Here is a guide to works from 1,700 composers in a descriptive listing of works from 1760 to 1980 arranged alphabetically by composer - from Abeille to Zutphen, with plenty of more familiar names in between. These are not the arrangements that one often encounters but works specifically composed for four-handed performance. Bibliographical information is provided for nearly 3,200 compositions, with leads on locating copies. The address list for music publishers has been updated for this reprint edition. One appendix lists anthologies and collections of four-hand music, with their contents; a second appendix is an index to the piano duets with voice(s) or other instrument(s) described in the main listing. Piano teachers will appreciate the annotations, the grade-level indications, and the wealth of attractive instructional materials included. The Piano Duet Repertoire is an invaluable reference for both amateur and professional pianists.
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"Here is an invaluable reference book for students, teachers and performers." --Music Teacher " ... another valuable and practical handbook on piano literature." -- Music Educators Journal Praise for the original printing: "[F]or those who love the medium [this] is sure to be a kind of wish-book, making one say, 'I want to see that one!'" --Notes "Excellent reference for teachers and performers alike and highly recommended for any library." --Choice
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Cameron McGraw (1919-1995) was Co-director of the Jenkintown Music School and composer of numerous works for piano, orchestra, and chorus. His articles appeared in Piano Quarterly and Clavier, and he edited the anthology Four Centuries of Keyboard Music.
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A wealth of knowledge for those involved in the duet genre,
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This review is from: Piano Duet Repertoire: Music Originally Written for One Piano, Four Hands (Paperback)
Hundreds of composers and what seems to be over a thousand works, most of them obscure. It is a wonderful little handbook which, whenever possible, states also the duration of pieces, publisher, style, difficulty, and any other information you may need to locate the score. There are some major works missing from it, for example George Crumb's Celestial Mechanics, Yvar Mikhashof's arrangement of Conlon Nancarrow's Sonatina, Ravel's Rhapsodie Espagnole or Lucien Garban's arrangement of his La Valse, Stravinsky's Petroushka or The Rite of Spring (both composed first for this medium and later orchestrated by the composer), John Corigliano's Gazebo Dances. And these are the ones I am aware of, who knows how many others have been overlooked. Nevertheless you have 312 solid pages of works for one piano four hands (not two pianos!) from A-Z. A must for any duo pianist out there.
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Abeille, Johann Christian Ludwig (1761-1838) German pianist, court organist, director of music and conductor of the private orchestra of the Duke of Wurttemberg; composer of songs, stage entertainments, and piano music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mildly contemporary idiom, salon idiom, original piano duets, short instructional pieces, tone dusters, pièces enfantines, duet medium, primo part, musicales transatlantiques, melodious pieces, instructional music, marches héroiques, dissonant idiom, secondo part, grande sonate, many piano pieces, rhythmical drive, pièces faciles, serial idiom, salon pieces, keyboard duets, teaching pieces, tonal idiom, written choral, easy duets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Boston Music, Carl Fischer, Bryn Mawr, Myklas Press, Oliver Ditson, Buenos Aires, Lee Roberts, State Music Publishing House, Sam Fox, General Music, Allan Music, Grosse Sonate, Joseph Williams, Peer International, The Hague, Deutscher Tanz, Johann Christian, Johann Georg, Los Angeles, Musica Moderna, Glen Rock, Harold Flammer, L'Éventail de Jeanne, Middle Eastern New!
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Abeille, Johann Christian Ludwig (1761-1838) German pianist, court organist, director of music and conductor of the private orchestra of the Duke of Wurttemberg; composer of songs, stage entertainments, and piano music. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mildly contemporary idiom, salon idiom, original piano duets, short instructional pieces, tone dusters, pièces enfantines, duet medium, primo part, musicales transatlantiques, melodious pieces, instructional music, marches héroiques, dissonant idiom, secondo part, grande sonate, many piano pieces, rhythmical drive, pièces faciles, serial idiom, salon pieces, keyboard duets, teaching pieces, tonal idiom, written choral, easy duets Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Boston Music, Carl Fischer, Bryn Mawr, Myklas Press, Oliver Ditson, Buenos Aires, Lee Roberts, State Music Publishing House, Sam Fox, General Music, Allan Music, Grosse Sonate, Joseph Williams, Peer International, The Hague, Deutscher Tanz, Johann Christian, Johann Georg, Los Angeles, Musica Moderna, Glen Rock, Harold Flammer, L'Éventail de Jeanne, Middle Eastern New!
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