Piano The Books

Having sung some of these personally, I found this book to be easy to read, easy to transport, and very easy to use in general. I highly recommend this volume to anyone who sings and likes Brahms...you won't be dissapointed.

The complete piano works of Barber at a bargain price. What more do you want?

This collection of pieces is great because there are easy to play pieces by Beethoven, Scarlatti etc. I like the Sonatina section best; they sound very accomplished when you play them but actually they are really easy. There are also some nice Etudes to use to practice basic techniques; these are lovely too. I didn't enjoy the first folk song section so much and I have no-one to play the duets with, but I intend to buy the book today!

Hard to get music, A fair price. I like the edition - shows intelligence someone cared.

There are two volumes of this collection of Haydn piano sonatas. These are charming pieces, not too difficult and very enjoyable. Haydn composes in a wide variety of styles. He is always experuimenting. As one plays through this collection one sees the evolution and maturation of one of the world's greatest composers. Though these sonatas appear to be "small," they show the thinking of bigger comcepts, i.e symphonies, quartets, etc. Extemely rewarding and enjoyable to play! The printing is legible and the paper quality is very good.

First, I'll say I knew about this music before I purchased the book on Amazon, so there were no surprises here.
I had sight read some duets back in college and remembered the Dvorak being very unusual and very folkish. I found this edition that has both complete works and I love it.
If you've never owned a Dover edition before--I'll warn you that the printing is not as easy to read as some more expensive editions, but you get alot of book for your money with Dover and I find this one easy enough to read.

Great works of von Weber especially Invitation to the dance Op.65
Original with good finger patterns. A nice addition to your collection.

This book is for intermediate-advanced pianests, it is very complete, and best of all amazone had the best price, and very efficient(fast) delivery:)

by all means if you are a lover of the graphic sign, graphic signifier, musical notation, this was the first large work of the American avant-garde that virtually contains any and all graphic notation,schemes/means,agendas,approaches,excursis that the avant-garde came to utilize, I can only think ofthe late Cornelius Cardew and Sylvano Bussoti whose work even approaches the conceptual depth(s) and impeccable graphic workmanship as Cage's "Concert. . . ", This work can be played as a solo for piano or simultaneously with the other various nefarious "Solos For. . . " various instruments, each of those works are played as a self-contained piece with no direct coordination with this work, you need not even start together or inhabit the same identical performance space for a legitimate reading of the work.
The graphics here utilizes all kinds of "processes",'pathways'"chemins" like following a circle of tones,going up then turning South, then North,Adorno referred to this work as a kind of accounting system of shuffling the deck,deeply engaged in inventing music as one goes along. It is not an imporvisatory work,however if you are a practicing avant-garde improvisor it certainly helps.Other means here are to/and or to simply follow traditional two staff system(s)Cage provides of beamless black points that can quickly resemble something Cy Twombly would have done with a construction pencil or crayons. You have what Cage referred to as "vertical arpeggiations,where blocks of tones are "arpeggiated-sized", sometimes pages are presented much like fragments incomplete, (well what is complete and not is always open to question in this work,in fact the entire work is conceptual incomplete intentionally), So you simply work your way through the graphics completely ignoring whatever maybe happening around you. I;ve heard Frederic Rzewski perform the "Concert . . . " with other players playing the "Solos For. . ." and Rzewski simply was business,self-engaged,focused like like a naturalist tending his garden of timbres.The score comes nicely presented in a Box 11 X 17 inch cardstock, wonderfully reproduced.

I've been into the C.I.F. since I first heard its vast assortment of sounds in 1980 as a college student. Though I'd had enough piano study to know the basics of sheet music reading, my objective in owning a single copy of 2P4H is just to follow along as I listen to a recording, realizing that this is really the score, to something I doubted could be so fully documented. The challenge for this level of musical aspirant is not to play, therefore, but merely to observe, and to dream, but I find it fun, even, when I can keep up through some of those long sections of Allegro, Adagio and Allegro agitato.