Le Tombeau de Couperin and Other Works for Solo Piano Review

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(More customer reviews)This book contains a great selection of pieces at a more than resonable price. I bought it as a set with Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel also by Dover. (I saw another edition of Ma Mere l'Oye *on it's own* was more than what I paid for this whole book!)Dover editions I have found in the past have great quality.The pages are sewn in so the book will last a lifetime without pages falling or ripping out.
If you're not already impressed by the selection of pieces (I love the 1913 Prelude which I already had a copy of and memorized a while ago), Dover goes even further with this set.It opens with the table of contents and after that it has a complete glossyry of french terms and text used in the music!This I found was quite impressive. Even Dover's other Ravel book doesn't do this.Some of the terms sound enough like English words or Italian musical terms for you to figure it out but it's really great that they gave you it there for you to know for certain.Following that are translations of the wonderful quotes of fairy tales from La Mere and other text that appears in the book.
Before each multi-movement piece it receives it's own cover page followed by an introduction to the piece written by Ronald Herder citing Orenstein's book Ravel: Man and Musician as a primary source.It is really nice to learn a little about the piece before playing it and it's a wonderful inclusion.The music appears to be in chronological order with the three 1913 pieces grouped together under a single cover sheet (sans any introduction).The title piece is well deserving of it as it is a large section of the book with it's 7 movements.The book concludes with Ravel's transcription of La Valse.It is annotated with Ravel's own notes on the orchestra version sometimes including a third ossia staff showing parts of the orchestration unincluded in the transcription.Instruments are named in french and can be translated via the glossary at the front of the book.
The only problem anyone might have with this book is that there are no noted fingerings as far as I've seen.I don't rely on them much myself but I know other people prefer them.If that is an issue, consider still getting this book and consulting someone on parts where you are unsure of the best fingering.Otherwise this is the perfect set!

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Essential pieces for intermediate and advanced pianists, reproduced from authoritative French scores. This superb compilation contains Ma mère l'oye [Mother Goose], Valse nobles et sentimentales, Le tombeau de Couperin: Suite pour piano, and La Valse as well as three shorter pieces: Prèlude, A la manière de Borodin (Valse) and A la manière de Emmanuel Chabrier.

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Moonlight Sonata Opus 27, No. 2(Complete Edition) (A Belwin Classic Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is sheet music.What can you say?It is complete and the printing large enough to read easily and make your own notations.Includes a one-page bio of Beethoven plus background on the piece.If you are considering this one, you might want to get the Arthur Schnabel version.It is essentially the same (same publisher) but with Schnabel's notations, which you can always ignore if you don't like.

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Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata Op. 27, No. 2 is among the most popular andmost frequently performed compositions by any great composer. Reflectingthe depth of Beethoven's musical power, the Moonlight Sonata is one of thebest-loved sonatas Beethoven ever composed. In this Belwin Classic Libraryedition, each page of the music is spaciously laid out, meticulous anduncluttered, with clear, clean engraving. All three movements are included: I. Adagio sostenuto, II. Allegretto, and III. Presto agitato.

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Ludwig Van Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas Volume 1 (Nos. 1-15) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is an excellent value! For only about 10 bucks you receive over 350 pages of music in a high quality book.It opens flat, and doesn't fall off the piano while you're using it.The binding has not cracked or split,and shows no signs of doing so.I would pay twice as much as I did forthis book.

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Volume 1 of authoritative Schenker edition includes Op. 2, Nos. 1-3; Op. 7; Op. 10, Nos. 1-3; Op. 13; Op. 14, Nos. 1-2; Op. 22; Op. 26; Op. 27, Nos. 1-2; Op. 28.

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