Polish piano music
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Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0486406245
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biographical information and critical commentary in English.
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From Poland with Music
Author: WIECZOREK
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Published: 2021-10-02
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781785514074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Poland with Music: 100 Years of Polish Composers Abroad (1918-2018) is the first publication in polish literature which explores the theme of emigration among composers from the 20th and 21st centuries so comprehensively. It is a complex study that talks about the creators from the classical music circle, while also introducing artists from the field of jazz and jazz music film. The first two parts contain popularizing articles, and in the third, instead of typical lexicons and biographical notes, there are several dozen interesting interviews with experts who talk about the life and legacy of the selected composers and about their personalities and anecdotes from life.
Chopin and His World
Author: Jonathan D. Bellman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0691177767
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new look at the life, times, and music of Polish composer and piano virtuoso Fryderyk Chopin Fryderyk Chopin (1810–49), although the most beloved of piano composers, remains a contradictory figure, an artist of virtually universal appeal who preferred the company of only a few sympathetic friends and listeners. Chopin and His World reexamines Chopin and his music in light of the cultural narratives formed during his lifetime. These include the romanticism of the ailing spirit, tragically singing its death-song as life ebbs; the Polish expatriate, helpless witness to the martyrdom of his beloved homeland, exiled among friendly but uncomprehending strangers; the sorcerer-bard of dream, memory, and Gothic terror; and the pianist's pianist, shunning the appreciative crowds yet composing and improvising idealized operas, scenes, dances, and narratives in the shadow of virtuoso-idol Franz Liszt. The international Chopin scholars gathered here demonstrate the ways in which Chopin responded to and was understood to exemplify these narratives, as an artist of his own time and one who transcended it. This collection also offers recently rediscovered artistic representations of his hands (with analysis), and—for the first time in English—an extended tribute to Chopin published in Poland upon his death and contemporary Polish writings contextualizing Chopin's compositional strategies. The contributors are Jonathan D. Bellman, Leon Botstein, Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, Halina Goldberg, Jeffrey Kallberg, David Kasunic, Anatole Leikin, Eric McKee, James Parakilas, John Rink, and Sandra P. Rosenblum. Contemporary documents by Karol Kurpiński, Adam Mickiewicz, and Józef Sikorski are included.
Polonaise in G-sharp minor B.6 - For Solo Piano (1824)
Author: Frédéric Chopin
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2017-12-04
Total Pages: 12
ISBN-13: 1528781074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduced in high quality with wide margins, this edition is perfect for students and musicians with an interest in Chopin's seminal work. Frédéric François Chopin (1810 – 1849) was a Polish pianist and composer during the Romantic era. He wrote his music chiefly for the solo piano, but also wrote two piano concertos, a small number of chamber pieces, and a few songs to Polish lyrics. He was known as one of music's first ever superstars, a title which, along with his love life, association to political insurrection, and untimely death, led to his status as a prominent symbol of the Romantic era. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of classical music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.
The Pianist
Author: Wladyslaw Szpilman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2000-09-02
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1466837624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The memoir that inspired Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film, which won the Cannes Film Festival's most prestigious prize—the Palme d'Or. Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.
Polish songs
The Ten Polish Folk Songs with English Translations - Sheet Music for Piano
Author: Felicjan Szopski
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1528783905
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A wonderful collection of 10 classic Polish folk songs. Songs include: 1. Wyjezdzojze Z Nami - Come, Come away with us, 2. Uśnij-ze mi uśnij - Sleep now, my baby, 3. Som, som, som, W Stawie Rybecki - Fish, fish, fish, tiny little fish, 4. Tam W Krakowie, W Pieknym Domku - There in Cracow stays my darling, 5. Mȯj Wionecku Z Barwinecku - Periwinkle wreath, I had thee hung, 6. Kolo Mego Ogrȯdecka - In my garden, in the bower, 7. Kiedym Jechoƚ od Dziewecķi - When I said good-bye and parted, 8. Przyjechoƚ Do Nij - Booted and ribboned, 9. Hejze Ino, Fijoƚecku Leśny - Heigh ho, bluebell, 10. Niedaleko Jeziora - By the lake on yonder lea. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.
The Jazz Theory Book
Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Published: 2011-01-12
Total Pages: 725
ISBN-13: 1457101459
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most highly-acclaimed jazz theory book ever published! Over 500 pages of comprehensive, but easy to understand text covering every aspect of how jazz is constructed---chord construction, II-V-I progressions, scale theory, chord/scale relationships, the blues, reharmonization, and much more. A required text in universities world-wide, translated into five languages, endorsed by Jamey Aebersold, James Moody, Dave Liebman, etc.
The Jazz Piano Book
Author: Mark Levine
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Published: 2011-01-12
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 1457101440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Adding notes to 3-note voicings, Tritone substitution, Left-hand voicings, Altering notes in left-hand Stride and Bud Powell voicings, Block chords, Comping ...and much more! Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Down Beat, Jamey Aebersold, etc.
Szymanowski on Music
Author: Karol Szymanowski
Publisher: Toccata Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first comprehensive selection of Szymanowski's writings to be published in English, containing all the most important of the composer's essays and interviews. Karol Szymanowski [1882-1937] is now widely acknowledged to be the most important Polish composer since Chopin. He was also a considerable thinker on musical topics: the role of music in society, the goal of musical education, thepurpose of criticism, the nature of Romanticism, the hallmarks of national identity - indeed, he was passionately concerned with the emergence of the Polish voice in music, and the role of Chopin in particular. Szymanowski on Music is the first comprehensive selection of his writings to be published in English. It contains all the most important of the composer's essays and interviews, throws light on the trying conditions under which he was obliged to work in the 1920s and '30s, especially in education, and gives perceptive assessments of the work of some of the major composers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - Wagner, Strauss, Stravinsky, Ravel, Satie and others - and the trends they embodied. A number of pieces of a more biographical nature are also included. Overall it provides, in the words of the translator Alistair Wightman, `abundant evidence of the breadth and depthof Szymanowski's personal culture, and at the same time a telling demonstration of his search for an all-embracing humanistic synthesis'. Dr Wightman faces his pioneering translations from Szymanowski's Polish originals with an extensive introductory essay that places his literary activities in the context of his life and career. This book will be a vital element in the rediscovery of the music of one of the twentieth century's most appealing composers.
