Title:
The beginner's book of piano adagios [music score]
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Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
Garden City, New York : Dover Publications, [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
iv, 60 pages of music ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9780486849980
Abstract:
"Beginning pianists will enjoy this collection of adagios: works played slowly. Timeless classics include the opening movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Moonlight” Sonata and Pachelbel’s “Canon” as well as pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and other legendary composers. Editor David Dutkanicz has provided fingerings, notes, and performance suggestions. Includes downloadable MP3s." -- Provided by publisher.
General Note:
"Works are arranged in order of approximate difficulty." -- From page iii.
Contents:
Sergei Rachmaninoff / Adagio from Piano Concerto No. 2 -- Robert Schumann / The Poor Orphan from Album for the Young -- Gustav Mahler Symphony / No. 1 (Titan), Mvt. III -- Johann Sebastian Bach / Air on a G String from Orchestral Suite No. 3 -- George Frideric Handel / Sarabande from Suite in D Minor -- Erik Satie / Gymnopédie No. 1 -- Antonin Dvorák / Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), Mvt. II (Largo) -- Edvard Grieg / Ase’s Death from Peer Gynt -- Johann Pachelbel / Canon -- Claude Debussy / Prélude No. 10 from Préludes Book II -- Sergei Rachmaninoff / Bells of Moscow -- Frédéric Chopin / Funeral March, Op. 35, No. 2 -- Richard Strauss / Also Sprach Zarathustra, Introduction (Sunrise) -- Tomaso Albinoni / Adagio -- Ludwig van Beethoven / Adagio Cantabile from Sonata No. 8 (Pathétique) -- Franz Liszt / Consolation No. 4 -- Johann Sebastian Bach / Adagio from Concerto for Oboe -- Béla Bartók / Song from For Children (Vol. 1, No. 3) -- Domenico Scarlatti / Larghetto from Sonata in D Minor, K.34 -- George Frideric Handel / Dead March from Saul -- Antonio Vivaldi / Before the Fire from The Four Seasons -- Domenico Cimarosa / Sonata No. 4 -- Joachim Raff / Romance, Op. 2, No. 2 -- Gaetano Donizetti / Sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor -- Camille Saint-Saëns / Swan from The Carnival of Animals -- Daniel Gottlob / Türk Arioso -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Adagio from Viennese Sonatina No. 6 -- Gustav Lange / Flower Song, Op. 39 -- Felix Mendelssohn / Consolation from Songs Without Words (Book II, No. 3) -- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Morning Prayer from Children’s Album (Op. 39, No. 1) -- Carl Maria von Weber / Prayer from The Hunter -- Frédéric Chopin / Prelude, Op. 28, No. 4 -- Jules Massenet / Angelus from Scènes pittoresques -- Felix Mendelssohn / Adagio from Songs Without Words (Book IV, No. 4) -- Theodor Michaelis / At Night from The Blacksmith in the Woods -- Jules Massenet / Melodie -- Ludwig van Beethoven / “Moonlight” Sonata from Piano Sonata No. 14, Mvt. I.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Staff notation