Instrumental Duet,Keyboard - Digital Download SKU: A0.1497843 Composed by Jenni Roditi. 21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. 12 pages. Jenni Roditi #1074255. Published by Jenni Roditi (A0.1497843). Piano Duo - 2 pianos, 4 hands. Surrender, Between the Octaves was the piece that was composed first in the suite. It exposes a simple call to return to the beginning, to return to a pure act of listening. This note..ah, now that note.. oh. This is how the piece was written - one note at a time. Listening from within a space (its original title) of resonance, of edges and meetings, of disappearances and repetitions that reflect on this gentle body of notes. There is a slow hearing that may, or may not create a tone-journey.Names of all the movements in the suite Between the Octaves in the right order are Initiate, Surrender, Thread, Curve, Encircle, Ritualise, Ignite. The whole suite follows a long line from movement 1 to movement 7. However, individual pieces are well suited to be played alone too. Piano Duo is ideally two Steinway grands, otherwise, whatever is available. An enjoyment of the tensions and relationships generated between the two instruments: grand-upright, upright-electronic keyboard is to be explored as a positive. Each piece creates its own world in the suite and can be part of smaller subgroups taken from the suite, in any combination, but the order of the pieces needs to be maintained if more than one is played. Here is a taste of the background to the musical world of this 53 minute compositional suite. During a reflective time I read the following: The whole philosophy of dharma art (Buddhist art) is that you don't try to be artistic, but you just approach objects as they are, and the message comes through automatically. (Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, from 'True Perception The Path of Dharma Art.' Shambhala 2008, p.133.) The 'objects as they are' became the 'octaves as they are'. As the pieces were composed the octaves had a centring and clarifying role that allowed other material to circulate around or play against them. They acted as pivots, repetitions, drones, ostinati, pointillist nodes, pedals, melodic features, struts, harmonic turnpikes, breathing spaces, bass lines: musical imperatives. The octaves called the musical shots most of the time. When the music pulled a semitone up or down and away from the octaves (as it did quite often) it was especially telling in the context of the ringing spaces the octaves were creating. I became interested in the subtle dislocation that two pianos could provide. By dislocation I mean a degree of tension between the natural acoustics of the two instruments in the room and the players idiosyncrasies as musicians.  The whole point of this work was to examine the nature of my syntax, grammar, and compositional thinking. The title demanded one thing above all: what notes am I going to use between these octaves?? My choice of notes was derived in most instances from the tempo, pitch, and rhythm of the initial octaves at the beginning of each piece alongside the individual word titles that I set out to explore as musical images. The audio was developed from Sibelius software, via MIDI to Logic samples of a Steinway grand piano.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.730503 Composed by James Nathaniel Holland. Contemporary. Score. 57 pages. James Nathaniel Holland #5866929. Published by James Nathaniel Holland (A0.730503). American classical music composer James Nathaniel Holland brings you the fourth of his piano concertos, a two movement piece called The Bells The first is the lonely chime ringing from a cathedral over the city or countryside, a style reminiscent of Debussy and Ravel, and a beautiful 2nd singing theme in right hand. The second movement transports us to the mystic Italian castle high on the mountain. Instrumentation in the orchestral is: Picc/Fl1, fl2, ob12, cl Bb 12, Bsn 12, Hrn 123,Tpt Bb 1.2.3. (sometimes with mute), trmb 12, tba, timpPercussion Player #1 and #2, Bass Drum/Glockenspiel/Chimes, Piano Soloist, Strings This publication is for 4 hands and 2 pianos (orchestra reduction) to be used for rehearsal. Duration: 25 minutes. One of the easier piano concertos in the repertoire.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.972673 Composed by James Siddons. Contemporary,Folk,Jazz,Spiritual. Score. 25 pages. James Siddons Music and Writings #6698569. Published by James Siddons Music and Writings (A0.972673). Performance NoteSonata Hymnica No. 6 is scored for two pianos and three performers. One  performer (or player) sits at Piano I and may also serve as the conductor. At Piano II, Performer 1 plays from the treble  staff and Performer 2 plays from the bass staff. There are possible variations in this, such as having four pianos (two pianos  doubling the other two), or having two performers at Piano I, with Performer 2 playing only the bass-staff rhythmic pattern that  begins in measure 37. A standing conductor (not playing piano) may be desired.  Although repetitive, the music in this sonata rarely repeats itself  exactly; hence, further minor improvisations by the performers are appropriate, keeping with the improvisatory nature of oral  tradition. Program Note (for use in concert programs) by James Siddons  The Sonata Hymnica series by James Siddons consists of piano solos that explore the world of American hymns and  vernacular religious songs in the 1880-1920 era, when rural and small-town churches relied on pianos for music, and, in an age before microphones and amplification, the acoustics of wooden floors, walls, and high ceilings. These sonatas are not hymn arrangements but explorations of the sounds that can be created by a piano in a reverberant environment, all the while keeping in mind the essential message of the familiar words  sung to the various hymn tunes. Sonata Hymnica No. 6 is the first in the series to be for piano ensemble, and the second (after No. 3) to be based on the worship music of the 19th-century African American church. This sixth sonata also explores the singing world of the black congregation and choir as well as the piano. Their singing was shaped  by the sounds and intonations of the piano and the heritage of European music behind it, as well as the contours and cadences of the religious folk songs known as Spirituals. But the black congregations also sang hymns and choruses from the Classical tradition, and the Spirituals became the basis of many adaptations by white arrangers. Thus, we may speak  of  standardized adaptations of Spirituals as white black music, and black performance styles of Classical works as black white music. Piano ragtime music is a non-religious example of white music (the military march) made into black white music by the blending in of the syncopated rag rhythm. Sonata Hymnica No. 6 explores the intermingling of these two strains of American music as heard in the 19th-century black church. In his classic book The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago, 1903), W. E. B. Du Bois confesses to not being a musician but nonetheless finding himself enthralled by the music of the Southern 19th-century African Americans. He refers to their singing as the Frenzy or ‘Shouting,’ when the Spirit of the Lord passed by, and seizing the  devotee, made him mad with supernatural joy . . . stamping, shrieking, and shouting, the rushing to and fro and waving of arms,  the weeping and laughing, the vision and the trance (p. 116). On another page, Du Bois speaks of . . . the songs of my fathers . . . swelling with song, instinct for life, tremendous treble and darkening bass (p. 163). Sonata Hymnica No. 6 uses the African call and response form as well  as percussive polyrhythms.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.492547 By Tom Rule. By Tom Rule. Classical,Instructional,Jazz. Score. 6 pages. MaconMacMusicGuy #107812. Published by MaconMacMusicGuy (A0.492547). Composer’s note: Every piece in the “One Handed Trio� series can be played by 1, 2, or 3 players. They can be played on just piano, keyboards, or any combination - in fact, each piece will have a completely different feel and effect depending on what sounds are used. Feel free to experiment! Each part has OHT #4 has a lot of repetition. Figure out all the separate bits in “your� part, learn them, and THEN try to string them together. That will make it much more fun when you put the piece together. The sample mp3 has two versions, one after another. The first has only piano on all three parts - the repeat uses other keyboard sounds, just to give you a taste of what is possible. Go ahead - explore! Have some fun with this! ….and if you enjoy it, please rate, review, leave a note, and tell others about it. This composer will be grateful.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1440150 Composed by Florence B. Price (1887-1953). Arranged by Mena Williams (b. 2002). 20th Century,Classical. Score. 90 pages. Mena C. Williams | The Unfinished Symphony #1020099. Published by Mena C. Williams | The Unfinished Symphony (A0.1440150). In 1903, Florence B. Price (1887-1953) attended the New England Conservatory for piano, organ, and composition. When Price graduated from NEC in 1910, she returned to Arkansas, bringing music education to her hometown. Unfortunately, due to increased racially charged hostility within Little Rock, Arkansas, Florence Price and many other families who participated in the Great Migration moved to Chicago in 1927, where she found new musical studies and performance opportunities. The opportunity that launched Price’s musical career as a composer was when she won the Wanamaker Prize in 1932 for her Symphony in e minor and became the first Black woman composer to have a major orchestral work performed by an American orchestra. Four years later, Price composed Quintet in a minor for Piano and Strings. Within the Quintet, there are four movements, the “Allegro non troppo”, the “Andante con moto”, the “Juba”, and the “Scherzo”. Quintet in A Minor for Piano and Strings utilizes many of Florence Price’s trademark stylistic ideas, imbuing her music with harmonic freshness and a creative and organic structural approach as well as melodies that reflect her spiritual and cultural heritage, all stemming from how Price’s music brings together the European-classical tradition and African American spirituals and folk tunes. Florence Price was a deeply religious person who brought the music of the African American church and the influences of Romantic composers such as Dvo?ák and Tchaikovsky. Thus further resulting in the overall appeal of Price’s music. The captivating lyricism and juba (a dance that originated from plantation enslaved people in the Southern US) rhythmic devices.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.730240 Composed by James Nathaniel Holland. Contemporary,Folk,Holiday,Jazz,Patriotic. Score. 56 pages. James Nathaniel Holland #442965. Published by James Nathaniel Holland (A0.730240). (Duration: 25 minutes) 2 Pianos, 4 Hands (Revised 2018)James Nathaniel Holland is an American classical music composer of operas, symphonies, ballets, songs, and other musical concertworks that incorporate a unique, eclectic, blend of romantic, classical, world and jazz styles. In this second of his piano concerto, he blends jazz with sensitivity, rhythmic to lyrical. This concerto is entitled New York Tour because like the city that inspired it, it travels throughout times, musical neighborhoods and cultures. Great compliment in programming with Mozart piano concertos or Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to feature American classical composers. Newly revised (2018) with measure numbers and rehearsal letters that match the full score.YouTube presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAKDrGPLa3g Born and raised in Indiana, James Nathaniel Holland studied music at DePauw University, Vienna Austria, Interlochen National Music Camp and Indiana University (Bloomington, IN). At these schools many of his early pieces were premiered and performed, with one work being selected for main-stage production in the season. Moving to Los Angeles and then settling in New York, he performed professionally sometimes as a singer, sometimes as a pianist, sometimes as choral conductor. He composed incidental music for the stage. In 2002 he founded a composers collective where they showcased their work. He was one of the first composers to participate in the American Music Center's initial on-line library. The New Jersey Concert Opera and the Gay Men's Chorus of New Jersey also featured his comic operas and art songs. From 2005 he moved to Costa Rica where he organized concerts with visiting guest artists to present his chamber music to the public. Presently he lives in a castle in the central mountains of Costa Rica. Website: https://facebook.com/jamesnathanielholland/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/composerjnholland

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1175185 By Paul Posnak & Anita Castiglione. By George Gershwin. Arranged by Paul Posnak. 20th Century,Classical,Jazz,Standards. Score. 10 pages. Paul Posnak #775326. Published by Paul Posnak (A0.1175185). Arrangement for 2 pianos, 4 hands of Swanee by George Gershwin.Foreword by the arranger:George Gershwin, since his days as a teenage song-plugger in Tin Pan Alley, loved the medium of two pianos. A consummate improviser with a harmonically sophisticated, jazz-influenced,orchestral approach to the treatment of melody, he was born into the great age of touring duo piano teams, such as Bauer and Gabrilowitsch, Josef and Rhosina Levine, Luboshutz and Nemenoff, and Gershwin's favorite team, Arden and Ohman. Gershwin loved the multi-voiced orchestral color, power and range of two pianists playing and improvising together. In his first major show written with brother Ira, the 1924 Lady Be Good, he incorporated the renowned team of Phil Ohman and Victor Arden into the musical theater pit orchestra, not only to add to the orchestra's sound and rhythmic drive, but also to play during breaks in the action and during Intermission. They even played encores! This successful formula was repeated for the 1926 show, Oh, Kay, and for the 1927 show, Funny Face.Gershwin's own bravura improvisations on his songs sound, even to the trained ear, like two pianos. I have transcribed (and digitally re-recorded) a number of these improvisations note-for-note from the old LP-remastered 78 rpm records and radio broadcasts. I have tried to capture his own two-fisted orchestral keyboard style: his love of inner voices, contrapuntal runs, jazz figurations, sophisticated chordal textures, and swing.These arrangements resulted from my appearance in 2003 as one of two soloists in several all-Gershwin concerts with The National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Marvin Hamlisch. Marvin suggested that I also play a couple of my Gershwin improvisation transcriptions, and we thought it would be a perfect touch for Lorin Hollander, the other soloist, and me to play a short two-piano piece. I was surprised to find very few two-piano arrangements of Gershwin's songs. I became inspired to fill this void in the duo piano repertoire. It is my hope that these settings will offer a worthy challenge and musical reward for intermediate and advanced piano students and amateurs, and a unique addition to the duo piano literature for professional pianists and duo piano teams the world over.Paul Posnak.

By Frederick Delius. Classical. 8 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music (HX.238001). - - Classical - Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1126731 Composed by Richard Simm. Arranged by Richard Simm. Chamber,Classical,Folk,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Score. 4 pages. Richard Simm #727380. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1126731). The first item in this suite of Icelandic tunes by Richard Simm is a hair-raising ghost story! These Icelandic melodies were originally arranged by Simm for beginner students to play as piano duets with their teachers or with advanced students. In their new form for two pianos, they are more embellished and technically challenging than the originals, but are short enough not to present too much of a hurdle. Four of the five songs are known to every Icelander, and their original texts often have stark, dramatic undertones.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1263486 Composed by Matthew Nunes. Chamber,Christmas,Classical. Score. 32 pages. Matthew Nunes Music #856450. Published by Matthew Nunes Music (A0.1263486). Listen to this piece hereCommissioned by James EhmerReflections on a Winter’s Morning is a piece especially composed for James Ehmer, a composer, euphonium player, and soon to be medical student, as a personal thank you for his generous donation to my “Get Matt to Maryland� Rally via rally.org. James came to me with two wonderful poems describing idyllic winter scenes and the awe of a morning’s sun. These instantly reminded me of the first mornings I would ever wake to snow fall. The two pianos share multiple roles in recalling these moments: the persistence of an alarm clock in a drowsy morning, the first few fluttering snowflakes, a child teeming with excitement, and finally the grandeur of the sun reigning over the flurry.Orlando, May 2014- Matthew Nunes.

Percussion Quartet Marimba - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1214857 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Owen Meldon. Classical. 37 pages. Owen Meldon #811788. Published by Owen Meldon (A0.1214857). I was a freshman in high school and just figured out how to use MuseScore. With a holiday concert on the horizon, I wanted to put together a fun arrangement of a classical piece for four percussionists. I settled on Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (fun fact: this piece has been studied extensively and has proven epilepsy-combatting power!*) and broke down the four piano hands into four marimba parts. In December 2016, I premiered the first iteration of this arrangement with the help of three of my peers; years later, I revisited this arrangement and gave it some much-needed revisions. I also finished arranging the second half of the original, which I couldn’t do in 2016 as the first arrangement had to be fairly short. This is the arrangement in its new finished version, which definitely looks and sounds a lot better than the first. We all start somewhere… *Lin, Lung-Chang, et al. “The Long-Term Effect of Listening to MOZART K.448 Decreases Epileptiform Discharges in Children with Epilepsy.� Instrumentation:Marimba I (4.3 octave marimba minimum)Marimba II (4.3 octave marimba minimum)Marimba III (5.0 octave marimba)Marimba IV (5.0 octave marimba)Duration: c. 6'

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1369322 Composed by Johann Simon Mayr. Arranged by Fabrizio Capitanio. 19th Century,Classical,Instructional,Opera,Romantic Period. Score. 92 pages. Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele #953678. Published by Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele (A0.1369322). Johann Simon Mayr (1763—1845) is a composer rarely performed today. His music, reflecting the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era, inspired Rossini and was crucial in the development of Donizetti’s style. He became a central figure in the musical life of the Italian city of Bergamo where, in 1805, he founded the Conservatory, at the time known as “Lezioni Caritatevoli di Musica�. One of the first pupils of the “Lezioni� was Gaetano Donizetti, whose production and fame soon arose above everyone else’s. The first concerto, in C major, is one of the three surviving keyboard concertos from Mayr’s manuscripts kept in the Biblioteca Musicale Gaetano Donizetti and in the Museo Donizettiano. It is pedagogical in nature, its light orchestration (only 2 oboes and 2 horns joining the strings) allowing it to be performed with minimal forces. In three movements, spanning about 18 minutes in total, it looks back at a late Classical style that was quickly fading out of fashion at the time of its creation (1825-6).This edition comes with the unique contribution of M° Fabrizio Capitanio, in the form of a thorough musicological research delving deep into the historical context, and all of the critical aspects that made this work possible. M° Capitanio also realised the reduction for two pianos for this title (ASE 0051).The full score is available under Catalogue N° ASE 0047, while orchestral parts can be found as a bundle under Catalogue N° ASE 0053.This edition is also the first one in the new series dedicated to the City of Bergamo: La Bergamasque!

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1288884 By Richard Simm. By George Butterworth. Arranged by Richard Simm. 20th Century,Chamber,Classical,Folk,Multicultural,World. Score. 11 pages. Richard Simm #879723. Published by Richard Simm (A0.1288884). George Butterworth was a uniquely gifted composer and arranger of English folk songs, who was tragically killed in action during WW1 at the age of only 31.His small output included the song cycle, A Shropshire Lad, from which he expanded the first song, Loveliest of Trees into a wonderful orchestral rhapsody.The music is full of passion, but also the most delicate sensitivity, capturing the romantic essence of the English countryside from bygone days.This arrangement by Richard Simm for two pianos now gives pianists access to this beautiful music.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.976590 Composed by Helen Porter. 20th Century,Classical,Concert,Romantic Period. Score. 10 pages. Helen Porter #3684933. Published by Helen Porter (A0.976590). IT CAME INTO MY MIND is a 2 movement 2 piano composition, for  medium/advanced players. The first section is playful and happy and the second is very exciting and rhythmic, building to a climax at the end. Both piano parts are of equal standard of difficulty.

2 Pianos,4 Hands,Piano Duet - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.757054 Composed by Piano II: Haydn, PIano I: Simon Peberdy. Arranged by Simon Peberdy. Children,Instructional,Standards. Score. 4 pages. Simon Peberdy #3680437. Published by Simon Peberdy (A0.757054). One of a series of classics in new arrangements, with a new additional piano part by Simon Peberdy. Piano II is the original piece. The pieces are of grade 3 standard, so a great introduction to playing music for 2 pianos.This piece appears (with separate piano parts too) in the collection 5 Easy Pieces for 2 Pianos Book 2 arranged by Simon Peberdy, a second book of arrangements to follow 5 First Pieces for 2 Pianos Book 1. There is also a Book 3.For more compositions and arrangements, please visit www.simonpeberdymusic.comVideo of all of Book 2: https://youtu.be/WvSNEp_eq-wThe mp3 is a computer generated one at the moment, I'm afraid.