Complete Ballades, Impromptus and Sonatas [Paperback] Review

This is a great book. I have used it on numerous occasions and can give no more than an absolute satisfactory report. Often, publishers write incorrect fingering and/or dynamics, and this book appears to have notsubdued to that level. The publishers obviously knew what Chopin wanted anddelivered just that instead of placing marks they thought were appropriate.

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Edited by Chopin's student and teaching assistant Carl Mikuli, this edition includes highly authoritative versions of these favorite pieces: Ballades-No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23; No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38; No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47; No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 Impromptus-No. 1 in A-flat Major, Op. 29; No. 2 in F-sharp Major, Op. 36; No. 3 in G-flat Major, Op. 51; No. 4 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66 (Fantaisie-Impromptu) Sonatas-No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4; No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35; No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 New compilation of scores originally published by G. Schirmer, New York, 1894-1895.

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Motown Anthology (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook) [Paperback] Review

Following an 8 page article on the history of Motown byMark Etzkorn are the words and music to the following 68 songs:

ABC
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
Ain't To Proud To Beg
Baby I Need Your Lovin'
Baby Love
Ben
Bernadette
Dancing In The Street
Easy
For Once In My Life
Going To A Go-Go
Got To Be There
Heatwave
How Sweet It Is
I Can't Get Next To You
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
I Hear A Symphony
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
I Second That Emotion
I Want You Back
I'll Be There
If I Were Your Woman
It's The Same Old Song
Just My Imagination
Let's Get It On
Lookin' Through The Windows
Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
The Love You Save
Maybe Tomorrow
Mercy, Mercy Me
Money
More Love
My Girl My Guy
My World Is Empty Without You
Never Can Say Goodbye
Nowhere To Run
Ooo Baby Baby
Papa Was A Rolling Stone
A Place In The Sun
Reach Out And Touch
Sail On
Shake Me, Wake Me
Shop Around
Smiling Faces Sometimes
Somebody's Watching Me
Someday We'll Be Together
Standing In The Shadows Of Love
Still
Stop! In The Name Of Love
Take A Look Around
Three Times A Lady
Time Will Reveal
Touch Me In The Morning
The Tracks Of My Tears
War
Way Over There
The Way You Do The Things You Do
What's Going On
Where Did Our Love Go
You Can't Hurry Love
You Keep Me Hangin' On
You're All I Need To Get By
You've Made Me So Very Happy
You've Really Got A Hold On Me

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A must-have collection of 68 Motown masterpieces, including: ABC * Ain't No Mountain High Enough * Ain't Too Proud to Beg * Baby Love * Dancing in the Street * Easy * For Once in My Life * How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) * I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) * Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) * Let's Get It On * My Girl * Shop Around * War * You Can't Hurry Love * many more!

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Ballades: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) [Paperback] Review

This edition of Chopin's Ballades is great. Notes are printed clearly. Fingerings are not confusing. Ballades are quite difficult so this book is suitable for late-intermediate to advanced pianists.

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In this edition, Palmer provides fingering and offers suggestions for the performance of ornaments and other markings as revealed through the study of original sources. The introductory material includes a helpful discussion of ornamentation in Chopin's music.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Etudes, Children's Corner, Images Book II, and Other Works for Piano [Paperback] Review

For years, due to copywrite issues, "The Children's Corner" suite was only available in a French edition. Now it's here, in an affordale Dover edition, along with some rarer piano solos.
"Children's Corner" ranges from playable ("Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum" and "The Little Shepherd" and "Doll's Lullaby" to the evilly tricky "Snow is Dancing" made famous by Tomita in an electronic version. The suite was written for Debussy's daughter and is utterly charming and really fun to play. The etude's from Book II are incomplete here, but have some of the nices works, along with a beautiful berceuse.
If you play piano and love the Impressionist composers, this is a must-have.

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Many of the most admired of Debussy's piano works, reprinted from authoritative French editions, among them the Etudes (1915), a late work that richly displays the full range and depth of Debussy's genius for the piano, and the magical Children's Corner (1906-8). Also included: Nocturne (1892), Piece pour piano (1903-4), Images, Book II (1907), Hommage a Haydn (1910), The Little Nigar (1909), La plus que lente (1910), Berceuse heroique (1914), Six epigraphes antiques (1914) and Elegie (1915).

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Avenue Q - The Musical (Piano/Vocal arrangement) [Paperback] Review

This score, from "Avenue Q", a show described as a combination of "South Park" and Sesame Street", is truly excellent. Be warned--the performers on the CD and in the show may make it seem simple, but some of the songs are hard to play. Believe it or not.

This reduction for voice/piano/guitar is pretty good---it would have been better if they had used an arrangement for vocal line with piano accompaniment. Incorparating the vocal line into the accompaniment works for some of the songs, but the quality of most of the songs is hurt by it. Nonetheless, this score is very playable (although sometimes hard to play) and contains many great songs for recreational use or performances and auditions.

This book contains every song from the show and not one note has been cut (although not all dialouge said in the songs is included). The certain gem of the score is "There's a fine, fine line" the "folk rock" ballad that ends the first act. Simple and melodic, it certainly steals the show. "If you were gay," "Purpose," the "Manilowesque---"Fantasies Come True," and "The More you Ruv someone" are all uniquely composed with a different style in mind. Also very melodic and enjoyable. The upbeat and very similar "It Sucks to Be Me," "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist," and "For Now" are also delightful highlights.

Hilarious, witty songs are contained in this collection. You would be wise to purchase the CD for inspiration on how to perform these songs, if you haven't already. You definately should also see the musical anytime you're in New York for a fun-filled evening or afternoon.

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2004 Tony® Award winner for ßBest Musicalß, ßBest Original Scoreß and ßBest Book of a Musicalß!¶Playbill.com describes °Avenue Q°,a decidedly adult puppet/human show, as a meeting of °Sesame Street° and °South Park°. Our deluxe songbook features all 20 songs in standard piano/vocal format (melody in the piano part), more than 20 fabulous full-color photos from the production, and a bio of the writing team of Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, who've scored big with their first Broadway show! Tunes include: The Avenue Q Theme · Fantasies Come True · I Wish I Could Go Back to College · I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today · If You Were Gay · The Internet Is for Porn · It Sucks to Be Me · Mix Tape · The Money Song · Purpose · There Is Life Outside Your Apartment · What Do You Do with a B.A. in English · and more. PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT LYRICS

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The Complete Preludes & Etudes: For Solo Piano [Paperback] Review

Speaking of correcting misinformation, this is definitely *not* the Paderewski edition. The Mikuli and Paderewski editions are certainly not the same, although if you look in the commentary in the back of any Paderewski Chopin score, you will find that the Mikuli is one of the many sources that were consulted for the Paderewski.

Dover used to publish a reproduction of the Paderewski edition years ago, and it was wonderful. Unfortunately, they no longer seem to do so.

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Chopin's piano works are of such uniformly high quality that they are all absolutely essential in the repertoire of any aspiring pianist. The Preludes and Etudes are exquisitely beautiful examples of his genius. Numbering 52 pieces in all, they are reproduced here from the authoritative Mikuli edition and are available for the first time in a low-priced, one-volume publication. The opus listings are: 25 Preludes-Op. 28, Nos. 1-24; Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 45. 27 Etudes-Op. 10, Nos. 1-12; Op. 25, Nos. 1-12; and Trois Nouvelles Etudes Unabridged (1998) republication of works from an authoritative early edition. New unified table of contents.


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Fantasy in F Minor, Barcarolle, Berceuse and Other Works for Solo Piano [Paperback] Review

Chopin's music is usually published by category--i.e. Mazurkas, Polonaises, Walzes, Etudes, etc. There are a number of works that don't fit into any of these categories such as the glorious and technically horrific Berceuse and the surprisingly easy to read but showy Tarentelle--not only gorgeous but a good exercise for technical proficiency.
This book is worth having just for the Berceuse and Tarantella, and also for the Barcarolle, another brilliant and showy work that is all too rarely played. This is a great addition to any piano music library, especially if you adore Chopin. Easy to read edition, clear print.

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Features 15 works, including one of the greatest of the Romantic period, the Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49, reprinted from the authoritative German edition prepared by Chopin's student, Carl Mikuli.

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Peter and the Wolf: Piano Solo (Piano Large Works) [Paperback] Review

I'm not sure what the "New" label on the cover means, since Schirmer brought this score out in 1999 - anyway, it's a beautifully printed score for personal use and an inexpensive resource if you're teaching this music to children in preparation for a live performance, etc. This is Prokofiev's own reduction, so it's fairly demanding, but can easily be simplified, and it's easy to pick out the instruments that he associates with the characters - great fun if you have a well-voiced keyboard or student musicians to demonstrate the different themes.Highly recommended.

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One of the most beloved musical tales of all time! This is the composer's own reduction for solo piano, with narrator's text in English, French and Spanish.

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The Beatles, 1967-1970: Piano * Vocal * Guitar (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook) [Paperback] Review

This is a great intermediate piano/vocal/guitar book.There's a good selection of songs and they are playable as solos or accompaniments.The book can be a little hard to keep open since the binding isn't sectioned, but other than that, I was happy with it.

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28 more classics, including: All You Need Is Love * Back in the U.S.S.R. * The Ballad of John and Yoko * Come Together * Get Back * Hey Jude * Lady Madonna * The Long and Winding Road * Penny Lane * Revolution * Something * Strawberry Fields Forever * and more.

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Cocktail Piano Standards (Piano Solo Songbook) [Paperback] Review

Very nicely written.And great that it comes with an audio CD.But it doesn't have chords above what is written.... not too good.

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15 lush solo arrangements of jazz classics with a CD containing performances of each piece by the arranger. Includes: April in Paris * Easy to Love * Misty * Moon River * Tenderly * The Way You Look Tonight * When Sunny Gets Blue * and more.

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Complete Songs for Voice and Piano [Unabridged] [Paperback] Review

This is a wonderful collection for all admirers of Rachmaninov. While the 14 or so songs without opus numbers are not included in this edition, the majority of Rachmaninov songs are and they form a strong part of his creative output (spanning nearly 20 years).
An affordable and easily obtainable book, it is good not only for general study and performance, but also for comparison and study of pianist Earl Wild's brilliant transcriptions of thirteen of the songs (and Arcadi Volodos' two song transcriptions).

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Rich collection of 71 compositions, including some of the most hauntingly beautiful passages in vocal literature. Exciting treasury of glorious songs-Opp. 4, 14, 21, 26, 34, and 38-have been reproduced from authoritative sources in a convenient, one-volume edition;most lyrics in Russian (Cyrillic) with English translations. A superb collection to be prized by pianists, vocalists, and countless lovers of fine music everywhere.


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The Piano Concertos in Full Score [Paperback] Review

The I. Paderewski edition of Chopin's Piano Concerto's No. 1 and 2 is the best edition I've looked at.The orchestral part is intricately transcribed for the second piano.Like all Dover products, this book andits binding are virtually indestructible...a major plus for the monumentaltask of mastering the greatest concertos of them all (Concerto No.2 in Fminor). A good buy!

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The authoritative Breitkopf & Härtel full-score edition in one volume of Piano Concertos No. l in E Minor and No.2 in F Minor.


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Library of Piano Classics: Piano Solo (Library of Series) [Plastic Comb] Review

For sheer value for money you can't go past this thick volume. It contains around 50 pieces of varying styles by over 40 composers, including several duet arrangements of pieces (also included as solos). Many of the pieces are commonly included in collections (Traumerei, Fur Elise, Fantasy-Impromptu) but others are more unusual. A few of the composers include: Albeniz, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Debussy, Faure, Scott Joplin ... it's a long list.
The book itself features: Handy ring-binding, without which it would never stay open;clear printing (not one of those publications that looks like it's gone through a fax); and good editing.
I would particularly recommomend this book to people trying to increase the size of their music library (done instantly) or people who want to get a taste of numerous musical styles and composers. The variety in levels of the music can keep you dipping into this book from low-intermediate through to the higher grades.

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A compendium of the world's most loved music. True to the spirit of the great composers, this volume fills the needs of students and teachers. Over 100 works including SchubertÂ's Moment Musicale, ChopinÂ's Minute Waltz, and BeethovenÂ's Rondo a Cappriccio.

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