Part of a new series of piano music books edited by British concert pianist Samantha Ward, and designed primarily to be played at home, simply for pleasure. Selected for their relaxing qualities, the pieces in this volume range from well-known classics to delightful lesser-known gems. Featuring arrangements of pieces by French Impressionist composers, the collection is of easy/intermediate level so a competent amateur pianist will have little difficulty in mastering the pieces. / Piano

Satie?s ?Ogives? und Gymnopédies? are milestones in the history of modern music. The four metrically free ?Ogives? (meaning pointed arches) reflect the influence of the French New Gothic or Neo-Gregorian movement in architecture with their clear lines and echo effects. The three ?Gymnopédies? proceed with a swaying, chordal momentum, and Satie?s radically sparse writing makes ironic reference to the dance of young warriors in ancient Sparta during gymnopaedia rituals.

The pieces are easy to play and are ideal for teaching purposes. Information on performance practice by Satie specialist Steffen Schleiermacher offer insight into Satie?s music aesthetics.

- Urtext edition based on all sources and current scholarship
- Easy to play
- Ideal for teaching purposes
- With practical suggestions for performance (Eng/Ger)
- With an informative foreword (Eng/Ger) and critical commentary (Eng)

Jens Rosteck
is a musicologist, cultural historian and author. He has written books on Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, Oscar Wilde, Bob Dylan, Jane and Paul Bowles, Hans Werner Henze, and a dissertation on Darius Milhaud?s Claudel operas. He resides in Southern France and was for many years an author for the music encyclopaedia MGG, writing on French music.

Steffen Schleiermacher
studied as ?Meisterschüler? at the ?Berliner Akademie der Künste? and in the class of Aloys Kontarsky at the ?Musikhochschule Köln?. He runs the concert series musica nova at the ?Gewandhaus Leipzig?, was a founder of the Ensemble Avantgarde and gives concerts and lectures as a composer, pianist and conductor throughout Europe, the USA, South America and Asia. He has been the recipient of scholarships (including the Villa Massimo Rome) and numerous recording prizes, and is ?Chevalier des Arts et Lettres?. He has made approx. 60 CD recordings including the complete piano works by Cage and numerous piano works by Satie. / Classique / Partition / Agrafé /

In the summer of 1913 Satie once more poked fun at himself and the world of music with a set of parodic piano pieces on various marine animals, giving it the grotesque title 'Embryons desséchés? (Dessicated Embryos)(BA 10811). The atmospheric cycle 'Avant-dernières Pensées? (Next-to-last Thoughts) (BA 10849) of 1915, with its underlaid words, likewise belongs to Satie's 'story pieces'. The notation without barlines, the 'stories' beneath the music and the spoofsof well-known pieces of music, most strikingly the Funeral March from Chopin's Piano Sonata in B minor, make the work a barrel of musical fun. The curious performance instructions in these three miniatures, all based on ostinato figures, amusingly lampoon the ideal of Romantic expressiveness. These two Urtext editions faithfully adhere to the sources and reflect the latest findings of Satie scholarship. They contain translations of all of Satie's French texts, practical page-turns, notes on performance practice by Satie specialist Steffen Schleiermacher and informative Forewords. The pieces range from an easy to moderate level of difficulty and provide an ideal additional varied repertoire for teaching purposes. / Piano

The music scene took notice of Erik Satie (1866-1925) all of a sudden: The world premiere of his ballet 'Parade' on 18 May 1917 caused quite a scandal. The production which involved Sergey Diaghilev with his 'Ballets Russes', Pablo Picasso (scenery and costumes), Jean Cocteau (story) as well as Léonide Massine (choreography) divided the music scene of Paris, yet made the composer widely known. Satie who hardly had had any solid musical training and lived in Paris for almost all his life developed a new musical style, in deliberate rejection of the 'Wagnérisme' of his time. Classical form models, new harmonies, stylistic ease, meditative and clownish elements amalgamated in an original way, the perfect example being his '3 Gymnopédies' of 1888 the first of which was here arranged for a solo instrument with piano accompaniment: Thus, it is now possible, even for non-pianists, to play this famous miniature by Satie. Thanks to its easy playability, it can also be used for educational purposes. / Trompette Et Piano

Featuring some of the world's greatest pieces of music, from a variety of different genres, the 'Top Ten' series contains music for everyone. Whether you're a beginner who wants to know the best classical pieces to learn or a more experienced player looking for the ultimate Piano songs to add to your repertoire, we have a 'Top Ten' for you! Each piece comes with interesting background notes to give you that extra bit of insight.The Top Ten Most Calming Pieces To Play On Piano contains ten of the world's most relaxing Piano pieces, composed by some of the best-known composers of the last two hundred years, including Frédéric Chopin, Jules Massenet, Philip Glass and Yiruma.We've roamed freely across the past two centuries of music to create this tranquil Piano selection for you. There's a piece each by Chopin and Liszt, two major stars of the early Romantic era - a couple of jewels from the Parisian belle epoque by Satie and Massenet - unforgettable melodies from the pens of Dvorak and Rachmaninoff - while closer to our own time there's beautiful music by Philip Glass, Neil Cowley and Ludovico Einaudi. Let life's stresses melt away as you take a deep breath and lose yourself in these precious musical moments... / Piano

Pour voix moyenne ou grave et piano - For Medium or Low Voice and Piano. Par SATIE ERIK. Ce recueil fait partie de la collection ' Musique vocale française ', dédiée au grand répertoire vocal français et destinée aussi bien aux étudiants qu'aux professeurs et chanteurs professionnels. Les plus célèbres mélodies de Erik Satie y sont présentées, dans leur tonalité originale ou bien transposées, dans de nouvelles gravures. / Niveau : Moyen / Répertoire / Voix Moyenne ou Grave et Piano

Clarinet performer and professor Denise Schmidt has compiled a comprehensive collection of solos for clarinet players with a fine mix of transcriptions of familiar classics and solos written for the clarinet. This All-Time Favourites folio has pieces from all periods of music and contains the music of Bach Beethoven Bizet Corelli Faure Gounod Handel Satie and many more.

36 Repertoire Pieces with piano accompaniment-Solos For Flute: 36 Repertoire Pieces With Piano Accompaniment is a collection of fantastic Flute pieces and arrangements with Piano Accompaniment compiled and edited by David Peck.These will provide an enjoyable challenge for the advancing flautist.The solo Flute part is also included on a separate insert.

From best-selling author, John O'Neill, The Saxophone Method is a complete course for the beginner to intermediate saxophonist. Start by mastering the essential foundation techniques of breathing, embouchure, tone production, and tonguing required to be a great player in any style. With a wide range of tunes from all over the world you will be exposed to a great variety of musical styles to motivate and inspire.The mp3 backing tracks, available as free downloads, feature top professional musicians and will give you the feeling of playing in a great band from the very beginning.The Saxophone Method is supplemented by two Repertoire Books to give you even more music to practice and enjoy, and perfectly complements the Jazz Method for Saxophone. By the end of the method you will be able to:- understand the fundamentals of good playing technique- have explored the full range of the instrument- be familiar with the most common rhythms- have a solid grounding in music theory- have the confidence to play with a real band in many different styles / Alto Saxophone

Peaceful Piano Playlist: Revisited. Peaceful Piano Playlist: Revisited presents a chilled collection of peaceful piano solos for the intermediate pianist. Inspired by the popular Peaceful Piano playlists available on streaming services, it features pieces such as The Light She Brings by Joep Beving, I due fiumi by Ludovico Einaudi, and By The Still Waters by Amy Beach.

Beginning pianists of all ages will cherish this excellent compilation of classics. Each piece was carefully selected and simplified to help students develop their skills. Many of the greatest composersâ??J. S. Bach Beethoven Brahms Mendelssohn Mozart Rimsky-Korsakov Rachmaninoff Tchaikovsky and othersâ??are represented by several pieces each some newly adapted for the piano. Composers and works not usually featured in beginner's books include pieces by Borodin Gluck Rameau and Tallis.Well-known classics include Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 Debussy's Claire de Lune Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition Satie'sGymnopedie No. 1 Schumann's Child Falling Asleep and 'Spring' from Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Several orchestral pieces have been newly adapted for the piano including 'Dance of the Swan' from Swan Lake 'Aquarium' from Carnival of the Animals 'Largo' from Xerxes and 'Waltz of the Flowers' from The Nutcracker.Dover Original.

In 1903, Satie composed his famous cycle for piano duet with the provocative and ambiguous title '3 Morceaux en forme de Poire?. (In French, 'poire? means 'pear? but also 'dimwit?). It is a detached and ironic commentary on the constraints of musical form.Now this cycle is being published in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition for the first time. Convenient page turns, a score format, translations of the French expression and tempo markings, Satie's enigmatic introduction, performance suggestions by the Satie specialist Steffen Schleiermacher and a detailed foreword by the renowned musicologist Jens Rosteck make the study and performance of these pieces a true pleasure.- First scholarly-critical Urtext edition- Of an easy to moderate level of difficulty- Includes translations of all expression and tempo markings (Fr/Ger/Eng)- Detailed foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) / Piano 4 Mains