This composition is the first of its kind for The FJH Music Contemporary Keyboard Editions. Written for piano and orchestra, it provides a perfect showpiece for a student pianist who has an opportunity to play with an orchestra. The orchestral...
This collection contains exciting contemporary pieces (solos and duets) by seven leading FJH composers that will open up a world of new sounds through bitonality, chromaticism, jazz harmonies, mixed meters, ostinato patterns, whole tone scales,...
These collected works by some of today's leading art-music composers will expand a student's concept of rhythm, harmony, sound, and texture.
DetailsPublisher: The FJH Music Company Inc.Author(s): Martin KutnowskiEditor(s): Helen MarlaisMedium:...
Intuitive Journeys is a late intermediate through advanced collection of piano solos that invites students to explore the emotional messages behind the notes written on the page. Students are encouraged to use their instincts and imagination to...
This artistic collection of over 30 piano miniatures are contrasting in nature – some are energetic, others lyrical – some are sad, others humorous.
DetailsPublisher: The FJH Music Company Inc.Author(s): Dianne Goolkasian RahbeeEditor(s): Helen...
The natural musicality present in this collection demands the same kind of careful attention that we expect from the standard canon of repertoire. These teaching pieces follow in the modern tradition of pedagogical works by Bartók, Kabalevsky, and...
In Musical Treasures, Volume 1, students will find numerous character piano works that will broaden their musical understanding and imagination. These inventive and fun-to-play pieces will bring them closer to the intricate world of sound. This...
Publisher: The FJH Music Company Inc.Author(s): Wynn-Anne Rossi and Kevin OlsonEditor(s): Phyllis Lehrer and Helen MarlaisMedium: BookSeries: The FJH Contemporary Keyboard EditionsISBN: 1-56939-679-5Instrument: PianoGenre: ContemporaryLevel: Late...
The Phantasie Variations, Op. 12 was commissioned by Phyllis Alpert Lehrer for her Merkin Hall Debut Concert near Lincoln Center in 1980. The piece uses two 12-tone rows, opening with the first row in retrograde, as if regressing back into a...
Flip through the pages of Ninov’s Piano Album and they will introduce you to a gallery of musical pictures. You will “see” the sparrow leaping among the branches; you will “feel” the melancholy of autumn with its golden leaves falling; and you will...
This engaging and accessible contemporary sonata has a broad emotional range and is full of intensity. Each of its four movements makes a strong statement with relatively few notes. “I have used the 12-tone language in my own unique way.” – Rahbee....
Rahbee’s Piano Sonata No. 2 is an appealing piece in the contemporary genre. Its wide-ranging expressive array is filled with fervor. The sonata’s untraditional tonalities allow the advanced student to experience a broader sense of musical...
Premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2004, this adventurous one-movement work provides a variety of contrasting experiences for both the performer and their audience. Subtitled “Odyssey,” this piece presents a full range of moods and emotions that will...
“Extremely positive in nature” has been said to describe the character of Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 128. The energy of this four-movement sonata is derived from its maestoso first movement—executed with feelings of happiness - and proceeded by its...
This two-volume collection of preludes contains short character pieces with a wide range of emotional expression and a wide range of technical demands from intermediate to advanced. The performer may decide to program these preludes as single...
