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Canon in F - 2 Pianos, 4 Hands
Canon in F - 2 Pianos, 4 Hands
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Canon in F - 2 Pianos, 4 Hands
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1118276 By Bill Walker. By Bill Walker. Arranged by Bill Walker. Classical,Contemporary,...
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1118276 By Bill Walker. By Bill Walker. Arranged by Bill Walker. Classical,Contemporary,New Age. Score. 23 pages. Bill Walker Music Publishing #719791. Published by Bill Walker Music Publishing (A0.1118276). Composer and Pianist Bill Walker was talking to his uncle one day, many years ago, about the chord progression in Canon in D by Pachelbel. After the conversation ended, Bill decided to write a modern day Canon. Thus, Canon in F was born. Originally written for one piano, this version is for two pianos. Grab a friend and a second piano and have fun with this modern piece of music. Both pianists get their time to shine in the spotlight, so it doesn't matter who plays Piano I or Piano II. Key Signature: F major. Pages: 23. Published by Bill Walker Music Publishing.
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Passionate Piano Moments: Emotional Piano Music
Passionate Piano Moments: Emotional Piano Music
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Passionate Piano Moments: Emot
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Composed by Tito Abeleda. 21st Century, Contemporary Classical, Neo-Classical, Recital. Individual Part, Score, Set of Parts. 156 pages. Published by ...
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Composed by Tito Abeleda. 21st Century, Contemporary Classical, Neo-Classical, Recital. Individual Part, Score, Set of Parts. 156 pages. Published by Visionary Quest Records
Addnew life to your piano repertoire, piano recital, and next concert withPassionate Piano Moments, #1 new release in New Age Music on Amazon. Get the PDF digital download version here onSheet Music Plus. Perfect gift for the pianist in your life. On sale here until 12/31/2020. Listen to the music inPassionate Piano Moments on Spotify - https://bit.ly/PassionatePianoMoments_Spotify.
PassionatePiano Moments is a 155-page collection of emotional, dramatic piano music forintermediate to advanced pianists. Passionate Piano Moments will add new lifeto your piano repertoire, recital, or next concert with its 10 impassionedpiano solos, 1 two piano duet, and 1 four piano quartet. The music was composedby Tito Abeleda. Each piece reflects the emotions he was feeling at the timeeach piece was written. Passionate Piano Moments includes 1) Drifting; 2) DyingBreath; 3) Missing You; 4) Beautiful Memories; 5) a new intimate yet cinematicarrangement of Silent Night, Holy Night; 6) Forever Touched by Your Love; 7)Running, Searching; 8) Phoenix Rising; 9) a new dramatic arrangement of O HolyNight; 10) Tempus Fugit; 11) Descensus ad Infero for two pianos including scoreplus parts; and 12) Procession in D Minor for four pianos also including scoreplus parts.
Awardwinning Film/TV composer Rob Pottorf writes in the book's Foreword"...This book is truly one of a kind. It will inspire, as he takes you notonly through his collection of music, but into his own journey of creating.Mozart was the guy who said, ‘Neither a lofty degree of intelligence norimagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love thatis the soul of genius.’ And so my friend Tito has made with love, thiscollection of music."
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Piano Concerto No. 6, Two Pianos/Four Hands
Piano Concerto No. 6, Two Pianos/Four Hands
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1321769 Composed by James Nathaniel Holland. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. Score....
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1321769 Composed by James Nathaniel Holland. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. Score. 52 pages. James Nathaniel Holland #910236. Published by James Nathaniel Holland (A0.1321769). 2 PIANOS/4 HANDS (Piano 2, Reduced Orchestra)  Number 6 of 21st century, American composer James Nathaniel Holland’s Piano Concertos for smaller orchestra and piano soloist.  This lively piece contains three distinct movements.  Movement one giggles and bubbles with triumphant glee;  movement 2, a quiet rocking; ending with movement 3, a neo-classical style with modern sensibilities.  Good for smaller hand, intermediate advanced level. (License or permission to perform may apply.)Instrumentation:  Fl, Ob, Cl Bb 1.2., Bsn, Hrn 1.2, Tpt, Trom, Timp, Perc. (Cymbal w/soft mallet, Crash Cymbals, Splash cymbal, high hat, bass drum, wood block) PIANO SOLOIST, StringsTwo Pianos/Four Hands, Full Score only, and Full Score with Instrument Parts, all sold separately.Total Duration:  Approximately 30 minutes.
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Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Third Movement, for 2 pianos
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Third Movement, for 2 pianos
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.800634 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Richard Simm. Baroque,Classical. S...
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.800634 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Richard Simm. Baroque,Classical. Score. 8 pages. Richard Simm #6714545. Published by Richard Simm (A0.800634). Bach's music often lends itself to performance by instruments other than the ones he specified. In this 2-piano transcription by Richard Simm, the wide range of a modern piano allows for an entertaining, even humorous, two-piano treatment of this wonderfully lively piece.
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Sonata for 2 pianos
Sonata for 2 pianos
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Digital Download SKU: A0.495151 By Liudmila Knyazeva & Daria Yakimovich. By Liudmila Knyazeva. Classical,Contemporary. Scor...
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2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Digital Download SKU: A0.495151 By Liudmila Knyazeva & Daria Yakimovich. By Liudmila Knyazeva. Classical,Contemporary. Score. 27 pages. Published by Liudmila Knyaz (A0.495151). Lyudmila Knyazeva's spectacular concert composition for a piano duet can decorate the program of even the most demanding performers. This composition is often performed in live concerts and always evokes a standing ovation from the audience. The composition begins with a slow intro. Then comes the Sonata Allegro - fast and bravura music. Composition requires skill and professionalism of the performer. It is also important to be able to work with modern music, to know and understand its language, dynamics, complex harmonies. Lyudmila Knyazeva is a living composer of the 21st century.
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INITIATE, Between the Octaves - A Piano Duo Suite (Movement 1 of 7)
INITIATE, Between the Octaves - A Piano Duo Suite (Movement 1 of 7)
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Instrumental Duet,Keyboard - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1497831 Composed by Jenni Roditi. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. 24 pages. Jenni Ro...
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Instrumental Duet,Keyboard - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1497831 Composed by Jenni Roditi. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. 24 pages. Jenni Roditi #1074235. Published by Jenni Roditi (A0.1497831). For Piano Duo - 2 pianos/4hands. Initiate, Between the Octaves, the opening piece in the suite, is a sparky, rhythmic and post-modern hoquet, of some wit and almost perpetual bounciness. A ricocheting of quickly contrasting dynamics with occasional switches to distant moments. Three big plunges into legato emotional flow, release the popping bubbles of the fiery staccato material. A short final chorale settles and grounds the quick cuts, swoops and build ups that have propelled the whole piece. Names of all the movements in the suite Between the Octaves in the right order are Initiate, Surrender, Thread, Curve, Encircle, Ritualise, Ignite. The whole suite follows a long line from movement 1 to movement 7. However, individual pieces are well suited to be played alone too. Piano Duo is ideally two Steinway grands, otherwise, whatever is available. An enjoyment of the tensions and relationships generated between the two instruments: grand-upright, upright-electronic keyboard is to be explored as a positive. Each piece creates its own world in the suite and can be part of smaller subgroups taken from the suite, in any combination, but the order of the pieces needs to be maintained if more than one is played. Here is a taste of the background to the musical world of this 53 minute compositional suite. During a reflective time I read the following: The whole philosophy of dharma art (Buddhist art) is that you don't try to be artistic, but you just approach objects as they are, and the message comes through automatically. (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, from 'True Perception The Path of Dharma Art.' Shambhala 2008, p.133.) The 'objects as they are' became the 'octaves as they are'. As the pieces were composed the octaves had a centring and clarifying role that allowed other material to circulate around or play against them. They acted as pivots, repetitions, drones, ostinati, pointillist nodes, pedals, melodic features, struts, harmonic turnpikes, breathing spaces, bass lines: musical imperatives. The octaves called the musical shots most of the time. When the music pulled a semitone up or down and away from the octaves (as it did quite often) it was especially telling in the context of the ringing spaces the octaves were creating. I became interested in the subtle dislocation that two pianos could provide. By dislocation I mean a degree of tension between the natural acoustics of the two instruments in the room and the players idiosyncrasies as musicians. The whole point of this work was to examine the nature of my syntax, grammar, and compositional thinking. The title demanded one thing above all: what notes am I going to use between these octaves?? My choice of notes was derived in most instances from the tempo, pitch, and rhythm of the initial octaves at the beginning of each piece alongside the individual word titles that I set out to explore as musical images. The audio was developed from Sibelius software, via MIDI to Logic samples of a Steinway grand piano.
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Carmen Fantasy
Carmen Fantasy
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2 Pianos, 4 hands
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ADVANCED
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Classical
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Alexander Rosenblatt
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Carmen Fantasy
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Schott Music - Digital
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2 pianos - difficult - Digital Download On themes from the opera by Georges Bizet. Composed by Alexander Rosenblatt. This edition: Sheet music. Downl...
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2 pianos - difficult - Digital Download On themes from the opera by Georges Bizet. Composed by Alexander Rosenblatt. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 10 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q11389. Published by Schott Music - Digital
Alexander Rosenblatt, born in Moscow in 1956, completed his piano and composition studies at the renowned conservatoire of his home town. In his compositions, he combines classical elements with jazz elements to form an original blend of styles, a very characteristic musical language. He made himself a name as a pianist, especially in the piano duo with O. Sinking, a genre which then earned him great success as a creative artist as well: In 2001 he won a special award for his 'Modern Piano Duet' at the International Composition Competition in Tokyo.
In his 'Carmen Fantasy' Rosenblatt uses themes from Bizet's opera in a clever and witty manner, spicing them with jazzy rhythms and surprising harmonies - virtuoso fireworks for two pianos.
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