SKU: BT.CAZOMW02

One Minute Wonders Volume 2 , A Collection Of Contemporary Piano Works By British Composers. A Fascinating Snapshot Of British Contemporary Piano Writing At The Beginning Of The 21St Century. Highly Recommended. Epta Piano Journal I Found The Collection Extremely Inspiring And It Deserves A Strong Recommendation. International Piano.

SKU: ST.0011

ISBN 9790220200069.

Ideally, a piano pupil should learn the treble and bass clefs simultaneously, absorbing both without difficulty. There is, however, an increasing number of children and adults, including students at training colleges, who begin piano lessons with a working knowledge of the treble clef but who are entirely ignorant of the bass.

Many have gained their knowledge of the treble, but not the bass clef, in good singing and aural training classes at school; others, and there are many of them, play the recorder, whilst violinists and players of various wind instruments are in the same position when they learn the piano for the first time.

It frequently happens, too, that piano pupils, and not only young children, are prompted by musical curiosity to read enthusiastically anything written in the treble clef fluently, but the bass clef lags far behind.

For all those people mentioned above, it is an urgent matter to learn the bass clef thoroughly and quickly, in as musical and interesting way as possible, and it is for them that this book is intended. A spell of concentrated work upon the bass clef alone can work wonders.

[Maisie Aldridge].

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.