SKU: A0.1403603

Key Signature: A Minor
Time Signature: 2/4
Tempo: Moderato
Difficulty: Intermediate

Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political revival. He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his 1866 opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast (My Fatherland), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native Bohemia. It contains the famous symphonic poem Vltava, also popularly known by its German name Die Moldau (in English, The Moldau).

All but a handful of Smetana's compositions before his departure for Gothenburg are piano works. Some of these early pieces have been dismissed by music historian Harold Schonberg as bombastic virtuoso rhetoric derived from Liszt. Under Proksch, however, Smetana acquired more polish, as revealed in works such as the G minor Sonata of 1846 and the E-flat Polka of the same year. The set of Six Characteristic Pieces of 1848 was dedicated to Liszt, who described it as the most outstanding, finely felt and finely finished pieces that have recently come to my note. In this period Smetana planned a cycle of so-called album leaves, short pieces in every major and minor key, after the manner of Chopin's Preludes. The project became somewhat disorganised; in the pieces completed, some keys are repeated while others are unrepresented. After Smetana's final return from Gothenburg, when he committed himself primarily to the development of Czech opera, he wrote nothing for the piano for 13 years.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed%C5%99ich_Smetana].

SKU: LV.2758

The Silver Moon. A Serenade. Composed and Arranged with Accompaniments for the Pianoforte & Guitar by J. Chadwick. Published 1838 by Firth & Hall, 1 Franklin Sq. in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus [melody of verses varied somewhat] with piano and voice, guitar instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Musicians, Guitars, Windows, Waterfronts, Boats, Moonlight, Courtship, Love, Elopements. First line reads The silver moon is in the sky, the stars are shining bright..

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The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

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SKU: A0.811839

Van der Graaf Generator's version of George Martin's instrumental.

Shown as multiple instrument parts, it's actually quite simple, with lead guitar/piano, or whatever instrument you choose, taking the main melody.

SKU: A0.1314396

A song based on a poem I wrote because of my uncle's death. It's a piece that explores the mindset of an optimist and how there's some many things that are bad about whatever situation they're going through but they still come out with hope.