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Play the world's most beautiful classical music quickly and easily with this high-quality selection of short, favorite, accessible compositions by the world's greatest composers — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Shubert, Tchaikovsky, and others. Includes Beethoven's Für Elise, Three Norwegian Dances by Grieg, Liszt's Consolation, Macdowell's To a wild rose, Schumann's Träumerei, and many more.
Customer Reviews:
Not for Early Players.......2007-08-06
I play piano and the pieces in this book are scaled down from the originals, but they are not easy for early players. I wouldn't recommend for this type of player. I bought it for my daughter, and she found it very frustrating. So it's on the shelf for now. The preface of the book even states that "Early Players" in the title was probably a stretch. For intermediate players, it's fine and probably just the challenge that they need.
Nice Collection But Not For Beginners.......2007-06-17
As advertised this book has ninety-seven classic compositions from esteemed composers. Included are several selections from Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Mozart and many other well known piano masters. There are really no pieces for very early beginners though perhaps 25% of the collection could be played fairly comfortably by a student who has mastered book two in most piano teaching series. The other 75% is definitely for an intermediate to advanced student and as another reviewer noted there are no guides for fingering and there are also no or few markings for pedalings or dynamics. The editor states in a note this is an asset because it makes for a "cleaner" page but again perhaps not the best format for a beginning student. A glossary of musical terms is included as well as dates of birth and death for each composer.
Beautiful piano book.......2007-05-11
As a music student, it is hard to find cheap, good quality collections, but this one is excellent. Instead of being printed on harsh, white paper, the music is printed on a softer more ivory colored paper. Makes those late nights practicing a little easier on the eyes! Great book, lots of variety!
NOT an 'Easy' piano book as stated.......2007-03-23
This is definitely not for someone with basic piano knowlege or even lessons 'a few years ago'. This is a challenging book for someone who hasn't been playing for awhile (or recently). I'm through book 2 of Alfred's adult lessons (and played as a kid) and it is challenging for me. I'll put it away for later.
misleading- more for a intermediate to advanced.......2007-03-13
This is not for the beginner. I would agree that you need to be through Alfred's third book, before attempting this.
Book Description
One hundred compositions, progressively graded for grades 1 through 4, ranging from the works of the great masters to the folk tunes and dances of many lands.
Customer Reviews:
Piano pieces for Everyone!!.......2006-11-01
Very good for beginner who want to start playing piano. Favorite and famous songs for all time.
Fun to learn and play the music. Not only for children!
An old classic.......2006-03-06
I started my piano lessons about 20 odd years ago...this book was what I played for fun and didn't underestimate my "talent". Sadly I lost my original copy about 6 years ago, what a joy to finally get it back...untouched.
Brilliant book.......2003-07-18
I have the 1934 edition. The pieces are graded from 1 to grade 4 and the quality and range of the music is fantastic, fair better than the rubbish simplified versions nowadays.
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Russell Sherman has been hailed as "that rarest of performers--a thinking man's virtuoso" (Chicago Tribune), and Piano Pieces is his scintillating excursion into the world of piano and its multiple spheres of affect and influence. From pithy reflections on tone, technique, and the thorny matter of thumbs to ruminations on how such a machine could be the voice and repository of priceless human messages both lyrical and complex, Piano Pieces examines the current status of music, piano-playing, and pedagogy through the noisy filter of contemporary culture.
Customer Reviews:
A candid book nurtured by experiences versus re-hash pontifications!.......2007-05-03
I think it was Lincoln who made the wise comment that "you can please some of the people some of the time but never all of the people all of the time." True enough but to the reviewer who allegedly gave it up "after two pages" and another who rendered the book as "pretentious [...] cerebral flatus" , I must do an ad hoc Sir Wilfrid Robarts [Charles Laughton] for the defense here and offer some reverse coin considerations. True enough that the book uses a play on words [as does Charles Rosen's tome, et al] but then too, it 'does' say "pieces" and hence the normal paragraph to paragraph flow and cohesion is missing seemingly more by design versus that of author fault.
So too, there is much comment on Mr. Sherman's students [NEC or otherwise] in a general collective sense anyway and the mixed bag types he has taught over the long haul where musical ability per se is not the 'only' hurdle that has to be worked on [or extracted therein] although there are quite serious piano students who feel that they have an absolute right to their 'complete interpretive freedom' while relegating the composer to a mere after-thought! You know, the old Bach syndrome, no tempi nor dynamic indications so, goes the argument, "anything goes" or others where directives 'are' given becoming mere 'recommended guidelines' as opposed to 'mandates' yet when the "my own thing" interpretation is not embraced by the masses as being both 'daring' and 'unique', much less by the pianistic master/mentor, ahhh, the fault must be in the level of instruction, yes? Certainly not the student, no-no, it must be the mentor who is allegedly 'doggedly mired' on the war-horse pieces or hopelessly bound up with the romantic [or whatever] era century itself. And manner of thinking and mind-set therein.
I found the book to be well done and well presented albeit in a form that may give the appearance of being disjointed but then the word 'pieces' as distinct and separate entities within themselves can work various ways. Finally this, Russell Sherman, much like Charles Rosen, has been the road in kind and thus becomes duly qualified by default to comment on that road. This is not to suggest that reader agreement is forced or mandated by any means but it is to say that the collective findings are at least experience borne and rendered therein as opposed to mere armchair pontificating based on the findings or assumptions of others. Those kinds of tomes exist too. As do opinions of the more inherited or, shall we say, paraphrased from others variety versus that of having said experience and expertise. There 'is' a difference! A rather meaningful one.
Doc Tony
Remarks that miss the mark.......2006-07-03
I like Sherman's approach to music and agree with him on much of his critique of modern music-making and culture. It is a pity, then, that his good points are lost in a seemingly endless series of brief remarks without structure. I'm sure this book would rate 5 stars if it was rewritten into a series of essays; the current format lacks the framework needed to make his observations cogent.
Completely Unreadable.......2006-03-08
I picked up this book hoping it would be similar to Charles Rosen's page turner Piano Notes. Both are books written by pianists about playing the piano, and both have titles that are plays on words (Piano Roles is a third one of that type). Why oh why did I not look it over more carefully when I saw it in the bookstore? This book says nothing and the writing is completely pretentious and impossible to enjoy. It is my understanding that the author thinks he's being poetic by using various rhetorical devices such as metaphor. But the reality is he's just being tedious. I gave up on it after only TWO PAGES! I just couldn't stand it anymore and I flipped through the book and realized the entire thing was written in the exact same way: a bad attempt at being poetic without actually imparting any interesting or useful information. I have just ordered another book by Charles Rosen and am looking forward to reading it.
The only redeeming thing I have to say is that I suppose that if you're seriously right brained, you might enjoy the non-linear presentation, but personally, I think I'm more left-brained and need some order, logic, structure, not just a bunch of unfulfilling metaphors.
Disappointing.......2004-11-30
It feel that Mr. Sherman is capable of better writing than this rather dubious collection of cerebral flatus. I get the impression that he is trying to prove how clever he is, whilst simultaneously trying to make the reader feel inadequate. The content of his musings range from remarkably insightful to pretentious claptrap. Reading the book is like panning for gold, you have to sort through a great deal of aggregate to find a little gold dust - but it is there if you have the patience.
I am not familiar with the author's piano work, but as a student of the instrument I can tell his has considerable knowledge of the subject. His writing however would benefit from a dose of pragmatism, reduction of pretension and condescension.
On the whole much is promised but little is delivered.
Great Musicians Aren't Necessarily Great Writers.......2004-04-06
I too have slogged through this book, searching for insights into playing piano and understanding musical form. Sherman's thoughts regarding the hand and the role of each finger are actually quite useful.
Music is certainly not a perfectly linear art form, and everything mentioned does tend to eventually relate to everything else mentioned. Still, Sherman could have spent a bit of time organizing his free-associative style into smaller and more specific subjects. Perhaps the best way to think of this book is as a transcription of Russell Sherman's musings over after-dinner drinks, in a rather indulgent, expansive and reflective mood. A succinct text it's not.
Book Description
Contents: Theme from Schindler's List * Jewish Town * Remembrances.
Customer Reviews:
disappointed..........2006-08-11
I love this music and the way Perlman played it. I recently bought this sheet music assuming that it is edited by Perlman since the cover page has "For Itzhak Perlman" on it and somewhere on the website says "by Itzhak Perlman". I was very disappointed to find out that the violin part was not edited, not by Perlman, not by anybody. No fingerings. No bowing. Am I missing something?
Book Description
Legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has long been devoted to the education of piano students. In this book he offers dozens of pieces designed to empower the student, whether novice or classically trained, with the technique needed to become an accomplished jazz pianist.
Book Description
A large collection of 36 repertoire pieces for flute with piano including works by Bach, Bizet, Debussy, Faure, Gossec, Marcello, Saint-Saens, Schubert and others.
Customer Reviews:
Solos for Flute: 36 Repertoire Pieces with Piano Accompaniment.......2007-03-16
My 12 year old daughter is in her 2nd year (7th grade) of flute playing -- she is in the school band but does take private lessons from a classical music flute artist, once a week. My daughter is really enjoying this book. However, she could NOT work with these pieces of music with out her private teacher. I recommend this book for students who study privately aside from the school band.
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Piano Pieces The Whole World Plays: (WW2)
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More than 70 compositions, representing the finest works of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and many others, all presented in original, unabridged editions.
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Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.” Debussy’s “Claire de Lune.” Strauss’s “The Blue Danube.” This striking collection contains 90 of the most beloved musical pieces of all time, created by the world’s most celebrated composers. For years, teachers have given these works to their students to learn and perfect, knowing that they would build skills and foster an appreciation for music at the same time. The choices range from Albéniz’s “Tango” to Bach’s “Four Pieces from the Little Notebook,” from Scott Joplin’s sparkling “The Cascades” to Satie’s gorgeous “Trois Gnossienes.” Also included are Chopin, Grieg, Grandados, Haydn, Massenet, Mozart, Rameau, and many others. Some pieces feature both two- and four-handed versions, but no matter what a player’s level, there’s a beautiful excerpt that’s just right.
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Five Bodies: Re-figuring Relationships (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
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Five Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body.
The book was first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association). A path breaking book, it offered a framework for the growing field of the sociology of the body and opened up 'the body' for sociological research.
This new edition (the previous edition was published by Cornell University Press (1985) has been substantially revised and updated to address today's issues of the body in modern life, community and politics.
John O'Neill examines how embodied selves and relationships are being re-shaped and re-figured and how the embodied figures of the polity, economy and society represent the contested notions of identity, desire, wholeness and fragmentation. He focuses upon those cultural practices through which we map our macro-micro worlds:
· articulating a cosmology
· a body politic
· a productivensumptive economy
· a bio-technological frontier of human design and transplantation
Book Description
New Media and Popular Imagination places the current technological upheaval in audio-visual culture in the context of previous periods of twentieth-century media innovation. Examining popular and industry responses to the introduction of radio, television, and digital media into the home, the
book underscores the continuities and disjunctions in the ways in which electronic media have been anticipated, promoted, and resisted in twentieth-century America.
Customer Reviews:
good historical perspective.......2004-12-02
Is the continuing unfolding of the digital media a brand new era in communications history, as some of its proponents breathlessly claim? In his timely monograph, Boddy offers us a perceptive historical overview. He compares this time with several other periods, but most pertinently, to when radio and television were new. By citing the historial record, he shows that each instance of a new technology also caused existing business models and consumer habits to be plunged into controversy and change.
Specifically, the changes in society in transitioning to wireless communication from 1900 to the 1920s were greater and more traumatic than those espoused due to today's digital media. Ironically, that early radio era gave rise to a gender perference for male hobbyists that echoes the current gender imbalance amongst early computer users. We also see concerns that radio fans might obsessively devote too much time to their hobby. Very might like today's video game users.
There are contrasts. Radio was seen as offering a mass unifying effect on its audience, at a national level. As distinct to fears that digital media might lead to an increasing fragmentation of the contemporary public experience.
Boddy also offers a perspective on Virtual Reality. He recaps the rise of this theme in the early 1990s, as personified by people like Jared Lanier. However, as I write this in 2004, VR is still over the horizon. Unaffordable as a mass consumer item. Over 10 years after VR burst on the mass consciousness. Several entire Moore cycles later. But if you look at his descriptions of how television struggled for some 20 years, before it became a success in the 1950s, you might appreciate where we stand with VR today.
Book Description
Sams Teach Yourself Access 2000 in 10 Minutes is a tutorial, organized into lessons starting with the basics and progressing to more advanced features. Straightforward, practical examples provide quick results. The book includes coverage of queries, form design, table relationships, team collaboration, and the Internet.
Customer Reviews:
Worst Tutorial Ever.......2002-01-25
This could have been a five star little intro to Microsoft Access but the editor failed to have one person try to follow the book from start to finish. Extremely important information (like the data you need in the tables to complete future assignments) is missing. I had to skip ahead several chapters and based on screenshots fill-in some limited info so I could sort-of continue following the book. In it's current condition the book is not worth buying.
Excellently Written Basic Guide to Getting Started!!!.......2001-08-09
This book is great for two types of people:
1) Experts who like to jump right into a project and figure it out as they go along rather than plodding through too much detail in a big pedantic reference book.
2) Those who are complete novices and need a simple step-by-step guide to getting started using Access.
I am in the 1st category. I didn't want to use the standard database wizards that were available, but I was daunted by being presented with a blank database and not knowing where to start. This book takes you step-by-step from start to finish of a basic database, complete with forms, reports, and web links. It is exceptionally well written and, while basic, manages to throw in lots of useful tips along the way.
The author, Faithe Wempen, has a wonderfully concise and very readable writing style that makes following the material a joy. The chapters are well laid out and presented in just the right order so that new material is presented exactly where you expect it to be. There is little need to search ahead to find what you are looking for (except to skip the chapter on how to use the "Help" system, undoubtedly added for the novice user :-).
Another nice feature is that the author spends a lot of time getting you familiar with the buttons and menus, and always shows you 3-4 ways to do any particular task. The illustrations are wonderfully clear without being in any way flashy or distracting. Overall, a fantastic guide to getting started!
Now, that having been said, you need to know that this is NO reference book and is not intended to be. It is a small, thin
<1/2" soft cover book that gets you started and creating right away. For this reason, I think that anyone buying this book will also need to invest in a larger reference book such as Alison Balter's much loved "Mastering Microsoft Access 2000 Development." or Roger Jennings' similarly acclaimed "Special Edition Using Microsoft Access 2000."
For its's intended purpose.......2001-03-02
This obviously is a quick shot in the arm of Access 2000. No great amounts of detail or long tutorials to wade through, but quick simple lessons to help you understand how to use Access. This would be a good book as a substitute for a 600-700 page book if all you want is the basics, and then be able to move onto something that describes itself as more than a beginners manual. I am following this book up with 'Creating Access 2000 solutions, a guide for power users' by Gordon Patwick, so far the two seem to be the solution to my problem.
A Big Help for People with Limited Time.......2000-09-20
This book is my introduction to Microsoft Access and it is extremely helpful. The terms are basic and easy to understand, and the chapters are well written with to-the-point descriptions about Access functions. This is the ideal "Access for first-timers" book, and I recommend it to anyone who is an Access novice. The chapters are designed to be read in about ten minutes, which is great for people with limited time.
Book Description
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office in 10 Minutes is the easiest way to learn the most important tasks that every user should know in the Office applications. This book presents features in the context of normal every-day tasks in Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint that any user might find themselves in need of. A perfect companion for anyone looking to learn the key features of Office in the least amount of time possible, Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2000 in 10 Minutes gets you familiar with all of the Office applications quickly.
Customer Reviews:
A Big Help for People with Limited Time.......2000-09-20
This book is my introduction to Microsoft Access and it is extremely helpful. The terms are basic and easy to understand, and the chapters are well-written with to-the-point descriptions about Access functions. This is the ideal "Access for first-timers" book, and I recommend it to anyone who is an Access novice. The chapters are designed to be read in about ten minutes, which is great for people with limited time.
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