371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies with Figured Bass Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a nice edition to have. Playing two Bach chorales every morning is kind of like doing some jumping jacks and eating a spoonful of codliver oil...which is to say, good for you. After playing the first 120 you can expect some chorale fatigue to set in, but all the while you'll be absorbing good voice-leading and voice-doubling technique as though by osmosis. What's more, Bach will still surprise you- there are chords so jarring and dissonant that their sudden, logical resolution is like watching a rabbit being pulled out of a hat.
On the downside, the notes are small (this edition really packs 'em in) and it can be easy to get lost on the page. No texts are provided, either, aside from the opening words, so you have to accept on faith that some of the more contorted harmonizations are justified by the text. It's still nice to have, though, and looks nice and musicological sitting on the piano.

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The great Baroque master composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) wrote music for every combination of instruments and voices. His simplest and purest work are four-part chorale compositions and settings, so perfectly constructed that they evoke meditative spirituality. "Figured bass" was a Baroque system of notating harmony. In addition 371 chorales, this collection includes 69 melodies with figured bass. This classic Schirmer edition, edited by Albert Riemenschneider, has sold over 1,000,000 copies since its release in the early 20th century. Primarily for keyboard, the chorales can also be played by other instruments.

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Popular Hits Book 1 - Book/GM Disk Pack: Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Adult Piano Method (Educational Piano Library) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great book for beginning students. It comes with a CD to accompany you. The music is easy enough to help you reinforce note reading. I like this book so much I will be buying more books in this series. Very well written so you can't lose!

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Exciting supplementary material featuring brand-new arrangements of standard favorites. Includes: American Pie * Circle of Life * Fun, Fun, Fun * La Vie En Rose * Let It Be Me * Murder, She Wrote * My Heart Will Go On * Sing * Strangers in the Night * Y.M.C.A. * The Way You Look Tonight.Exciting supplementary material featuring brand-new arrangements of standard favorites. Includes: American Pie * Circle of Life * Fun, Fun, Fun * La Vie En Rose * Let It Be Me * Murder, She Wrote * My Heart Will Go On * Sing * Strangers in the Night * Y.M.C.A. * The Way You Look Tonight.

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Ultimate Christmas: 100 Seasonal Favorites: Easy Piano Review

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(More customer reviews)Excellent arrangements at about the intermediate level, with the perfect mix of what you could call "traditional" in Christmas/Holiday music. One of the very best in print. Big, crazy thumbs up from CleverJoe.

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The ultimate collection of Christmas classics just got better with this third edition that includes even more of your favorites. 100 songs, including: Auld Lang Syne * Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella * Carol of the Bells * The Chipmunk Song * Christmas Time Is Here * Do You Hear What I Hear * The First Noel * Gesu Bambino * Happy Holiday * Happy Xmas (War Is Over) * Hymne * I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * Jingle-Bell Rock * A Marshmallow World * Merry Christmas, Darling * My Favorite Things * The Night Before Christmas Song * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Silver and Gold * Silver Bells * The Star Carol * Suzy Snowflake * What Child Is This? * Wonderful Christmastime * The Wonderful World of Christmas * and more.

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Ballades: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) Review

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(More customer reviews)This edition of Chopin's Ballades is great. Notes are printed clearly. Fingerings are not confusing. Ballades are quite difficult so this book is suitable for late-intermediate to advanced pianists.

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In this edition, Palmer provides fingering and offers suggestions for the performance of ornaments and other markings as revealed through the study of original sources. The introductory material includes a helpful discussion of ornamentation in Chopin's music.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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College of Piping Highland Bagpipe Tutor Part 1 Book and CD (Green Book) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book, sometimes know in the world of piping as just "the green book", is essential to anyone beginning to learn the highland pipes.

Though old, the book is accurate, thorough, and provides plenty of instruction.

I personally didn't get the CD with the book, but in retrospect I think it would have helped me along a little bit more.

This book breaks songs down into "measures", meaning one or two lines of music at a time. Before each measure the book describes any new ornaments and how to execute them. After each measure it says what to watch out for in each bar, or mistakes that students are likely to make.

Although this book is all a student needs to start learning (minus of course a quality chanter), I found that an exercise book greatly helped me get down difficult moves such as the leumluath and the double notes (or strikes).

The only downside I've found to this book is that since the songs are broken up into two, three, or sometimes four different measures, each separated by text, one can't play most entire songs through without having to turn a page or two. I solved this easily enough with creative photocopying.

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"The College of Piping: Tutor For The Highland Bagpipe PART 1" by Seumas Macneill and Thomas Pearston. The 72 page book starts with the practice chanter and ends with the bagpipe. There are 26 Lessons in the book. Each lesson is followed by a sound clip. In addition there are over 16 Videos and 14 songs. In addition to audio lessons, videos, and songs, the CD also contains over 38 pages of study material and quizzes. Lessons: Each written lesson is joined by a corresponding sound file 1) Placing your fingers on the chanter, diagrams 2) Gracenotes 3) Throws and Doublings 4) Your First Tune 5) Strikes 6) Strike on D and your Second Tune 7) Second Measure Brown Haired Maiden 8) Music theory 9) Double C & B 10) 2nd measure High Road to Gairloch 11) Double F & E 12) Double high A and 2nd measure Highland Laddie 13) Leumluath and Taorluath 14) 2nd measure Carles Wi' the Breeks 15) The Birl 16) 2nd measure 79th Farewell to Gibralter 17) Grip to C 18) 4th measure 79th Farewell to Gibralter 19) 1st measure Earl of Mansfield 20) Thumb Gracenote 21) 3rd measure Earl of Mansfield 22) 1st measure Inverness Rant 23) The Tachum 24) Strikes on B & C 25) 2nd measure Piper of Drummond 26) Double D and Green Hills of Tyrol 27) Practice Scales 27) Theory Summary and Posture Songs 1)Scots Wha Ha'e 2) Brown Haired Maiden 3) High Road to Gairloch 4) Highland Laddie 5) Carles Wi' the Breeks 6) 79th Farewell to Gibraltar 7) Earl of Mansfield 8) Inverness Rant 9) Piper of Drummond 10) Green Hills of Tyrol 11) Atholl Highlanders 12) Aiken Drum 13) Piobaireachd of Donald Dubh 14) Blue Bonnets

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Lieder Der Liebe Op60/61 Voc/kybd Composer Yrj Kilpinen Review

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(More customer reviews)I ordered two musical scores, which were new, and arrived as expeced, EXCEPT for the fact that the seller chose to package 2 very flimsy pieces of music in a plastic envelope with no support to maintain their shape. Scores arrived horribly bent, of course. How unfortunate that materials were treated so irresponsibly.

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Coloratura Arias for Soprano (G Schirmer Opera Anthology Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)The goal of the editors does not appear to have been to present the most difficult coloratura soprano pieces, but to set out a range of music that the student and instructor could use in order to develop flexibility in the voice.Well done!

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An excellent volume of coloratura arias has been added to the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology series. With thirty 18th-20th century arias in English, Italian, German, French and Russian, this is the largest collection of coloratura operatic excerpts ever published. Because of the nature of the material, tradition-based performance suggestions are liberally found throughout the volume. For instance, you will find standard vocal variations for the "Doll Song" from The Tales of Hoffmann included in the edition, along with the original vocal line. Like the other volumes in the ground-breaking series, there are historical and plot notes about each aria, new engravings, and new translations for study.

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Preludes (Kalmus Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This Alfred Complete Preludes edition is very good. It contains a lot of information about the preludes that you can't never find in other edition or not as much as this edition such as introductory or background. The music is well engraved so it can be read easily (important for very complex structure music. The footprints are also helpful and valuable. This is recommend for true musician that they don't perform only the music, but do understanding about music that they play too. The CD is also incredible. It can serve as for practical purpose or listening in your car or anywhere else. Alfred always offer the best quality with the fine price.

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Sonatina Album: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) Review

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(More customer reviews)Sonatina album is great for teaching if you are a piano teacher. Most of the works are about intermediate level. Ideal for teaching students that finished grade 4 to help reinforce student's skills. This edition is clearly printed and carefully fingered.

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Contents: Kuhlau: Sonatinas Op. 20 (No. 1 in C, No. 2 in G, No. 3 in F), Sonatinas Op. 55 (No. 1 in C, No. 2 in G, No. 3 in C) * Clementi: Sonatinas Op. 36 (No. 1 in C, No. 2 in G, No. 3 in C, No. 4 in F, No. 5 in G, No. 6 in D) * Haydn: Sonatina in C * Mozart: Rondo in D, Sonata I in C * Beethoven: Rondo, Op. 51, No. 1 in C, Andante from Symphony No. 1, Sonatinas Op. 49 (No. 1 in G minor, No. 2 in G) * Dussek: Sonatina Op. 20, No. 1 in G * J.S. Bach: Prelude No. 1 in C * Haydn: Adagio in E, Andante grazioso in Bb, Allegro in F, Andante in C * Schubert: from Impromptu Op. 142, No. 3; Scherzo in Bb, Op. posth.; from Sonata in A, Op. 120 * Weber: Variation on "Vien qua Dorina bella" Op. 7 * Mendelssohn: Fantasia in A minor, Op. 16, No. 1.

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Into the Woods (Vocal Score) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is such beautiful music that Sondheim has written. I just wish that all of the spoken text, and music could all be together somewhere. It's so difficult, and somewhat frustrating trying to go back and forth between the book of dialogue, and then back to the music. I'm a musician that needs to see the music going on underneath me, and don't like to learn my music by just listening to a recording of it. Maybe some day the two will be printed together.

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Stephen Sondheim's Tony-Award winning musical includes: Agony * It Takes Two * Stay With Me * Any Moment * No More * No One is Alone

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Disney Songs - Piano Duet Play-Along Songbook Volume 6 - Book and CD Package Review

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(More customer reviews)I picked this book up and brought it home from a trip to Disneyland.The arrangements are put together very nicely and range from beginner to advanced beginner.The CD is nice to use when you are by yourself, but my family has a lot of fun figuring the pieces out together.It is the most used duet book we own.

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This great new series comes with a CD that features separate tracks for the primo and secondo partsperfect for practice and performance! 7 songs, including: Candle on the Water - Colors of the Wind - Feed the Birds - Go the Distance - Kiss the Girl - You'll Be in My Heart (Pop Version) - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.

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Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 and 7 in Full Score Review

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(More customer reviews)Generally free of errors. Large, readable print and lays flat for study, conducting, or simply for enjoyment. Good for students and professionals alike.

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Superb, authoritative editions (Henry Litolff's Verlag) of great orchestral masterworks: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67; Symphony No. 6 in F Major ("Pastoral"), Op. 68; Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92. Lists of instruments.

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Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 in Full Score Review

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(More customer reviews)While Dover's many scores represent an amazing value across the musical repertoire, their collection and reprint of the Litolff Edition of the Beethoven Symphonies was a mistake. For the casual buyer they are workable, but not for serious use in performance, as they are riddled with editorial mistakes and problems. Purchaser would be better advised to find a set of the miniature (octavo-sized) Bärenreiter critical scores. They are bound just as nicely and the paper is of excellent quality. I use the full-size Bärenreiter set when I conduct my orchestra.

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Superb authoritative German editions (Henry Litolff's Verlag) of Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21; Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36; Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major ("Eroica"), Op. 55; and Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60. Finest inexpensive full-score editions. Lists of instruments.

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Arias for Baritone: G. Schirmer Opera Anthology Review

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(More customer reviews)This a valuable anthology and has much to recommend it. The cleaness of the lay-out the use of original language only with a literal and literate translation by Martha Gerhart at the beginning of the of the score and thechoice of arias for the young singer are commendable. The inclusion ofcadenze and oppure, not found in other collections, is valuable. However,all of the anthologies edited by Larsen have the same problem. Page turns.Larsen is a fine pianist and should know better. I have had many pianistscomplain about or refuse to play from Larsen scores. Whenever a difficultpassage to play occurs it is invaribly on a page turn. The collection is agreat study tool, but less than ideal in performance.

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Contents: Mozart: Hai gia vinta la causa! ...Vedro mentr'io sospiro (Le Nozze di Figaro) * Fin ch'an dal vino (Don Giovanni) * Deh vieni alla finestra (Don Giovanni) * Donne mie, la fate a tanti (Cosi fan tutte) * Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja (Die Zauberflote) * Ein Madchen oder Weibchen (Die Zauberflote) - Rossini: Largo al factotum (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) - Donizetti: Come Paride vezzoso (L'Elisir d'Amore) * Bella Sicome un angelo (Don Pasquale) - Bellini: Ah! per sempre (I Puritani) - Wagner: O! du mein holder Abendstern (Tannhauser) - Verdi: Pari Siamo! (Rigoletto) * Di Provenza il mar, il suol (La Traviata) - Thomas: O vin, dissipe la tristesse (Hamlet) - Gounod: Mab, la reine des mensonges (Romeo et Juliette) * Avant de quitter ces lieux (Faust) - Bizet: Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre (Carmen) - Ponchielli: Ah! Pescator (La Gioconda) - Massenet: Vision fugitive (Herodiade) * Voila donc la terrible cite (Thais) - Leoncavallo: Zaza, piccola zingara (Zaza) - Puccini: Minnie, dalla mia casa son partito (La Fanciulla del West) - Moore: Warm as the autumn night (The Ballad of Baby Doe) - Barber: You rascal you! I never knew you had a soul (Vanessa).

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Disney Greats: for Horn Instrumental Play-Along Pack Review

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(More customer reviews)My daughter loves using this book to practice her clarinet. I would recommend this to anyone.

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Another great play-along collection of 15 Disney favorites, including: Arabian Nights * A Change in Me * Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride * I'm Still Here (Jim's Theme) * It's a Small World * Look Through My Eyes * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * Where the Dream Takes You * Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) * and more.

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Gateway to German Lieder: High Voice (Gateway Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)The product itself is in great condition and has great material. However, the product took more than 2 weeks to ship. Usually my Amazon.com orders come in sooner. I understand that is was through a different company, but it was rather hindering to me to have my merchandise not shipped for so long. I hope this will change.

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Great masters of lieder from Beethoven to Richard Strauss are represented among 48 songs that have been chosen for their appeal to young singers. Musical excerpts studied in Gateway to German Diction appear as complete scores.

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Violoncello Technique (Instructional) Review

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(More customer reviews)I think this is a great book, you just have to know how to read music.
I am working on that and then I feel this will be a wonderful teaching
book.

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This classic book offers studies of scales and arpeggios in all of their various bowed, fingered and rhythmic combinations, with excellent exercises progressing in difficulty and encompassing four octaves. A great resource for teachers of students at all levels!

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