The Piano Works of Claude Debussy

Author: E. Robert Schmitz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486172759
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
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.

Selected works for piano: Waltz in A minor, op. posthumous ; Waltz in B minor, op. 69 no. 2 ; Mazurka in F major, op. 68 no. 3 ; Mazurka in A minor, op. 67 no. 4 ; Mazurka in G# minor, op. 33 no. 1 ; Polonaise in G minor, op. posthumous ; Prelude in E minor, op. 28 no. 4 ; Prelude in B minor, op. 28 no. 6 ; Prelude in A major, op. 28 no. 7 ; Prelude in C minor, op. 28 no. 20 ; Nocturne in C minor, op. posthumous

Author: Frédéric Chopin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849761997
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description

Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, and other works for piano

Author: Erik Satie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486259781
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
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.

Max Richter: Piano Works

Author: Max Richter
Publisher: Chester Music
ISBN: 1787590283
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 57

Book Description
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

Fauré, Selected Piano Works

Author: Gabriel Fauré
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1457421119
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
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.

Piano Pieces

Author: Russell Sherman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374525005
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
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.

Big Book of Beginner's Piano Classics

Author: Bergerac
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486466159
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
Eighty-three popular piano classics arranged for the beginning student are accompanied by a short history of each piece and advice on playing each arrangement.5NjBwBT

Beethoven -- An Introduction to His Piano Works

Author:
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN: 9780739022979
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
A fine assortment of Beethoven's works comprises this collection including bagatelles, dances and sonata forms. Dr. Palmer's introductory material emphasizes Beethoven's use of pedal, rubato, ornamentation and articulation with an especially fascinating look at legato in the composer's keyboard music.

Piano Works

Author: Paul Dukas
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486493695
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 146

Book Description
The composer's two-piano transcription of his famous symphony includes four additional works: Piano Sonata; Prélude élégiaque; Variations, interlude et final sur un théme de Rameau; and La plainte, au loin, du faune.

The Great Piano Works of Sergei Rachmaninoff

Author: Sergei Rachmaninoff
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457400216
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Titles include the famous '18th Variation on a Theme of Paganini,' along with selected transcriptions ('The Bumble-Bee,' 'Minuet' from L'Arlesienne Suite, and 'Liebeslied'). Etude-Tableau, Moment Musicals, Preludes, other individual pieces, and the complete 'Variations on a Theme of Chopin' round out this unique collection that is not available from any other publisher. This publication contains 29 pieces.