Gillespie discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Includes 116 musical examples, illustrations, and a glossary of musical terms.
(Piano Solo Songbook). This collection needs no words to express beauty. 24 piano solo arrangements of relaxing piano music, and as a bonus, one arrangement includes the cello part (Arwen's Vigil)! Featuring: Back to Life (Giovanni Allevi) * Beyond (William Joseph) * Chariots of Fire (Vangelis) * A Day Without Rain (Enya) * The Heart Asks Pleasure First (from The Piano ) * I Giorni (Ludovico Einaudi) * If You Believe (Jim Brickman) * La Valse d'Amalie (from Amelie ) * Leaves on the Seine (David Lanz) * One Man's Dream (Yanni) * Zanarkand (Nobuo Uematsu) * and more!
English keyboard art from Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1325) to John Field. Illuminating coverage of organ, harpsichord, pianoforte, other instruments; works of Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Tomkins, many others. Bibliography.
Piano Playbook: Cocktail Piano is a collection of new, elegant arrangements of jazz, pop and even classical standards, designed to be played while sipping a Martini in a dimly lit lounge. Each one of these 45 smooth pieces was written by a master of composition, whether it's The Beatles, Duke Ellington, Rachmaninoff, Bill Evans, or Chick Corea. This book has been arranged with intermediate-advanced pianists in mind and includes an integrated Spotify playlist of the original versions for each song. Songlist: - Alfie [Burt Bacharach] - And I Love Her [The Beatles] - Arabesque No. 1 [Claude Debussy] - Black Hole Sun [Soundgarden] - The Blue Notebooks [Max Richter] - Bouncing With Bud [Bud Powell] - Dance Of The Floreadores [Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn] - Divenire [Ludovico Einaudi] - Do I Do [Stevie Wonder] - Excursions II [Richard Rodney Bennett] - Eye Of The Tiger [Survivor] - A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing [Billy Strayhorn] - Gnossienne I [Erik Satie] - Handful Of Keys [Fats Waller] - Here, There And Everywhere [The Beatles] - How My Heart Sings [Bill Evans] - I'm Just A Lucky So And So [Diana Krall] - I Want You (She's So Heavy) [The Beatles] - Johnny Come Lately [Billy Strayhorn] - Lazy River [Hoagy Carmichael] - London Calling [The Clash] - Midnight Sun [Burke, Sonny] [Lionel Hampton] - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs [Chick Corea] - Nowhere Man [The Beatles] - Once Upon A Summertime [Michel Legrand and Eddie Barclay] - One At A Time [Michel Legrand] - Passion Flower [Billy Strayhorn] - Peau Douce [Bill Evans] - Pinball Wizard [The Who] - Prelude In G, Op.32 No.5 [Sergei Rachmaninoff] - Prelude No.2 (Blue Lullaby) [George Gershwin] - Rhapsody In Blue (Slow Theme) [George Gershwin] - Rosemary's Waltz (From Tender Is The Night) [Richard Rodney Bennett] - Soho (from The London Suite) [Fats Waller] - So Real [Jeff Buckley] - Someday (You'll Be Sorry) [Louis Armstrong] - Somethin' Stupid [Frank Sinatra] - Sophisticated Lady [Duke Ellington] - Turn Me On [Norah Jones] - When Sunny Gets Blue [Frank Sinatra] - With A Little Help From My Friends [The Beatles] - Yesterdays [Dudley Moore] - Your Love Has Faded [Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn]
This diversified collection guides students to develop stylistic performances of Bach's keyboard works. Among the 27 selections are numerous menuets, "short" preludes and suite movements. The introductory material contains an excellent discussion of ornamentation, rhythm, articulation, tempo and dynamics in the keyboard music of this master composer.
Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe. Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and Portugal. The book concludes with a chapter on performance practice, which addresses current issues in the interpretation and revival of this music.
The Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach provides an introduction to and comprehensive discussion of all the music for harpsichord and other stringed keyboard instruments by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Often played today on the modern piano, these works are central not only to the Western concert repertory but to musical pedagogy and study throughout the world. Intended as both a practical guide and an interpretive study, the book consists of three introductory chapters on general matters of historical context, style, and performance practice, followed by fifteen chapters on the individual works, treated in roughly chronological order. The works discussed include all of Bach's individual keyboard compositions as well as those comprising his famous collections, such as the Well-Tempered Clavier, the English and French Suites, and the Art of Fugue.
This classic work is a meticulous chronological survey of music for the keyboard from the earliest extant manuscripts of the 14th century to the end of the 17th. Apel traces the evolution of keyboard instruments, genres, national schools and styles (from Poland to Portugal), and the oeuvre of many composers. A monument of scholarship, this indispensable reference work is also remarkably user-friendly and engagingly written throughout.