Piano Masters Series: The Contemporary Masters

Piano Masters Series: The Contemporary Masters
Author: Béla Bartók
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1996-09-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457460418

Titles: * Allegro (Bartók) * Bagatelle, Opus 6, No. 6 (Bartók) * Le Petite Berger (Debussy) * Le Petite Nègre (Debussy) * Prelude No. 2 (Gershwin) * Waltz, Opus 123, No. 6 (Gretchaninoff) * Playing Ball (Kabalevsky) * Toccatina, Opus 27, No. 6 (Kabalevsky) * The Bagpipes (Menotti) * Lullaby (Menotti) * The Manger (Menotti) * Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie) * The Mechanical Doll (Shostakovitch) * Vivo (Stravinsky)

Contemporary Piano Masters

Contemporary Piano Masters
Author: HAL LEONARD CORP.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781540047953

(Piano Solo Songbook). This exceptional collection draws upon workds from 20 of the world's greatest piano composers. It is suitable for the intermediate level pianist and offers engaging and inspiring pieces to elevate and expand their repertoire. Selections include: Ballade Pour Adeline (Richard Clayderman) * Dawn from Pride & Prejudice (Dario Marianelli) * Fly (Ludovico Einaudi) * Game of Thrones Theme (Ramin Djawadi) * Glasgow Theme from Love Actually (Craig Armstrong) * In the Morning Light (Yanni) * Opening (Philip Glass) * Penn Ar Roc'h (Yann Tiersen) * River Flows in You (Yiruma) * The Shape of Water Theme (Alexandre Desplat) * and more.

Contemporary Piano Masters: 40 Pieces from 20 of the World's Leading Piano Composers

Contemporary Piano Masters: 40 Pieces from 20 of the World's Leading Piano Composers
Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2019-07-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1540054748

(Piano Solo Songbook). This exceptional collection draws upon works from 20 of the world's greatest piano composers. It is suitable for the intermediate level pianist and offers engaging and inspiring pieces to elevate and expand their repertoire. Selections include: Ballade Pour Adeline (Richard Clayderman) * Dawn from Pride & Prejudice (Dario Marianelli) * Fly (Ludovico Einaudi) * Game of Thrones Theme (Ramin Djawadi) * Glasgow Theme from Love Actually (Craig Armstrong) * In the Morning Light (Yanni) * Opening (Philip Glass) * Penn Ar Roc'h (Yann Tiersen) * River Flows in You (Yiruma) * The Shape of Water Theme (Alexandre Desplat) * and more.

Classical Piano Masters - Upper Intermediate Level

Classical Piano Masters - Upper Intermediate Level
Author: Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher: Hal Leonard
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2020-02-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1540093611

(Piano). Some of the most often taught original piano literature by dozens of master composers of the past has been carefully selected and compiled by difficulty level. The Upper Intermediate edition features 13 pieces by 8 composers, including: Johannes Brahms: Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 39, No. 15 * Frederic Chopin: Nocturne in F minor, Op. 55, No. 1 * Frederic Chopin: Polonaise Militaire, Op. 40, No. 1 * Frederic Chopin: Waltz in D-flat Major "Minute," Op. 64, No. 1 * Frederic Chopin: Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2 * Scott Joplin: The Cascades * Franz Liszt: Liebestraum No. 3 * Felix Mendelssohn: Spring Song from Songs Without Words, Op. 62, No. 6 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 12 Variations on "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman," K.265 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo alla Turca from Sonata in A Major, K. 331 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2 * Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5 * Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: June (Barcarolle) from The Seasons .

Masterwork classics

Masterwork classics
Author: Jane Magrath
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1997
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780739006771

A progressive repertoire series designed to motivate students while allowing them to progress evenly and smoothly from the earliest classics toward intermediate literature. These pieces are from the standard classical literature, chosen to appeal both to teacher and student. Each volume comes with a corresponding CD. PIanist Kim O'Reilly Newman holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois. She has performed throughout North America and Europe with the Hambro Quartet of Pianos and was an editor and recording pianist for Alfred Music. Kim is a brain tumor survivor and now specializes in performing music for the left hand.

A Natural History of the Piano

A Natural History of the Piano
Author: Stuart Isacoff
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0307701425

A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. He illuminates the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, and Debussy. He analyzes the breathtaking techniques of Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Arthur Rubinstein, and Van Cliburn, and he gives musicians including Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Vladimir Horowitz the opportunity to discuss their approaches. Isacoff delineates how classical music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride, boogie, bebop, and beyond, through Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Charlap. A Natural History of the Piano distills a lifetime of research and passion into one brilliant narrative. We witness Mozart unveiling his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet; European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush; Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother who had lost her child; Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. Here is the instrument in all its complexity and beauty. We learn of the incredible craftsmanship of a modern Steinway, the peculiarity of specialty pianos built for the Victorian household, the continuing innovation in keyboards including electronic ones. And most of all, we hear the music of the masters, from centuries ago and in our own age, brilliantly evoked and as marvelous as its most recent performance. With this wide-ranging volume, Isacoff gives us a must-have for music lovers, pianists, and the armchair musician.

Contemporary Piano Literature, Book 1

Contemporary Piano Literature, Book 1
Author: Frances Clark
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 26
Release: 1999-11-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457400588

The Contemporary Piano Literature series includes a selection of music written for children by Bartók, Gretchaninov, Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Scott, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. In addition, the books contain pieces composed specifically for this series by Ross Lee Finney, David Kraehenbuehl, Douglas Moore, Elie Siegmeister, Alexandre Tansman and Alexander Tcherepnin. Short biographies and portraits help make composers come alive for the student. None of the music is so far in the vanguard that it is difficult to enjoy or understand.

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing

Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing
Author: Josef Lhévinne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1924
Genre: Piano
ISBN:

Great modern teacher and pianist's concise statement of principles, technique, and related material. Includes 10 musical examples.

Jazz Piano Masterclass: The Drop 2 Book

Jazz Piano Masterclass: The Drop 2 Book
Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457101408

The most comprehensive book ever written on how to create the 4-note, block-chord approach to jazz piano playing used by masters like McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Barry Harris, Cedar Walton, etc. In this book, world-renowned pianist and educator Mark Levine provides a step-by-step, beginning to advanced, masterclass on how to create, practice and extend this most useful appraoch to jazz chord voicings.