SKU: YM.GTP01100090
ISBN 9784636100655. 8.5 x 12 inches.
Easy arrangements for adults to start playing the piano for the first time. Features large, easy-to-read music sheets.
SKU: YM.GTP01098166
ISBN 9784636981667.
Ther e are many music sheet books available for children, but not many for adults who have just started playing the piano. The Otona Piano series is designed for those adults who are beginner piano players. Here is a great piano collection for those who want to take their piano playing to the next level! It is also a great selection for live performances!
SKU: YM.GTP01100338
ISBN 9784636102352. 8.5 x 12 inches.
Features 25 songs by Japanese singer-songwriter Kazumasa Oda that are especially beautiful when played on the piano. Arranged in easy one-chorus arrangements for beginners.
SKU: HL.50579668
SKU: FG.55011-676-4
Juhani Nuorvala (b. 1961) wrote The Five Chords That Shook My World (2020) for pianist Nicolas Horvath's Hommage a Glass project and it is dedicated to him. It's a fantasy meditation on the Train/Spaceship chords in Einstein, that repeating five-chord progression (Fm - Db - A - B7 - E) about which the composer has said that there's something strange, because it never fails to lift the audience to its feet. The duration of the piece is c. 6'30'', and it was premiered by Emil Holmstrom at RUSK festival (Pietarsaari, Finland) 20th November 2020. A notable variety of influences - microtonality, American minimalism, New Romanticism, popular music, techno - has been regarded as a special feature of Nuorvala's idiom. Despite this he is not a collage artist; instead he has blended various ingredients to create a mode of expression entirely his own. Nuorvala's works are often marked with frenzied rhythmic drive. He makes music using elements and materials that both the mind and the body respond to. He finds these elements not only in old or new classical music but in various forms of urban popular music, such as the electronic music of modern dance clubs.
SKU: HH.HH508-SOL
ISBN 9790708185185.
Symp hony No. 44 is one of a number of Haydn’s middle period works often regarded as representing the so-called Sturm und Drang (‘Storm and Stress’) style of melodramatic realism taken over from contemporary German literary and dramatic models. The symphony is monotonal – each movement being in the same key, with contrast provided by excursions into the tonic major. Contrapuntal writing pervades the whole work; the second movement, unusually, is a minuet and is a strict double canon at one bar’s interval (‘Canone in Diapason’ is Haydn’s term) which itself is contrasted by the lyrical Trio section in the tonic major. The third movement, an Adagio in the tonic major, prompted the symphony’s long-adopted soubriquet, ‘Trauer’ (‘Mourning’) as it was said to have been requested by the composer himself to be played at his own funeral.2 The monothematic contrapuntal Finale reverts to the tense emotional level of the opening Allegro.
SKU: SU.27170060
Floe edge: the line where ice attached to a land mass meets free-floating sea ice. Full of haunting effects, howling overtones, and synesthetically icy music, this piece hangs in the frozen air and then builds to a lush climax before returning to its icy beginnings. A seamless blend of experimental, textural, microtonal compositional styles and heartfelt, romantic harmonies and melodies. Alto Flute, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Percussion, Violin, Violoncello & Piano Composed: 2020 Published by: Nauticus Publishing Also availavle: Set of Parts (cat. #27170061).
SKU: SU.28060061
An epic microtonal portrait of the pagan god Abraxas, for mixed ensemble (nonet).clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, & contrabass Duration: 13' Composed: 2013 Published by: Distributed Composer.
SKU: SU.28060060
SKU: SU.27170061
Floe edge: the line where ice attached to a land mass meets free-floating sea ice. Full of haunting effects, howling overtones, and synesthetically icy music, this piece hangs in the frozen air and then builds to a lush climax before returning to its icy beginnings. A seamless blend of experimental, textural, microtonal compositional styles and heartfelt, romantic harmonies and melodies. Alto Flute, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Percussion, Violin, Violoncello & Piano Composed: 2020 Published by: Nauticus Publishing Also availavle: Full Score (cat. #27170060).
SKU: HH.HH085-FSP
ISBN 9790708041160.
In this remarkably inventive work, the composer subjects the melody to a series of intervallic expansions and contractions within several diVerent tonal, and sometimes microtonal, contexts that broadly correspond to the work’s various sections. A trail of melodic clues may be traced though these sections, culminating in a quotation of the hymn tune itself towards the end.
SKU: FG.55011-775-4
ISBN 9790550117754.
Alex Freeman found initial inspiration for his string quartet (2015) in a series of photographs a geologist friend showed him of en échelon veins in rock formations. The open strings punctuated with pizzicato unisons that begin the single-movement work call to mind something crystalline and shimmering, which is immediately infused with tumbling lyrical lines in something of a rapid caccia technique throughout. The middle of the work becomes more suspended in slower material loosely based on a technique of prolation canon, comprises layers of free, expressive, lyrical, and even elegiac music moving at different speeds. As the work concludes, the materials converge in a rhythmically pulsating stasis and an almost chorale-like statement. Duration: c. 13' This product includes the score and the parts (A4 sized). American-Finn ish composer Alex Freeman (b.1972) has established himself among the foremost composers of choral music in Finland. A dedicated citizen of his musical community, a teacher, and a choral singer himself, he composes music that reflects an appreciation for a wide range of aesthetics and a passion for communicating with listeners and performers. In his choral works, in particular, we find music that aims to be sonorous, melodic, and resonant, but is always crafted to carefully avoid the cliches that can burden conventional tonality. His instrumental works run the gamut: a cantata with orchestra based on poetry of Whitman; a significant body of solo piano works that reveal deep roots in everything from austere absolute music to soaring elegaic rhetoric (see Albany Records, Inner Voice); his chamber work Blueshift (Navona Records), which is a kind of paean to Reich and Adams in miniature; open-ended modular works, like various iterations of his Slow All Clocks for electronic media, solo clarinet, and mixed choirs of kanteles; and, recently, some new directions in microtonal music.
SKU: BR.KM-2197
World premiere: Nice, February 6, 1986
ISBN 9790004501047. 9 x 12 inches.
Vertigo is a remarkable confrontation with oneself, and with ones own capacities. Sartre defines it not so much as the fear of falling into an abyss as the fear of throwing oneself into it. Similarly, A. Glucksmann defines it as the fear of that other Self, the self one would be a moment later. Moving from ones potential to other potential selves, plunging into the unknown, this was the experimental phase of my state of mind during the composition, and is reflected in the writing of diverse textures, the ordering of the dynamics and the frequent microtonal changes of intervals. This is perhaps made particularly clear in the structure of the works first half, called Successive Figures, from which I could not free myself, psychologically, until the composition was finished. In the thrill of vertigo, and in opposition to Glucksmanns reactionary book of the same name, this is an about-turn towards the following radical principle: action rather than vertigo!... (Nicolaus A. Huber)CDs: Ensemble Kaleidocollage CD ADDA 590 049 AD 184 Ensemble Aventure CD ars musici FMF AM 1224-2 ensemble avance, Andras Hamary (piano) CD Telos Music TLS 018 Ensemble EstEstEst! CD perc.pro 10052004Bibliography:Fric k, Paul Friedrich: Nicolaus A. Huber: La Force du Vertige (1985). Analyse, Universitat der Kunste Berlin, Diplomarbeit 2006.World premiere: Nice, February 6, 1986.
