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Chester Music’s best-selling series, The Essential Collection Gold, features works by some of the most famous composers - ranging from Henry Purcell to Scott Joplin. Each album in the series highlights either a particular composer’s essential works, or music from a certain genre such as opera or ballet. This anthology presents a selection of the finest music from the series. Every piece has been composed, or specially arranged, for solo Piano and is accompanied by high quality demonstration performances, available via the included download card. An essential addition to your Piano library.

This fine selection features the most famous masterpieces by Frederic Chopin for solo piano. An essential addition to your piano library, now supplied with a download card featuring full performances of each piece!

A celebrated collection of the best classical works from this highly successful series of anthologies, including a CD with performances of all the pieces. As usual each piece has been carefully presented for solo Piano, with a choice of recognised masterpieces including Bach's Air On A G String, Joplin's Entertainer and Debussy's Clair De Lune for you to learn, master, and enjoy.

The Library Of Baroque Music is an enormously expansive collection of the greatest works produced during that prolific period that flourished between the Renaissance and Classical eras. All arranged for solo Piano, this volume features works drawn from all the major Baroque composers, including some of the greatest pieces of music ever composed. The progression and development of music during the Baroque period can be heard in these pieces, providing you not only with a window into musical history, but also many exciting additions to your repertoire. The retrospective 'Baroque' label was applied to a diverse range of European compositions—often combining a spirit of experimentation with elaborate new musical structures. Dominated primarily by the Harpsichord and Organ, this period also saw the rise and development of larger-scale forms such as the concerto and oratorio. This superb volume is comprised of Keyboard and ensemble works from all the major Baroque composers, arranged for Piano. Featuring Arne, Boyce, Buxtehude, Corelli, Couperin, Gibbons, Lully, Pachelbel, Purcell, Rameau and Vivaldi, the composers here include some of the most respected and revered figures in musical history. The Library Of Baroque Music spans compositions of many of these masters, ranging from Frescobaldi in the early 1600s to Pergolesi a century later, and the famous three - J.S. Bach, Handel and Domenico Scarlatti. Baroque music, so called for its ornateness, was characterised by a bold exploration of counterpoint and new harmonic possibilities. This was variously expressed through the work of perhaps fifty or so major European composers. By the time Baroque began to segue into a new Classical period around 1750 it had already irrevocably changed and expanded the possibilities of music. The works that precipitated this change are available to play in this single volume, perfect for pianists looking to expand their repertoire with both challenging and exciting music. In this thoroughly enjoyable Library Of Baroque Music, the triumphant progression of this period is illustrated in the best possible way - through the compositions themselves, forming the definitive Baroque collection for solo pianists.

The Library Of Classical Music is a wonderfully vast collection of the greatest pieces of music from the Classical period. Featuring a diverse range of compositions from the innovators and masters, each work is arranged for solo Piano in a conveniently spiral-bound volume. Among the many composers whose work is included are C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach, Beethoven, Clementi, Czerny, Gluck, Haydn, Hummel, Mozart and Weber. The sheer amount of incredible music featured within The Library Of Classical Music makes this an essential book to have on your bookshelf or music stand. The joy of playing this music will be in learning your favourite pieces or discovering new ones by unfamiliar names. The Classical period saw a broad reaction against the layered complexities of Baroque music and led to a simpler relationship between melody and harmony. It reflected the mid-18th century’s wider enthusiasm for reviving the clean, well-ordered structures of Greek classicism across the arts. The orchestra expanded in size, woodwind became a self-contained section and the Harpsichord was increasingly displaced by the recently invented fortepiano. Instrumental music dominated, notably symphony and string quartet, with examples of both strands represented here in beautiful and accurate Piano arrangements that are perfect for seasoned players of Classical music, or those new to the period. The Library Of Classical Music sheet music songbook covers the rich musical period that followed Baroque and preceded Romantic. The Classical era saw some of Europe’s greatest composers exploring new musical possibilities, spanning some 70 years starting in the mid-18th century. The spirit of Classicism would last until the new preoccupations of Romanticism defined the next major period of Western music. All of this makes The Library Of Classical Music a brilliant collection of Piano sheet music that works as well as an introduction to the period as it does as a comprehensive anthology of the greatest works of that era.

The Library Of Romantic Music is a comprehensive collection of the greatest works of the Romantic period. Featuring composers like Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy and Gabriel Fauré, the works represented here truly some of the most beautiful ever composed. Now they're all in one conveniently spiral-bound volume, arranged for solo Piano for your sheer playing pleasure. Like the Baroque and Classical periods before it, Romantic music existed within a broader artistic, intellectual and literary movement. Emerging in the early 19th century it reflected a time of preoccupation with things mystical, spiritual, legendary and supernatural. This collection comprises fantastic original Piano works and beautiful arrangements from all the greatest composers of this era, including: Albéniz, Berlioz, Bizet, Brahms, Chopin, Dvorák, Debussy, Elgar, Fauré, Grieg, Mahler, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Puccini, Ravel and so many more. Spanning the 19th century, the Romantic movement was a reaction to what had come before. Music proved to be a particularly rich medium of expression for a new Zeitgeist that prized individualism and spirituality. Drawing together composers whose background was as diverse as the music they created, the period proved to be a very broad church indeed. This makes The Library Of Romantic Music particularly exciting, because the extraordinarily rich and expressive music is collected here in a single volume that is durable, convenient and is sure to be a mainstay of your music stand. For a simply stunning compendium of some incredible pieces of music composed by the masters, The Library Of Romantic Music is essential. The greatest compositions from such a fantastically rich period have been collected in this single volume, perfect for pianists looking for beautiful additions to their repertoire.

The Library Of Showtunes is a treasury of the greatest songs from the world’s best-loved musical shows. This collector’s volume spans over 85 years of Broadway and West End musicals, giving you a vast number of the greatest showstoppers, all arranged for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. From pioneering classics like Guys And Dolls, Oklahoma! and Sweet Charity to modern favourites like The Phantom Of The Opera, Wicked and The Lion King, every kind of musical show is represented by what are universally hailed as the finest songs of the genre. Every one of these amazing songs is arranged with Piano parts, vocal melody and Guitar chord boxes and symbols, as well as being spiral bound for utmost convenience. Taken together, the songs included in The Library Of Showtunes comprise nothing less than the history of the stage musical told through outstanding numbers that often became hits in their own right as well as advancing the wonderfully colourful stories told on stage. From Summertime to Over The Rainbow and from Can You Feel The Love Tonight to I Dreamed A Dream, these incredible tunes are essential playing for all fans of musical theatre. The stage musical was born on Broadway in the early years of the 20th century as a drama where the story and the music complemented one another. No longer just a series of songs linked by a flimsy plot, these new musicals had substance. Early classics like Show Boat and Carousel were not afraid to use tough source material and they led the way for what would become a wildly popular art form that could tackle any subject and, in the end, be conceived just as successfully in Europe as the United States. Celebrating the passion, emotion and dramatic power of the stage musical, The Library Of Showtunes is both a joyful celebration and an enduring reference book, allowing you to bring the power and beauty of the stage song into your own home. This sheet music songbook contains Piano, Vocal and Guitar arrangements of all the essential stage music songs in a large single volume, putting the greatest showtunes ever in one place.

SpecificationsDescriptionSong List The New Decade Series provides great synopses of the musical decades, including the most iconic songs from each era presented for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. Songs of the 1950s includes hits from Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Cliff Richard and many more!

The New Decade Series provides great synopses of the musical decades, including the most iconic songs from each era presented for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. Songs of the 1990s includes hits from Britney Spears, Spice Girls, Take That, TLC and many more!

The New Decade Series provides great synopses of the musical decades, including the most iconic songs from each era presented for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. Songs of the 1970s includes hits from ABBA, Elton John, Bill Withers, Queen and many more!

The New Decade Series provides great synopses of the musical decades, including the most iconic songs from each era presented for Piano, Vocal and Guitar. Songs of the 1970s includes hits from ABBA, Elton John, Bill Withers, Queen and many more!

Six original compositions for solo piano, by Michael Nyman, from the award winning film by Jane Campion. English composer Michael Nyman has developed into one of the most popular, if not important, composers of film music, and his film score for the 1992 film the Piano is without doubt the most famous and familiar of his compositions. The tone of Campion’s film is perfectly emphasised by Nyman’s style and though much here is beautiful and rich, it is a haunting and foreboding sound picture that reflects the greys of sea, sky and spirit.

Waves From A Fantasy for piano solo er oppfølgeren til det populære heftet "Awakening", og viderefører de samme melodiøse linjer, sjelfulle klangfarger og harmoniske overraskelser, men på et mer avansert nivå. Heftet passer for mellomnivå/viderekommen. Innhold: Tantra, Once And Now, Song Of The Forest og Waves From A Fantasy. Av Kristine Bratlie.