Partitions pour instruments

Suite Detroit: Sounds of an American City for solo piano is an arrangement of the original Suite Detroit: Sounds of an American City, a trio for flute, alto saxophone, and piano. Now solo pianists can...

Essential to the library of every pianist, this two-volume critical edition from Dr. Stewart Gordon, a world-renowned professor of keyboard studies at the University of Southern California's Thornton...

Stewart Gordon, professeur émérite d'études de clavier à l'Université de Californie du Sud, est tenu en haute estime par les professeurs de piano professionnels du monde entier. Ses éditions critiques...

Spanning Mendelssohn's compositional career, the collection contains several pieces from 'Songs without Words,' the 'Six Pieces for Children,' Op. 72, and other individuals works including the popular...

Composers first began writing character pieces in the Romantic period as a personal, inward-looking form of musical expression, on a smaller scale than sonatas of the Classical period. These new chara...

This impressive early advanced piano solo begins with a two-page introductory section that is reminiscent of the late Romantic piano writing of Rachmaninoff. Large chords and low octave pedal points c...

This solo begins in G minor with a bold chordal fanfare and sweeping arpeggios. The following lyrical section builds to a faster scherzo-like tempo with descending broken chords over a staccato bass....

This solo begins in G minor with a bold chordal fanfare and sweeping arpeggios. The following lyrical section builds to a faster scherzo-like tempo with descending broken chords over a staccato bass....

This piano duet begins with a cantabile opening in 3/4 time that serves as an introduction to a lively dance in 6/8, marked Allegro giocoso. The introduction is filled with lush harmonies and lyrical...

Padre Antonio Soler (1729--1783) was a Spanish Catholic monk whose compositions span the late-Baroque and early-Classical periods. A student of Domenico Scarlatti, he wrote over 150 keyboard sonatas....

Robert Schumann wrote this intriguing set of 12 pieces over a period of several years, between the ages of 19 and 21. The English translation of the word 'papillons' means 'butterflies', yet it was th...

This collection contains 25 selections including dances, 'Moment Musicaux,' an impromptu, a set of variations and various other works. Schubert's compositional output, musical style and use of ornamen...

Brahms was extremely fond of Johann Gottfried Herder's folk poetry collection Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (Voices of Nations in Songs) and based the Ballade, Op. 10, No. 1 on the 'Edward' ballade fr...

Op. 105 is a delightful collection of 'melodious and brilliant' character studies reminiscent of Mendelssohn's Songs without Words. Although written to develop the flexibility of the hands, they also...

Selections from 'Scenes from Childhood' and 'Album for the Young,' plus other works comprise this useful volume. Schumann's life and works are chronicled and his style are briefly described. 64 pages.

Each piece of Op. 337 consists of various sections of one to several measures, each concluded by a coda. Czerny's own instructions above the studies read: 'Each repetition should be played 20 times wi...

Czerny's Op. 718 is a set of 24 studies that emphasize training of the left hand. The work is not a collection of left-hand solo studies as one might guess from the title, though it focuses on the dex...

The 16 character pieces found in this volume set a high standard for music written primarily for pedagogical purposes. Grieg's music often reflects the national flavor of his homeland, Norway, which a...

An attractive collection of 28 duets in which both hands of the primo part remain in set five-finger positions. Secondo parts are appropriate for more advanced students of the teacher. The keys employ...

This edition contains 13 of the most beautiful and useful movements from Beethoven's most popular sonatas. These intermediate to early advanced piano sonata movements are expertly edited by Dr. Mauric...

Perhaps Schumann's greatest large-scale piano work, the 'Fantasie' was written between 1836 and 1838 and dedicated to Franz Liszt. Intensely personal, it contains many melodic references to Schumann's...

Schumann's Symphonic Etudes is one of the most astounding musical accomplishments of the 19th century. The set consists of a theme, seven variations and a lengthy finale. This work is as significant f...

A wonderful collection of miniature pieces reminiscent of childhood, similar to Schumann's Album For The Young. Each selection is delightful and entertaining for students and audiences of all ages.

Eight contrasing pieces with descriptive titles comprise the 'Fantasy Pieces', op. 12. Although the eight pieces form a homogeneous whole, each can be played individually without loss of effect. They...

This collection includes eight movements chosen and arranged for piano solo by Tchaikovsky himself in 1891, adapted from his orchestral ballet. To assist pianists in creating a memorable performance,...