Ragtime Gems: Piano: Instrumental Album

Classical melodies from piano opera and orchestral literature are revisited in this unique series. The arrangements feature jazz styles including ragtime and blues. Students who are familiar with some of these gems will enjoy their new settings while those playing them for the first time will become familiar with these wonderful melodies. Titles include: 'Hungarian Jazz Dance' 'Jazz Solo' 'June Blues' 'The Ragtime Farmer' 'Ragtime for Elise' 'Ragtime Minuet' 'Santa Lucia Rag' 'Solfegietto Jazz' and 'Venetian Blues'.

Classical melodies from Piano Opera and Orchestral Literature are revisited in this unique series. The arrangements feature jazz styles including ragtime and blues. Students who are familiar with some of these gems will enjoy their new settings while those playing them for the first time will become familiar with these wonderful melodies. Titles include: Austrian Jazz Dance; Blue Rhapsody; Bluesy Etude; Cool Etude; The Jazzy Mountain King; Parisian Jazz; Ragtime in Baroque Style; Ragtime Symphony; Rockin' Russian Song and Russian Blues

Over 160 of the best-loved piano pieces together in one comprehensive volume! This is a celebration of easy and rewarding solos for the American pianist. Nowhere else will you find gathered together in one piano treasuryso many of America’s favorite folk songs patriotic solos ragtime gems blues instrumentals and jazz standards — along with the beloved classical masterpieces of Bach Beethoven Brahms Chopin Debussy Handel Mendelssohn Mozart Schubert Schumann Strauss and Tchaikovsky.

Parlor Gems A Treasury of 19th Century Music for Classical Guitar. In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the parlor was a room set aside for particular functions. Before the advent of the radio, it was the place where formal presentations were staged, including amateur and semi-professional concerts. This classical guitar solo collection for the intermediate to advanced player offers nine engaging and lyrical European and North American favorites of this bygone era. All of the solos are presented in standard notation only and played on authentic reproductions of period instruments on the book?s online companion recording. Author Joseph Mayes plays works by well-known guitarist-composers Carulli, Coste and Giuliani as well as the lesser-known but deserving ?Kathleen Mavoureen?Romanza? by Frederick N. Crouch arranged by Charles de Janon, and Felix Arndt?s ?Nola,? one of the era?s most popular ragtime piano themes, here transcribed and arranged by William Foden and the author. Includes access to online audio.