Advanced Piano

This book is the sequel to Marian McPartland's previously published collection of musical impressions of personalities interviewed on the National Public Radio program Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz ....

A Call to Prayer contains 10 favorite hymns skillfully arranged for early advanced piano by Melody Bober. These arrangements are inspired by a quote from Philippians 4:6: 'Do not be anxious about anyt...

George Gershwin and his older brother Ira wrote the music for more than 12 Broadway shows and four films. This volume revisits the best of these songs, which have become favorites of singers, instrume...

Twelve inspiring hymns, which vary from expressive meditation to joyous exultation, include approximate performance times making them easy to incorporate into services.

Minnesota River Valley travels to the great state of Minnesota and sails down the Mississippi River in four distinctive movements. Beginning with 'Magnificent Minnesota,' the suite opens with a majest...

This Spanish translation of Alfred's' Premier Piano Express,' Repertoire Book 4 includes motivational music in a variety of styles. Designed to reinforce concepts introduced in' Premier Piano Express,...

Perpetual sixteenth notes characterize this popular advanced level showpiece in D-minor, played 'Allegro marcato,' with chromatic running melodic and harmonic work, leaping left hand broken octaves, a...

George Gershwin's three most famous preludes demonstrate his genius for piano writing, and portray a variety of styles. Prelude I exudes energetic syncopation, Prelude II is a lyric blues with an osti...

George Gershwin's three most famous preludes demonstrate his genius for piano writing, and portray a variety of styles. Prelude I exudes energetic syncopation, Prelude II is a lyric blues with an osti...

(by George Gershwin) / arr. Deodato

Rich textures, sophisticated harmonies and inventive rhythms make these arrangements ideal for hobbyists, advancing students, professional musicians or any Popular Performer.

The United States Armed Forces are divided into five branches: the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard. This collection contains the official songs of these branches, as well as a spe...

Morton Gould composed brilliantly for orchestra, Broadway, film, television, ballet and piano. He became nationally recognized through his work in radio, where he introduced many of his own compositio...

Presumably inspired by Charles Sainte-Beuve's collection of poems, this set of six pieces provides a wonderful introduction to Liszt's melodic invention, mood evocation and harmonic language. The most...

Eight contrasing pieces with descriptive titles comprise the 'Fantasy Pieces', op. 12. Although the eight pieces form a homogeneous whole, each can be played individually without loss of effect. They...

Felix Mendelssohn's Allegro brillant, Op. 92, for one piano, four hands, was written in 1841 and dedicated to Clara Schumann. The expressive Andante theme alternates between the Secondo and Primo, seg...

Carnaval is characteristic of Schumann's highly individual youthful romanticism and requires musical maturity for performance. Written for advanced pianists, it is a series of glimpses enveloped in th...

Cloches d'Adieu, et un sourire... ('Bells of Farewell, and a Smile...')This unpretentious little piece was written at the request of the German Radio, Deutschlandfunk, in memory of Olivier Messiaen.It...

La Mandragore ('The Mandrake')'Under the gallows grows the mandrake. At midnight, when the moon is full, it is picked beneath the hanged man who swings...'The mandrake: a Mediterranean plant used in w...

Comme un oeil... carries the influence of Messiaen - the piece was written for the entrance exam of the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris, therefore before my studies with Messiaen. An allusi...

Les Travaux et les Jours is connected in a certain way to Territoires de l'Oubli, but listening to the resonances of the piano in a different manner. The work also looks to resolve a formal problem: 9...