
Focusing on styles such as classic ragtime, early blues &
boogie woogie, New Orleans jazz, stride and swing, this new book/CD
pack in the Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series teaches left- and
right-hand techniques including chords, bass runs, patterns and
more. Key players of these styles - Scott Joplin, Jimmy Yancey,
Pete Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Fats Waller,
Teddy Wilson and Art Tatum - are prominently referenced. Includes
14 full songs to play, and an accompanying CD!
Nikki Iles & Friends Book 1 is a collection of 16 original
compositions and new arrangements for piano written by Nikki Iles
and her friends from the world of jazz. Expertly curated and
commissioned by Nikki Iles, this book contains piano pieces at the
levels of Grades 4 to 6 written by some of the best-known figures
on the jazz scene. Also including a CD with recordings of every
piece, this book provides a wealth of new and original jazz piano
music for those seeking to explore accessible jazz repertoire,
building a recital or a programme for ABRSM Performance Grades, or
simply playing for pleasure.
Nikki Iles & Friends Book 2 is a collection of 13 original
compositions and new arrangements for piano written by Nikki Iles
and her friends from the world of jazz. Expertly curated and
commissioned by Nikki Iles, this book contains piano pieces at the
levels of Grades 6 to 8 written by some of the best-known figures
on the jazz scene. Also including a CD with recordings of every
piece, this book provides a wealth of new and original jazz piano
music for those seeking to explore accessible jazz repertoire,
building a recital or a programme for ABRSM Performance Grades, or
simply playing for pleasure. Contents: Fly Me to the Moon (arr.
Nikki Iles) Tilt that Woolly Hat (Julian Joseph) Abide with Me
(arr. Pete Churchill) Shenandoah (arr. Nikki Iles) Lakeshore Drive
(Andrea Vicari) Eco Warrior (Tim Garland) Yewfield (based on
Clapperclowe) (arr. Nikki Iles) Time Will Tell (Kate Williams)
Lower East Side (Nikki Iles) Kickin' Off (Jason Rebello) A
Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (arr. Nikki Iles) Go with the
Flow (Zoe Rahman) On a Mission (Gwilym Simcock)
'Beguiling ... Limpidly written, effortlessly learned' William
Boyd, TLS, Books of the Year In November 1838 Frederic Chopin,
George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the
Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at
Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished
what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and
revolutionary works of musical Romanticism - his 24 Preludes. There
was scarcely a decent piano on the island (these were still early
days in the evolution of the modern instrument), so Chopin worked
on a small pianino made by a local craftsman, which remained in
their monastic cell for seventy years after he and Sand had left.
This brilliant and unclassifiable book traces the history of
Chopin's 24 Preludes through the instruments on which they were
played, the pianists who interpreted them and the traditions they
came to represent. Yet it begins and ends with the Majorcan
pianino, which during the Second World War assumed an astonishing
cultural potency as it became, for the Nazis, a symbol of the man
and music they were determined to appropriate as their own. The
unexpected hero of the second part of the book is the great
keyboard player and musical thinker Wanda Landowska, who rescued
the pianino from Valldemossa in 1913, and who would later become
one of the most influential musical figures of the twentieth
century. Kildea shows how her story - a compelling account based
for the first time on her private papers - resonates with Chopin's,
while simultaneously distilling part of the cultural and political
history of Europe and the United States in the central decades of
the century. Kildea's beautifully interwoven narratives, part
cultural history and part detective story, take us on an unexpected
journey through musical Romanticism and allow us to reflect freshly
on the changing meaning of music over time.
(Piano Solo Personality). 18 Fab Four favorites masterfully
arranged for solo piano by Phillip Keveren: All You Need Is Love *
And I Love Her * A Day in the Life * The Fool on the Hill * Here
Comes the Sun * Here, There and Everywhere * Hey Jude * I Will * In
My Life * Julia * Let It Be * Michelle * Norwegian Wood * Penny
Lane * She's Leaving Home * Something * With a Little Help from My
Friends * Yesterday.
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