The Countryside is a wonderful collection of character pieces for first Piano lessons by Walter Carroll. Eighteen songs about landscapes and scenes from the country these tone poems create a wonderfully evocative and pleasing volume for beginners. Of the 18 pieces included here two are duets for 4-hands. This is the first piano lessons book 2.

The three pieces in Idaho Gems capture the spirit of this northwestern state. 'White Pine Waltz' begins with a delicate melody in 3/4 meter inspired by the majestic western white pine, Idaho's state tree. The piece builds to a climactic middle section featuring flowing arpeggios in both hands before subsiding into a restatement of the theme. The second piece, 'Craters of the Moon,' paints a picture of the volcanic landscapes found in the national preserve of the same name. A repetitive chromatic figure in the lower register is combined with dissonant intervals in the upper register to capture the eerie otherworldliness of the park's lava fields. In 'Snake River Rag,' chromatic passages wind their way across the keyboard, inspired by the Snake River's twisted path through the Idaho countryside. 'Western Gem' provides a dynamic conclusion to the suite. The piece makes full use of the keyboard with block chords and scalar passages in both hands, while a modulation in the middle section provides an additional musical challenge. / Piano

5 Original Piano Solos Inspired by the North-Five soulful solos that were “inspired by the northern sky and in particular the Scandinavian landscapes of my own imagination ” writes Naoko Ikeda. Introspective pieces yet full of warmth. Titles: Flora Ethereal Summer Land of the Midnight Sun Aurora A Sea of Clouds. Includes performance notes.

The Nine Glens Of Antrim - Nine Easy Pieces For Piano is a songbook featuring nine distinctly Irish-themed original compositions by renowned composer and teacher June Armstrong for grades two to four standard, designed to teach and reinforce technique and stylistic interpretation.Composer June Armstrong has taken the glens of County Antrim in Ireland as the inspiration for nine new Piano pieces that attempt to capture the atmosphere of the varied landscape. From the astonishing monuments of caves and valleys to calmer, more tranquil waterfalls and rivers, Armstrong has successfully composed pieces to help a student imagine and evoke the natural beauty of a landscape through the musical medium. The concept that Armstrong has tried to incorporate is that the expressiveness of the Piano as an instrument is something that students should be familiar with, and so this book will teach you how to create atmosphere while using the musical theory you are familiar with.One of the most impressive things about The Nine Glens Of Antrim is the hard work that the composer has put into creating these pieces as well as incorporating Irish music and the Irish landscape. At the beginning of the songbook Armstrong goes into great detail about what each piece symbolises, as well as a small amount of Irish history and legend. She intertwines this with detailed playing instructions, making learning entertaining and informative as well as inspiring. In the notes for the piece titled ?Layd Church?, the student is told that?A small stream runs along the side of the church, the sound of which, together with birdsong, is the only music you will hear there now. If you wish to play this successfully, you will need to listen to birds singing!?It is this personality and friendly tone that makes learning from The Nine Glens Of Antrim a joy.The songs themselves are subtle, pretty and precisely composed, perfect for a student who already has a good grasp of playing in a variety of keys, at different tempos and in alternative time signatures. Armstrong also leaves certain expressive elements up to the performer, so the flexibility would suit a student who is keen to bring some character and feeling to the piece. Each song represents a different challenge, and attempts to introduce a novel style and technique, so the use of the natural beauty of a landscape provides an anchor for students to connect the theory with the practice. To hear a recording of each track free of charge, just head to the composer's own website, where you can also view photographs symbolising each song to inspire you to begin your learning of The Nine Glens of Antrim today. / Piano

1722-1725. Par BACH JOHANN-SEBASTIAN. In 1721 a 20-year-old soprano employed at the princely court in Köthen married the court's Kapellmeister, set to become the greatest composer of the age. As his second wife she married into a young family with four children, and a busy household filled with music. The music book that Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his new wife Anna Magdalena in 1722, and replaced more lavishly in 1725, treats us to a tantalizing glimpse inside this unique family, allowing us to sit beside Bach as a composer, teacher, husband and father. Over the years, these notebooks became a place for the family to share instructional exercises, favourite pieces - by Bach and other composers - to play orsing, early composition efforts from the children, and first versions of some of Bach's more ambitious keyboard works. What is usually presented as 'the' Anna Magdalena Notebook is a set of excerpts from the 1725 collection. The scholarship that informed the New Bach Edition in 1957 has been greatly developed and expanded since then. Now, for the first time, Edition Peters presents a new Urtext edition of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach. - Contains all the material from the 1722 and 1725 notebooks together in one volume, in the original landscape format - Edited by pre-eminent Bach scholar Christoph Wolff, Harvard Professor and former Director of the Leipzig Bach ArchiveRepresents the very latest in Bach scholarship, reflecting up-to-the-minute research on texts, authorship and copyists - Extensive preface, detailed critical commentary, and beautifully engraved notation - Hardcover clothbound edition with gold embossing - Printed in Köthen and bound in Leipzig - the home of Bach and the home of Edition Peters - this cutting-edge, premium modern edition's journey to your library retraces the Bach family's own move from the princely town to the city. This premium edition offers a truly best-in-class publication. In 1721 a 20-year-old soprano employed at the princely court in Köthen married the court's Kapellmeister, set to become the greatest composer of the age. As his second wife she married into a young family with four children, and a busy household filled with music. The music book that Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his new wife Anna Magdalena in 1722, and replaced more lavishly in 1725, treats us to a tantalizing glimpse inside this unique family, allowing us to sit beside Bach as a composer, teacher, husband and father. Over the years, these notebooks became a place for the family to share instructional exercises, favourite pieces - by Bach and other composers - to play orsing, early composition efforts from the children, and first versions of some of Bach's more ambitious keyboard works. What is usually presented as 'the' Anna Magdalena Notebook is a set of excerpts from the 1725 collection. The scholarship that informed the New Bach Edition in 1957 has been greatly developed and expanded since then. Now, for the first time, Edition Peters presents a new Urtext edition of the Notebooks for Anna Magdalena Bach. Contains all the material from the 1722 and 1725 notebooks together in one volume, in the original landscape format. Edited by pre-eminent Bach scholar Christoph Wolff, Harvard Professor and former Director of the Leipzig Bach Archive. Represents the very latest in Bach scholarship, reflecting up-to-the-minute research on texts, authorship and copyists. Extensive preface, detailed critical commentary, and beautifully engraved notation. Hardcover clothbound edition with gold embossing. Printed in Köthen and bound in Leipzig - the home of Bach and the home of Edition Peters - this cutting-edge, premium modern edition's journey to your library retraces the Bach family's own move from the princely town to the city. This premium edition offers a truly best-in-class publication. Alongside it, Edition Peters presents a selection of the most popular pieces from the two notebooks in a practical student edition, drawing on the material of Christoph Wolff's scholarly edition, to be enjoyed by teachers and students alike. / Classique / Répertoire / Piano

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN. Specially produced in association with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn for the 250th Anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth, this souvenir collection of some of his most famous pieces and movements allows us to rediscover the joy of experiencing the full range of his music in the home and through our fingers, just as millions of amateur musicians got to know and love this music in the days before recordings. The volume contains original works for piano, such as the ever-popular Für Elise, and expert arrangements of orchestral movements, such as the first movement of the Fifth Symphony and the Ode to Joy from the Ninth Symphony. Beautifully illustrated, and with introductions to all pieces, this handsome book comes in a practical landscape format. Edition Peters enjoyed a close working relationship with Beethoven, as the original publisher of his First Symphony among other works. The book also tells the fascinating story of the connection between Edition Peters and the most famous portrait of Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler./ Recueil / Piano

Par TIERSEN YANN. 'I think there is a similarity between the infinite big and the infinite smallness of everything,' says Yann Tiersen. 'It's the same experiment looking through a microscope as it is a telescope.' Named after a chapel in a small village on the island of Ushant, Kerber marks a new chapter in Tiersen's career. A chapter still true to Tiersen's nuanced and subtle approach but one that sets out with his most overtly electronic material to date. Beautifully textured, highly immersive and thoughtfully constructed, Tiersen creates an electronic world, providing an environment in which the piano source exists. A sense of place has often been a central theme in Tiersen's work and here that is no different. Each track is tied to a place mapping out the immediate landscape that surrounds Tiersen's home, linking back to his thoughts on the possibilities of the infinite smallness. Kerber is an extraordinary collection of seven pieces for Solo Piano and Electronics by critically acclaimed composer Yann Tiersen. This official, exclusive folio is beautifully printed on high-quality, uncoated paper with striking graphic artwork. All seven pieces are presented for Solo Piano and follow a preface from the composer. Check out the official video for 'Ker al Loch' below: https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=RHiYco6Sd_k/ Recueil / Piano

Barbara Arens writes... A fact: I love Scotland. Every time I come home after travelling in Scotland I feel myself bursting with ideas inspired by all I've seen and experienced there. The heather-covered hills and the dusky forests the wind the amazingly pure air the mysterious ruins - and especially the water - be it a dark brown burn a roaring waterfall heavy clouds a gentle mist or the waves of the North Sea or a loch just begging to be explored - and the people I meet and their lovely almost always comprehensible speech...What a source of inspiration! And then there's the music - nothing is more thrilling than hearing massed bands of pipes and drums aswell as the rich tradition of folk music. So I come home and sit down at the piano and try to put these impressions into music trying always to keep the pieces as easily playable as possible - I want my piano students to enjoy them and express themselves through them without struggling with technical difficulties.So some of these pieces reflect my impression of a landscape standing stones a sunset over a loch; but some of the pieces are based on actual traditional gaelic songs and tunes. A wonderful discovery was finding the Scots Musical Museum the collection of traditional songs assembled and revised to a great extent by Robert Burns which appeared in Edinburgh 1769 1803 - a fantastic resource.I'm hoping you'll enjoy playing this collection of Scottish Piano pieces.

June Armstrong's Strangford Sketchbook contains eight pieces for the Piano, inspired by the Irish sea inlet of Strangford Lough.'The Ards Peninsula and Strangford Lough have always been one of my favourite parts of Ireland. These eight pieces explore the expressive and atmospheric ranges of the Piano, and also seek to evoke the beauty of the landscape through resonances of Irish music.' - June ArmstrongThe pieces in this collection are of moderate difficulty, around grades 6-7 standard, and each of them is designed to introduce different elements of technical development. The Strangford Sketchbook presents a wide variety of styles and musical challenges. / Piano

Par FELLOWS DARREN. Indulge in a delectable musical feast with Tasty Tunes, an enticing piano book featuring 10 original food-themed pieces, perfect for aspiring pianists at intermediate level. With titles such as 'Hurry with the Curry!' and 'Watermelon dreams' , this whimsical collection takes your taste buds on a tantalizing journey through a diverse culinary landscape of melodies and harmonies. Whether you're a budding musician or a piano teacher looking for engaging repertoire, this book will enthral and captivate, leaving you craving for more musical delicacies. / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Recueil / Piano

Par BOSSO EZIO. A brand new collection of solo piano pieces by Ezio Bosso from the album The 12th Room, which combines original compositions with famous pages by Bach and Chopin, revisited by Ezio and included in the suite Bach Was in Another Room (2-7), and by John Cage with In a Landscape. The collection is completed by three pieces belonging to three other projects: Six Breaths (2009), Music For Weather Elements (2010-11), Seasong 1 to 4 and Other Little Stories (2011)./ Recueil / Piano

Grades 3-5-Tapping Heels (No. 15 in this book) is currently set on Trinity Guildhall Piano 2012-2014 Grade 4 (B4). See the u-tube clip!A celebration of music styles from around the world these miniatures are a personal response to the music of a wide range of countries: from Japanese ceremonial music to the rhythms of Tanzania from the American fiddler to the Spanish guitarist from the melancholy calm of the Russian landscape to the exuberance of a Trinidadian steel-band. Suitable for pianists of all ages.

The Skálholt Suite - The Black Forest Suite. Par O'RHYS DANIEL . Piano music that seems to be written for nature. These pieces are miniatures of a calm world, fragile and beautiful. Daniel O'Rhys thinks of his music in suites. Each of these suites is about a special place. ''The music makes a solid connection. With the places, the people, the stories and the journey itself. The music would not have been created without these things. They are special moments at special points on this earth captured in music. They are not purely musical descriptions of a landscape. The individual pieces are more like drawings in a very personal diary.'' Daniel O’Rhys wanted to create something special. Not just a sheet music book. He wanted to add photographs, moments and stories from his journeys and create something that has a true value. / Niveau : Élémentaire-Moyen / Répertoire / Piano