Rock Piano sensation Robert Wells has been touring his Rhapsody In Rock for over a decade to sell-out venues across the world. For the first time in print the Piano Concertos No I-IXhave been transcribed for you to learn and play and with the included download card you can even play along to specially-mixed orchestral accompaniment tracks. Produced in direct collaboration with theworld-renowned composer this Rhapsody In Rock Piano Concerto sheet music collection features scores for all nine concertos including The Overture The Nordic Touch The Royal The Ballet andThe Circus. The Rhapsody In Rock musical has been acclaimed for its blend of traditional classical styles hard rock sounds as well as boogie-woogie and jazz influences. All nine PianoConcertos are transcribed here allowing solo pianists to enjoy playing these fantastically fun compositions. The accompanying download card features specially-mixed orchestral accompanimenttracks for you to play along with. One is a classical track while the other is in a rock style so you can choose which one to play along with or just try both! These tracks are very simple to download to your computer and you'llhave great fun learning the scores as well as putting your own spin on them. The Piano Concertos I-IX were produced in direct collaboration with RobertWells himself who has written an extensive introduction to the songbook detailing his inspiration compositional process and some invaluable performance tips. Each Concerto also comes with a short introduction writtenby Wells in which he describes how the idea for that particular track came about or how the particular style developed. As explained in the songbook the note-for-note transcriptions will allow you to play the tunes

Just back from a trip to Leipzig in the early autumn of 1950 where he heard Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier at the Bicentennial Bach Competition played by the Russian pianist Tatiana Nikolaeva Shostakovich began his own series of 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 based on Bach's model. He composed them quickly starting on October 10 1950 and finishing on February 23 1951. While his work would pay homage to Bach Shostakovich's work would have several fundamental differences. First the order of the individual pieces would be organized around the circle of fifths with a prelude and fugue in the relative minor following each major key piece rather than in ascending semi-tonalorder of Bach's work. Second Shostakovich's pieces would be composed in order — that is C major - A minor followed by G major - E minor followed by D major - B minor — and more significantly this order would have a sort of subliminal narrative sub-text taking the music from the 'innocent' tonal world of the C major Prelude and Fugue to the profound and sublime severity of the concluding D minor Prelude and Fugue. Finally Shostakovich's work although conservative in its counterpoint and harmony — that is there are no examples of invertible or reversible themes or counterpoint and the pieces are for the most part recognizably tonal in language — is still clearly the work of a modernist composer; his counterpoint and harmony may be conservative but the emotional and spiritual worlds of the preludes and fugues is at once sincere and ironic. The result is a work which can not only stand comparison with Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier it is both Shostakovich's masterpiece for the piano and one of the contrapuntal masterpieces of the twentieth century.

Par BARDEN CHRISTINE H. / KOWALCHYK GAYLE / LANCASTER . The Rhythm Speller Book 1 reinforces rhythm skills based on the concepts introduced in the Music Lesson Book 1. Each page of the Rhythm Speller Book has two activities---a rhythm-writing activity and a rhythm-reading activity. The written activities reinforce note values and counting through coloring, circling, drawing, or matching. The rhythm-reading activities help students practice clapping or tapping rhythm patterns while counting aloud, playing rhythms on rhythm instruments or keys on the keyboard, and chanting words based on rhythm patterns. / Niveau : 1 / Etudes et exercices / Etude / Piano