This Companion is an essential guide to all aspects of the organ and its music. The early chapters examine the instrument's history and construction, and consider the scientific basis of its sounds, pitch and tuning. Central chapters investigate the practical art of learning and playing, and introduce the complex area of performance practice, while the final section explores the vast repertoire of organ music, by country, focusing on a selection of the most important traditions. The contributors are all experts in their field, making this the most authoritative reference book currently available.

Chopin's four ballades are widely regarded as being among the most significant extended works for solo piano of the nineteenth century. In an illuminating discussion, Jim Samson combines history and analysis to provide a comprehensive picture of these popular piano works, investigating the social and musical background to Chopin's music, evaluating the many printed editions of the ballads before considering their critical reception and the differing interpretations of well-known nineteenth- and twentieth-century pianists.

It's never too late to play blues, rags & boogies is the latest addition to the best-selling piano tutor series, It's Never Too Late... by Pam Wedgwood. Through favourite repertoire in easy-to-play arrangements, classic tunes and great new pieces in blues, ragtime and boogie styles, this book helps pianists learn and explore all the different skills and techniques needed to play. Pam Wedgwood is one of the UK's favourite composers of popular piano music and creator of Jazzin' About, After Hours and Up-Grade. The ground-breaking It's never too late... Series gives adults the opportunity to learn the piano with a method devised especially for them. This best-selling tutor breaks the learning into manageable chunks, features online audio, and is packed with irresistible music and fascinating information - all the motivation needed to make learning fun!

This course has been designed to guide you gently into playing simple tunes from day one. Items of musical history and biography, an easy-to-follow introduction to the theory of music is covered plus a free dummy keyboard for silent practice and theory work.

The Rock 'n' Roll Piano Songbook comprises rock around the clock classic hits from Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis and more. All songs are accurately transcribed from the original recordings for piano and voice with guitar chord boxes. **Contains recommended songs for Trinity Rock & Pop Exams. See songlist below.

The five volumes of Keyboards Together provide a wealth of enjoyable repertoire for keyboard players. Containing arrangements and original pieces in two, three and four parts, they are perfect for classroom use as well as for smaller groups. All pieces selected for ABRSM's Music Medals.

"In this book, Barbara Owen has created a rich resource of historical information coupled with strategies for interpreting that information on today's instruments." Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society

..". Barbara Owen has succeeded admirably in distilling three centuries of organ registration practice into a volume less than three hundred pages long.... Anyone with an interest in the history of the organ and its music... will not want to ignore this book." Sixteenth Century Journal

"It is rare to find a book that combines such careful scholarship with a practical focus that makes it accessible to performing musicians as well as research specialists." Notes

"An excellent volume from historical, musical style and interpretive standpoints. Highly recommended for all large academic and professional music collections." Choice

..". recommend this book to all serious organists." The American Organist Magazine

Barbara Owen has prepared the first work to present in a single book the registrational practices of organists from c.1550 to 1800. The four parts of the book move from the Renaissance through the Early, High, and Late Baroque. Each part starts with a brief description of the political and religious climate of the period and the way such factors affected the compositions and the organ-building of the time."

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices traces the meteoric rise and heretofore inexplicable disappearance of the Russian-American, futurist-anarchist, pianist-composer from his arrival in the United States in 1906 through a career that lasted nearly a century. Outliving his admirers and critics by decades Leo Ornstein passed away in 2002 at the age of 108. Frequently compared to Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, for a time Ornstein enjoyed a kind a celebrity granted few living musicians. And then he turned his back on it all. This first, full-length biographical study draws upon interviews, journals, and letters from a wide circle of Ornstein's friends and acquaintances to track the Ornstein family as it escaped the horrors of the Russian pogroms, and it situates the Russian-Jewish-American musician as he carved out an identity amidst World War I, the flu pandemic, and the Red Scare. While telling Leo Ornstein's story, the book also illuminates the stories of thousands of immigrants with similar harrowing experiences. It also explores the immeasurable impact of his unexpected marriage in 1918 to Pauline Mallet-Prevost, a Park Avenue debutante.

Leo Ornstein: Modernist Dilemmas, Personal Choices finds Ornstein at the center of several networks that included artists John Marin, William Zorach, Leon Kroll, writers and activists Paul Rosenfeld, Waldo Frank, Edmund Wilson, and Clair Reis, the Stieglitz Circle, and a group of English composers known as the Frankfurt Five. Ornstein's story challenges directly the traditional chronology and narrative regarding musical modernism in America and its close relation to the other arts.

A great collection of more than 60 classic ragtime solos, including: American Beauty Rag * Bethena * The Easy Winners * The Entertainer * Harlem Rag * Kitten on the Keys * Maple Leaf Rag * Something Doing * Tiger Rag * Twelth Street Rag * Wild Cherries Rag * and more.

Up-Grade! Pop Piano Grades 3-4 is part of Pam Wedgwood's hugely successful Up-Grade! Series, allowing pianists of all ages repertoire to bridge the gap between grades. Up-Grade! Pop offer's Pam's own take on songs such as Summer Nights, A Whole New World, and ABBA's Mamma Mia, as well as her own specially composed pieces. Guaranteed to breathe new life into your piano playing, the varied pieces in this collection are demonstrated on the online audio and are designed to ease you gently on to the next grade.

Improve your sight-reading! Piano Grade 8 (Advanced) 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.

The Jazz Piano Player: Stormy Weather contains 15 classic jazz standards in an ingenious new format for jazz pianists, arranged by John Kember. Each piece is presented in two formats: the first version includes melody, lyrics and basic chord structure, ideal for improvisation; the second version is a superb arrangement for piano solo, for intermediate level pianists. All the songs are helpfully included in their standard keys so pianists will be able to play with other jazz musicians, and there also a quick guide on piano jazz chords for added tutorial assistance. The free CD included features full performances of all the arrangements by pianist John Kember for an enhanced learning mobility. The Jazz Piano Player Series is designed for those wanting to make the transition into jazz or pop piano playing. An essential new resource for all jazz pianists - a great way in for players wanting to make a transition into jazz, as well as for pianists wanting to develop their own style.

The Jazz Piano Songbook features twenty of the best jazz songs arranged for piano, voice and guitar, accurately transcribed to reflect the performances of leading jazz singers, from the traditional, such as Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald to contemporary, such as Diana Krall and Jamie Cullum. Songs include Everytime We Say Goodbye, Fly Me To The Moon, I Get A Kick Out Of You and My Funny Valentine.

Up-Grade! Jazz Piano Grades 3-4 is a fun addition to Pam Wedgwood's popular Up-Grade! Series, featuring well-loved jazz hits in cool new arrangements. Featuring hip classics such as Fly Me To The Moon, My Baby Just Cares For Me and It Don't Mean A Thing, alongside jazzy numbers by the inimitable Pam Wedgwood. Guaranteed to breathe new life into your piano playing, the varied pieces in this collection are designed to ease you gently on to the next grade. There are several other spin-offs to the Up-Grade! Series for piano, including pop and Christmas.

This text contains the music and lyrics of ABBA's pure gold hits, all arranged for piano, voice and guitar. Songs include 'Mamma Mia', 'Waterloo', 'Thank You For The Music', 'Dancing Queen' and more.

Of all the major singers of the late 20th century, Nina Simone was one of the hardest to label. She recorded extensively in the soul, jazz, and pop and was also comfortable with blues, gospel, and Broadway. She has subsequently been labelled as a 'soul' singer in terms of emotion, rather than form. Her repertoire included jazz standards, gospel and spirituals, classical music, folk songs of diverse origin, blues, pop, songs from musicals andopera, African chants, as well as her own compositions. Nina Simone: Piano Songbook Volume 2 includes a variety of her classic songs including I Get Along Without You Very Well and Strange Fruit, authentically transcribed for piano, voice and guitar.

Entirely devoted to the best-known compositions of the great composers, this book will be a permanent part of any pianist's library. There are works by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, and many others. Each composer is introduced in a short biography.