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Cengage Advantage Books: Piano for Pleasure, Concise

Author : Martha Hilley
Publisher : Schirmer Books
ISBN 13 : 9780495897736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Cengage Advantage Books: Piano for Pleasure, Concise written by Martha Hilley and published by Schirmer Books. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact edition of BASIC PIANO FOR PLEASURE will have you playing in no time with its accessible and comprehensive tools! The authors present vital keyboard skills in a smooth, carefully calibrated progression that makes you feel comfortable learning to play the piano. By the end of the first chapter, you will play a Hilley arrangement of "Amazing Grace," and a piece written especially for this title by Lynn Freeman Olson. Subsequent chapters build your confidence by offering a consistent synthesis of keyboard skills, music theory, and creativity. Olson's original and appealing musical selections consistently complement Hilley's legendary teaching skills. As a result, you will learn difficult piano skills as you experience the excitement of playing old favorites.

Playing the Piano for Pleasure

Author : Charles Cooke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626369992
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Playing the Piano for Pleasure written by Charles Cooke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice every day, suggesting that they work through just that section time and again until it is perfect. In addition to his own thoughts, Cooke includes material from his interviews with master pianists, artists, and writers. The result is a book that should be cherished for years to come.

How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons

Author :
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780385142632
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book How to Play the Piano Despite Years of Lessons written by and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten progressively advanced sections, each with notations and keyboard diagrams, make up a new approach to learning how to play the piano quickly and pleasurably, with no scale exercises and a minimum of memorization

Play It Again

Author : Alan Rusbridger
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374710627
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Play It Again written by Alan Rusbridger and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guardian editor and amateur pianist’s account of a remarkable musical challenge during an extraordinary year for news. As editor of the Guardian, one of the world’s foremost newspapers, Alan Rusbridger lives by the relentless twenty-four-hour news cycle. But increasingly in midlife, he feels the gravitational pull of music—especially the piano. He sets himself a formidable challenge: within a year, to fluently learn Chopin’s magnificent Ballade No. 1 in G minor, arguably one of the most difficult Romantic compositions in the repertory. With pyrotechnic passages that require feats of memory, dexterity, and power, the piece is one that causes alarm even in battle-hardened concert pianists. Under ideal circumstances, this would have been a daunting task. But the particular year Rusbridger chooses turns out to be one of frenetic intensity, beginning with WikiLeaks’ massive dump of state secrets and ending with the Guardian’s revelations about widespread phone hacking at News of the World. “In between, there were the Japanese tsunami, the Arab Spring, the English riots . . . and the death of Osama Bin Laden,” writes Rusbridger. The test would be to “nibble out” twenty minutes per day to do something totally unrelated to these events. Rusbridger’s subject is larger than any one piece of music: Play It Again deals with focus, discipline, and desire but is, above all, about the sanctity of one’s inner life in a world dominated by deadlines and distractions. Praise for Play It Again “An absorbing, adroitly crafted tale of humility, discipline and the sheer love of music . . . [Alan Rusbridger’s] triumph is an inspiration.” —Katie Hafner, The New York Times Book Review “A unique mélange of political and musical reportage . . . [Alan Rusbridger] illuminates not only print media in this digital age but also the changing role of the music within.” —Iain Burnside, The Observer (London)

How to Play the Piano

Author : James Rhodes
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615195491
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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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.

Big Book of Beginner's Piano Classics

Author : Bergerac
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486466159
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Big Book of Beginner's Piano Classics written by Bergerac and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty-three popular piano classics arranged for the beginning student are accompanied by a short history of each piece and advice on playing each arrangement.5NjBwBT

Play Piano in a Flash

Author : Scott Houston
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9781401307660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Play Piano in a Flash written by Scott Houston and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on public television stations nationwide, a revolutionary new approach to playing non-classical music on the piano. Have you ever wished you could play the piano Well, now you can! Scott "The Piano Guy" Houston teaches you to play the way the pros play, in a style enormously simpler than traditional classical piano and with an absolute minimum of note-reading. By focusing on playing the melody with the right hand (one note at a time) and simple chords with the left hand, Houston gives you the tools you need for a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Best of all, your tour guide to this adventure forces you to have fun along the way!

The Philosopher’s Touch

Author : François Noudelmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231527209
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Philosopher’s Touch written by François Noudelmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned philosopher and prominent French critic François Noudelmann engages the musicality of Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Roland Barthes, all of whom were amateur piano players and acute lovers of the medium. Though piano playing was a crucial art for these thinkers, their musings on the subject are largely scant, implicit, or discordant with each philosopher's oeuvre. Noudelmann both recovers and integrates these perspectives, showing that the manner in which these philosophers played, the composers they adored, and the music they chose reveals uncommon insight into their thinking styles and patterns. Noudelmann positions the physical and theoretical practice of music as a dimension underpinning and resonating with Sartre's, Nietzsche's, and Barthes's unique philosophical outlook. By reading their thought against their music, he introduces new critical formulations and reorients their trajectories, adding invaluable richness to these philosophers' lived and embodied experiences. The result heightens the multiple registers of being and the relationship between philosophy and the senses that informed so much of their work. A careful reader of music, Noudelmann maintains an elegant command of the texts under his gaze and appreciates the discursive points of musical and philosophical scholarship they involve, especially with regard to recent research and cutting-edge critique.

FingerTips for Pianists

Author : Elizabeth Hembrey
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1800468474
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book FingerTips for Pianists written by Elizabeth Hembrey and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the enjoyment of playing the piano is the challenge it brings. FingerTips for Pianists is the ideal companion. It provides tips and strategies to help you achieve new skills and advance your technique. It troubleshoots any tricky bits and systematically looks at ways to approach or correct them.

The Piano-player

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Piano-player written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ENYA

Author : Chilly Gonzales
Publisher : Rough Trade Books
ISBN 13 : 1912722879
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book ENYA written by Chilly Gonzales and published by Rough Trade Books. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chilly Gonzales is one of the most exciting, original, hard-to-pin-down musicians of our time. Filling halls worldwide at the piano in his slippers and a bathrobe—in any one night he can be dissecting the musicology of an Oasis hit, giving a sublime solo recital, and displaying his lyrical dexterity as a rapper. In his book about Enya, he asks: Does music have to be smart or does it just have to go to the heart? In dazzling, erudite prose Gonzales delves beyond her innumerable gold discs and millions of fans to excavate his own enthusiasm for Enya's singular music as well as the mysterious musician herself, and along the way uncovers new truths about the nature of music, fame, success and the artistic endeavour.

Clara Schumann

Author : Susanna Reich
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618551606
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Clara Schumann written by Susanna Reich and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of the German pianist and composer who made her professional debut at age nine and who devoted her life to music and to her family.

Piano Lessons

Author : Noah Adams
Publisher : Delta
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piano Lessons written by Noah Adams and published by Delta. This book was released on 1997-03-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radio personality tells of his struggles to fulfill his dream of learning to play the piano.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

Author : Thad Carhart
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375758623
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Piano Shop on the Left Bank written by Thad Carhart and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-03-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign—Desforges Pianos—he enters, only to have his way barred by the shop’s imperious owner. Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands the proper introduction, and a world previously hidden is brought into view. Luc, the atelier’s master, proves an indispensable guide to the history and art of the piano. Intertwined with the story of a musical friendship are reflections on how pianos work, their glorious history, and stories of the people who care for them, from amateur pianists to the craftsmen who make the mechanism sing. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is at once a beguiling portrait of a Paris not found on any map and a tender account of the awakening of a lost childhood passion. Praise for The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: “[Carhart’s] writing is fluid and lovely enough to lure the rustiest plunker back to the piano bench and the most jaded traveler back to Paris.” –San Francisco Chronicle “Captivating . . . [Carhart] joins the tiny company of foreigners who have written of the French as verbs. . . . What he tries to capture is not the sight of them, but what they see.” –The New York Times “Thoroughly engaging . . . In part it is a book about that most unpredictable and pleasurable of human experiences, serendipity. . . . The book is also about something more difficult to pin down, friendship and community.” –The Washington Post “Carhart writes with a sensuousness enhanced by patience and grounded by the humble acquisition of new insight into music, his childhood, and his relationship to the city of Paris.” –The New Yorker NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

The Art of Piano Playing

Author : George Kochevitsky
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 1457400332
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Piano Playing written by George Kochevitsky and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1995-11-16 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many of the great pianists and teachers have come out of Poland and Russia (Rubinstein, Anton as well as Arthur, Leschetizky, Paderewski, the Lhevinnes, Gilels, Richter, and others), yet we know little about their methods of learning and teaching. George Kochevitsky in The Art of Piano Playing supplies some important sources of information previously unavailable in the United States. From these sources, tempered by this own thinking, Kochevitsky formulated a scientific approach that can solve most problems of piano playing and teaching. George Kochevitsky graduated in 1930 from Leningrad Conservatory and did post-graduate work at Moscow Conservatory. After coming to the U.S., he taught privately in New York City, gave a number of lectures, and wrote for various music periodicals.

Piano Notes

Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439135223
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Piano Notes written by Charles Rosen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-10-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists -- and one of music's most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals. In Piano Notes, he writes for a broader audience about an old friend -- the piano itself. Drawing upon a lifetime of wisdom and the accumulated lore of many great performers of the past, Rosen shows why the instrument demands such a stark combination of mental and physical prowess. Readers will gather many little-known insights -- from how pianists vary their posture, to how splicings and microphone placements can ruin recordings, to how the history of composition was dominated by the piano for two centuries. Stories of many great musicians abound. Rosen reveals Nadia Boulanger's favorite way to avoid commenting on the performances of her friends ("You know what I think," spoken with utmost earnestness), why Glenn Gould's recordings suffer from "double-strike" touches, and how even Vladimir Horowitz became enamored of splicing multiple performances into a single recording. Rosen's explanation of the piano's physical pleasures, demands, and discontents will delight and instruct anyone who has ever sat at a keyboard, as well as everyone who loves to listen to the instrument. In the end, he strikes a contemplative note. Western music was built around the piano from the classical era until recently, and for a good part of that time the instrument was an essential acquisition for every middle-class household. Music making was part of the fabric of social life. Yet those days have ended. Fewer people learn the instrument today. The rise of recorded music has homogenized performance styles and greatly reduced the frequency of public concerts. Music will undoubtedly survive, but will the supremely physical experience of playing the piano ever be the same?

A First Book of Ragtime

Author : David Dutkanicz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486171671
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book A First Book of Ragtime written by David Dutkanicz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These rollicking, easy-to-play ragtime favorites include "Maple Leaf Rag," "The Entertainer," "Tiger Rag," and other melodies by such favorites as Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, and Eubie Blake. All songs available as downloadable MP3s.