Modeled after the popular standard Hanon technique, here are authentic progressive exercises and etudes to enable the contemporary piano student to master the art of playing in the boogie-woogie style.
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Inspired by Charles-Louis Hanon's The Virtuoso Pianist - the essential technical method for any classical player - these new volumes present a modern-day equivalent for the musician seeking to play the key piano styles of the 20th century. Each book develops basic technique and true facility in each genre through authentic, progressive exercises and etudes. The music in these books is fun to play for pianists at every level, building the necessary skills in each style while providing extensive mu...
Scale, chord, arpeggio and cadence studies in all major and minor keys presented in a convenient two-page format. Includes an in-depth 12 page explanation that leads to complete understanding of the fundamentals of major and minor scales, chords, arpeggios and cadences plus a clear explanation of scale degrees and a two-page guide to fingering the scales and arpeggios. In addition, several "enrichment options" are provided with exercises such as harmonizing scales, accelerating scales expanding s...
Accomodates the learning pace of younger students such as those in Alfred's Basic, Level 2. The scales are presented on one page, with one line of scales in parallel motion, one line in contrary motion, one line of cadences and one line of arpeggios. Includes all the major, harmonic minor and chromatic scales in a special one page per key format. These excellent all-inclusive books teach scales, chords, arpeggios, and cadences at three different levels. The FIRST book (#11761) accommodates the l...
A student practice guide that accompanies the Masterwork Classics. Invaluable notes on technique, style and listening activities for every piece in the Masterwork Classics books, plus teacher's notes and short lesson guides for each piece.
Category: Piano Classical/General Collections Item: 102506 Grade: Price: $11.95 Availability: Ships in 6 to 9 Days
A student practice guide that accompanies the Masterwork Classics. Invaluable notes on technique, style and listening activities for every piece in the Masterwork Classics books, plus teacher's notes and short lesson guides for each piece.
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A student practice guide that accompanies the Masterwork Classics. Invaluable notes on technique, style and listening activities for every piece in the Masterwork Classics books, plus teacher's notes and short lesson guides for each piece.
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A student practice guide that accompanies the Masterwork Classics. Invaluable notes on technique, style and listening activities for every piece in the Masterwork Classics books, plus teacher's notes and short lesson guides for each piece.
Category: Piano Classical/General Collections Item: 102509 Grade: Price: $6.95 Availability: Usually Ships in 24 Hours
Over 600 chords and voicings for all 12 keys! Alfred's Mini Music Guides provide essential information in a convenient size. Take these books anywhere you want to go. With 600 unique chords and chord voicings for all 12 keys, Piano Chord Dictionary is the most useful compact piano chord dictionary available. Features * Easy-to-follow reference guide for all pianists and keyboard players * Clear diagrams, fingerings, and note names for all chords * Music theory review on chord construction, invers...
Charles-Valentin Alkan's cycle of variations Le Festin d'sope derives from his monumental series of etudes op. 39, the 12 tudes dans tous les Tons Mineurs, and forms the culmination of that work. Now G. Henle Publishers presents, for the first time in an Urtext edition, what is by far the most well-known piano composition by this French pianist and composer notorious for the extreme virtuosity of his works. Because no autograph manuscripts survive, the first edition from 1857 is the sole source...
Inspired by the work, life, and times of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beat Generation." Cast in seven entertaining movements, this significant composition is hugely influenced by jazz. In the preface to the score the composer writes: "Kerouac demonstrated the epic contradiction of America: on the one hand its wild energy, joy of life, and expansiveness; on the other, its tendency to self-destruct. Tribute to Kerouac is my musical response to, and commemoration of, this important American writer who...
Composer Martin Amlin is also an outstanding pianist, and his pianistic writing shows idiomatic flair and flash honed into remarkable form and expression. Piano Sonata No. 6 has no barlines or movement divisions. Opening with the tempo marking "Bold," the sonata wears its formal mantle as hard as granite, yet interwoven with tenderness, and with expressive lyricism in relief to an unmetered flow not unlike what Ives described as "prose" within his own musical poetry. Andrew Willis has recorded th...
Commissioned by Piano & Keyboard magazine, Amlin's Eight Variations is a charming 5-minute piece designed to be within reach of intermediate pianists. The work begins with a fascinating chorale in true Amlin style - a study in major-seventh chords in varied inversions and everchanging harmony. The result is a theme that is at once beautiful, fresh, and always moving forward. Seven characteristic variations follow, subjecting the original chord progression through the guises of a Habanera, a Bach-...
Arranger John Brimhall has given new life to these favorites of composer Leroy Anderson. Contains new arrangements of: Belle of the Ball * Blue Tango * Bugler's Holiday * Fiddle-Faddle * Forgotten Dreams * Jazz Pizzacato * Plink, Plank, Plunk! * Sleigh Ride * The Syncopated Clock * A Trumpeter's Lullaby * The Typewriter * The Waltzing Cat.
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This contemporary American composer collection contains 10 of his compositions from 1922-1955. He is best known for his sound which copied that of-the age of machines. This edition is written in an intermediate piano solo format. Best known for Ballet Mechanique and the Airplane. Contents: Musical Picture of a Friend ù Little Shimmy ù Sonatina (Death hof the Machines) ù The Ben Hecht Valses ù Berceuse for Thomas Montgomery Newman ù Can-Can from Dreams ù Valentine Waltzes ù La Femme 100 Tetes Sel...
"That sounds great - but I'm not advanced enough to play it!" is what all beginners think when they hear one of these "Amazingly Easy Pieces" by Barbara Arens. They are amazingly expressive, sound amazingly difficult/sophisticated, but are truly amazingly easy to play! No octaves or big chords, no "thumbs under" runs - and the fingerings help to let you read the pieces amazingly easily! And so, after her brilliant "One Hand Piano" (EB 8646) Arens has landed another Piano-Hit. "21 Amazingly Easy P...
...and here we have a whole collection - Piano Misterioso, in which Barbara Arens gives us mysterious, eerie, dark, exotic pieces for the piano. As in Film music, atmospheric pictures and moods are conjured up. We wander through monastic ruins by moonlight (Ruinae gothicae) or are alone at the piano at 2:30 a.m. - with only one candle lit (Cogita nocturna). Scotland, Ireland, St. Petersburg, Arabia - we have many backdrops for the "Cinema in our Heads".Like the other piano works of Barbara Arens,...
Characterized by editor Sara Davis Buechner as "elegant Romantic salon music of the Russian school, subtly genteel, with early impressionistic shadings," the piano music of Anton Arensky formed the foundation of works by Rachmaninoff and Scriabin. Both of the latter-day composers were Arensky's pupils, and their teacher's music contains the seeds of Rachmaninoff's idiomatic pianistic style and Scriabin's impressionistic array of musical color.This collection of short works for solo piano contains...