A progressive repertoire series designed to motivate students while allowing them to progress evenly and smoothly from the earliest classics toward intermediate literature. These pieces are from the standard classical literature, chosen to appeal both to teacher and student. Each volume comes with a corresponding CD. 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 Music. Kim is a brain tumor survivor and now specializes in performing music for the left hand.
A progressive repertoire series designed to motivate students while allowing them to progress evenly and smoothly from the earliest classics toward intermediate literature. These pieces are from the standard classical literature, chosen to appeal both to teacher and student. Each volume comes with a corresponding CD. Pianist Valery Lloyd-Watts studied at the Conservatory of Music in Toronto and the Royal College of Music in London. She earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin, where she studied with Paul Badura-Skoda.
The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asserting in their stead the irreducible complexity of human motivation and the tragic inevitability of tragedy. Only the imagination, Trilling argues, can give us access and insight into these realms and only the imagination can ground a reflective and considered, rather than programmatic and dogmatic, liberalism. Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessary—and ever more remote.
The first-ever English translation of the most important masterworks of Chen Style Taiji, as originally published by the renowned grandmaster Chen Zhaopi Chen Zhaopi (1893-1972) is universally recognized as a preeminant grandmaster of Chen Style taijiquan, an ancient martial art that is the foundation of all taijiquan schools. During his lifetime, Chen was lineage successor and teacher to Chen Village's current generation of senior masters, including Chen Xiaowang, Wang Xi'an, Chen Zhenglei, Zhu Tiancai, and the late Chen Qingzhou. This book is the first-ever English translation of key selections from his seminal 1935 publication, Chen Style Taijiquan Collected Masterworks. Gathered together are taijiquan's most important texts dating back to its earliest period of development. These include the writings of its putative creator, Chen Wangting, and its reorganizer, Chen Changxing, and the biographies of eminent family members such as Chen Zhongshen. Author and translator Mark Chen's commentary provides readers with the most complete picture of taijiquan's origins, evolution, and theory to date. Also included is a step-by-step, pictorial exposition of Chen taijiquan's "old frame" first form, demonstrated by Chen Zhaopi himself.
(Piano Collection). ANONYMOUS: Minuet in C minor, BWV Appendix 121 * C.P.E. BACH: March in G Major, BWV Appendix 124 * J. S. BACH: Bouree from Lute Suite No. 1 in E minor, BWV 996; Invention No. 14 in B-flat Major, BWV 785; Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775; Invention No. 10 in G Major, BWV 781; Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772; Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784; Invention No. 2 in C minor, BWV 773; Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779; Prelude in F Major, BWV 927; Prelude in C minor, BWV 999; Prelude No. 1 in C Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846; Prelude in D minor, BWV 926; Prelude in C minor, BWV 934; Prelude in C Major, BWV 924 * BARTOK: Bagatelle from 14 Bagatelles, Op. 6, No. 4 * BEETHOVEN: Six Variations on a Swiss Song, WoO 64; Twelve German Dance, WoO 13 * BURGMULLER: Selections from 25 Easy and Progressive Studies, Op. 100; Selections from 18 Characteristic Studies, Op. 109 * CHOPIN: Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7; Prelude in B minor, Op. 28, No. 6; Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4 * CLEMENTI: Sonatina in F Major, Op. 36, No. 4 * DIABELLI: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 168, No. 3 * DUSSEK: Sonatina in G Major, Op. 20, No. 1 * GRIEG: Selections from Lyrics Pieces * GURLITT: Hunting Song from Albumleaves for the Young, Op. 101, No. 19; The Little Wanderer from Albumleaves for the Young, Op. 101, No. 12 * HANDEL: Air con variazioni from Suite in B-flat Major, HWV 434; Allegro from Suite in G minor, HWV 432 * HELLER: Autumn Song from 25 Etudes for Piano, Op. 47, No. 3; In Venice from 25 Etudes for Piano, Op. 47, No. 14; Sorrow and Joy from 25 Melodious Etudes, Op. 45, No. 4; The Avalanche from 25 Melodious Etudes, Op. 45, No. 2; The Brook from 25 Melodious Etudes, Op. 45, No. 1 * KUHLAU: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 55, No. 1 * KULLAK: Grandmother Tells a Ghost Story from Scenes from Childhood, Op. 81, No. 3; On the Playground from Scenes from Childhood, Op. 6, No. 4 * LICHNER: Sonatina in C Major, Op. 49, No. 1; Sonatina in C Major, Op. 4, No. 1 * LISZT: Farewell; Gray Clouds * MACDOWELL: To a Wild Rose from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51, No. 1 * MENDELSSOHN: Confidence from Songs Without Words, Op. 19, No. 4; Consolation from Songs Without Words, Op. 30, No. 3; Tarantella from Songs Without Words, Op. 102, No. 3 * PURCELL: Suite No. 1 in G Major; Suite No. 6 in D Major; Suite No. 8 in F Major * SCHUBERT: Scherzo in B-flat Major, D. 593 * SCHUMANN: About Strange Lands and People from Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15, No. 1; Little Lullaby from Albumleaves, Op. 124, No. 6; Selections from Album for the Young, Op. 68 * TCHAIKOVSKY: Selections from Album for the Young, Op. 39
This volume contains 97 pieces by 20 composers, including works by CPE Bach, JS Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Burgmüller, Clementi, Grieg, Handel, Heller, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and more.
