Keyboard instruments

Für Journalisten ist er ein Star: Alan Rusbridger, seit 20 Jahren Chefredakteur des britischen Guardian, hat seine Zeitung zum führenden kritischen englischsprachigen Blatt gemacht, auf beiden Seiten des Atlantik.

The easy way to get keyed up on the keyboard Where Piano For Dummies helps budding musicians to master the black-and-white musical keyboard, Keyboard For Dummies helps them understand the possibilities that unfold when those black-and-whites are connected to state-of-the-art music technology.

It's difficult to imagine Franz Liszt performing in Peoria, but his contemporary and foremost rival, Sigismund Thalberg, did just that.

This collection of 30 well-loved original compositions and arrangements for piano presents a selection of pieces by Frederic Chopin that will delight any pianist.

These short eight-bar exercises are generally regarded as some of the best, most versatile and comprehensive of Czerny's studies.

On the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, this volume offers an in-depth look at the "e;Great Eighteen"e; organ chorales, among the most celebrated works for organ, and a milestone in the history of the chorale.

This collection is a selection of works by Georg Friedrich Handel that will delight every pianist.

The first comprehensive technical and historical study of stringed keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to modern times.

Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition addresses the many unwritten nuances of dynamics, articulation and agogics as an expression of fundamental principles of a common European musical language.

Lateness and Brahms takes up the fascinating, yet understudied problem of how Brahms fits into the culture of turn-of-the-century Vienna.

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Mozart's best-known opera - now available in the popular series 'Get to Know Classical Masterpieces'.

Stuart Isacoff - pianist, critic and teacher - explores the history and evolution of the piano: how its sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners.

This reference work catalogs music for organ and harpsichord written by more than 700 women composers from 40 countries.

Written by an experienced musician, recording artist, and music journalist, The Everything Rock & Blues Piano Book with CD offers the basics of rock and blues piano playing in a fun, easy-to-follow manner.

Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century is a richly detailed thematic study of the history of the piano in Russian society from its beginnings with the European artisans who settled in St.

A self-learning approach for sight-reading based on the recognition of rhythmic and melodic patterns.

This book explores the emerging area of microtonality through an examination of the tuning theories of Erv Wilson.

Anna Magdalena Bach wird oft nur als die Frau an der Seite eines der größten Komponisten der Geschichte wahrgenommen – doch ihre Rolle ging weit über die eines stillen Beobachters hinaus.

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Practice, practice, practice to play like Chopin or the Piano Man The piano will help you add a touch of fun to your life, impress your friends at parties, and even reduce stress.

Renowned scholars and performers present a wide range of different perspectives on Mozart''s chamber music with keyboard.

- Provides supplementary material to Piano Sight-Reading 1 - An approach based on independent learning and the recognition of rhythmic and melodic patterns - 175 exercises in a range of musical styles and keys - Each section concludes with duets to encourage players to develop musicianship and to have fun playing with your teacher, family or friends - Tunes are progressive with 'hands together' exercises in the final section - Preliminary towards grade 2

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This 1999 book is a comprehensive introduction to Beethoven''s most popular piano sonata, and Opp.

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CO-WINNER: The Triennial Alan Walker Book Award, sponsored by the American Liszt Society 2023A new and wide-ranging collection of essays by leading international scholars, exploring the concept and practices of virtuosity in Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

Recent scholarship has vanquished the traditional perception of nineteenth-century Britain as a musical wasteland.

Beethoven's works for solo piano - the sonatas, variations, and bagatelles - and the five concertos for piano and orchestra stand at the heart of the repertory.

This book offers an insight into Beethoven''s career, showing in well-documented detail the rise and decline of his powers as a performer.

An alluring exploration of the people and the legendary craftsmanship behind a single Steinway piano.

Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century's most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds.

Die schönsten 20 neuen Kinderlieder-Hits von Detlev Jöcker.

Galaxy Piano is ideal for introducing beginners of any age to modern compositions and for their first performances.

"e;Get to know classical masterpieces"e;: Within this series you will find a simple piano arrangement of one of the most famous ballets ever written, Swan Lake by Peter I.

This volume contains a wide selection of famous musical themes from Bach to Carl Orff.

Piano accompaniment, or collaborative piano, is an invisibilized force driving classical music.

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This historical survey focuses on music for piano solo but also includes important compositions for piano duet and two pianos.

Pianist Mike Garson was David Bowie's most frequent musician, on record and onstage throughout Bowie's life.

This third edition is a basic textbook on the development of pipe organ composition in geographically diverse schools.

In einer Zeit politischer Umwälzungen und kultureller Blüte begegneten sich zwei außergewöhnliche Persönlichkeiten: der tschechische Klaviervirtuose und Komponist Jan Ladislas Dussek und Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen, ein leidenschaftlicher Musiker und Förderer der Künste.

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She traces his musical roots, piano studies, repertoire, and concert career through his correspondence with family and friends and his own and his contemporaries' memoirs, using material never before available in English.

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