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Author:George F. Litterst

Engaging Duets in a Classical Style Featuring 5-Finger Hand Positions Cover

Engaging Duets of the Classical Period Featuring 5-Finger Hand Positions

By: George F. Litterst August 17, 2024

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation="" el_id="description-content"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]This collection features 5 beautifully composed pieces for 2 players at one piano. They can be enjoyed by early intermediate-to-late intermediate level players. Composers Anton Diabelli and Carl Czerny have constructed these works around 5-finger hand positions...

Five Russian Folk Songs for Piano 4-Hands by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Cover

Five Russian Folk Songs for Piano 4-Hands by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

By: George F. Litterst August 2, 2024

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation="" el_id="description-content"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]As a young composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was invited by a publisher to arrange 50 Russian folk songs for piano 4-hands. Over a period of two years, Tchaikovsky did just that, providing pianists with a beautiful set...

Pavane de la belle au bois dormant, M.56 by Maurice Ravel Cover

Pavane de la belle au bois dormant, M.56 by Maurice Ravel

By: George F. Litterst November 30, 2022

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation="" el_id="description-content"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Writing in 1908 and inspired by two children of ages 6 and 7, Maurice Ravel created a wonderful four-hand work for piano called “Pavane de la belle au bois dormant” or “Pavane of the Beauty Sleeping in the...

Four Keyboard Duets from 120 Tonstücke für 4 Hände by Daniel Gottlob Türk Cover

Four Keyboard Duets from 120 Tonstücke für 4 Hände by Daniel Gottlob Türk

By: George F. Litterst November 10, 2022

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation="" el_id="description-content"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Known especially for his easy and small pieces for the aspirational keyboardist, Daniel Gottlob Türk is little known for the 120 delightful duets that he wrote late in life. This SuperScore album contains four specially chosen duets that are...

Remembrances Cover

Remembrances by Paul Sheftel

By: George F. Litterst October 28, 2022

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation="" el_id="description-content"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Remembrances is a lovely, romantic work immbued with the spirit of a nocturne. It provides a wonderful opportunity for the intermediate level pianist to project heart-felt emotion. This work has immediate audience appeal. Best of all, the composer has...

Play’s the Thing • Things to Play Cover

Play’s the Thing • Things to Play by Paul Sheftel

By: George F. Litterst August 1, 2022

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation="" el_id="description-content"][vc_column][vc_column_text]How do you describe an album whose contents can be described with various combinations of these words: contemporary, satirical, eccentric, sentimental, humorous, lyrical, wistful, and/or energetic? Such an album is best described as “sheer fun!” Paul Sheftel has put...

Blues & All That Jazz Cover

Blues & All That Jazz by Paul Sheftel

By: George F. Litterst August 1, 2022

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation="" el_id="description-content"][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you have been looking for a fun bluesy and jazzy album that sounds impressive, is not too difficult to play, and that is imbued with a unique sense of musical humor, then this album is for you! If...

Using SuperScore to Develop Fluent Reading Skills

Using SuperScore to Develop Fluent Reading Skills

By: George F. Litterst February 4, 2022

[vc_row row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" text_align="left" background_animation="none" css_animation="" el_id="description-content"][vc_column][vc_column_text]This document presents a protocol for developing music reading skills. It includes recommendations for using interactive materials that are available in SuperScore on the iPad and which lend themselves to independent use by students between lessons. Click to...

Developing the Fluent Reader

By: George F. Litterst February 4, 2022

The video replay of CyberConservatory’s webinar—Developing the Fluent Reader—is now available for viewing. This webinar was presented on January 24, 2022 in conjunction with co-sponsor, TimeWarp Technologies. In this recorded webinar, Paul Sheftel and George Litterst focus on the use of interactive materials that are available in...

Circling Back to Scales

By: George F. Litterst February 4, 2022

The video replay of CyberConservatory’s webinar—Circling Back to Scales—is now available for viewing. This webinar was presented on October 25, 2021 in conjunction with co-sponsor, TimeWarp Technologies. Join Paul Sheftel and George Litterst as they offer a musically meaningful and technically sound approach to teaching and learning...