Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.887255 Composed by Charles-Louis Hanon. Arranged by Martin Woodward. Instructional. Score. 37 pages. Martin Woodward #6513221. Published by Martin Woodward (A0.887255). Hanon Piano / Keyboard Exercises 1 - 30Condensed and Simplified for Beginners Easy ReadingIn this short book you will find condensed and simplified versions of the Hanon piano finger exercises 1 - 30 as well as the major, harmonic minor and melodic minor scales in every key (two octaves). What is Hanon? The ‘Hanon Virtuoso Pianist’ is a collection of piano finger exercises designed to give equal strength, agility and flexibility to all five fingers of both hands. Written by Charles-Louis Hanon sometime in the 1800s, these exercises without doubt have become one of the most widely used techniques by today’s pianists. In my opinion these are the best finger exercises available. One really great thing about these exercises is that they are applicable to both absolute beginners and advanced players alike, particularly as the reading ability required is minimal. Whatever your ability, these exercises will help improve your technique and finger strength. Having been written well over 100 years ago, the original work is now in the public domain and therefore digital copies can be acquired free of charge on the internet. However, most of these are very poor quality and the instructions are mainly in French or Russian - neither of which work too well for me! For the full version I personally recommend the ‘Alfred’ Edition edited by Allan Small which is clear and has instructions in English. So why do I need this book? The whole point is to make it easy to read and to reduce page turns - less is more! In the full version the first 30 exercises take up fifty pages whereas here there are three exercises per page for the first 20, then two per page for the next 10, reducing the fifty pages to just twelve. I initially produced this for my own use only but figured that others may like to take advantage of what I’ve done. Does this mean that the print is just smaller? No, not at all. If you are familiar with these exercises you will know that they are repeated patterns which ascend and descend for two octaves diatonically. To condense and simplify them and consequently eliminate an enormous amount of page turns I have shown: the all-important fingering on the first pattern (as per the original)then the repeated second patternthen ‘changeover’ patterns between ascending and descending - which are sometimes slightly differentthen finally the last pattern of each exercise which again is often very slightly different. I have also written them two octaves apart (for easy reading) and only shown them for one octave instead of two. In practice they should be played one octave apart and ultimately be practiced for two octaves. You can print out any or all the pages as required (the link for the pdf printable version is given at the end of the book).Please see: https://learn-keyboard.co.uk/hanon.html

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1345130 By Frankie Laine. By Carl Fischer and Frankie Laine. Arranged by Phyllis Love. Jazz,Standards. Score. 2 pages. Phyllis Love #930064. Published by Phyllis Love (A0.1345130). We'll Be Together Again for intermediate pianoThis 1945 ballad was written by Carl Fisher and Frankie Lane. Here we have a sentimental treatment of a 40's ballad with a nice bass line accompanying the melody, as well as rich chords.Accessible enough for any intermediate performer, yet incredibly rewarding for even the most accomplished pianist. Phyllis Love's instrumental arrangements for jazz piano remain true to the original melodies, with inventive harmonies and dynamic rhythmic patterns perfect for solo players! Each is a tasty addition to your show set, whether it's a classic show tune or a Standard from the Great American Songbook.Check out these other Phyllis Love arrangements for students of jazz piano:The Breeze and IThe Last Time I Saw ParisYesterdaysYou and the Night and the MusicA Nightingale Sang In Berkeley SquareFalling In Love With LoveFor All We KnowI Thought About YouI'll Remember AprilI'm Old FashionedIt Might As Well Be SpringIt's Only A Paper MoonLove Walked InMona LisaOn the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa FeOnce In A WhileSummertimeSurrey With The Fringe On TopTenderlyThat Old Black MagicPhyllis Love is a professional jazz pianist in the New York City area who's appeared at storied venues including Windows on the World, Gramercy Park Hotel, and Mama Leone's. She's performed with the Bill Lombardo Orchestra, scored music for film (Brighty of the Grand Canyon co-composer), and written jingles for Harvey’s Bristol Crème, Estee Lauder, Seiko watches and many others.

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1012709 Composed by Monica Bergo. Contemporary. Score. 13 pages. Moni Bergo #5742973. Published by Moni Bergo (A0.1012709). Music and song composed by meTHE LAST MY FLOWER (the wolf and the witch)   I look at my last flower It loses its scentand I do not know what to do I protect you with warmthof this other story I have to tell   creatures alone and desperate many scars heal a witch and a wolf do not know yet that their destinies are to merge   and starts this magical storysweet as ancient fable in a forest with no place and no age out of touch   and the time is stopped and does not move a breath and the heart, explodes and skip a beat and look you recognize like not having never lost   and the wolf that is injured a white rose in red has turned He is bleeding along with drops of pain his red eyes burning with love   and the witch instead hides because she isn't beautiful and it is not important nobody in the world has never belonged and a caress he never touched   she care and caresses the soul he looks at her and his anger dominates and one year only lasts a moment lost in eternity   and the wolf tells tales and the witch makes magic potions and exchange promises useless that the night  guard   and she will dance will dance naked and the wolf with his heart on his sleevelying by the fire that lights up, so free unobstructed and are reflected in the magic lake and do not feel that cold shiver... not last, do not you feel it too?cold around  us   Abracadabra !! from caterpillar to butterfly Alakazam !! and I too am beautiful do not you wonder how and why I started to talk to me snow fallsbut we are in August and there is nothing that you find a place this my music speaks for it self this is the strangest tale that is   I stop here It will end well I can not tell the end of a love that is not written yet   I stop here It will end well in a vacuum and the absence these days my silence and inconstancy in your feeling sthe flower dies already   go wolf go stop thinking about her from your pack you will need to return and then runs away   witch will if you want to transform changes role an actress who artand you will have new flowers   day step into the dark caverns of regret Mix them with potions and transform everything into tears like a cat in the night I try the food in the trashno sun, no light no god here that help me   body and spirit dentedas a glass stuckinside my poor heart the memory of a love He never really lived so alive in the mind is my animal instinct that makes me ache while another dream diesthe witch in the lake you slidethe water lapping against the planin his eyes the wolf that is now already far   a fairy tale real or invented in between  my  hidden  truth all my stories strange and weird over this skin are now tattooed   I watc.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1496954 By Les Brown And His Orchestra. By Ben Homer, Bud Green, and Les Brown. Arranged by Phyllis Love. Jazz,Standards. Score. 2 pages. Phyllis Love #1071494. Published by Phyllis Love (A0.1496954). This is bluesy arrangement of a 1944 classic swing tune with a Jazzy baseline.Accessible enough f0r ay intermediate performer, yey incredibly rewarding for even the most accomplished pianist. Phyllis Love's instrumental arrangements for jazz piano remain true to the original melodies, with inventive harmonies and dynamic rhythmic patterns perfect for solo players! Each is a tasty addition to your show set, whether a classic show tune or a Standard from the Great American Songbook.Check out these other Phyllis Love arrangements for students of jazz piano.The Breeze and IThe Last Time I Saw ParisYesterdaysYou and the Night and the MusicWe'll Be Together Again A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley SquareFor All We KnowI Thought About YouI'll Remember AprilI'm ld FashionedIt Might As Well Be SpringIt's Only A Paper MoonLove Walked InM0na LisaOn the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa FeOnce In A WhileSummertimeSurrey With the Fringe On TopTenderlyThat Old Black MagicPhyllis Lovwe is a professional jazz pianist in the New York City area who's appeared at storied venues including Windows on the World, Gramercy Hotel, and Mama Leone's. She's performed with the Bill Lombardo's Orchestra, scored music for film (Brighty of the Grand Canyon co composer], and written jingles for Harvey's BristolCreme, Estee Lauder, Seiko watches and many others.

Instrumental Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.818281 By Stephen R Dalrymple. By Sergei Rachmaninoff. Arranged by Edited by Stephen R Dalrymple. Romantic Period. Individual part. 18 pages. Stephen R Dalrymple #4966281. Published by Stephen R Dalrymple (A0.818281). Élegié in E Flat Minor for solo piano (Classical Music for Tablet Series) ♫ by Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (Opus 3.1) ♫ Rachmaninoff (born in 1873) , Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor, was considered one of the finest pianists of his day. His compositions belong to the Romantic period of music history. He graduated at the Moscow Conservatory in 1892. After the premiere of his First Symphony in 1897, the negative reaction by an important critic sent him into a tailspin of depression that lasted several years. ♫ In 1909 he performed a series of 26 performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the USA. In 1914 he travelled to England for a concert tour. ♫ In February 1917 on the day the Socialist Revolution began in St Petersburg, he performed a benefit piano recital in Moscow for wounded Russian soldiers. When he returned home, he found that a group of Social Revolutionary Party members had seized his property as their own communal property. He had invested most of his earnings on the estate, but left it behind. Rachmaninoff's concert performance in Yalta on 5 September 1917 was to be his last in Russia. The chaos and tension of the October Revolution was daunting. He composed with the noise of gunshots and rallies in the background. He received an invitation to perform 10 recitals across Scandinavia. He accepted the offer, using it as an excuse to obtain permits so he and his family could flee Russia. ♫ He returned to the USA in November 1918 and America became his home. When he became an American citizen in 1943, Sergei Rachmaninoff said: “This is the only place on earth where a human being is respected for what he is and what he does, and it does not matter who he is and where he came from.� He died in March 1943 from cancer at the age of 70. (condensed from Wikipedia - October 2022) ♫ Rachmaninoff’s Opus 3 contains 5 piano pieces. The first is the Élegié in E Flat Minor, the second is the Prelude in C# Minor (one of his most famous piano compositions). This opus was finished in 1892, when he was 19 years old. The Prelude in C# Minor is loud, explosive, and declarative; the Élegié in E Flat Minor is soft, fluid, and contemplative. ♫ Edited for 10 inch tablet by Stephen R Dalrymple ♫ Sequenced by the Editor ♫ The Classical Music for Tablet Series offers piano masterworks by classical composers formatted to be read on 10 inch tablets. I use an Amazon Kindle with Mobile Sheets Pro and an Air Turn blue tooth foot pedal to practice and perform piano music. Similar products available to provide other tablets the same functionality. ♫ The pieces in this series have not been arranged, but most have been edited slightly, and have been formatted to fit screen size. For example, in the tablet versions, first and second endings are often removed and the repeated measures and endings written into the music so the performer can avoid having to go back to previous pages. These kinds of section repeats were invented to spare the composer’s time and the cost of extra paper and ink. But with a tablet the cost of paper and ink is irrelevant. ♫ Although there are a lot more page turns with a 10 inch screen compared with letter size pages, the readability of the music (due to the backlighting on the tablet) and the portability of the music (travelling with a small tablet instead of oversized books or portfolios of sheet music) easily makes up for the extra page turns. ♫ Your purchase provides one .pdf file that contains both the tablet edition and the letter size page (printable) version. There are several programs available online that will allow you to separate this .pdf file into 2 .pdf files to make it more useful.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1345082 By Various. By Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Arranged by Phyllis Love. Film/TV,Jazz,Standards. Score. 2 pages. Phyllis Love #930017. Published by Phyllis Love (A0.1345082). The Last Time I Saw Paris for intermediate pianoThis 1940s lovely ballad has been overlooked. This version offers a rich harmonic arrangement, where the intensity builds as the tune progresses.Accessible enough for any intermediate performer, yet incredibly rewarding for even the most accomplished pianist. Phyllis Love's instrumental arrangements for jazz piano remain true to the original melodies, with inventive harmonies and dynamic rhythmic patterns perfect for solo players! Each is a tasty addition to your show set, whether it's a classic show tune or a Standard from the Great American Songbook.Check out these other Phyllis Love arrangements for students of jazz piano:The Breeze and IYesterdaysYou and the Night and the MusicWe'll Be Together AgainA Nightingale Sang In Berkeley SquareFalling In Love With LoveFor All We KnowI Thought About YouI'll Remember AprilI'm Old FashionedIt Might As Well Be SpringIt's Only A Paper MoonLove Walked InMona LisaOn the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa FeOnce In A WhileSummertimeSurrey With The Fringe On TopTenderlyThat Old Black MagicPhyllis Love is a professional jazz pianist in the New York City area who's appeared at storied venues including Windows on the World, Gramercy Park Hotel, and Mama Leone's. She's performed with the Bill Lombardo Orchestra, scored music for film (Brighty of the Grand Canyon co-composer), and written jingles for Harvey’s Bristol Crème, Estee Lauder, Seiko watches and many others.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1345046 Composed by Dorothy Heyward, Du Bose Heyward, George Gershwin, and Ira Gershwin. Arranged by Phyllis Love. Broadway,Jazz,Musical/Show,Standards. Score. 4 pages. Phyllis Love #929996. Published by Phyllis Love (A0.1345046). Summertime for intermediate pianoThis arrangement of a Gershwin standard has a boogaloo rhythm. Students will appreciate the solo, which has the elements of a jazz duo featuring piano and bass.Accessible enough for any intermediate performer, yet incredibly rewarding for even the most accomplished pianist. Phyllis Love's instrumental arrangements for jazz piano remain true to the original melodies, with inventive harmonies and dynamic rhythmic patterns perfect for solo players! Each is a tasty addition to your show set, whether it's a classic show tune or a Standard from the Great American Songbook.Check out these other Phyllis Love arrangements for students of jazz piano:The Breeze and IThe Last Time I Saw ParisYesterdaysYou and the Night and the MusicWe'll Be Together AgainA Nightingale Sang In Berkeley SquareFalling In Love With LoveFor All We KnowI Thought About YouI'll Remember AprilI'm Old FashionedIt Might As Well Be SpringIt's Only A Paper MoonLove Walked InMona LisaOn the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa FeOnce In A WhileSurrey With The Fringe On TopTenderlyThat Old Black MagicPhyllis Love is a professional jazz pianist in the New York City area who's appeared at storied venues including Windows on the World, Gramercy Park Hotel, and Mama Leone's. She's performed with the Bill Lombardo Orchestra, scored music for film (Brighty of the Grand Canyon co-composer), and written jingles for Harvey’s Bristol Crème, Estee Lauder, Seiko watches and many others.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1345101 By The Oscar Peterson Trio. By Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers. Arranged by Phyllis Love. Broadway,Jazz,Musical/Show,Standards. Score. 4 pages. Phyllis Love #930037. Published by Phyllis Love (A0.1345101). Surrey With The Fringe On Top from Oklahoma! for intermediate pianoThis classic Broadway show tune is written in 6/8 time and has a lot of movement. The bridge is played in 4/4 time, and is reminiscent of an old time piano piece.Accessible enough for any intermediate performer, yet incredibly rewarding for even the most accomplished pianist. Phyllis Love's instrumental arrangements for jazz piano remain true to the original melodies, with inventive harmonies and dynamic rhythmic patterns perfect for solo players! Each is a tasty addition to your show set, whether it's a classic show tune or a Standard from the Great American Songbook.Check out these other Phyllis Love arrangements for students of jazz piano:The Breeze and IThe Last Time I Saw ParisYesterdaysYou and the Night and the MusicWe'll Be Together AgainA Nightingale Sang In Berkeley SquareFalling In Love With LoveFor All We KnowI Thought About YouI'll Remember AprilI'm Old FashionedIt Might As Well Be SpringIt's Only A Paper MoonLove Walked InMona LisaOn the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa FeOnce In A WhileSummertimeTenderlyThat Old Black MagicPhyllis Love is a professional jazz pianist in the New York City area who's appeared at storied venues including Windows on the World, Gramercy Park Hotel, and Mama Leone's. She's performed with the Bill Lombardo Orchestra, scored music for film (Brighty of the Grand Canyon co-composer), and written jingles for Harvey’s Bristol Crème, Estee Lauder, Seiko watches and many others.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1345026 Composed by John Frederick Coots and Sam M. Lewis. Arranged by Phyllis Love. Jazz,Standards. Score. 3 pages. Phyllis Love #929979. Published by Phyllis Love (A0.1345026). For All We Know for intermediate pianoA delicate treatment of a 1934 ballad written by Rodgers and Hart. Jazz students will appreciate this interpretation, as part of the melody is extrapolated and used as an introduction and an ending, and the melody and bass lines work well together.Accessible enough for any intermediate performer, yet incredibly rewarding for even the most accomplished pianist! Phyllis Love's instrumental arrangements for jazz piano remain true to the original melodies, with inventive harmonies and dynamic rhythmic patterns perfect for solo players. Each is a tasty addition to your show set, whether it's a classic show tune or a Standard from the Great American Songbook.Check out these other Phyllis Love arrangements for students of jazz piano:The Breeze and IThe Last Time I Saw ParisYesterdaysYou and the Night and the MusicWe'll Be Together AgainA Nightingale Sang In Berkeley SquareFalling In Love With LoveI Thought About YouI'll Remember AprilI'm Old FashionedIt Might As Well Be SpringIt's Only A Paper MoonLove Walked InMona LisaOn the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa FeOnce In A WhileSummertimeSurrey With The Fringe On TopTenderlyThat Old Black MagicPhyllis Love is a professional jazz pianist in the New York City area who's appeared at storied venues including Windows on the World, Gramercy Park Hotel, and Mama Leone's. She's performed with the Bill Lombardo Orchestra, scored music for film (Brighty of the Grand Canyon co-composer), and written jingles for Harvey’s Bristol Crème, Estee Lauder, Seiko watches and many others.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1345121 Composed by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz. Arranged by Phyllis Love. Broadway,Jazz,Musical/Show,Standards. Score. 3 pages. Phyllis Love #930056. Published by Phyllis Love (A0.1345121). You and the Night and the Music from Revenge With MusicA 1934 romantic Broadway show tune that became a standard in the American Songbook. It's played here with a contrapuntal treatment and Latin flavor, while the bridge has a completely different feel with arpeggiated chords.Accessible enough for any intermediate performer, yet incredibly rewarding for even the most accomplished pianist. Phyllis Love's instrumental arrangements for jazz piano remain true to the original melodies, with inventive harmonies and dynamic rhythmic patterns perfect for solo players! Each is a tasty addition to your show set, whether it's a classic show tune or a Standard from the Great American Songbook.Check out these other Phyllis Love arrangements for students of jazz piano:The Breeze and IThe Last Time I Saw ParisYesterdaysWe'll Be Together AgainA Nightingale Sang In Berkeley SquareFalling In Love With LoveFor All We KnowI Thought About YouI'll Remember AprilI'm Old FashionedIt Might As Well Be SpringIt's Only A Paper MoonLove Walked InMona LisaOn the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa FeOnce In A WhileSummertimeSurrey With The Fringe On TopTenderlyThat Old Black MagicPhyllis Love is a professional jazz pianist in the New York City area who's appeared at storied venues including Windows on the World, Gramercy Park Hotel, and Mama Leone's. She's performed with the Bill Lombardo Orchestra, scored music for film (Brighty of the Grand Canyon co-composer), and written jingles for Harvey’s Bristol Crème, Estee Lauder, Seiko watches and many others.

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1345127 Composed by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer. Arranged by Phyllis Love. Film/TV,Jazz,Standards. Score. 3 pages. Phyllis Love #930061. Published by Phyllis Love (A0.1345127). On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe from The Harvey GirlsThis delightful arrangement starts off with a rhythm that evokes a train. It's harmonically interesting, with an introduction that sets in motion an exciting beat and sets up the melody nicely.Accessible enough for any intermediate performer, yet incredibly rewarding for even the most accomplished pianist. Phyllis Love's instrumental arrangements for jazz piano remain true to the original melodies, with inventive harmonies and dynamic rhythmic patterns perfect for solo players! Each is a tasty addition to your show set, whether it's a classic show tune or a Standard from the Great American Songbook.Check out these other Phyllis Love arrangements for students of jazz piano:The Breeze and IThe Last Time I Saw ParisYesterdaysYou and the Night and the MusicWe'll Be Together AgainA Nightingale Sang In Berkeley SquareFalling In Love With LoveFor All We KnowI Thought About YouI'll Remember AprilI'm Old FashionedIt Might As Well Be SpringIt's Only A Paper MoonLove Walked InMona LisaOnce In A WhileSummertimeSurrey With The Fringe On TopTenderlyThat Old Black MagicPhyllis Love is a professional jazz pianist in the New York City area who's appeared at storied venues including Windows on the World, Gramercy Park Hotel, and Mama Leone's. She's performed with the Bill Lombardo Orchestra, scored music for film (Brighty of the Grand Canyon co-composer), and written jingles for Harvey’s Bristol Crème, Estee Lauder, Seiko watches and many others.

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1227903 By 101 String Orchestra. By Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Arranged by Timothy Stapay. Broadway,Film/TV,Jazz,Musical/Show,Singer/Songwriter,Standards. Score. 10 pages. Timothy Stapay #823903. Published by Timothy Stapay (A0.1227903). This arrangement of The Last Time I Saw Paris is written as played by piano artist, Liberace.  It contains an introduction, by Liberace, using parts of the French song, Clair De Lune by Claude Debussy.The Last Time I Saw Paris is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, published in 1940.  It was sung in the 1941 film Lady Be Good by Ann Sothern.By December 1940, six versions of the song were on the charts, with Kate Smith having exclusive radio rights for the song for six weeks. The song catered to a wartime nostalgia for songs about European cities following the Second World War Battle of France (which brought Paris under Nazi control), with A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square also proving popular.The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1941. This was Kern's second Academy Award for Best Original Song (following his success with The Way You Look Tonight in 1936), and Hammerstein's first. Władziu Valentino Liberace(May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor.  A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin, he enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world!Lyrics:(Verse)A lady known as ParisRomantic and charmingHas left her old companionsAnd faded from viewLonely men with lonely eyes are seeking her in vainThe streets are where they wereBut there's no sign of herShe has left the Seine(Chorus)The last time I saw ParisHer heart was warm and gayI heard the laughter of her heartIn every street cafeThe last time I saw ParisHеr trees were dressеd for springAnd lovers walked beneath those treesAnd birds had songs to singI dodged the same old taxicabsThat I had dodged for yearsThe chorus of their squeaking hornsWas music to my ears The last time I saw ParisHer heart was warm and gayNo matter how they change herI'll remember her that wayI'll think of happy hoursAnd people who shared themOld women selling flowersIn markets at dawn(Bridge)Children who applauded Punch and Judy in the parkAnd those who danced at night and kept our Paris brightTill the town went dark(Chorus)The last time I saw ParisHer heart was warm and gayI heard the laughter of her heartIn every street cafeThe last time I saw ParisHer trees were dressed for springAnd lovers walked beneath those treesAnd birds had songs to sing I dodged the same old taxicabsThat I had dodged for yearsThe chorus of their squeaking hornsWas music to my earsThe last time I saw ParisHer heart was warm and gayNo matter how they change herI'll remember her that wayI'll think of happy hoursAnd people who shared themOld women selling flowersIn markets at dawn

Piano Solo - Early Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Louis Landon. Spiritual, New Age. Sheet Music Single. 7 pages. Published by Landon Creative, Inc.

Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1017134 Composed by James F. Babcock. Contemporary. Score. 4 pages. James Babcock #6065387. Published by James Babcock (A0.1017134). Piano solo.  4 pgs. Like Shenandoah and Red River Valley, this simple bittersweet melody evokes America’s rural past with an emotional remembrance of regret and yearning. Written on a past Memorial Day, its cover offers this interpretation:  It is 1861. A young farm boy, called to war, waltzes with his girl for the last time. The slow tune calls to mind a warm summer night’s barn dance, a sweet romance, and a sad farewell forever.   Separate versions for violin (SO.876515) and cello (SO.875817) with piano accompaniment are also available on SMP Press. Your compositions are charming and melodic, useful both for training and performance.-Thomas Lindsay, former concertmaster, Virginia Beach Symphony and New Jersey Pops.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.799621 Composed by Nicole Elyse DiPaolo. 20th Century,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 2 pages. Nicole Elyse DiPaolo #5791453. Published by Nicole Elyse DiPaolo (A0.799621). From my in-progress collection of intermediate and late-intermediate piano compositions in Impressionist styles, this is an homage to Maurice Ravel's piano writing as shown in his minuets (like the middle movement of the Sonatine and the minuet from Le tombeau de Couperin). It means The Sunken Garden, and I'll explain why below.It introduces techniques that Ravel frequently uses but that less-than-advanced students rarely encounter in repertoire at their level: sometimes-awkward hand and arm crossings, extended tertian chords (9th/11th/13th voicings), large rolled chords, and some modal writing, to name a few, while still maintaining a clarity of voicing that students will find in Ravel's own music. All of these can be disorienting to students encountering Ravel's music for the first time, so students will benefit from Ravel-preparatory repertoire, like this piece, that introduces these techniques.Since most currently published collections of Impressionist-style pedagogical repertoire focus on Claude Debussy's language, this piece is a welcome addition to the student piano literature and will help bridge the gaps between standard teaching repertoire and pieces like Ravel's Sonatine, while also exposing students to a new, rich, and inviting tonal language that will inspire them to seek out more of Ravel's compositions.On a more personal level, this piece was inspired by the Sunken Garden, a former landmark on the Indiana University campus that sat across the street from the practice building in which I taught dozens of piano students, coached numerous singers, and learned piles of repertoire before moving away last year. The Jordan Hall greenhouse now sits on the former Sunken Garden site.Because the Wells Quad dorms are right next door, I hear this piece as a recollection of a social dance night that the dorms probably held frequently back when the Sunken Garden existed. Wells Quad served as a classroom/academic office complex for years after Jordan Hall was built in the 50s, but they are now back-converting the buildings into dorms again. (As of this writing, two of the buildings now serve as dorms, while the other two are still academic buildings. While I was pursuing my doctoral minor in composition, the composition professors' studios were almost all in Wells Quad's Sycamore Hall. They upgraded to the East Studio Building as soon as they could, though!).