Piano Solo - Digital Download

SKU: A0.976503

Composed by James Domine. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 16 pages. Earth Music, Ltd. #2081575. Published by Earth Music, Ltd. (A0.976503).

The piano sonatas by James Domine are cast in one movement and follow the traditional sonata-allegro form. The first of these, Piano Sonata #1 in C major opens with a lively theme in C major sweetened by the interpolation of a recurring f# that is marked with the tempo indication of Animato. The principal theme is followed by a contrastingly sentimental cantabile melody that has something of a jazz-ballad flavor set in the dominant key. These two themes are cunningly entwined through the development in an harmonic sequence that emerges into a playful recapitulation. The sonata ends with an open-spaced quartal figuration that implies the tonic key of C major but without implicitly spelling it out in its common triadic form. The subtitle Commedia dell’arte all’improvviso comes from the light-hearted comedic character of the principal theme that is treated throughout in a quasi-improvisational manner reminiscent of the sixteenth-century Italian theatrical style. This sonata, although begun at an earlier date, was completed in 2005 at the request of Joanna Ezrin, pianist and pedagogue as a vehicle for her students.

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.923499

Composed by Jenny Walker. Contemporary. Score. 4 pages. J Walker #6667469. Published by J Walker (A0.923499).

This piece is very quick and has rapid right hand passages, with the left hand interpolating with chords and rhythmic ideas. The chords are meant to have little predictability.  The work was originally named 'Snatch' as this describes how it should be played.  .

Instrumental Solo,Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1079291

Composed by Friedrich Kuhlau. Arranged by Kiyoshi Tamagawa. Classical. Score and individual part. 24 pages. Mastery for Strings Press #683490. Published by Mastery for Strings Press (A0.1079291).

The Concertino Classico (Little Classical Concerto) is a somewhat more advanced sequel to the earlier Concertino Barocco, also available from Mastery for Strings Press. This time two movements from familiar sonatinas by the German/Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832) have been transformed into miniature concerto movements by adding and interpolating short tutti passages at appropriate points in the form. Not a note has been added or subtracted from the original keyboard solos, so that a student who has mastered the originals may play this Concertino simply by memorizing the exact points in the original pieces where additional music for the orchestra (second piano) has been added and they must wait to continue. A student may use any standard edition of either Sonatina to learn and perform these movements. I hope that studying and performing the movements of the Concertino Classico will give an advancing student an enjoyable taste of performing as a concerto soloist using familiar repertoire, as well as providing a bridge to the standard keyboard concerto repertory.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1013043

Arranged by David E. Boelzner. Christian,Sacred. Score. 3 pages. David E Boelzner #5898953. Published by David E Boelzner (A0.1013043).

Cascading runs in the right hand, and sometimes both hands, accompany the outer two presentations of Gibbons’s haunting tune, often used for the communion text, Completed, Lord, the Holy Mysteries.  The middle section shifts the tune to right hand chords (with brief echoes of the Dies irae interpolated), while the left continues the energy driving the piece forward.  The cascades die away in the coda.  One of three communion tune settings, see Meditations on Adoro devote and on St. Keverne.

Piano - intermediate to advanced - Digital Download

SKU: S9.Q588033

To the concerto for piano and orchestra in G Major Hob. XVIII:4. Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn and Nino Rota. Cadenza. Downloadable. Op. 3. Duration 2 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q588033. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q588033).

Key: G major.

Improvised and also composed solo cadenzas, normally occuring towards the end of a bravura aria or an instrumental concerto movement, have existed since the late 16th century. They provide the performer with an opportunity for self-presentation in the form of a free style of playing or singing, based on themes and motifs from previous sections of the movement. Solo cadenzas are for the most part introduced by a six-four chord held by the orchestra; the soloist begins a protracting interpolation in free stlye, subsequently culminating on the dominant chord, usually with a trill. Whereas originally composers left solo cadenzas to be freely improvised, from the middle of the 19th century onwards they were frequently specifically written out. The increasing abuse of cadenzas as a mere display of free virtuosity, ignoring the style and impetus of the composition, played a substantial factor in this development. Thus Beethoven gives the soloist no opportunity whatsoever for free improvisation in his 5th piano concerto in which the cadenza becomes an integral, obligatory component of the complete work. In this unique series Schott Music presents cadenzas created for well-known instrumental concertos from the Classical and Romantic periods by major composers and soloists of our time. Nino Rota dedicated the Kadenzen zum Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 in G-Dur (Cadenzas of the Concerto No. 4 for Piano and Orchestra in G major) Hob. XVIII:4 by Joseph Haydn to Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995), who recorded them for the label EMI.