Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1438013

By Louis Armstrong. By Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. Arranged by Timothy Stapay. Broadway,Film/TV,Jazz,Musical/Show,Singer/Songwriter,Standards. Score. 6 pages. Timothy Stapay #1018085. Published by Timothy Stapay (A0.1438013).

When it comes to timeless classics, few songs can compare to “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong’s Orchestra and Chorus. Released in 1967, this beautiful melody has transcended decades, touching the hearts of millions across the globe. 

After it was heard in the film Good Morning, Vietnam, it was reissued as a single in 1988, and rose to number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100.   Armstrong's recording was inducted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

In a world often plagued by strife and uncertainty, the song serves as a gentle reminder to focus on the positive aspects of life. It urges us to look beyond our differences and embrace the beauty that surrounds us. It celebrates the wonders of nature, the innocence of children, and the power of love, instilling a renewed sense of appreciation for the world we live in.

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1446554

By Elvis Presley. By Fred Rose. Arranged by Michael Sanders. Country,Folk,Pop. Score. 2 pages. Michael Sanders Publishing #1026356. Published by Michael Sanders Publishing (A0.1446554).

A relaxing arrangement based off of Willie Nelson's version of this classic. Level 3.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.976874

Composed by Monica Bergo. Contemporary. Score. 5 pages. Monica Bergo #3244129. Published by Monica Bergo (A0.976874).

2017 Holiday Contest Entry

THEATER

 

If you want to transform your reality

If you want another life

The theater is here

Choose the character

What will you interpret

Follow your script

 and you will not be wrong

 

A blue curtain

The lights are down

And music begins

An ox eye

That will turn on

The scene lights up

 

Offstage, me

Look out for my turn

my legs tremble

Increase the beat

 

People in the audience

Silent is

And thet expects to live

The story you will tell theyr

And everything is possible

 

I grab the moment

I commit myself to the utmost

There is rhythm, there is energy

There is grief, there is joy

 

Here everything is fake but there is truth

And fate here, nothing can

Because history already has its plot and its ending

We will incarnate here

Vices and virtues

In the comedy you will lose

You will breathe with us

The magic that's here tonight

Live in this atmosphere

Trash and a bit surreal

It will involve you

 

With its cardboard trees, canvas palaces

Paper skies, foam lakes

Tears drawn on blood red cheeks

Imperfect moons and sunshine that does not shine

 

It's all a theater this my life

I play more roles

In prose or poetry

We are all actors

In this reality

Browse your script

It will surprise you

 

Finished the show

I bow for you

Applause and music

A moment and I already find my self

The usual Monica

I feel a bit  Pierrot

Between joy and tears

But it went well and then tomorrow replies

 

Live  more lives  for  never die

Sweet illusion that will cull me

And it  will accompany me

Even out of this scene

If I recite  good ,you will know

Unsuspecting sides of me

I'll be nice

O arrogant and bad

A witch or a diva

Heroes of a time gone

Who will I ever be?

 

and how Pirandello wrote

I’m  none and one hundred thousand

I interpret myself

And it's never good the first

I'm not convincing in my dirty clothes

And I change the script bugs

Of my days a little shaken

Absurd Theater

It turns into a silent film

And crying out loud

In this desolate stage

 

If you are looking for an identity

An interruption of reality

Write your script or improver

Get on that stage and you'll be what you want ....

 

                                                                          Monica Bergo

Easy Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.596592

Composed by Juan María Solare. 20th Century,Contemporary,Sacred,Standards. Score. 8 pages. Juan Maria Solare #5799759. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596592).

About the music

Both pieces of this diptych are miniatures with a structure quite similar to each of the pieces of the Album für die Jugend Opus 68 by Robert Schumann. The melodies are strongly rooted in Japanese music (particularly obvious in the second piece).

Aesthetically, this is neoclassical music (a quite broad concept nowadays). Fans of Erik Satie, Ludovico Einaudi or Joep Beving will possibly feel at home.

Both pieces were composed on 6 June 2020 (the first one with my daughter Laura sleeping on my breast). Find this music soon on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube or any other streaming platform (either under my name or performed by other pianists, possibly Iannis Eralos). Total duration: ca. 5:15.

https://open.spotify.com/album/27MbJnfPjcolbQZAmNs8tK

Weep Because Its Over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWflYuEoLy8

Smile Because It Happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SQFUlb7lFg

About the titles

In a poem by the German Romantic poet Ludwig Jacobowski titled Leuchtende Tage (Radiant Days) and published in August 1899, he writes:

Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!

Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

Literally:

Don't cry because they are over (they: the radiant days)

Smile because they happened.

Usually it is quoted this way:

Don't cry because it’s over

Smile because it happened.

 

For my piece, I adapted this idea und -not quite humbly- think that is better now:

 

Do weep because it’s over

But also smile because it happened

 

Why is it better now? Because… where is the issue with weeping? The first step is to accept that pain exists. Nobody has the moral authority to deny you the possibility of crying. Weeping is not a shame or a disgrace. Besides, only he who weeps is credible when he laughs.

 

By the way, these words are sometimes attributed to Confucius. I leave to you the task of determining whether Jacobowski borrowed this thought from him.

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1019351

Composed by Kevin Longley. Contemporary. Score. 9 pages. Kevin Longley #3378573. Published by Kevin Longley (A0.1019351).

Cafe Terrace I for Piano, composed in August of 2006 was the first in a set of 3 pieces inspired by Vincent van Gogh's Café Terrace at Night. The music's underlying idea attempts to depict the laughing, the crying, the arguments and the quiet conversations van Gogh may have observed while conceiving his masterpiece. It begins in a flutter of excitement demonstrating the commotion of the Cafe at its busiest hour. As the piece progresses the musics character slowly changes. Moving towards a more agitated state it finally descends to the lower register of the piano, depicting a verbal conflict. This conflict eventually resolves and returns to the opening music which then leads to the exuberant ending.

Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1019352

Composed by Kevin Longley. Contemporary. Score. 10 pages. Kevin Longley #3378575. Published by Kevin Longley (A0.1019352).

Cafe Terrace II for Piano, composed in June of 2007 was the second in a set of 3 pieces inspired by Vincent van Gogh's Café Terrace at Night. Like Cafe Terrace I it depicts the quiet conversations, the laughing, the crying, and the arguments, van Gogh may have observed while conceiving his masterpiece. The music begins with a very soft melancholy melody which slowly moves from its reserved beginning to a place of frenzy and intensity. This storm so to speak continues for a period of time and then finally reaches a reserved climax with the fury subsiding; ushering in a return to the opening melody which repeats in its entirety and then comes to a reverent ending.