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The New International Edition of Suzuki Piano School, Volume 1
includes French, German and Spanish translations 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. While the music selections in Volume 1 remain the same
as the earlier edition, the spacious new engraving with minimal
editing generally keeps only one piece per page. Instruction
material in many pieces from Volume 1 has been removed in lieu of
right-hand studies at the top of the page and left-hand studies at
the bottom. Tempo markings are now included on many pieces.
Titles: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" Variations (Shinichi
Suzuki) * Lightly Row (German Folk Song) * The Honeybee (Bohemian
Folk Song) * Cuckoo (German Folk Song) * Lightly Row (German Folk
Song) * French Children's Song (French Folk Song) * London Bridge
(English Folk Song) * Mary Had a Little Lamb (American Nursery
Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * Au Clair de la Lune (J. B.
Lully) * Long, Long Ago (T. H. Bayly) * Little Playmates (F. X.
Chwatal) * Chant Arabe (Anonymous) * Allegretto 1 (C. Czerny) *
Goodbye to Winter (Folk Song) * Allegretto 2 (C. Czerny) *
Christmas-Day Secrets (T. Dutton) * Allegro (S. Suzuki) * Musette
(Anonymous).
The soundtrack to Nintendo's Wii is for advanced intermediate to
advanced pianists.
In the course of the nineteenth century, four-hand piano playing
emerged across Europe as a popular pastime of the well-heeled
classes and of those looking to join them. Nary a canonic work of
classical music that was not set for piano duo, nary a house that
could afford not to invest in them. Duets echoed from the student
bedsit to the Buckingham Palace, resounded in schools and in
hundreds of thousands of bourgeois parlors. Like no other musical
phenomenon it could cross national, social and economic boundaries,
bringing together poor students with the daughters of the
bourgeoisie, crowned heads with penniless virtuosi, and the
nineteenth century often regarded it with extreme suspicion for
that very reason. Four-hand piano playing was often understood as a
socially acceptable way of flirting, a flurry of hands that made
touching, often of men and women, not just acceptable but
necessary. But it also became something far more serious than that,
a central institution of the home, mediating between inside and
outside, family and society, labor and leisure, nature and nurture.
And writers, composers, musicians, philosophers, journalists,
pamphleteers and painters took note: in the art, literature and
philosophy of the age, four-hand playing emerged as a common motif,
something that allowed them to interrogate the very nature of the
self, the family, the community and the state. In the four hands
rushing up and down the same keyboard the nineteenth century
espied, or thought espy, an astonishing array of things.
Four-Handed Monsters tells the story of that practice, but also the
story of the astonishing array of things the nineteenth century
read into it.
A faster-paced, combined version of Levels 2 and 3. Perfect for
students who are progressing rapidly through the Complete Level 1
Lesson Book and who wish to continue at the same accelerated pace.
Sound Innovations for Concert Band is a revolutionary new method
that combines time-tested educational concepts, input from
thousands of teachers, and advances in modern technology. Using
solid pedagogy that follows state and national music education
standards, the methods can be customized by teachers to use their
own experiences in creating the best approach for their unique
classroom. Sound Innovations is available in two versions: Standard
Edition and the custom Director's Choice Edition. Visit
www.alfred.com/soundinnovations for more information. This title is
available in SmartMusic.
Put together for the first time in one book, the artist approved
Radiohead: The Acoustic Guitar Songbook contains over 20 of the
greatest guitar songs from Radiohead. Spanning their entire career
to date, each song is transcribed for acoustic guitar in standard
notation and tab, with melody line and chord boxes.
Originally published in 1921, this book was written in an attempt
to, 'give the serious teacher and student the practical benefit of
the knowledge acquired during a lifetime's playing the violin,
including mechanical means and technical procedure as well as the
ideas and ideals of art'. Many of the earliest books, particularly
those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce
and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these
classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using
the original text and artwork. Contents Include: How I Studied the
Violin - How to Hold the Violin - How to Practise - Tone Production
- Hints on Bowing - Left hand Technique - Double Stops The Trill -
Ornaments - Harmonics - Nuance, The Soul of Interpretation - Style
- The Nerves and Violin Playing - The Violin Repertory of Yesterday
and To-Day - Practical Repertory Hints
Choice Magazine (a major library review magazine): "After an
introductory section on the history of the piano, particularly as
reflected in and influenced by works of the major composers for the
instrument, this interesting and informative book describes various
compositional "schools," from Austro-German, French, and Italian
through English, American, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, and others.
This section constitutes a brief course in music history beginning
with the Renaissance. ... The body of the work consists of
historical and stylistic sketches of 17 composers, with brief
remarks about several works of each, and lists of selected works,
ending with a complete work or movement. These sketches are
exceptionally well written, assuming an intelligent reader, and
convey a great deal of information concisely.... this book contains
much well-organized and useful material. For libraries serving
serious amateur pianists, high school upward. ******************
Booklist (The book review magazine of the American Library
Association): This authoritative volume will make a solid addition
to the public library music collection. After offering a brief
opening chapter on the evolution of the piano as instrument and the
changing styles of technique, author Pat Hammond provides
opinionated but well-reasoned analyses of the works of the major
piano composers, with focus on the Baroque era (Bach and Handel),
the Classical age (Haydn, Mozart Beethoven), Romanticism (Schubert,
Chopin Liszt, and others), Impressionism (Debussy) and Modernism
(Bartok). This book's unique feature is its inclusion of musical
examples of each composer's work, which are meant to be played as
one reads along. Pertinent biographical material is also featured
for the great masters. Appendixes include a suggested
twentieth-century piano repertoire and a bibliography. Piano music
- Bibliography ******************* Clavier Magazine "Compiled and
annotated by Patricia Fallows-Hammond. Suitable as a reference
source, this handbook supplies concise biographical and stylistic
sketches of composers and annotation of selected compositions. ...
Fallows-Hammond has a knack for setting and maintaining an
appropriate level of sophistication. Writing in a crisp, direct
style, she steers the student toward complicated subjects and gives
them a palpable hold on them. To explain the concept of the
concerto grosso, for example, she explains that, "In Handel's time,
Concerto Crosso meant a small group of instruments playing in
contrast to a larger body of strings." Her synopsis of the
development of sonata form is equally apt....Commentary on the
composers is well-researched and written at a uniform level of
detail that will make it useful to a wide
audience....Fallows-Hammond does a good job of compiling accurate
information on the composers she has chosen. If the contents of the
book serve your purposes, you will find this handbook a handy
reference source. " **************** The American Organist "The
author has created a self-instruction course which gives
information about the evolution of the piano and changing styles in
piano technique, and then discusses topics with emphasis on special
composers: ..... Piano students seeking background information will
profit from this book. Recommended for public libraries."
******************** Keyboard Magazine "Patricia Fallow-Hammond's
302 page study embraces the proposition that historical context is
an important, and frequently neglected, element in building an
understanding of classical repertoire. .... she has assembled a
fairly basic catalogue of keyboard works, arranged chronologically
by composer, and preceded each list with a short biography relating
milestones from each composer's life. ....... Her decision to
further enlighten the reader with short samples of their handiwork
is a happy extra addition. Her efficiency at summarizing and
packaging that line is what makes her debut in print a success."
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