Diverse Pieces - Volume 2

SKU: A3.9781786016089

ISBN 9781786016089.

Key Selling Points

• Each book contains nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C – for Practical and
Performance Grade exams.
• Books include access to audio recordings of all 48 pieces for the grade to inspire teachers and students. Audio, recorded by professional musicians, will be available on all major streaming platforms.
• Features a diverse range of styles including classic repertoire and newly-commissioned pieces
• Ideal for students looking for exam repertoire in one volume

The new Piano Exam Pieces books each feature a selection of nine pieces from the syllabus at Grades Initial-8, covering lists A, B and C. Meticulously edited and presented, these volumes comprise rich and varied repertoire from which to create an exciting programme for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. Each volume also includes helpful footnotes and syllabus information.
NEW: Audio recordings of all pieces in the specified grade can be accessed via all major streaming platforms through a QR code given in each publication. Teachers and learners will have instant access to professional recordings of all pieces listed on the syllabus to provide inspiration and explore the diverse choices available in the new syllabus.

SKU: A3.9781786016065

ISBN 9781786016065.

Key Selling Points

• Each book contains nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C – for Practical and
Performance Grade exams.
• Books include access to audio recordings of all 48 pieces for the grade to inspire teachers and students. Audio, recorded by professional musicians, will be available on all major streaming platforms.
• Features a diverse range of styles including classic repertoire and newly-commissioned pieces
• Ideal for students looking for exam repertoire in one volume

The new Piano Exam Pieces books each feature a selection of nine pieces from the syllabus at Grades Initial-8, covering lists A, B and C. Meticulously edited and presented, these volumes comprise rich and varied repertoire from which to create an exciting programme for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. Each volume also includes helpful footnotes and syllabus information.
NEW: Audio recordings of all pieces in the specified grade can be accessed via all major streaming platforms through a QR code given in each publication. Teachers and learners will have instant access to professional recordings of all pieces listed on the syllabus to provide inspiration and explore the diverse choices available in the new syllabus.

SKU: A3.9781786016096

ISBN 9781786016096.

Key Selling Points

• Each book contains nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C – for Practical and
Performance Grade exams.
• Books include access to audio recordings of all 48 pieces for the grade to inspire teachers and students. Audio, recorded by professional musicians, will be available on all major streaming platforms.
• Features a diverse range of styles including classic repertoire and newly-commissioned pieces
• Ideal for students looking for exam repertoire in one volume

The new Piano Exam Pieces books each feature a selection of nine pieces from the syllabus at Grades Initial-8, covering lists A, B and C. Meticulously edited and presented, these volumes comprise rich and varied repertoire from which to create an exciting programme for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. Each volume also includes helpful footnotes and syllabus information.
NEW: Audio recordings of all pieces in the specified grade can be accessed via all major streaming platforms through a QR code given in each publication. Teachers and learners will have instant access to professional recordings of all pieces listed on the syllabus to provide inspiration and explore the diverse choices available in the new syllabus.

SKU: A3.9781786016133

ISBN 9781786016133.

Key Selling Points

• Each book contains nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C – for Practical and
Performance Grade exams.
• Books include access to audio recordings of all 48 pieces for the grade to inspire teachers and students. Audio, recorded by professional musicians, will be available on all major streaming platforms.
• Features a diverse range of styles including classic repertoire and newly-commissioned pieces
• Ideal for students looking for exam repertoire in one volume

The new Piano Exam Pieces books each feature a selection of nine pieces from the syllabus at Grades Initial-8, covering lists A, B and C. Meticulously edited and presented, these volumes comprise rich and varied repertoire from which to create an exciting programme for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. Each volume also includes helpful footnotes and syllabus information.
NEW: Audio recordings of all pieces in the specified grade can be accessed via all major streaming platforms through a QR code given in each publication. Teachers and learners will have instant access to professional recordings of all pieces listed on the syllabus to provide inspiration and explore the diverse choices available in the new syllabus.

SKU: A3.9781786016102

ISBN 9781786016102.

Key Selling Points

• Each book contains nine pieces in a range of styles, chosen from Lists A, B and C – for Practical and
Performance Grade exams.
• Books include access to audio recordings of all 48 pieces for the grade to inspire teachers and students. Audio, recorded by professional musicians, will be available on all major streaming platforms.
• Features a diverse range of styles including classic repertoire and newly-commissioned pieces
• Ideal for students looking for exam repertoire in one volume

The new Piano Exam Pieces books each feature a selection of nine pieces from the syllabus at Grades Initial-8, covering lists A, B and C. Meticulously edited and presented, these volumes comprise rich and varied repertoire from which to create an exciting programme for both Practical and Performance Grade exams. Each volume also includes helpful footnotes and syllabus information.
NEW: Audio recordings of all pieces in the specified grade can be accessed via all major streaming platforms through a QR code given in each publication. Teachers and learners will have instant access to professional recordings of all pieces listed on the syllabus to provide inspiration and explore the diverse choices available in the new syllabus.

SKU: DZ.DZ-3759

ISBN 9782897956769.

The Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) is committed to cultivating Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access in the international guitar community and in the repertoire published for the instrument. Many factors, including a composer's race, gender, and sexual orientation, have historically created a narrow representation of our community in the classical music canon. For this first volume of the GFA Spotlight Series, the GFA commissioned seven new works by composers of color. The second volume of this series will follow with seven transcriptions of existing pieces by composers of color. These commissioned pieces and transcriptions were premiered by students in the GFA Mentorship Program in 2021.
With this collection, the guitar takes a step towards a more inclusive and representative repertoire that nurtures creativity and inclusion for generations of guitarists to come. Growing the canon enriches the musical experiences of our entire international guitar community through exposure to diverse perspectives and voices, complementing the invaluable lessons we learn from the existing contributions of pieces that form the canon.

SKU: BT.EMBZ14655

Hungarian-English-German-French.

This volume contains the first experimental flights of Miklós Kocsár (*1933). It may seem surprising that the pieces do not reveal the stylistic features that typified Hungarian composition in the mid-nineteen-fifties. These finely-proportioned miniatures reflect the composer s diverse, many-faceted interests: definite tonal relations and free use of the twelve-tone scale, or even dodecaphony are all equally characteristic of them, yet their musical language is fundamentally Hungarian. The character pieces of varying length offer material for piano students to play from the upper music school level to intermediate level.

Der Band beinhaltet die ersten Gehversuche von Miklós Kocsár (*1933). Es mag uns überraschend vorkommen, dass die Stücke überhaupt nicht die Stilmerkmale aufweisen, von denen die Tonkunst in Ungarn Mitte der 1950er Jahre geprägt war. Diese proportional geformten Miniaturen spiegeln die vielfältigen Interessen des Komponisten wider: Die schlüssigen tonalen Verhältnisse, die freie Zwölftönigkeit oder sogar die Anwendung der Dodekaphonie ist ebenso charakteristisch für sie, dennoch ist ihre musikalische Sprache grundsätzlich ungarisch. Die mehr oder weniger kurzen Charakterstücke bieten den Klavierschüler von der höheren Klassen der Musikschulen bis zur Mittelstufe hingeeignetes Spielmaterial.

SKU: KU.GM-632B

SKU: BO.BC0006

Despite a strong vocation for the cello, which he studied and began to play with a distinctive character, Pau Casals, like most ambitious, creative musicians, wrote at the piano and for the piano, as it is the ultimate teaching instrument, summarising the full vision of the creative process. Any creative musician habitually worked at the piano, whether for this instrument alone or for piano accompanied by other solo instruments. To date, it has not been possible to document whether Casals had systematic training on this instrument, although at that time it was more common than it is today because, considering its qualities of timbre and combination, it was particularly attractive for creating test pieces and different kinds of compositions.

The piano works contained in this second volume include part of the salon repertoire, a continuation of the first volume, and four sardanas for piano of diverse origin: some are reductions of more complex forms and others sketches for instrumental groups. In the first group, some works intended for children are published, a demonstration of the tenderness the ‘cellist felt for the children of his closest friends. In the second case, the sardanas are works from his first exile in Prada and show the nostalgia of the composer, away from his country against his will.

In general, the works are not especially complex; their purpose and nature are diverse. They come in the context of salon music, with the appearance of creative entertainments characterised by a basically tonal, transparent language with a widespread tendency to modulate to nearby keys more as a momentary expressive resource than as a structural evolutionary procedure. They show a lack of systematic work on the instrument as well as the commonplaces of piano composition of their time. In some of these works, the piano thread breaks, the works do not have the thrust of finished products; the occasional appearance of chords that are difficult or impossible to finger leads us to think of intentions closer to test pieces than to products intended for normal performance. But not all these piano works are circumstantial. There is also a prelude and a minuet of a certain piano writing complexity.

SKU: DZ.DZ-3762

ISBN 9782897956790.

The Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) is committed to cultivating Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access in the international guitar community and in the repertoire published for the instrument. Many factors, including a composer's race, gender, and sexual orientation, have historically created a narrow representation of our community in the classical music canon. For this first volume of the GFA Spotlight Series, the GFA commissioned seven new works by composers of color. The second volume of this series will follow with seven transcriptions of existing pieces by composers of color. These commissioned pieces and transcriptions were premiered by students in the GFA Mentorship Program in 2021.
With this collection, the guitar takes a step towards a more inclusive and representative repertoire that nurtures creativity and inclusion for generations of guitarists to come. Growing the canon enriches the musical experiences of our entire international guitar community through exposure to diverse perspectives and voices, complementing the invaluable lessons we learn from the existing contributions of pieces that form the canon.