• The Amadeus Anthems: Classical Pop Piano Solos

    Are you struggling to inspire your teen piano players? Are you on a never-ending search for piano music that will be met with excitement rather than half-hearted enthusiasm?Your search is over. It’s time to introduce your teens to the classical pop crossover pieces of The Amadeus Anthems.Andrea and Trevor Dow, the composers and educators behind hit piano books like The Beethoven Sessions, The Guardians of Arranmore, and The Adventures of Fearless Fortissimo are leading a revolution in teenage piano repertoire. Their classical crossovers bridge the gap between today’s Top 40 tunes and yeste... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1986014185
    • ASIN: 1986014185
    • ISBN: 1986014185
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

  • First 50 Popular Songs You Should Play On Piano

    (Easy Piano Songbook). 50 great pop classics for beginning pianists to learn, including: Autumn Leaves * Candle in the Wind * Chopsticks * Don't Know Why * Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) * Hallelujah * Happy * Happy Birthday to You * Heart and Soul * Hotel California * I Walk the Line * Just the Way You Are * Let It Be * Let It Go * Your Song * Moon River * Over the Rainbow * Piano Man * Stand by Me * Summertime * Unchained Melody * What a Wonderful World * Yesterday * and more.

    • ASIN: 1480398020
    • UPC: 888680024000
    • ASIN: 1480398020
    • ISBN: 9781480398023
    • Brand: Hal Leonard
    • Manufacturer: Hal Leonard

  • The Brothers Karamazov

    Winner of the Pen/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation PrizeThe Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons―the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, is social and spiritual striving, in what was both the golden age and a tragic turning point in Russian cultur... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0374528373
    • ASIN: 0374528373
    • ISBN: 0374528373
    • Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Classic Guitar Technique, Vol 1: Book & Online Audio (Shearer Series)

    Aaron Shearer's Classic Guitar Technique has long been the core method used by generations of classic guitarists. Alfred Music is proud to present the third edition, and first major revision, of Volume 1 of this benchmark work. Completely re-edited and updated in collaboration with Thomas Kikta (one of Aaron's former students and the head of Duquesne University's Classic Guitar Department), the third edition maintains the character and appeal of the original book while providing new critical insights into core techniques that had not been addressed in previous editions. Also, for the first tim... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1470633760
    • UPC: 038081520230
    • ASIN: 1470633760
    • ISBN: 1470633760
    • Brand: Alfred
    • Manufacturer: Alfred Music

  • Music by the Masters: Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Schubert and more

    This consistent top-seller includes 65 works by these famous composers: C. P. E. Bach, J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schubert , Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Excellent, motivating literature for the intermediate pianist.

    • ASIN: 0769239536
    • UPC: 029156107616
    • ASIN: 0769239536
    • ISBN: 0769239536
    • Brand: Alfred
    • Manufacturer: Alfred Music

  • Practical Method for Beginners, Op. 599: Schirmer Library of Classics Volume 146 Piano Technique

    Practical Method for Beginners on the Pianoforte , Op. 599:

    • ASIN: 0793525675
    • UPC: 073999543506
    • ASIN: 0793525675
    • ISBN: 0793525675
    • Brand: G. Schirmer
    • Manufacturer: G. Schirmer, Inc.

  • Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz

    Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch.Hersch’s prodigious talent as a sideman—a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson—blossomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that defied the boundaries of bop, sweeping in elements of pop, classical, and folk to create a wholly new music.Good Things Happen Slowly is his memoir. It’s the story of the first openly gay, HIV-positive jazz player; a deep look into the cloistered jazz culture that made such a status both transgressive and... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1101904348
    • ASIN: 1101904348
    • ISBN: 1101904348
    • Brand: CROWN ARCHETYPE
    • Manufacturer: Crown Archetype

  • Easy Classics to Moderns (Music for Millions, Vol. 17)

    (Music Sales America). These 142 pieces by the masters of piano literature date from the second half of the 17th century to the present day.

    • ASIN: 0825640172
    • UPC: 752187414841
    • ASIN: 0825640172
    • ISBN: 0825640172
    • Brand: Music Sales
    • Manufacturer: Amsco

  • Alexis Weissenberg - The Complete RCA Album Collection

    Alexis Weissenberg The Complete RCA Album Collection brings together all of the pianist s 1967/70 RCA Victor sessions for the first time in one place and remastered from the original analog sources, along with his 1949 recorded début that first appeared as a ten-inch Columbia Masterworks LP. The recordings include Chopin s Scherzi Nos. 1 and 2 and Sonata No. 3 in B minor, three Haydn Sonatas, a Debussy recital, Bartók s Piano Concerto No. 2, plus interpretations of Rachmaninoff s complete Préludes and Piano Concerto No. 3 that became modern-day reference versions. The booklet contains full ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01HMAH3Z0
    • UPC: 889853015023
    • ASIN: B01HMAH3Z0
    • Manufacturer: Sony Classical

  • Voicings for Jazz Keyboard

    (Instrumental Jazz). A respected soloist, clinician and writer, Mantooth has written this book for any keyboard player interested in developing better jazz chord voicing. Written more as a 'how-to' book than a textbook, Voicings will make a valuable addition to the library of any performer, arranger, teacher or jazz theorist.

    • ASIN: 0793534852
    • UPC: 073999554755
    • ASIN: 0793534852
    • ISBN: 0793534852
    • Brand: Hal Leonard
    • Manufacturer: HAL LEONARD CORPORATION

  • Sonata: A Memoir of Pain and the Piano

    A rich and vibrant memoir that weaves chronic illness and classical music into a raw and inspiring tale of grace and determination. Andrea Avery, already a promising and ambitious classical pianist at twelve, was diagnosed with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that threatened not just her musical aspirations but her ability to live a normal life. As Andrea navigates the pain and frustration of coping with RA alongside the usual travails of puberty, college, sex, and just growing-up, she turns to music?specifically Franz Schubert's sonata in B-flat D960, and the one-armed pianist Paul... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1681774097
    • ASIN: 1681774097
    • ISBN: 1681774097
    • Brand: PEGASUS
    • Manufacturer: Pegasus Books

  • Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story-How One Man and His Piano Transformed the Cold War

    Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall of fear built by the Cold War, won the hearts of the American and Russian people, and eased tensions between two superpowers on the brink of nuclear war.In 1958, an unheralded twenty-three-year-old piano prodigy from Texas named Van Cliburn traveled to Moscow to compete in the First International Tchaikovsky Competition. The Soviets had no intention of bestowing their coveted prize on an unknown American; a Russian pianist had already been chosen to ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B019WVIZK4
    • ASIN: B019WVIZK4
    • Manufacturer: Harper

  • Lost Secrets of Master Musicians: A Window Into Genius

    Can Talent be Explained? The "Secret" Techniques of Great MusiciansIn this groundbreaking look into the world of "classical" music, David Jacobson interweaves his educative experiences at the Curtis Institute of Music with his quest to understand how performers such as Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein, Vladimir Horowitz, and Glenn Gould achieved such unsurpassed levels of musical expression and technical skill. What were their "secret" techniques and musical insights? Can students learn the principles of musical expression the greatest players used?Jacobson has spent many years analyzing the ap... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01N2O2F0Y
    • ASIN: B01N2O2F0Y
    • Manufacturer: SFIM Books, Inc.

  • Franz Liszt, Volume 3: The Final Years: 1861-1886

    The third volume in Alan Walker's magisterial biography of Franz Liszt."You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books"A conscientious scholar passionate about his subject. Mr. Walker makes the man and his age come to life. These three volumes will be the definitive work to which all subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire."-Harold C. Schonberg, Wall Street Journal"What distinguishes Walker from Liszt's dozens of earlier biographers... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B00BKK6EIQ
    • ASIN: B00BKK6EIQ
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

  • Love Is Blind: A novel

    When he is hired as the personal piano tuner for a brilliant pianist, Brodie Moncur suddenly finds himself swept up into a life of luxury that he could never have imagined. But while accompanying his new employer on tours from Paris to St. Petersburg, Brodie falls madly in love with the Russian soprano Lika Blum: beautiful, worldly, seductive—and forbidden. Though seemingly doomed from the start, Brodie’s passion for Lika only grows as their lives become increasingly more intertwined, more secretive, and, finally, more dangerous. A tale of dizzying passion and brutal revenge; of artistic e... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07B794FT3
    • ASIN: B07B794FT3
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Personnel: McCoy Tyner (piano); Gary Bartz (saxophone); Terence Blanchard (trumpet); Christian McBride (bass instrument); Lewis Nash (drums).Recording information: Avatar, New York, New York (11/18/2003 - 11/19/2003).ILLUMINATIONS finds McCoy Tyner, some 40 years after his best-known work (as a member of John Coltrane's legendary early-1960s quartet), still kicking. Tyner's energies as a session leader, composer, and ever-progressive musician haven't flagged since the mid-'60's, when the pianist started heading his own dates. On this 2004 album, as per usual, Tyner has surrounded himself with some of the finest personnel in jazz, including bassist Christian McBride, sax player Gary Bartz, and trumpeter Terence Blanchard.Tyner's music is appealing for its balance of familiar hard-bop vocabulary and intricately wrought structures--it is rhythmic and accessible, yet intellectually engaging. Tyner plays with great vigor, mixing virtuoso classical flourishes with bold chords and dazzlingly complex solos. His compositions here touch on avant-bebop ("The Chase"), Latin groove ("Angelina"), and smooth swing (the title track--on which all the musicians get a chance to stretch out). Blanchard's playing is especially notable, substantiating the melody lines in the chorus and blazing on the solos (as on "New Orleans Stomp," driven by a classic second-line beat). The high quality of music here--in conception and execution--should come as no surprise to long-time fans of Tyner or his sidemen.

    Mccoy Tyner - Illuminations (SACD NEW)Label: TelarcFormat: SACDRelease Date: 22 Jun 2004No. of Discs: 1UPC: 089408359965Details1. Illuminations2. Angelina3. New Orleans Stomp4. Come Rain Or Come Shine5. Soulstice6. Blessings7. If I Should Lose You8. The Chase9.

    • UPC: 3465201

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