SKU: HL.49045690
For decades, pupils (aged 6+) have been learning the basics of piano playing with plenty of imagination and creativity by using the popular three-volume piano method Piano Kids by Hans-Gunter Heumann. In 2014 the method was revised and has since been published in a revised and expanded new edition: New songs and illustrations breathe new life into the standard work and adjust it to the realityof life of today's first-time piano players. The educational concept of Piano Kids, resulting from the combination of textbooks, additional activity books as well as the large number of themed tune books, is now completed by tune books that are companions to the textbooks.These new tune books contain a wide range of very easy pieces for beginners which are in line with the progress of the textbooks andprovide the young pianists with age-appropriate playing literature from the very first piano lesson. Well-known folklore melodies, upbeat compositions in the style of pop, rock and jazz music as well as the first little masterpieces by Mozart, Beethoven & Co. motivate and stimulate the pupils and add variety to the music lessons. Volume 1 starts with several pieces for piano duet which will easily motivate beginners without demanding too much. All pieces are limited to the five-note range while nevertheless covering the whole spectrum of styles: from folk melodies via classical pieces by composers such as Gurlitt, Turk or Bartok to modern compositions from the areas of pop, rock and jazz music. Alongside Vol. 2 of the piano method, Volume 2 extends the pitch range and heightens the rhythmic demands. Apart from the wide rangeof songs from the areas of folk, rock and pop music, the young musicians get to know the first easy piano pieces by Mozart, Beethoven & Co. Many little 'treats' will have a lasting motivating effect on the pianists, like e.g. the Baby Elephant Walk by Henri Mancini or The Entertainer by Scott Joplin. These pieces have been arranged by Hans-Gunter Heumann in such a way that they do not demand too much of the children but motivate them when playing these famous melodies.
SKU: AY.PN3099PM
ISBN 9790543573550.
This four pieces group can be considered as a study of style. Somehow, one wonders the capacity to assimilate some musical languages that that appeared at the beginning of the XX century, in a very permissive tone concept. The music in each of them is explicit enough to expose this purpose. Stravinski should be, then, understood as an approach to the personal features of Stavinski and polytonality from an ironic and portrait perspective. The Nocturne is inspired on the spirit of the pieces of the Mikrokosmos of Bartok, at the same time that counts on the poetical contributions of the composer John Field for his contributions to the nocturne pianist genre. The Song for Anna seeks protection in the bright and transparent harmonies of Ravel, and the popular song Au claire de la lune is developed in a pentatonical scale and reminds of the harmonical treatment.
SKU: HL.50511408
ISBN 9790080068960. UPC: 073999114089. 9.0x12.0x0.123 inches. Hungarian, English, German.
As source of the melodies has served the volume 1 of the Collection of Hungarian Folk Music (Corpus Musicae Popularis Hungaricae) - Children's Games'' edited by Bartok and Kodaly, prepared for the press by Dr. Gyorgy Kerenyi.
SKU: BT.EMBZ934
English-German-Hungarian.
'This is one of Bartók's most famous series of piano pieces, whose fame is probably greater than either its popularity with pianists, or the frequency with which it occurs on concert programmes. When it was written in 1908, it triggered sensation and scandal in musical circles. The series as a whole is not a true cyclic composition that can only be played in its entirety with movements in the original order. Rather, it is a more loosely-ordered collection, although some of the pieces belong together. However, the varied succession of tempos and characters and general succession from technically easy to more difficult could also be a reason for the volume's ordering.'(HCD32524 Bartók New Series Vol. 24, István G. Németh).