Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596494 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,New Age. Score. 5 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3097661. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596494). If you are interested in this piece, consider purchasing instead the whole album From a Window (10 piano pieces) for 7 dollars: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/21308489?aff_id=565049Juan has a new piano (for piano) Listen  on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5TWTkldVsBDYY2LwvKxlyX Listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/juan-maria-solare/juan-has-a-new-piano-juan-maria-solare Program note: Some months ago I purchased a grand piano (Feurich). Finally I have my own instrument in Europe. The title is a wink to Nils Frahm's piece Nils has a new piano (without musical quotations!) This piece was composed and recorded in Bremen (Germany) on 23 March 2017, especially for the World Piano Day 2017. Duration: 2'35 Released by: Janus Music & Sound, Bremen. On Spotify under exclusive license to DoubleJMusic www.juanmariasolare.com/   According to www.pianoday.org : Piano Day, a annual worldwide event founded by a group of likeminded people, takes place on the 88th day of the year – in 2017 it’s the 29th March – because of the number of keys on the instrument being celebrated.Juan María Solare

Piano Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596495 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Sacred,Standards. Score. 4 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3100069. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596495). I've found that music with autobiographical references has a particular expressive strength.I was in Finland once (performing at the World Tango Summit in Seinäjoki, 2011). The city of Seinäjoki is quite close to the Arctic Circle, so in summer the sun doesn't really set: instead of a night you have several hours of an eternal twilight.The feeling was that of a transition stopped in time, as a slow motion film of someone springing over a wide river. This can be a wonderful experience (and for me it was), but can be also unnatural to us, Latinamericans, used to the day is sun and night is no sun approach to life.Anecdotically, the temperature during these days in Seinäjoki was 31 Celsius. So my experience of Finland is that of a very warm place. I guess other persons have colder experiences. There are three versions of this piece: Piano solo (pedal all throughout, resonances) 7:24 Tibetan singing bowls 7:40 Electronic sounds (ambient) 7:50 The bowls version is recorded at A = 432 Hz. The solo piano and the electronic versions are at A = 440 Hz.   Summer Twilights in Finland are Particularly Long was composed in Bremen on 5 May 2017.    Cover Art: Juan María Solare, based on a foto by Chado Nihi (released under license CC0, and used by explicit permission: You are welcome to use it for any non-harmful purposes).   Listen on: https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/album/summer-twilights-in-finland-are-particularly-long or on Spotify / Deezer etc.   Updated, general information: http://www.juanmariasolare.com/summer_twilights_in_finland_are_particularly_long.html

Piano Solo - Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Juan María Solare. Contemporary Classical, Post-Romantic, Neo-Classical, Repertoire, Funeral. Score. 8 pages. Published by Juan Maria Solare

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596539 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. Score. 7 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3880115. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596539). Listen: https://soundcloud.com/juan-maria-solare/ausenteAusente (Abstent) is an atonal milonga. If Franz Liszt composed a Bagatelle without tonality, why not a milonga without tonality. This piece is placed somewhere between classical music and new tango.   Moderator Louis Barabbas wrote about Ausente for the BBC blog Fresh On The Net nr. 305 (19 November 2018), http://freshonthenet.co.uk/2018/11/faves305   Described as 'somewhere between classical music and new tango' the artist’s phrasing here is telling: somewhere rather than something. For in Juan Maria Solare’s Ausente (absent) we are certainly transported. Each angular phrase jutting up like stone columns or distended stalactites in a limey cave. The trickling thrust of its furtive intent feels somehow elemental yet focused through an urban noir prism, drops of heavy water in varying temperatures, some icicles and some steam, shards of smoky light poking around slow moving fan blades and between the rusty teeth of ancient window grills, monstrous warped shadows cast up from humble orphaned minutiae. Music as beautiful and unsettling as it is hard to dance to. The idea of dancing this piece was a surprise for me, since tango music doesn't need to be danced to (you can also just listen to it). But if you wonder how this tango would appear danced, imagine it is not called tango but contemporary ballet rooted in tango - and suddenly you find ways of dancing it... provided an open-minded choreographer is on board! If someone wants to dance this music in the style of the tango of 1920, they will have a hard time. It would be like trying to dance Strawinsky's Le Sacre du printemps as if it were the Blue Danube Waltz.   Juan María Solare   http://www.JuanMariaSolare.com

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596553 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Latin,Standards. Score. 32 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4602713. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596553). Juan María Solare           From a Window       10 piano pieces       1 - Juan Has a New Piano                                        02:29 2 - Gazing                                                                   04:37 3 - Cross That Bridge When You Come to It     03:45 4 - Premonición                                                         03:26 5 - La tocaya                                                               03:33 6 - Seul, pendant un instant                                     04:25 7 - Predictions of the Velvet Gentleman                       04:39 8 - The Antarctic Also Exists                                   02:00 9 - An Old Cottage in Arun                                     02:26 10 - New Harry Pottery House                                       05:30From a Window - Juan María Solare The pieces of this piano album have been composed between 2011 to 2018. All of them belong to the aesthetic of neo-classical music, in some cases with a salt of tango flavour (clear in Premonición). The fingerings in the scores are only suggestions - albeit meaningful ones. Be sure that they have been tested in practice. Those are the fingerings that I actually use.  Listen to this album in Spotify and similar streaming platforms:https://open.spotify.com/album/3L4VfFsqSb4iax62Wl3FOd https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/album/from-a-window All the pieces were performed by the composer, Juan María Solare, and recorded at the Studio Onix II, Cervelló / Barcelona, Spain, in January 2018. Recording Engineer: Bruno Sanfilippo (brunosanfilippo.bandcamp.com) Digital release: 8 March 2019, label Double J Music (Bristol, UK)Physical release: label Janus Music & Sound (Bremen, Germany)  Artwork: Juan María Solare. Fractal image created with the JWildfire software designed by Andreas Maschke (jwildfire.org). Trivia: Actually, this particular fractal image was what inspired the title of the album. Stats: in the first month after its release (on 8 March 2019) the focus track, La tocaya, reached 90.000 streams on Spotify. ***

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596565 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Holiday,Instructional,Love,Wedding. Score. 7 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4628435. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596565). Valsarín * a piano waltz by Juan María Solare Description: A haunting waltz for solo piano with classical influences. Gentle and sweet, without agressive sounds. Featured in the CD Tango Monologues by Juan Maria Solare (http://www.juanmariasolare.com/CD_tango_monologues.html). On Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/track/5eTqWEWqDq3YU9uwehTsoW Also on Youtube: https://youtu.be/9bvzV7Nx7jQ Sounds like / for fans of: Frederic Chopin, Erik Satie, Franz Liszt, Maurice Ravel, George Gershwin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Main genre: classical. Secondary genres: 20th Century (1920-present), Acoustic Underscores, Adult Contemporary, Easy Listening, Elevator, Impressionistic (1900-1920), Latin Pop, Lounge, Neo-Classical, Romantic (1820-1900), South American, Tango, Underscore, Waltz, World Music Moods Blissful, Calm, Content, Elegant, Emotional, Ethereal, Happy, Haunting, Heartwarming, Hopeful, Innocent, Inspired, Light, Lonely, Melancholy, Mellow, Mysterious, Optimistic, Passive, Peaceful, Playful, Positive, Reflective, Relaxed, Romantic, Sad, Sedate, Seductive, Serene, Sexy, Spiritual, Thoughtful, Uplifting, Worried Brief analysis - Theme A in C, upbeat - Theme B in A, on the beat - Theme C in E, after the beat   Thus, the keys of the themes are in tird relationship (to both sides of the central key, C major). And the rhythms of each theme present complementarity.

Easy Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596630 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Instructional,Sacred. Score. 22 pages. Juan Maria Solare #6602197. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596630). Juan María Solare: On the Concept of Limit (seven piano pieces) In this work crystallises an idea that has been haunting me for some time: that the titles of the individual pieces should read like lines of a poem. 1) Up to a Certain Point 2) Nothing Gets Lost 3) Yet All Will Be Forgotten 4) At the End of the Day 5) Even the Sky Has a Limit 6) However, However 7) Only the Present Has No Limits There is a fancy order of keys in this cycle: in ascending thirds (both major and minor but without a regularity). Indirectly, this is a structural quotation of Beethoven's variations Opus 34 (only that he chose a descending order of keys). Additionally, you will find three times 4/4 time signature and three times 3/4, and one instance of 5/8 (asymmetrically arranged). 1) C major (4/4) 2) E major (3/4) 3) G minor (4/4) 4) B major (4/4) 5) D minor (5/8) 6) F minor (3/4) 7) A major (3/4) The seventh and last piece is dedicated to Martina Lindner. These pieces were composed in Bremen, Germany, in September 2021 Juan María Solare, www.JuanMariaSolare.com 

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596546 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Jazz,Latin,World. Score. 6 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4276305. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596546). Entradora  --  Milonga for solo piano, music by Juan María SolareComposed in Bremen, Germany, from 10 to 13 November 2018. Duration: around 2'15. Premiere by Juan María Solare on 8 January 2019 at the theatre of the university of Bremen (recital Neue -und alte- Innigkeit, New -and old- intimism). Video by the composer in his private Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f89TCd3di8About the title:- First of all, entradora is an adjective that can be applied to a femenine noun. (In Spanish you have different declinations for masculine and femenine adjectives). The masculine version is entrador.- Second, entradora can understood in this context as a substantivized adjective, i.e. a word that is actually an adjective, but is used as if it were a noun, like if I say Now I will play 'Entradora'. (for a scientific explanation check yor favorite English grammar book).- Third, entradora is a wink to Argentine composer Julián Plaza, who used one-word adjectives as title of several of his milongas and tangos, for instance Nocturna, Danzarín, Melancólico, Melancólica, Sensiblero, Nostálgico, Disonante, Dominguera, Expresivo, Futura, Instrumental, Juguetón, Paseandera, Payadora, Solemne, Temperamental - and possibly others that I am not aware of.- And fourth, the meaning of the word entradora in the coloquial Spanish of Argentina is this one: if applied to a person, is someone that easily makes friends, that wins the trust of the people very easily, who is very charming. I applied to an object (or to a melody) it means that it is easy to grasp, that you remember it immediately (as an earworm), that is accessible and uncomplicated. - Oh, there is a fifth point: are you native (or good) English speaker? After all this explanation do you come to an understandable translation of this word, Entradora? If yes, let me know! (http://juanmariasolare.com/contact.html)

Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.596506 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Standards,World. Score. 10 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3363803. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596506). Juan María Solare:  Acuarelas junto al río inmóvil (Watercolours alongside the still river)  five nocturnes for piano solo The still river is the River Plate; the novelist Eduardo Mallea (1902-1982) refers to Buenos Aires as the city next to the still river, an allusion to its lack of haste. This cycle of piano pieces is a collection of five short nocturnes. The first four Acuarelas were composed in Buenos Aires between 9th and 12th April 2007, the fifth piece was conceived on 4th May and written down on 6th May 2007. All five pieces have practically the same formal structure. Concerning the musical language or style, I would classify this work under contemporary classical with interferences from modern jazz and new tango (imagine Astor Piazzolla listening to a recording of Thelonious Monk playing preludes of Alexander Scriabin). Single titles and approximate durations I - Bruma matinal  (Morning Mist) [1'10] II - Flecha flotante  (Floating Arrow) [1'00] III - Vaivén de los juncos  (Sawying Reeds) [1'15] IV - Orilla urbana  (Urban Shore) [2'00] V - Incandescencia estática  (Static Incandescence) [0'45] ISWC (International Standard Musical Work Code): T-802.466.008-1 The Acuarelas were recorded by Juan María Solare in London on Friday 23rd May 2014. Recorded and Mixed by Eduard Muhaxheri Assistant Engineer: Matteo Dessi Grand piano Wendl & Lung Cover Art: Alban Low Label Janus Music & Sound (Bremen, Germany), JMS-004 More about the piece, also sound examples: http://www.juanmariasolare.com/CD_acuarelas_junto_al_rio_inmovil.html The recording of Acuarelas is on Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, amazon mp3, etc. https://open.spotify.com/album/1kVamUJLLSqbQnFURSpxYAVideo of the fourth piece,Orilla urbana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usiEGpImyco

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596544 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Holiday. Score. 5 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3926873. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596544). The German expression Zwischen den Jahren (literally Between the Years) refers to the last days of December (from Christmas) and the first days of January (up to Three King's Day). An English equivalent might be Boxing Week. This piece is called this way because it was composed ... between the years! Concretely, on 31 December 2009 and 1 January 2010 in the small village of Worpswede, North Germany. Musically, the piece is mostly based on major seventh chords with their fundamentals notes related by thirds. The harmony has also a Lydian flavor which becomes most obvious in the central section. Structurally, is roughly A-B-B-A, whereby the reappearance of a previous section is quite varied. Premiere by the composer: recital Neue Konsonanz, 16 January 2014, Theatersaal of the university of Bremen. Zwischen den Jahren is included in the composer's piano album Sombras blancas (White Shadows) and released through the German label Janus Music & Sound. Find it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5ElRtKQhuaTyl8vKiyEyZv Interested in the sheet music? Find it on Sheet Music Plus: https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/juan-maria-solare-sheet-music/3003582?aff_id=565049 Here is a video (Images: water fountain in the Plaza de Cataluña, Barcelona.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzK7kq5COv0#piano #classicalmusic #music #neoclassical #SombrasBlancas #ListenToThis #NowPlaying #musicvideo #newmusic  #album #Barcelona #jeauxdeau #indie #Spotify #iTunes #Deezer #AppleMusic #GooglePlay #JuanMariaSolare #BoxingWeek

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596525 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary,Latin. Score. 7 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3621769. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596525). The piano piece Bad Hombres Jumping Over my Wall While Yelling '¡Arriba!, ¡Arriba!' was composed in Bremen, Germany, in August 2018, for the project 45miniatures by pianist Nick Phillips. The overall character of this piece responds vaguely to Nicholas Phillips' suggestion: playful/childish outbursts, in the form of heckler chords or bad hombre-like non-chord tones. The title depicts a surrealistic, clownesque, ridiculous situation; a dream for some and a nightmare for others.For those totally unaware: the expression Bad Hombres was used by president Donald Trump during the third 2016 United States Presidential Debate. While answering a question about his immigration policy, Donald Trump stated that there were a lot of drug lords in the United States and that they needed to be removed. He concluded his comment by saying we have some bad hombres here and we have to get them out. (thus implying that the responsible of US' drug problems are Latinos)Character and moods: happy, merry, mysterious. About the performance All the piece consists of mini clusters (two minor seconds). The notation can be sometimes obscure (due to the many unavoidable accidentals). To facilitate the reading (deciphering) of the score, the easiest is to follow the highest note of each cluster: they usually form a simple chord. For instance, bar 17 is (melodically speaking) a F7 chord. Got it? L = Left Hand R = Right Hand The verbal comments along the music are not meant to be actually read aloud, but alla mente (like in some Satie's music). However, if you want to recite them at concert, go ahead.Juan María Solare (http://www.JuanMariaSolare.com)

Easy Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596543 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Instructional,Jazz,Sacred. Score. 5 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3914625. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596543). Glockenvogel (Bellbird), neoclassical music. A minimal, charming, peaceful piano piece that uses the Lydian mode.Glockenvogel for piano solo was composed in December 2008 in Geneva (Switzerland). The piece is dedicated to María Luján Juárez.Glockenvogel is the German name of the Procnias nudicollis, bare-throated Bellbird, a species of bid found in most subtropical and tropical forests in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay.Find a recording here: https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/track/glockenvogel On 22 February 2019 a studio recording by the composer was released digitally through the British label Ameritz (Mellotron) in Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, TIDAL and all other usual streaming platforms:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5CI48oVQWCKbOGuWS10qJCTidal: https://listen.tidal.com/album/103152736Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/album/85669572Premiere by the composer on 8th January 2019 at the University Bremen, Germany (recital Neue -und alte- Innigkeit) Juan María Solare's music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0sr00YxbHKRAruzYrJ6PEg    

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596559 Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Latin,Multicultural,Standards,World. Score. 7 pages. Juan Maria Solare #4615311. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596559). Villa Crespo: Tango by Juan María Solare and Ricardo Bruno (music and words)  This is an instrumental version - solo piano.  Villa Crespo is a neighborhood located almost in the geographical centre of the city of Buenos Aires (and where the composer was born). Recording (solo piano version): https://juanmariasolare.bandcamp.com/track/villa-crespo and in Spotify and further streaming platforms since 20th September 2019:Villa Crespo in Spotify What about a video?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7BzKNfqLwk

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.596504 Composed by Juan María Solare. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. Score. 11 pages. Juan Maria Solare #3360735. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596504). Searching technically and esthetically accessible contemporary music with a melocentric approach (for you or your students)? Give a try to Aphorismen by Juan María Solare - 12 miniatures for solo piano (10 minutes, 7 pages).The musical language of this piece is abstract, post-tonal, and its genre contemporary classical. Non-repetitive minimal music, an accessible avant-garde sound with a melocentric approach.The composer's recording on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3sebjpOAzxzLBYLCoJ28D0Additional information: http://www.juanmariasolare.com/CD_aphorismen.htmlThis cycle of twelve pieces was composed in Berlin between 14th and 15th July, 2008. The work, which duration is about ten minutes, is dedicated to Juliane Dehning. World Premiere by Juliane Dehning at the piano on 19th October 2008 at the art gallery Villa Irmgard of the city Seebad Heringsdorf (Usedom, Germany) during the Vernissage of the exposition Ansichten with works of the artists Christina Renker & Max Stock.