Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, and other works for piano

Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, and other works for piano
Author: Erik Satie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 179
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486259781

The affordable volume represents the largest collection of Satie piano works available. Includes 17 pieces in all by the French composer and pianist, including his most famous piece, Gymnopédies, as well as Sarabandes, Poudre d'or, En habit de cheval, and Morceaux en forme de poire. Painstakingly reprinted from the original French editions.

The Piano Works of Claude Debussy

The Piano Works of Claude Debussy
Author: E. Robert Schmitz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486172759

Part biography, part criticism, and part analysis, this fascinating study of one of music's greatest geniuses is above all an authoritative commentary on the entire corpus of Debussy's work for solo piano. Includes 21 illustrations.

Fauré, Selected Piano Works

Fauré, Selected Piano Works
Author: Gabriel Fauré
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2006-11-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1457421119

French composer, teacher and pianist Gabriel Fauré is remembered for the beauty and elegance of his music as well as for his harmonic and melodic innovations. This critical edition addresses sources, discrepancies and performance issues (tempi, pedaling, fingering, style, interpretation and technique). The preface also includes historical, cultural, and social background.

Beethoven masterpieces for solo piano

Beethoven masterpieces for solo piano
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486435709

This collection features 25 popular pieces, including the Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 ("Moonlight"); Sonata in D Minor, Op. 31, No. 2 ("Tempest"); 32 Variations in C Minor; more.

Piano Pieces

Piano Pieces
Author: Russell Sherman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1997-06-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0374525005

Russell Sherman has been hailed as "that rarest of performers--a thinking man's virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune), and Piano Pieces is his scintillating excursion into the world of piano and its multiple spheres of affect and influence. From pithy reflections on tone, technique, and the thorny matter of thumbs to ruminations on how such a machine could be the voice and repository of priceless human messages both lyrical and complex, Piano Pieces examines the current status of music, piano-playing, and pedagogy through the noisy filter of contemporary culture.

Max Richter: Piano Works

Max Richter: Piano Works
Author: Max Richter
Publisher: Chester Music
Total Pages: 57
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1787590283

Max Richter: Piano Works presents, for the first time in print, 15 of Max Richter’s piano pieces, suitable for the intermediate pianist. Each piece is accompanied by notes specially written by the composer. This ground-breaking collection represents a unique drawing together of Max Richter’s varied output, embracing his work with the London Philharmonic (Memoryhouse), The Blue Notebooks, Royal Ballet-commissioned Infra and subsequent his acclaimed concept albums. Innovative and imaginative, yet at the same time accessible and easy to play, some of Max Richter's most famous Piano Works are at last available in what will surely become an instant classic collection. This volume includes: - Andras - The Blue Notebooks - Circles from the rue Simon-Crubellier - Departure - The Family - Fragment - From the rue Villin - H in New England - Horizon Variations - INFRA 3 - Leo's Journal - The Tartu Piano - The Twins (Prague) - Vladimir's Blues - Written On The Sky

An Introduction to His Piano Works

An Introduction to His Piano Works
Author: Béla Bartók
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 68
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457412189

This volume contains 31 pieces from The First Term at the Piano, For Children, 10 Easy Pieces and 7 Sketches. The informative foreword includes Bartók's specific instructions on wrist and finer action, articulations and syncopation. Each piece is prefaced by a brief introduction.

Selected Favorites for the Piano

Selected Favorites for the Piano
Author: Frédéric Chopin
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 116
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457442797

This valuable collection contains a wide variety of Chopin's compositions. Included are the most familiar mazurkas, preludes, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, etudes and the "Fantaisie-Impromptu." Extensive introductory materials detail biographical information and performance suggestions. Editorial suggestions in the music are in light gray print and fingering has been added. An excellent choice for advancing pianists.

Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant

Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant
Author: Jack Prelutsky
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2006-09-26
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0060543175

What do you get when you cross . . . A toaster with a toad? A tuba with a baboon? A clock with an octopus? A hat with a chicken? An umbrella with an elephant? Why . . . A Pop-up Toadster A Tubaboon The Clocktopus A Hatchicken and . . . The Bold Umbrellaphant And what do you get when you cross this book with a kid? Why . . . The Happy Kibook!