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Author: Chris Cander Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525654682 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, on which she discovers an enrichening passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family emigrate to America—and loses her piano in the process. In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy is burdened by the last gift her father gave her before he and her mother died in a terrible house fire: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Now a talented and independent auto mechanic, Clara’s career is put on hold when she breaks her hand trying to move the piano, and in sudden frustration she decides to sell it. Only in discovering the identity of the buyer—and the secret history of her piano—will Clara be set free to live the life of her choosing.
Author: Chris Cander Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525654682 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
USA TODAY BESTSELLER In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, on which she discovers an enrichening passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family emigrate to America—and loses her piano in the process. In 2012, in Bakersfield, California, twenty-six-year-old Clara Lundy is burdened by the last gift her father gave her before he and her mother died in a terrible house fire: a Blüthner upright she has never learned to play. Now a talented and independent auto mechanic, Clara’s career is put on hold when she breaks her hand trying to move the piano, and in sudden frustration she decides to sell it. Only in discovering the identity of the buyer—and the secret history of her piano—will Clara be set free to live the life of her choosing.
Author: S. D. G. Music Books Publisher: ISBN: 9781725144149 Category : Languages : en Pages : 100
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The 8" x 10" sheet music consists of 12 plain staffs / staves and is intended for composers who are writing their own music or songs. This format is standard for Western music and ideal for vocal or piano scores. Makes a great gift for college university music majors, piano players, music lovers, friends or family who love to write their own music. Has an awesome MATTE cover.
Author: Dan Delaney Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402731563 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 132
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Wish you could sit down at the piano and effortlessly play without years of lessons? Now you can Many people wish they could sit down at the piano and simply play, their hands flying over the keys as melodies pour out. With this simple, achievable program that's possible . . . in just six weeks. Using Dan Delaney's innovative chord playing techniques, as opposed to more classical methods, musical newcomers and lapsed musicians can quickly and easily gain skills. Each of the six weeks' worth of lessons contains several exercises. The classes build on each other, becoming progressively more difficult as the player's ability improves, and every lesson includes sheet music, practice advice, and an evaluation at the end. Plus, MP3 audios of the lessons will be available for free on Delaney's website.
Author: E. L. Lancaster Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing ISBN: 9780739035948 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 156
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Eleven units organized to progress in difficulty; featuring arrangements of classical music, traditional pieces, and popular and jazz pieces, by various composers.
Author: David Berkman Publisher: ISBN: 9781883217792 Category : Chords (Music) Languages : en Pages : 206
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This book teaches the ideas behind adding chords to melodies. It begins with basic chords and progressions, and moves to more complex ideas. With an introduction and two appendices. Two CDs of additional material.
Author: S. D. G. Music Books Publisher: ISBN: 9781725147126 Category : Languages : en Pages : 100
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The 6" x 9" dot grid journal and notebook is great for people who journal and love to play piano. Makes a great gift for college university music majors, piano players, music lovers, friends or family who love to write their own music. Has an awesome MATTE cover. Dot grid paper is very flexible and can be used for design, creating your own bullet style journals, drawing, pen and paper games and many more purposes. Many people like the simplicity of connecting the dots to make boxes, tables and so on. Some people prefer to write on dot grid paper.
Author: Caroline Benser Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810881721 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 185
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Benser explores the kaleidoscopic world of twenty-first-century pianism through a series of extended interviews with eight major pianists. Interviewees talk with Benser about such matters as their first experiences at the piano, the meaning of musicianship to them, and the joys and difficulties of a professional career doing what they love.
Author: Jeremy Denk Publisher: Picador ISBN: 1761261886 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 383
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A uniquely illuminating memoir of the making of a musician, in which renowned pianist Jeremy Denk explores what he learned from his teachers about classical music: its forms, its power, its meaning - and what it can teach us about ourselves. In this searching and funny memoir, based on his popular New Yorker article, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. Life is difficult enough as a precocious, temperamental, and insufferable six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey. But then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico, far from classical music’s nerve centers, and he has to please a new taskmaster while navigating cacti, and the perils of junior high school. Escaping from New Mexico at last, he meets a bewildering cast of college music teachers, ranging from boring to profound, and experiences a series of humiliations and triumphs, to find his way as one of the world’s greatest living pianists, a MacArthur 'Genius,' and a frequent performer at Carnegie Hall. There are few writers working today who are willing to eloquently explore both the joys and miseries of artistic practice. Hours of daily repetition, mystifying early advice, pressure from parents and teachers who drove him on – an ongoing battle of talent against two enemies: boredom and insecurity. As we meet various teachers, with cruel and kind streaks, Denk composes a fraught love letter to the act of teaching. He brings you behind the scenes, to look at what motivates both student and teacher, locked in a complicated and psychologically perilous relationship. In Every Good Boy Does Fine, Denk explores how classical music is relevant to 'real life,' despite its distance in time. He dives into pieces and composers that have shaped him – Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms, among others – and gives unusual lessons on melody, harmony, and rhythm. Why and how do these fundamental elements have such a visceral effect on us? He tries to sum up many of the lessons he has received, to repay the debt of all his amazing teachers; to remind us that music is our creation, and that we need to keep asking questions about its purpose.
Author: Edgardo Vega Yunqué Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312424027 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 662
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A Washington Post Best Book of Year Winner of the 2004 Latino Book Award This sweeping drama of intimately connected families-black, white, and Latino-boldly conjures up the ever-shifting cultural mosaic that is America. At its heart is Vidamia Farrell, half Puerto Rican, half Irish, who sets out in search of the father she has never known. Her journey takes her from her affluent suburban home to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where her father Billy Farrell now lives with his second family. Once a gifted jazz pianist, Billy lost two fingers in the Vietnam War and has since shut himself off from jazz. While Billy's colorful new family draws Vidamia into their fold, so she determines to draw her father back into the world he left behind.
Author: Chris Cander
Author: Chris Cander
Author: S. D. G. Music Books
Author: Dan Delaney
Author: E. L. Lancaster
Author: David Berkman
Author: S. D. G. Music Books
Author: Caroline Benser
Author: Jeremy Denk
Author: Howard Shanet
Author: Edgardo Vega Yunqué