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Author : James R. Gaines
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Lives of the Piano written by James R. Gaines and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Rusch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481444859
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book The Music of Life written by Elizabeth Rusch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Rusch and two-time Caldecott Honor–recipient Marjorie Priceman team up to tell the inspiring story of the invention of the world’s most popular instrument: the piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori coaxes just the right sounds from the musical instruments he makes. Some of his keyboards can play piano, light and soft; others make forte notes ring out, strong and loud, but Cristofori longs to create an instrument that can be played both soft and loud. His talent has caught the attention of Prince Ferdinando de Medici, who wants his court to become the musical center of Italy. The prince brings Cristofori to the noisy city of Florence, where the goldsmiths’ tiny hammers whisper tink, tink and the blacksmiths’ big sledgehammers shout BANG, BANG! Could hammers be the key to the new instrument? At last Cristofori gets his creation just right. It is called the pianoforte, for what it can do. All around the world, people young and old can play the most intricate music of their lives, thanks to Bartolomeo Cristofori’s marvelous creation: the piano.
Author : Clifford Slapper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1617137383
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Bowie's Piano Man written by Clifford Slapper and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOWIE'S PIANO MAN: THE LIFE OF MIKE GARSON
Author : Jason Lyle Black
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1540024598
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Disney Medleys for Piano Solo written by Jason Lyle Black and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Solo Songbook). This creative collection arranged by "Backwards Piano Man" Jason Lyle Black features ten medleys of songs from timeless Disney films for piano solo. 35 songs are included in all from the movies Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Hercules, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Moana and Mulan . Includes arranger notes from Black.
Author : Robin Meloy Goldsby
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879308827
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Piano Girl written by Robin Meloy Goldsby and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining memoir provides a glimpse into the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business perspective of a world-traveling lounge musician.
Author : Lea Singer
Publisher : New Vessel Press
ISBN 13 : 1939931878
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The Piano Student written by Lea Singer and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explosively passionate, this story of forbidden love and unmet potential is ... for anyone who’s ever felt the ineffable power of music." —Aja Gabel, author of The Ensemble The Piano Student is a novel about regret, secrecy, and music, involving an affair between one of the 20th century’s most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s. As Europe hurtles toward political catastrophe and Horowitz ascends to the pinnacle of artistic achievement, the great pianist hides his illicit passion from his wife Wanda, daughter of the renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini. Based on unpublished letters by Horowitz to Kaufmann that author Lea Singer discovered in Switzerland, this is a riveting and sensitive tale of musical perfection, love, and longing denied, with multiple historical layers and insights into artistic creativity.
Author : Chris Cander
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525654682
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)
Download or read book The Weight of a Piano written by Chris Cander and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLER In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, on which she discovers an enrichening passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family emigrate to America—and loses her piano in the process. In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy is burdened by the last gift her father gave her before he and her mother died in a terrible house fire: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Now a talented and independent auto mechanic, Clara’s career is put on hold when she breaks her hand trying to move the piano, and in sudden frustration she decides to sell it. Only in discovering the identity of the buyer—and the secret history of her piano—will Clara be set free to live the life of her choosing.
Author : Juha Virta
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423649267
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Piano written by Juha Virta and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when a piano shows up in your yard? Take a cat-nap? Use it as a coffee table? What's a band to do when one of its instruments goes missing? And what does a yellow sock have to do with anything?
Author : David Litchfield
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 0711247242
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Bear, the Piano and Little Bear's Concert written by David Litchfield and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in the award-winning, best-selling trilogy shows that while fame and fortune might be temporary, the best songs stay in your heart forever.
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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1616778865
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (167 download)
Download or read book My First Piano Adventure: Lesson Book A with CD written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Faber Piano Adventures ). Written for ages 5 and 6, My First Piano Adventure captures the child's playful spirit. Fun-filled songs, rhythm games and technique activities develop beginning keyboard skills. Three distinguishing features of the Lesson Book A make it unique and effective for the young 5-6 year old beginner. 1. A strong focus on technique embedded in the book through playful technique games, chants, and carefully-composed pieces that gently lead the child into pianistic motions. 2. An outstanding CD for the young student to listen, sing, tap, and play along with at the piano. The orchestrated songs on the CD feature children singing the lyrics, which has great appeal to the 5-6 year old beginner. The CD becomes a ready-made practice partner that guides the student and parent for all the pieces and activities in the books. 3. The fanciful art features five multi-cultural children who are also learning to play. These friends at the piano introduce basic rhythms, white key names, and a variety of white and black-key songs that span classical, folk, and blues. Young students will listen, sing, create, and play more musically with Nancy and Randall Faber s My First Piano Adventure, Lesson Book A. The Lesson Book introduces directional pre-reading, elementary music theory and technique with engaging songs, games, and creative discovery at the keyboard. Young students will enjoy the multi-cultural "friends at the piano" who introduce white-key names, basic rhythms, and a variety of songs which span classical, folk, and blues. Ear-training and eye-training are also part of the curriculum. The Fabers' instructional theory "ACE" - Analysis, Creativity, and Expression, guides the pedagogy of My First Piano Adventure. Analysis leads to understanding, creativity leads to self-discovery, and expression develops personal artistry. The CD for this book offers a unique listening experience with outstanding orchestrations and vocals. The recordings demonstrate a key principle of the course: when children listen, sing, tap, and move to their piano music, they play more musically. View Helpful Introductory Videos Here
Author : Wesley Schaum
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457459856
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Schaum Pop Favorites, B: The Blue Book written by Wesley Schaum and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pieces in this series are long-time favorites that have appeal for pianists of all ages. Very carefully correlated to standard piano method levels, each book contains arrangements that are musically appropriate to that level. The arrangements are teacher friendly, even for the teacher who is reluctant to add pop music to the curriculum. And the series is student friendly -- there will be willing practice! Titles: * Begin the Beguine * Evergreen * I Only Have Eyes for You * Stairway to Heaven * 'S Wonderful * Star Wars (Main Title) * Tea for Two * Theme from A Summer Place * The Thorn Birds (Main Theme) * The Wind Beneath My Wings * Your Smiling Face.
Author : Susan Tomes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300253923
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Piano written by Susan Tomes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of the piano explored through 100 pieces chosen by one of the UK's most renowned concert pianists "Tomes . . . casts her net widely, taking in chamber music and concertos, knotty avant-garde masterworks and (most welcome) jazz."--Richard Fairman, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2021: Classical Music" "[One of] the most beautiful books I got my hands on this year. . . . About the shaping of this maddening, glorious, unconquerable instrument."--Jenny Colgan, Spectator, "Books of the Year" An astonishingly versatile instrument, the piano allows just two hands to play music of great complexity and subtlety. For more than two hundred years, it has brought solo and collaborative music into homes and concert halls and has inspired composers in every musical genre--from classical to jazz and light music. Charting the development of the piano from the late eighteenth century to the present day, pianist and writer Susan Tomes takes the reader with her on a personal journey through 100 pieces including solo works, chamber music, concertos, and jazz. Her choices include composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Gershwin, and Philip Glass. Looking at this history from a modern performer's perspective, she acknowledges neglected women composers and players including Fanny Mendelssohn, Maria Szymanowska, Clara Schumann, and Amy Beach.
Author : James Parakilas
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300080557
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Piano Roles written by James Parakilas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of the piano in classical and popular musical cultures and its changing roles over the past three centuries are examined by eminent authorities. Everything about the piano is here: its invention, innovations in design, importance of piano lessons in girls' lives, images formed around the piano, and more. 153 b&w, 65 color illustrations.
Author : Arthur Loesser
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486171612
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Men, Women and Pianos written by Arthur Loesser and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned concert pianist traces the instrument's design, manufacture, and music in a delightful "piano's eye-view" of the social history of Western Europe and the United States from the 16th to the 20th centuries.
Author : André Leblanc
Publisher : Wilkins Farago Pty Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780980607017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Red Piano written by André Leblanc and published by Wilkins Farago Pty Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life of the renowned pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution.
Author : James Rhodes
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615195491
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book How to Play the Piano written by James Rhodes and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now you can master Bach’s most beautiful prelude—even if you’ve never sat down at a piano before! Do you have a piano (or keyboard) and forty-five spare minutes every day? Then spend the next six weeks with acclaimed concert pianist James Rhodes. By the end, you’ll be able to perform Bach’s Prelude No. 1 in C major—no prior musical experience required! Rhodes reveals How to Play the Piano step by step—how to read the treble and bass clefs as well as sharp and flat notes, and then how to practice—before teaching the Prelude in easy, bite-size segments. His method is free of tedious drills, and filled with inspiration: “If listening to music is soothing for the soul, then playing music is achieving enlightenment.” Before you know it, not only will you have learned how to play one of Bach’s most beloved masterpieces—you also will have unleashed your creativity, exercising your mind (and fingers) and accomplishing something you never thought possible. Bravo! Includes four instructional videos supported by select e-reader devices.
Author : John Lipscomb
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757319939
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)
Download or read book The Painting and Piano written by John Lipscomb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up more than a thousand miles apart and worlds away from each other, Johnny and Adrianne seemed to have all that children could ask for. Born into a Great-Gatsby-like party, old-money wealth and privilege defined Johnny's childhood in Ladue, Missouri—the Beverly Hills of St. Louis. Born addicted to heroin in New York City, Adrianne was placed as an infant with loving, middle-class Jewish foster parents on Long Island. However, the demons of their respective biological mothers would eventually tear their fragile young lives apart as told in this compelling tandem narrative. Eventually, destiny would bring Johnny and Adrianne together, but first they had to endure the painful toll that alcohol, drugs, and a negligent court system would take on them. With parts of Adrianne's story ripped from national news headlines, their journeys take them for the depths of despair and near death to their first serendipitous introduction and the moment each knew they were finally safe. Filled with hope, inspiration, and humor, The Painting and the Piano is an unforgettable story of pain, loss, and the undying human quest for happiness.
