Fantasy in F Minor, Barcarolle, Berceuse and Other Works for Solo Piano Review

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(More customer reviews)Chopin's music is usually published by category--i.e. Mazurkas, Polonaises, Walzes, Etudes, etc. There are a number of works that don't fit into any of these categories such as the glorious and technically horrific Berceuse and the surprisingly easy to read but showy Tarentelle--not only gorgeous but a good exercise for technical proficiency.
This book is worth having just for the Berceuse and Tarantella, and also for the Barcarolle, another brilliant and showy work that is all too rarely played. This is a great addition to any piano music library, especially if you adore Chopin. Easy to read edition, clear print.

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Features 15 works, including one of the greatest of the Romantic period, the Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49, reprinted from the authoritative German edition prepared by Chopin's student, Carl Mikuli.

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Little Pianist, Op. 823 (Complete): Piano Solo (Piano Method) Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this book on the recommendation of my teacher. I am an adult beginner with three years of lessons. I was able to quickly go through the first 25 exercises and then began to find them difficult for my advanced beginner level. This will be a great book for me for years to come.

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Chopin: Waltzes For the Piano vol. 27 (Piano Collection) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you cannot wait for a Henle edition, this is a fine edition of the Chopin Waltzes and includes a lengthy prologue.

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The 17 waltzes comprising this volume are among Chopin's most popular compositions. Composed over a period of 20 years (from 1827-1847), only eight waltzes were published during Chopin's lifetime. Many of the others were written as gifts for women with whom he was acquainted. This practical performing edition is clearly spaced for ease in reading and contains a thematic index.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Just Standards Real Book, E Flat (Just Real Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)I already had long moments of fun by playing and replaying the standards in this book. It is written in a simple clear way and the choice is vast, even for a beginer like myself.

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· 250 Songs
· Just Classic Standards
· Just The "Right" Changes
· Suggested Chord Substitutions
· Lyrics Included
· Extensively Cross-Referenced
· Discography
. Spiral Bound

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Scoring for Voice: A Guide to Writing Vocal Arrangements Review

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(More customer reviews)Wonderfully unique book that helps a musician write new vocal compositions and scores.

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Scoring for Voice
is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide covering all aspects of vocal arranging. It includes a compact disc containing 50 examples of arranging techniques found in the text and covers such topics as scoring for 2-, 3-, and 4-part voices, scoring behind a soloist, vocal ranges, rehearsal techniques and voice-leading concepts.

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Symphony No. 6 in A Minor Review

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(More customer reviews)This score is one of my favorite Mahler symphonies.Overall it is incredible to see his layering of orchestration.You will be amazed at how much underscoring there is that sometimes it's hard to notice.Dover's publication is extremely accurate for the most part.There are a few discrepancies between the score and most performances, but I feel that is probably because Mahler constantly revised the orchestration of his symphonies.Overall, highly recommended if you want to see the symphonic master at work at a very affordable price.

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The appearance of this work brings Dover's miniature-score library of the nine Mahler symphonies to near completion; only Symphony No. 7 remains to be published. Dating from the composer's prolific period of 1903-4 and following Mahler's marriage to Alma Schindler by just a year, the draft of this remarkable work--subtitled "Tragic"--is represented by 28 current recordings. The symphony incorporates "portraits" of Alma in the first movement and of children playing in a diabolical Scherzo--a musical prediction, some say, of the tragedy that was to strike the Mahler family within three years.

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The Joe Pass Collection (Artist Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)I really just wanted the sheet music to Pasta Blues but this contains an amazing collection of Joe's work.The sheet music is as accurate as anything I've seen.The TAB supplied is very good as well, although in a number of places I can find fingerings for the same passages that work much better for me.As always, if you can read music treat the TAB as a guide.I've been happily working through this book for over a month now.

Note that some of the songs you can't get as audio clips online, so you'll need to buy some old CD's of Joe's.

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12 songs from the jazz legend, including: Blues for Basie * Blues for Hank * Cheek to Cheek * Dissonance #1 * Happy Holiday Blues * I Got Rhythm * In a Sentimental Mood * Pasta Blues * Satin Doll * The Song Is You * The Way You Look Tonight * Yardbird Suite.

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Schumann: Album for the Young: Opus 68 for the Piano Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a beautiful score and the content is interesting.The font is clear, big and easy to read.Yet, although historically interesting the gray fingering is impossible to read.Perhaps the alternate fingering could be a different color.I had to return the score for this reason.

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Numerous selections from Schumann's Album for the Young have long been favorites of intermediate students, and few collections fail to include the "Soldier's March," the "Happy Farmer" or the "Wild Horseman." This historically informed edition of the entire collection clearly differentiates the markings of the first edition from Clara Schumann's later-edited version. Discussions of ornamentation and the collection's origin are also included.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: for Clarinet (Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along) Review

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(More customer reviews)It keeps me entertained, I'm satisfied with the choice of songs, it's at a good difficulty level(for me), and the accompaniment is pretty good.Some of the pages are arranged weirdly, though.

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16 pieces from the swashbuckling blockbuster arranged so solo instrumentalists can play along with great accompaniment tracks. Includes: The Black Pearl * Davy Jones * He's a Pirate * I've Got My Eye on You * Jack Sparrow * To the Pirate's Cave! * Wheel of Fortune * and more.

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Mazurkas Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is based on FR. Kistner Leipzig edition. Editor is Chopin's pupil Carl Mikuli foreword dated 1879, 30 years after chopin's death.
There are many other editions of Mazurkas which I personally prefer to this available but I rate this book as a important reference to learn what the composer was intended. The editor Carl Mikuli was Chopin's piano pupil and many times he witnessed the performance of composer himself which were only to those of close to him. (Chopin did only a handful of public concerts and recitals in his life) However, intimate accounts of how his (Chopin)fingers were shaped during the passages could only be used as a sentimental knowledges which has little use for today's performance standard.
Nonetheless, we could keep in mind that what composer himself tried to express and teach his students his music as a great way to express our feeling through these beautiful works. Many Mazurkas have only a few pages and many could be played by begining students.
There are discussions of how the Mazurkas should be played, outside this book but Mikuli himself did not address this matter. (Where should the Mazurka's accents have to be placed--and there is a accounts of Chopin and Meyerbeer arguing reported by other pupil von Lenz who was taking lessons of Mazurka.)
Convenient package of 1 book with this inexpensive price, with the cover portlait by Eugene Delacroix, also Chopin's close friend is a great buy for the piano students of all levels.

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Features 51 best-loved compositions, reproduced directly from the authoritative Kistner edition edited by Carl Mikuli, a pupil of Chopin. Editor's Foreword, 1879.

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Tosca: Full Score (Opera) Review

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(More customer reviews)Really clear engraving and authenticity to the work.I'm a full-time collaborative pianist and coach, so a resource like this is really useful.In order to translate the instructions for stage and musicality, you will need an Italian dictionary!

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Ricordi is proud to present the first titles in their new series of orchestral scores featuring engaging images (from Casa Ricordi's historical archives) and synopses in Italian, English, French and German. In addition, these scores feature heavier cover and paper stock plus stronger binding.

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Complete Ballades, Impromptus and Sonatas Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great book. I have used it on numerous occasions and can give no more than an absolute satisfactory report. Often, publishers write incorrect fingering and/or dynamics, and this book appears to have notsubdued to that level. The publishers obviously knew what Chopin wanted anddelivered just that instead of placing marks they thought were appropriate.

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Edited by Chopin's student and teaching assistant Carl Mikuli, this edition includes highly authoritative versions of these favorite pieces: Ballades-No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23; No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38; No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47; No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 Impromptus-No. 1 in A-flat Major, Op. 29; No. 2 in F-sharp Major, Op. 36; No. 3 in G-flat Major, Op. 51; No. 4 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 66 (Fantaisie-Impromptu) Sonatas-No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 4; No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35; No. 3 in B Minor, Op. 58 New compilation of scores originally published by G. Schirmer, New York, 1894-1895.

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La Traviata in Full Score Review

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(More customer reviews)Verdi's wonderful masterpiece La Traviata is among opera's greatest works.
A great score, it's easy to read and a standard size (9in x 12in).It's a great low price, perfect for the starving music student.It lies flat on a desk or music stand for easy study.I highly reccommend this for professionals and opera-goers alike.

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One of Verdi's most popular operas, an exciting, deeply moving musical drama set in the intoxicating demi-monde of mid-19th century Paris, and long admired for the lyric beauty of its arias and ensembles and for the dramatic force and finesse of its orchestral scoring. Reprinted from the authoritative edition prepared by G. Ricordi, Milan.

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Chopin: Mazurkas For The Piano (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 28.) Review

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(More customer reviews)First of all this is a Shirmer,s book. Any day my piano teacher brought a package from Shirmer's was a red letter day. Shirmer's rocks.
Why Mazurkas??I owned this book since the fifties or so but it must have evaporated or disappeared. But on a foggy day there is nothing like a rollicking Mazurka to get the blood going, so I rebought it. And here is my mother's story.
In the thirties when she first arrived Wanda Landowska gave master classes, and my mother attended. Wanda was playing Mazurkas, and she would sing along (in Polish) the words of the original folk tune. At the end of the lesson all the students would file by to shake the great hand and she would ask them their musical ambitions.When it came my mother's turn Wanda looked down her considerable nose and asked "And vat are you?"

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The Beatles: Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Popular Songs Series (Hal Leonard Student Piano Library (Songbooks)) Review

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(More customer reviews)Everyones review is reffering to a Beatle guitar book, not the piano book that I am seeing.I don't know how this happens, but this is the second piano book at Amazon that was linked to guitar seach inside and wrong reviews.I'm just glad I paid attention or I would have gotten the piano book based on a guitar review.

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The top hits of the Beatles featured in this collection display a wide range of styles: stunning, lyrical arrangements, such as "Michelle," as well as incisively hip renditions of several of edgier tunes, like "Revolution." Also includes: Can't Buy Me Love * Get Back * Here Comes the Sun * Martha My Dear * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Yesterday.

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The Complete Preludes & Etudes: For Solo Piano Review

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(More customer reviews)Speaking of correcting misinformation, this is definitely *not* the Paderewski edition. The Mikuli and Paderewski editions are certainly not the same, although if you look in the commentary in the back of any Paderewski Chopin score, you will find that the Mikuli is one of the many sources that were consulted for the Paderewski.

Dover used to publish a reproduction of the Paderewski edition years ago, and it was wonderful. Unfortunately, they no longer seem to do so.

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Chopin's piano works are of such uniformly high quality that they are all absolutely essential in the repertoire of any aspiring pianist. The Preludes and Etudes are exquisitely beautiful examples of his genius. Numbering 52 pieces in all, they are reproduced here from the authoritative Mikuli edition and are available for the first time in a low-priced, one-volume publication. The opus listings are: 25 Preludes-Op. 28, Nos. 1-24; Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 45. 27 Etudes-Op. 10, Nos. 1-12; Op. 25, Nos. 1-12; and Trois Nouvelles Etudes Unabridged (1998) republication of works from an authoritative early edition. New unified table of contents.

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Four by Sondheim (A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) Review

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(More customer reviews)While I have all four of these books in Paperback and therefore have had no need to buy this book I have looked through this book and I think buying this one is a MUCH better idea than buying them seperately.This book includes pictures, Drawings by Al Hirschfield, Cut-Lyrics and more.Allfour of the shows are purely genius and provide you with laughter whileprovoking thoughts.This is a must for all Sondheim fans and musical fansand anyone interested in 4 great shows: A Funny Thing Happened on the Wayto the Forum, Sunday in the Park With George,Sweeny Todd, and A LittleNight Music.

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The complete book and lyrics with set and costume designs, production photos, essays, cast lists and credits, awards for major productions, selected discographies, and much more! Includes the shows A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A richly illustrated Sondheim treasury!

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