Essential Keyboard Repertoire Vol 2

Author : Lynn Freeman Olson
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457440540
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 1 written by Lynn Freeman Olson and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting edition contains 100 early intermediate selections in their original form, spanning the Baroque period to present day. The repertoire, which includes several minuets, folk dances, character pieces and much more, has been carefully graded and selected for student appeal by editor Lynn Freeman Olson.

Author : Lynn Freeman Olson
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457440564
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 2 written by Lynn Freeman Olson and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an excellent volume compiled for the advancing intermediate student, containing 75 intermediate-level selections in their original form ranging from the Baroque to Modern periods. Volume 2 is the natural outgrowth of the initial volume in this series. The technical level is somewhat more advanced and the range of expression is appropriately wider and more challenging than in Volume 1.

Author : Maurice Hinson
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457439773
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 6 (to Develop Technique and Musicianship) written by Maurice Hinson and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much care was given to grading, editing and most of all, student appeal in the Essential Keyboard Repertoire Series. Each volume includes selections from the Baroque to Modern periods, each in its original form. Standard favorites are included, along with a sampling of works which were infrequently performed prior to the introduction of these collections. Editing is based on sound teaching principles to facilitate performance and study. This edition includes 75 early to late intermediate selections designed to help advancing students develop technique and musicianship.

Author : Maurice Hinson
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457439759
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Keyboard Repertoire, Volume 4 written by Maurice Hinson and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent volume contains 85 selections that are essential for pianists at the early- to late-intermediate level. Spanning the Baroque through Modern eras, all of the selections have interesting melodic and rhythmic qualities, good design and formal structure, and excellent aesthetic value.

Author : Maurice Hinson
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457439735
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humor in Piano Music - Baroque to Modern written by Maurice Hinson and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pedagogical, performance-oriented collection of 19 piano works offers an enticing study in musical humor for intermediate- to advanced-level performers. A broad cross-section of piano music from the last four centuries is represented, along with a suggested teaching order.

Author : Albert Mendoza
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 1470632705
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Keyboard Études written by Albert Mendoza and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential collection of 100 piano études is divided into 15 units that survey the technical challenges at the early intermediate, intermediate, and late intermediate levels. The early units review technical issues that students experience at the elementary levels, such as five-finger patterns and articulations. The later units introduce more difficult technical challenges that prepare students for advanced repertoire, such as playing ornamentation, octaves, and large chords. Each unit contains between five and ten études written by master composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods. Within each unit, the études are arranged in order of difficulty. Each piece appears in its original form; notes have not been added or removed. The composers' original dynamics, tempo marks, phrase indications, and articulations have been preserved. Ornamentation is realized in footnotes. Added measure numbers provide easy reference, and editorial suggestions for fingering and pedaling have been provided. A concise foreword discusses technique at the intermediate levels. Two indexes are included: one by unit and technical skill, and another by level and composer. Unit listing: * Five-Finger Patterns * Articulation * Coordination between the Hands * Scales * Triads, Inversions, and Broken Chords * Double Notes * Left-Hand Development * Velocity * Arpeggios * Finger and Hand Independence * Repeated Notes * Accompaniment Patterns * Ornamentation * Octaves * Four- and Five-Note Chords Titles: * Alla Tarantella (from 12 Études), Op. 39, No. 2 (MacDowell) * Étude in A Minor ("Arabesque") (from 25 Easy and Progressive Studies), Op. 100, No. 2 (Burgmüller) * Étude in B-flat Major (from 25 Melodious Studies), Op. 108, No. 10 (Schytte) * Étude in C Major (from Practical Method for the Pianoforte), Op. 249, No. 65 (Köhler) * Étude in F Major (from The First Steps of the Young Pianist), Op. 82, No. 39 (Gurlitt) * Étude in G Major (from 25 Elementary Studies), Op. 176, No. 20 (Duvernoy) * Étude in D Minor ("Warrior's Song") (from 25 Melodic Studies), Op. 45, No. 15 (Heller) * Étude in G Minor (from Training of the Left Hand), Op. 89, Book II, No. 6 (Berens) * Exercise in C Major (from Étude for the Pianoforte), Op. 39, No. 1 (Cramer) * Little Étude (from Album for the Young), Op. 68, No. 14 (Schumann) * Maria (romanza sin palabras) (from Six Expressive Studies) (Granados) * Menuetto (from First Term at the Piano), Sz. 53, No. 16 (Bartók) and many more!

Author : Kim O'Reilly
Publisher : Alfred Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780739006207
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Keyboard Repertoire written by Kim O'Reilly and published by Alfred Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an excellent volume compiled for the advancing intermediate student, containing 75 intermediate-level selections in their original form ranging from the Baroque to Modern periods. Volume 2 is the natural outgrowth of the initial volume in this series. The technical level is somewhat more advanced and the range of expression is appropriately wider and more challenging than in Volume 1. Pianist Kim O'Reilly Newman holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois. She has performed throughout North America and Europe with the Hambro Quartet of Pianos and was an editor and recording pianist for Alfred Publishing. Kim is a brain tumor survivor and now specializes in performing music for the left hand.

Author : Marion Jacobson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252093852
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squeeze This! written by Marion Jacobson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other instrument has witnessed such a dramatic rise to popularity--and precipitous decline--as the accordion. Squeeze This! is the first history of the piano accordion and the first book-length study of the accordion as a uniquely American musical and cultural phenomenon. Ethnomusicologist and accordion enthusiast Marion Jacobson traces the changing idea of the accordion in the United States and its cultural significance over the course of the twentieth century. From the introduction of elaborately decorated European models imported onto the American vaudeville stage and the instrument's celebration by ethnic musical communities and mainstream audiences alike, to the accordion-infused pop parodies by "Weird Al" Yankovic, Jacobson considers the accordion's contradictory status as both an "outsider" instrument and as a major force in popular music in the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews and archival investigations with instrument builders and retailers, artists and audiences, professionals and amateurs, Squeeze This! explores the piano accordion's role as an instrument of community identity and its varied musical and cultural environments. Jacobson concentrates on six key moments of transition: the Americanization of the piano accordion, originally produced and marketed by sales-savvy Italian immigrants; the transformation of the accordion in the 1920s from an exotic, expensive vaudeville instrument to a mass-marketable product; the emergence of the accordion craze in the 1930s and 1940s, when a highly organized "accordion industrial complex" cultivated a white, middle-class market; the peak of its popularity in the 1950s, exemplified by Lawrence Welk and Dick Contino; the instrument's marginalization in the 1960s and a brief, ill-fated effort to promote the accordion to teen rock 'n' roll musicians; and the revival beginning in the 1980s of the accordion as a "world music instrument" and a key component for cabaret and burlesque revivals and pop groups such as alternative experimenters They Might Be Giants and polka rockers Brave Combo. Loaded with dozens of images of gorgeous instruments and enthusiastic performers and fans, Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America represents the accordion in a wide range of popular and traditional musical styles, revealing the richness and diversity of accordion culture in America.

Author : Gayle Kowalchyk
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9780739030301
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Keyboard Duets, Vol 3 written by Gayle Kowalchyk and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of piano duets (for one piano, four hands) includes the most popular repertoire by French composers and is appropriate for intermediate to early advanced pianists. It includes complete editions of Fauré's Dolly Suite, Debussy's Petite Suite, Ravel's Mother Goose Suite as well as five pieces from Bizet's Jeux d'enfants. The primo and secondo parts are on separate pages and essential ornamentation is realized in footnotes. Both parts contain measure numbers for easy reference. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.

Author : A. Peter Brown
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253072107
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Symphonic Repertoire, Volume II written by A. Peter Brown and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 18th century, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. Surprisingly, heretofore there has been no truly extensive, broad-based treatment of the genre, and the best of the existing studies are now several decades old. In this five-volume series, A. Peter Brown explores the symphony from its 18th-century beginnings to the end of the 20th century. Synthesizing the enormous scholarly literature, Brown presents up-to-date overviews of the status of research, discusses any important former or remaining problems of attribution, illuminates the style of specific works and their contexts, and samples early writings on their reception. The Symphonic Repertoire provides an unmatched compendium of knowledge for the student, teacher, performer, and sophisticated amateur. The series is being launched with two volumes on the Viennese symphony. Volume II The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert Volume II considers some of the best-known and most universally admired symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, who created what A. Peter Brown designates as the first golden age of the Viennese symphony during the late 18th and first three decades of the 19th century. The last two dozen symphonies by Haydn, half dozen by Mozart, and three by Schubert, together with Beethoven's nine symphonies became established in the repertoire and provided a standard against which every other symphony would be measured. Most significantly, they imparted a prestige to the genre that was only occasionally rivaled by other cyclic compositions. More than 170 symphonies from this repertoire are described and analyzed in The First Golden Age of the Viennese Symphony, the first volume of the series to appear.