Black Piano

The Big Black Piano Songbook is a collection of the most well-known, best-loved music standards that are essential to any pianist's repertoire. Divided into seven distinct sections – Celebration, Christmas, Classical, Film & TV, Jazz, Blues & Ragtime, Pop Hits and Weddings – this collection will ensure you never get caught out with a music request again. Need a classical piece or a famous film theme to ‘wow’ someone with? Or perhaps the mood calls for laid-back jazz? Or maybe you simply need to rouse everyone into a group sing-along of Auld Lang Syne or Happy Birthday To You? Whatever you need, this book has you covered. The Big Black Piano Songbook is carefully crafted, slickly presented, and includes Spotify playlists for each chapter so you can listen as you learn. The songlist includes: Celebration - Auld Lang Syne - For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow - Happy Birthday To You Christmas - All I Want For Christmas Is You - Fairytale Of New York - Jingle Bells - Winter Wonderland Classical - Flower Duet (from Lakmé) [Leo Delibes] - Für Elise [Beethoven] - Nuvole Bianche [Einaudi] Film & TV- Comptine D’un Autre Été: L’après-midi (from Amélie) [Yann Tiersen] - Jurassic Park Theme - Nobody Does It Better (from The Spy Who Loved Me) - The Pink Panther Theme Jazz Blues & Ragtime - The Entertainer [Scott Joplin] - Georgia On My Mind [Ray Charles] - The Girl From Ipanema (GAROTA DE IPANEMA) [Stan Getz] - Take The ‘A’ Train [Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn] Pop Hits - Bridge Over Troubled Water [Simon & Garfunkel] - Love Yourself [Justin Bieber] - Rocket Man [Elton John] - Someone Like You [Adele] Weddings - At Last [Etta James] - Bridal March [Richard Wagner] - Make You Feel My Love [Bob Dylan] - Wedding March (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream) [Felix Mendelssohn] And many more…

Incorporating the results of recent research, this is a new edition of a book that received the American Musicological Society’s Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best musicological book in English published in 1982-83.

A collection of poems by Bill Holm that explore the waywardness and promise of humanity.

The full eBook version of The Piano in Black and White by Mark Tanner. In fixed-layout format, with downloadable audio. The Piano in Black and White is for everyone with an unrequited love for the piano. It will entice complete beginners to climb a few important rungs up the ladder, coax the fainthearted to become fully fledged players and welcome back those whose previous pianistic experience did not take them far enough. Packed with inspirational advice, this book demystifies the process of learning the piano through easy-to-follow photographs, 'play along' online audio and unique techniques such as Finger Pilates and The Ten-by-five Practice Method. By the end of the book you will be able to play 12 beautiful pieces - making this an unmissable book for all would-be pianists!

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(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). Over 100 timeless hits from the Fab Four in piano/vocal/guitar arrangements, including: Across the Universe * All My Loving * Back in the U.S.S.R. * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Come Together * Don't Let Me Down * Eight Days a Week * Eleanor Rigby * The Fool on the Hill * Good Day Sunshine * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * In My Life * Let It Be * Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds * Michelle * Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Penny Lane * Revolution * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * She Loves You * Ticket to Ride * Twist and Shout * When I'm Sixty-Four * Yellow Submarine * Yesterday * and more.

Me And My Piano Part 2 takes the young pianist step-by-step through the early stages of piano technique, first with separate hands, then with a sequence of very easy pieces for hands together. All use a constant five finger hand position in the key of C major. Games and puzzles give elementary theory a new lease of life, and children will love the rhymes and songs introducing characters such the Ostrich, Sammy Squirrel and the Old Man with the Beard! Fanny Waterman and Marion Harewood's Me And My Piano series is probably the UK's most widely-used and biggest selling piano method. It is now published in a new edition including a new larger size, improved layout making it easier to read, a clean new look with new typesetting and music-setting and the instantly recognisable cover designs have been updated for extra vibrancy. Enchantingly illustrated, in full-colour throughout, this essential and irresistible book will encourage the young pianist to expand his or her learning in the most enjoyable way. This is the full eBook edition in fixed-layout format.

Great Piano Solos: The Classical Book has a wonderful variety of fantastic pieces from 44 of the top Classical works of all time, all arranged for intermediate solo piano. This bumper collection draws from choral works, concertos, ballets, operas and symphonies. It includes: - Adagietto (from ‘Symphony No. 5) [Mahler] - Adagio For Strings [Barber] - Adagio Sostenuto (from ‘Sonata No. 14, Moonlight) [Beethoven] - Adagio Sostenuto (from ‘Piano Concerto No. 2’) [Rachmaninov] - Adagio un Poco Mosso (from ‘Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor’) [Beethoven] - Allegretto (from ‘Symphony No. 6, Pastoral’) [Beethoven] - Allegro (from ‘Sonata in C’) [Mozart] - Allegro (from ‘Water Music') [Handel] - Allegro Molto (from ‘Symphony No. 40’) [Mozart] - Andante (from ‘Violin Concerto’)[ Mendelssohn] - Andantino (from ‘The Trout Quintet’) [Schubert] - The Arrival Of The Queen Of Sheba [Handel] - Ave Maria [Schubert] - Badinerie [J.S. Bach] - The Blue Bird [Stanford] - The Can-Can [Offenbach] - Canon in D [Pachelbel] - Cello Concerto (First Movement) [Elgar] - Clair de Lune [Debussy] - Dance Of The Hours [Ponchielli] - Dance Of The Knights [Prokofiev] - Danse Macabre [Saint-Saëns] - Double Violin Concerto (Second Movement) [J.S. Bach] - Duet (from ‘The Pearl Fishers’) [Bizet] - Flower Duet [Delibes] - Für Elise [Beethoven] - Grand March (from ‘Aida’) [Verdi] - Gymnopédie, No. 1 [Satie] - Habañera [Bizet] - Liebesträume [Liszt] - Nocturne In E¨ [Chopin] - Panis Angelicus [Franck] - Piano Concerto in A minor (Opening Theme) [Grieg] - Pie Jesu (from ‘Requiem, Op. 48’) [Fauré] - Prelude No. 15 Raindrop [Chopin] - Promenade, No. 1 (from ‘Pictures At An Exhibition’) [Mussorgsky] - The Ride Of The Valkyries (Theme) [Wagner] - Romance (from ‘Piano Concerto No. 1’) [Chopin] - Romanze (from ‘Album Leaves’) [Schumann] - Sicilienne [Fauré] - Spring Song [Mendelssohn] - Swan Lake (Theme) [Tchaikovsky] - Toccata And Fugue [J.S. Bach] - Träumerei [Schumann]

The intriguing cultural history of the piano in Australia From the instruments that floated ashore at Sydney Cove in the late eighteenth century to the resurrection of derelict heirlooms in the streets of twenty-first-century Melbourne, A Coveted Possession tells the curious story of Australia’s intimate and intrepid relationship with the piano. It charts the piano’s fascinating adventures across Australia – on the goldfields, at the frontlines of war, in the manufacturing hubs of the Federation era, and in the hands of the makers, entrepreneurs, teachers and virtuosos of the twentieth history – to illuminate the many worlds in which the ivories were tinkled. Before electricity brought us the gramophone, the radio and eventually the TV, the piano was central to family and community life. With its iron frame, polished surfaces and ivory keys, an upright piano in the home was a modern industrial machine, a musical instrument and a treasured member of the household, conveying powerful messages about class, education, leisure, national identity and intergenerational history. ‘Michael Atherton cleverly weaves visual, sensual and sonic elements into the piano’s sociocultural history, adding a rich layer to our knowledge of the piano in Australia.’ —Professor Julia Horne, historian

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 18 of the finest from this Ohio duo's first ten years, arranged for piano, voice, and guitar. Includes: Everlasting Light * Girl Is on My Mind * Gold on the Ceiling * I Got Mine * Lonely Boy * Psychotic Girl * Set You Free * 10 A.M. Automatic * Tighten Up * When the Lights Go Out * Your Touch * and more.