Ballet Music For Piano

First Repertoire for Little Pianists is a series of delightful, original piano works for children from beginner to preparatory level. Comprising 25 performance pieces that may also be used to supplement a method, each book in the First Repertoire for Little Pianists series provides a treasure trove of meticulously graded music, bursting with imagination and inventiveness. Focused on simplistic five-finger hand positions and with useful performance notes for each piece, Book 1 features piano solos, solos with teacher accompaniment, and pupil duets that will motivate further study and foster a love for music-making.

The Piano Treasury of Easy Classical Music. This tremendous piano collection contains 400 pages of great music literature, specially selected and edited for the beginning pianist who loves classical music. Includes inventions, preludes, fugues, minuets, sonata movements, nocturnes, waltzes, mazurkas, intermezzos, romantic short pieces, impressionistic works, and light classics, as well as the most rewarding traditional arrangements of themes from the great symphonies, chamber works, operas, and ballets by the master composers of the past four centuries. Includes a CD with selected performances.

Ballet Suite-Cole Porter's only attempt at a “serious” composition came with the ballet score Within the Quota when Darius Milhaud suggested Porter as a composer to pair with his La Création du monde.Both pieces were rapturously received by the Parisian press at the October 1923 premiere at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Cole Porter later believed the score to be lost. In 1970 the score was discovered at Yale from which William Bolcom and Richard Rodney Bennett created this two-Piano version.The ballet is about an immigrant to New York who encounters a seductive heiress atap-dancer a flapper a cowboy and a movie star beauty. Two copies needed for performance.

Tchaikovsky is one of the most reverred and remembered of Russian composers. His superb ballets such as the famous Nutcracker are full of beauty and wondrous melodies that perfectly compliment the graceful and elegant movements and energy of the dancers. This fabulous volume contains 40 pieces extracts and exercises of ballet music for piano all selected by Agda Skjerne. Suitable for upper intermediate players.

The final movement of the Sonata in A major KV 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the Rondo Alla Turca is one of the most famous piano pieces of all time. Once only familiar to musical experts later a universal piece for all piano pupils its opening melody is now even omnipresent as an alienated sinus tone-like mobile phone ring tone. Fazıl Say's arrangement originally created as an effective encore follows on from this popularity. After the first eight bars have been presented in original form typical elements of jazz superimposed on the still recognisable classical foundations can be discovered such as syncopation of the top notes andornamentation through chromatic blue notes embedded in the at times frenzied chains of semiquavers. In the spirit of the work's improvisatory character Say likes to perfom his Alla Turca Jazz in different combinations for example accompanied by jazz singers of with orchestra. It may appear strange that Fazıl Say who was born in Turkey and - when not on tour - is still resident in that country does not bring back Mozart's interpretation of genuine Turkish music closer to its own roots particularly as many of his compositions such as Black Earth or the Violin Sonata are characterised by a subtle amalgamation of the Classical-Romantic tradition Turkish folk music and elements of jazz. In a further Mozart arrangement the ballet music Patara premiered in Vienna in 2006 composed on the basis of the Rococo-like theme from the first movement of the same A-major Sonata (wich enjoys almost as great popularity as the Alla Turca theme) Say utilised the connection which was absent in Alla Turca albeit in the opposite direction. In the ballet music the piano symbolises Western culture and the Ney flute Oriental culture communcated atmosperically by austere percussion instrumentation and soprano vocalisation.

Pianoworks: A Night at the Theatre is a fantastic new collection of easy-to-play arrangements for the older beginner to intermediate pianist. You'll find classic tunes from favourite operas ballets and musicals including Toreador's Song from Bizet's Carmen The Flight of the Swans from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and On the street where you live from My Fair Lady. The pieces are ideal both for concert performance and to reinforce the techniques introduced in Pianoworks Book 1 and Book 2.28 pieces compiled and arranged for the beginner to intermediate pianistIncludes favourite show tunes arias ballet themes andmusic-hall songsFeatures music from the thirteenth century to the present dayInformative background information on every piece

La Suite De Ballet Gayaneh tient le langage musical qui a marqué de façon indélébile par héritage arménien de Khacahaturian. Ses partitions sont connus pour leurs sensuelle, chantant écriture mélodique, l'orchestration colorée et élan rythmique élémentaire. Cette pièce du Ballet Gayaneh a été spécialement arrangées pour piano. Ce livre a été spécialement écrite en anglais et en japonais. / Piano