Klavier & Keyboard

Die Klaviersuite Nr. 3 "Luo Zuo and Folk Song" wurde 2015 komponiert. Das Werk greift den Stil der Volksmusik der Yi-Minderheit vom Nord- und Südufer des Roten Flusses in Yunnan auf. "Luo Zuo" ist ein repräsentativer Volkstanz der Yi-Minderheit, aber das Werk stellt nicht den Tanz in den Vordergrund, sondern den Ausdruck ihres Geistes und ihrer Eigenschaften sowie den Optimismus und die Begeisterung. Das Lied wird auch als Volkslied bezeichnet und wird in den Bergen gesungen, um romantische Gefühle und Freiheit auszudrücken.

"Chinese Dream" wurde 2014 fertiggestellt und gewann im selben Jahr die Goldmedaille bei der CCTV Piano Grand Final Competition. Das Werk wurde durch das von Konfuzius für das "I Ging" geschriebene "Yi Zhuan" inspiriert. Das "I Ging" ist die Quelle der chinesischen Kultur. Um die Essenz der chinesischen Kultur zu vererben, schrieb Konfuzius eine Reihe von zehn Kommentaren, die auch als die "Zehn Flügel" bekannt sind. Der taiwanesische Professor Zeng Shiqiang sagte einmal: "Konfuzius träumte davon, dass die "Zhou Yi" die Welt beeinflussen und zur Einheit verhelfen könnten."Schwierigkeitsgrad: 5

(Five Finger Piano Songbook). Eight songs sure to bring a smile, arranged for entry-level players, including: The Ants Go Marching * Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends * Bingo * I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly * If You're Happy and You Know It * John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt * Pop Goes the Weasel * The Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark. Hal Leonard Five-Finger Piano songbooks are designed for students in their first year of study. They feature single-note melody lines that stay in one position, indicated by a small keyboard diagram at the beginning of each song. Each song also includes lyrics, and beautifully written piano accompaniments that can be played by teachers, parents, or more experienced students.

A Walt Whitman Songbook contains 10 new musical works by Vermont based composer Craig Pallett. This songbook was created for Voice and Piano. It primarily explores Whitman's work called A Song of the Rolling Earth, from the 1891-92 edition of Leaves of Grass. The composer has not altered the natural flow of the text. Due to the length of A Song of the Rolling Earth he has broken the text into 7 different songs. The composer has named these, The Earths's Words, Amelioration, Never Fail, Three Hundred and Sixty-Five, Whoever You Are!, I Swear and Tones of Souls primarily to help the public and musicians reference each song. Though it can be presented as a full suite, performance time is 35 minutes, each song can stand on it's own as an individual work. Besides A Song of the Rolling Earth, the songbook includes 3 other Whitman works from Leaves of Grass, Laws for Creations, On the Beach at Night Alone and France, The 18th Year of these States. From the Composers Notes. "I chose not to alter Whitman's text in any way. This includes not repeating material or changing the structure of the actual text, both of which might make the works more "song-like". I wanted to have a sense of churning piano rhythms and patterns with a folk-like melody. Whitman's works that I chose are very rhythmically segmented verses many of them flow from one rhythmic structure to another. Sometimes only 2 verses flow in the same fashion, and then proceed into different ideas and forms. At times, there is a singular verse that has no rhythmic relationship to any other verse in his text."

78:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Blue Cloth w/Jacket on White w/Gloss Lam

This latest, classically-flavoured songbook for John Thompson's Easiest Piano Course introduces easy works by one of the greatest composers ever to have lived, Ludwig Van Beethoven.