Christmas Piano Solos - Level 1: Hal Leonard Student Piano Library [Paperback] Review

My son is in his first year of piano.This book was perfect for him.He is playing several songs for a service, with his teacher accompanying him.Great book for his level.Nice arrangements for accompaniment too.

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This collection of best-loved children's carols is the perfect book for beginning piano students. The horizontal-format book and large-staff notation make the songs easy to read and learn. Each song includes an optional teacher accompaniment. Fully orchestrated CD and GM accompaniment disks are available separately. The CDs have both a practice and a performance track for each song.7 solos corresponding to Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Piano Lessons Book 1: Away in a Manger * Go, Tell It on the Mountain * Good King Wenceslas * Jingle Bells * Jolly Old St. Nicholas * O Come, O Come Immanuel * We Three Kings of Orient Are.Level: Early Elementary. Basic note values and rests, quarter - whole note/rest; 3/4, 4/4 meter; basic dynamics from p-f, movement by steps and skips only; single-line melodies. Reading range: Bass Clef Middle G - Treble Clef Middle G; keyboard guides show hand placement.

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Christmas at the Piano / Level 1 [Paperback] Review

Received the book timely and in good condition.
Excellent response time and shipping, will buy from this seller again.

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Supplementary to the DAVID CARR GLOVER METHOD FOR PIANO. Method-matching levels, arranged by Jay Stewart and charmingly illustrated in the new Glover style. Each book is twenty-four pages in length. The collections of traditional songs and carols include some teacher accompaniment and duet parts.

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Andrea Bocelli - Cieli Di Toscana (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) [Paperback] Review

First off the there are some beautiful pictures as part of the Book, the cover shot and 3 full page shots in the book as well as some smaller shots. The Book has a section for lyrics only first which is great, its much easier to read the lyrics hear then it is in the liner notes of the CD, where there too small. Following the lyric section is the chord and note section (with lyrics as well) so we can play along as well as sing along. The bonus track lyrics and music on the DVD (and also included on some of the import versions of the CD) Tornera La Neve is included as well.

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Matching folio to the CD complete with color photos and separate lyric section. Songs include: Chiara * E Mi Manchi Tu * E Sara a Settembre (Someone like You) * Il Diavolo E'Langelo * Il Mistero Dell'Amore * L'Abitudine * L'Incontro * Mascagni * Melodramma * Mille Lune Mille Onde * Resta Qui * Se La Gente Usasse Il Cuore.

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Great Hymns for Praise and Worship (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) [Paperback] Review

As an intermediate to advanced musician, I am enjoying playing these arrangements.They are challenging enough to keep my interest without having to spend hours in practice.Everyone I have played them for has liked them.It's nice to have the old hymns - and I have always appreciated Bock's arrangements.

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17 songs, including: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God * How Great Thou Art * Just As I Am * The Old Rugged Cross * Were You There? * What A Friend We Have In Jesus * When I Survey The Wondrous Cross * Wondrous Love * and more.

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Christmas Themes for Solo Piano [Paperback] Review

This book contains all the favorites of Christmas with the romantic touch of Jim Brickman's beautiful arrangements.Its melodies are sure to bring a little more heart to an already beautiful season.

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Transcribed from an exclusive promotional sampler CD, these solo piano arrangements by Jim Brickman bring the warm joy of the holidays to life. Titles are: Do You Hear What I Hear?Have Yourself a Merry Little ChristmasJoy to the WorldSilent NightSilver Bells.

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David Lanz - East of the Moon (Piano Solo Personality) [Paperback] Review

"East of the Moon" is the companion songbook for David Lanz's Grammy-nominated CD by the same name. Most of that album is very orchestrated, so these transcriptions are not exactly the same as the CD, but they're fun to play and most are not too difficult. The only thing difficult about "The Green Man" is its length - sixteen pages. I didn't have any students at all who wanted to tackle that one! "Dancing With Dionysos" is great fun to play with its spirited tempo and flashy glissandos. "Chasing Aphrodite" is one of the easier pieces and most people really like its simple melody. "East of the Moon" is a great piece to play. It has some moderately challenging passages, but nothing particularly difficult that a little practice won't take care of! "On the Edge of A Dream" was one of the favorites with students. It's slow and quite easy to master in addition to being a very beautiful piece. "World At Peace" is a six-part suite that is very orchestrated on the CD. I didn't find most of the transcriptions to be very satisfying. "The Visitor" is one of my favorite of David Lanz's pieces, and no matter how much I play it, it never fails to transport me to somewhere else. It's also fairly easy, so the main teaching points with it were expression, expression, and expression. Even though I don't usually play all of the music in this book, it is one of my favorites for working with students. And of course, it has that wonderful photo on the cover with the hand sign that David Lanz says means "Buy My Album!" Recommended!

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The matching folio to this new age greatÕs latest release features piano solo arrangements of: And Time Stood Still ¥ Chasing Aphrodite ¥ Dancing with Dionysus ¥ East of the Moon ¥ The Green Man ¥ On the Edge of a Dream ¥ Tara ¥ World at Peace ¥ The Visitor ¥ and more.

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Pascal Dusapin - Etudes Pour Piano [Paperback] Review

Pascal Dusapin's sensibility has been the theatre,H eis a Man of scaled measured passions: living in the center of Frenchcontemporary expression, Paris, some 70% of French-European composers live in Paris;his creativity never succombed to the complex paradigm merely for itself, there needs to be a narrative something,an image to free the imagination; some entity, some dimension that is communicative to whomever,even though he is well-versed in the spectralisms and complexity cadres; he left it: and the politics associated with making music in Paris, IRCAM etc, can be cut-throat as New York City.Beginning many years ago, the Eighties,(an eternity by today's Virilio-ian dromas)he studied with Xenakis, a physical universe person,but even his shortunaccompanied solos for Viola and one for Trombone have an intense, focused drama as a subterranean emotive current.Very sparce and understated;
His instincts told him to go directly to the theatre dealing with such Heavees as the formidable late Heiner Mueller, in the "MediaMaterial"a sparcedeconstruktive trip made into a dramatic opera. Then some years ago with his haunting "Perela, Uomo di Fumo",nothched a success; and Finally another "Faustus" (you can find the latter on YourTube in excerpts,that work is very impassioned, very post-avant-garde-romantic-Wozzeck-like, the Art product has this plurality of design this cross-referentialiality,to lure the populace into submission.

Likewise the genre of Etude,by comparison seems academic and one-dimensional for his sensibility;but in that we seem to be going culturally backwards retrogressively,Etude is now a vigorous exciting place to be; Recall where music history had a long arduous TREK to find/proclaim the individual work as something some entity within intellectual thought independent of aristocratic or bourgeous support;Music developed rendered as like a "document" of time,,monumental stand-Alone pieces,as Sonatas, then this romantic sensibility(one we live by in the Arts daily)came to the later the "Fragments of the Romantic" this was a search for pure subjectivity;as the piano music as Schumann, Mendelssohn Chopin and Listz latter, We've come a long Way Baby! pre-classic times the piano solo was considered incidental music of dance and suites a la Baroque. Here now today we simply have returned to the "incidental" music of the genre, it was "Tangos" that one held power over composers, everyone wrote a Tango, and ones to be really consumed within the habitations of where you may play piano solo, not public, although this music is played and made available to the populace. You can find the indefataguable Ian Pace playing most of these Etudes, with Dusapin turning pages on Youtube.

What can one do after Gyorgy Ligeti's ambitious yet modest sets, Three damn Books of "Etudes", here Dusapin takes the reins of the challenge and has enough of a strong persuasive personality to render his own voice within this time-worn genre.(The Etude as War-Horse). I suspect we will see more as time progresses, More Etudes!!!!For the record John Cage and Nancarrow earlier began this for the post-modern with his(Cage's) "Etudes Australes" also shaped into "Books"Four of them in the mid-Seventies, for Grete Sultan.Nancarrow had done musical automata with the player-piano(osmething Kyle Gann has developed into Disc-Klavier Etudes).The Cageare obscure incredibly abstrakt,aired, rarefied, and difficult to listen/experience.Gann's more playful and Pop; Ligeti solved this communicative paradigm with sheer speed invention and subterranean evocative-ness, as the Etudes "Autumn in Warsaw (First Book), and "Por Irina"('Endless Columns"after Brancusi) Book Three.
Dusapin's Etudes also have subtitles as "Oragami", and "Mikado",not falling into purely absrakt statements,creations; again some process is engaged with the image, some graven serious image, or playful to solicit a way of writing notes and textures. These are fairly propulsive, almost jazzy, with their incessant left-hand chords to punctuate whatever the right hand does.The registers are fairly contracted into the center and oddly enough these etudes sound like music you have heard before, Yet the genre does have hope in the future as we progress within the neo-liberal order, Dusapin has an exciting approach again pure communication with fairly accessible materials, very rhythmic, bound to a reocurring pattern.If you found the Ligeti interesting, or Jacques Lenot's Etudes"; so you will Dusapin's, the voice is compelling,uncompromising and more one-dimensional,(not in an inferior way); each etude seems to share gestural aspects/elements within itself of-and-amongst-themselves, Each does not drop too far from Dusapin's tree, as you progress through the set. These will certainly give the Ligeti a run for its money, and will soon replace. . . them at some point perhaps not.

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Dusapin (b. 1955), a former student of Messiaen and Xenakis, is among the leading French composers, with a large output in an attractive style.

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The Complete Piano Player: Theory Book (Complete Piano Player Series) [Paperback] Review

Good for beginners to the subject.It's thorough and has many exercises and test to gauge understanding.

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A unique program for learning the fundamentals of music theory. Easy-to-follow text with clear examples. Plus self-test work.

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