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Title The piano bench of classical music / [editor, Amy Appleby].

Imprint New York : Amsco Publications : Exclusive distributors, Music Sales Corp., ©1999.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  786.2 PIANO    Check Shelf
Description 1 score (399 pages) ; 31 cm
Note Principally original piano compositions from the Renaissance through contemporary periods; includes arrangements of orchestral and chamber works.
Contents Song titles: Renaissance and Baroque (Two-part invention, no. 1 ; Two-part invention, no. 4 ; Two-part invention, no. 8 ; Three- part invention, no. 9 ; Prelude and fugue in C ; Chorale ; Sarabande ; Loure ; Gavotte ; Bourée / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Minuet / Luigi Boccherini -- The Prince of Denmark's march / Jeremiah Clarke -- Les tricoteuses (The knitters) / François Couperin -- Bourée ; Sarabande ; The harmonious blacksmith ; Allegro ; Hallelujah chorus ; See the conquering hero comes / George Frideric Handel -- Gavotte / Jean-Baptiste Lully -- Trumpet voluntary / Henry Purcell -- Musette en rondeau / Jean-Philippe Rameau -- Temp di ballo ; Sonata in D minor / Domenico Scarlatti).
Cont.: Classical (Rondo espressivo / Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -- Für Elise ; Sonatina, no. 1 ; Sonata in G ; Adagio (from Moonlight sonata) ; Allegro (from Sonata in F minor) ; Minuet in C ; Bagatelle in C ; The glory of God in nature ; Piano sonata in C minor ('Pathetique') / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Gavotte / François Joseph Gossec -- Minuet (from Symphony in D) ; Andante (from 'Surprise' symphony) ; Piano sonata in G ; Grave e cantabile (from The seven last words) ; Serenade / Franz Joseph Haydn -- Gigue in G ; Minuet in D ; Alla Turca ; Minuet (from Divertimento, no. 1) ; Sonata in C / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).
Cont.: Romantic (Intermezzo in A ; Waltz in A-flat / Johannes Brahms -- Prelude in E minor ; Waltz in C-sharp minor ; Waltz in A-flat ; Nocturne in E-flat ; Mazurka in C / Frédéric Chopin -- Nocturne, no. 5 / John Field -- Nocturne / Edvard Grieg -- Consolation ; Liebestraum / Franz Liszt -- Confidence ; Spring song ; Capriccio in A ; Wedding march ; Spinning song / Felix Mendelssohn -- Serenade ; Moment musicale ; Scherzo in B-flat ; Ave Maria ; Impromptu in A-flat / Franz Schubert -- Schlummerlied ; Remembrance ; Traumerei ; Why? ; Sonata / Robert Schumann -- Chanson triste ; Waltz / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
Cont.: Impressionist and modern (Tango / Isaac Albéniz -- Minstrels ; La fille aux Cheveux de lin ; Claire de Lune / Claude Debussy -- Humoresque / Antonin Dvorak -- Valses poeticos, No. 2 / Enrique Granados -- To a wild rose / Edward MacDowell -- Elegie / Jules Massenet -- Bydlo ('The oxcart' from Pictures at an exhibition) / Modeste Mussorgsky -- The young prince and the young princess (from Scheherezade) / Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- Romance / Anton Rubinstein -- Trois gymnopédies / Erik Satie -- Prelude in A minor ; Album leaf ; Prelude in D major / Alexander Scriabin -- Simple Aveu / Franćois Thomé).
Cont.: Light classics (Entry of the gladiators / Julius Fucǐk -- La Cinquantaine (the golden wedding) / Gabriel-Marie -- Le secret / Leonard Gautier -- Funeral march of a marionette / Charles Gounod -- Danube waves / Iosif Ivanovici -- Over the waves / Juventino Rosas -- One heart, one mind ; Blue Danube waltz / Johann Strauss -- Skaters waltz / Emil Waldteufel -- La Paloma / Sebastian Yradier) -- Themes from the opera (Carmen (themes) / Georges Bizet -- Faust (themes) / Charles Gounod -- The marriage of Figaro (themes) / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Tales of Hoffman (themes) / Jacques Offenbach -- La Bohème (Musetta's waltz) / Giacomo Puccini -- William Tell (themes) / Gioacchino Antonio Rossini -- Die Fledermaus (themes) / Johann Strauss -- H.M.S. Pinafore (themes) / Arthur Sullivan -- Aida (themes) / Giuseppi Verdi -- Lohengrin (bridal chorus) / Richard Wagner).
Cont.: Scenes from the ballet (Valse lente (from Coppélia) ; Pizzicato (from Sylvia) / Léo Delibes -- Aragonaise (from Le Cid) / Jules Massenet -- Dance of the hours (from La Gioconda) / Amilcare Ponchielli -- Entr'acte (from Rosamude) / Franz Schubert -- Love theme (from Romeo and Juliet) ; Dance of the sugar plum fairy (from The Nutcracker) ; Dance of the reed flutes (from The Nutcracker) ; Russian dance (from The Nutcracker) ; Waltz (from Sleeping Beauty) / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) -- Duets (Minuet in G / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Waltz / Johannes Brahms -- Prelude, op. 28, no. 7 / Frédéric Chopin -- Polonaise / Anton Diabelli -- Consolation / Felix Mendelssohn -- Two German dances / Franz Schubert -- Chant sans paroles / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Subject Piano music.
Piano music, Arranged.
Piano music. (OCoLC)fst01063403
Piano music, Arranged. (OCoLC)fst01063453
Added Author Appleby, Amy.
ISBN 0825617693 (US)
9780825617690 (US)
0711979006 (UK)
9780711979000 (UK)
Standard No. 752187961512
Music No. AM 961510 Amsco Publications
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