An introduction to the Baroque style with thirteen advanced pieces fully annotated and with performing notes. Edited by Richard Jones. Includes works by Frescobaldi J.S. Bach Rameau and Scarlatti.

A large selection of Piano literature, from the baroque to the modern, is presented in a variety of forms, colours, and expressions. Included are pieces affording the student a greater opportunity to attain technical and pianistic effectiveness. The titles follow an approximately chronological sequence from the baroque to our modern period. All selections are in their original form, neither arranged, nor simplified, and are based on urtext or other highly reliable editions. / Piano

La série 'Festival Collection' est composée de 8 volumes rassemblant des thèmes couvrant les périodes : Baroque, Classique, Romantique et 20ème/ 21ème siècle. Cette série est étudiée pour correspondre au niveau du pianiste. Le CD audio contenant tous les morceaux du songbook guidera l'étudiant dans son interprétation. / Piano / Partition + Cd

16 Concert Pieces For Violin And Piano-Solo Time For Violin is a three-volume series of concert pieces for the intermediate to the more advanced level violinist. Featuring arrangements or original pieces by these award-winning authors each volume introduces styles and techniques from the Baroque to the modern age. They cover keys and technical challenges suited to the level while providing sophisticated repertoire for the developing performer.A graded series of pieces ranging from intermediate to more advanced levels.16 pieces in each book displaying an exciting variety of styles and techniques and drawn from the Baroque to the modern era. Carefully selected and arrangedby the award-winning authors of the Fiddle Time series. Helpful fingering and bowing suggestions plus informative notes on the pieces and performance techniques. Idiomatic Piano part and CD backing tracks with each book. A selection of full performances available online.

This essential collection of 100 piano études is divided into 15 units that survey the technical challenges at the early intermediate, intermediate, and late intermediate levels. The early units review technical issues that students experience at the elementary levels, such as five-finger patterns and articulations. The later units introduce more difficult technical challenges that prepare students for advanced repertoire, such as playing ornamentation, octaves, and large chords. Each unit contains between five and ten études written by master composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods. Within each unit, the études are arranged in order of difficulty. Each piece appears in its original form - notes have not been added or removed. The composers' original dynamics, tempo marks, phrase indications, and articulations have been preserved. Ornamentation is realized in footnotes. Added measure numbers provide easy reference, and editorial suggestions for fingering and pedaling have been provided. A concise foreword discusses technique at the intermediate levels. Two indexes are included: one by unit and technical skill, and another by level and composer.Unit listing: Five-Finger Patterns * Articulation * Coordination between the Hands * Scales * Triads, Inversions, and Broken Chords * Double Notes * Left-Hand Development * Velocity * Arpeggios * Finger and Hand Independence * Repeated Notes * Accompaniment Patterns * Ornamentation * Octaves * Four- and Five-Note Chords. / Piano

This unique compilation of 18 beautiful pieces pays tribute to 13 of the world's greatest women composers from the Baroque to contemporary periods. Included are works by Amy Beach Teresa Carreño Cecile Chaminade Louise Farrenc Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Clara Wieck Schumann and Maria Szymanowska as well as pieces from relatively unknown composers ranging in difficulty from intermediate to moderately advanced.

Par DIVERS AUTEURS (ARR.HEUMANN HANS-GUENTER). Following the success of the first volume of Best of Piano Classics (ED 9060), Schott now presents another collection with a selection of 40 arrangements of popular classical masterpieces for the discerning amateur pianist to use over the years. The contents include great works from Bach to Gershwin, ranging from chamber music, symphonies and concertos through to opera. This selection of musical favourites presents the best known and loveliest pieces of classical music from the Baroque era through to the 20th Century, from 'Air' to 'Rhapsody in Blue'. With fingerings, tempo and pedal suggestions added, these appealing arrangements for advanced players are in easy to read modern printed scores. Recommended not only for tuition purposes, but for all those who enjoy playing the piano in their leisure time./ Répertoire / Piano

The piano collection contains a wealth of wonderful pieces: 50 of the finest classical piano pieces written by 22 composers from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern eras. These perennial favourites, which are all of medium difficulty, are ideally suited for advanced pupils, students, adults returning to the instrument, and all lovers of great piano music. This is a 'treasure trove' for piano tuition and recreational music-making.

This album represents astonishing value for money! / Partition /

Par COUPERIN FRANCOIS. What is hidden behind the seductively hypnotic repeating theme of Couperin?s Les Baricades Mistérieuses' The original allusion of the title is long forgotten, though tantalizing theories abound, but the piece has lost none of its evocative beauty. This new Urtext Edition from Edition Peters by eminent Couperin scholar Catherine Massip provides young pianists of advancing abilities, enthusiasts and professional pianists with a beautifully engraved and reliable scholarly text. In addition to the notation itself, this edition contains a preface in French, German and English and a critical commentary. ? New Urtext Edition of one of the most famous and appealing Baroque keyboard works ? Medium difficulty makes this suitable for advancing players ? Contains preface and critical commentary in French, German and English ? Edition by leading Couperin scholar Catherine Massip/ Répertoire / Piano

Media : Book
Author : by Thomas Mace. transcribed, arranged and edited by Andrew Shepard-Smith
Level : Intermediate
Date published : 9/27/2005
Style : Early Music/Renaissance
Type : Solos
Description :
The first complete anthology of lute music contained within Thomas Mace's historic treatise Musick's Monument (1676), transcribed and edited for classical guitar by Andrew Shepard-Smith. An exquisite and intriguing collection of early English Baroque lute music containing twelve preludes, eight complete lute suites, transcription notes, and a detailed table of ornaments (as outlined in Musick's Monument). Originally written as a pedagogical text for lute and theorbo, Mace's lute music contains wonderful insights into the performance practice of the time. A very valuable addition both the performance repertoire and to the guitar reference literature. Staff notation. moderate to advanced.

A very representative collection of music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods skillfully adapted for solo guitar from lute and piano works. This book contains well-recognized pieces by master composers many of which havealready become essential repertoire for the classical guitar. Compiled with the performance skills of the beginner guitarist in mind this collection also fulfills repertoire requirements of the student guitarist as well asproviding valuable exercises in sight-reading in standard notation for the more intermediate and advanced performers.

An exact contemporary of Bach Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) was one of the greatest Lutenists of all time. He was also a prolific and brilliant composer. This collection of arrangements for solo Guitar is an ideal introduction to Weiss's music. The ten varied pieces were carefully chosen for their musical character and technical suitability. Placed in order of difficulty they reflect the range of skills required for Baroque repertoire at intermediate and advanced levels. Stylish and idiomatic adaptations preserving the original ornamentation and left-hand slurs. Core repertoire for Grades 6-8 with pieces on the ABRSM Guitarsyllabus. Carefully considered fingering both clear and consistent. Advice on ornaments including full realizations.