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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

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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

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

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 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 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...

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...

Shifting Shapes by Paul Sheftel

By: George F. Litterst June 3, 2021

[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]A delightful compilation of short pieces at a late elementary/early intermediate level that illustrate how a simple keyboard pattern or “shape” can morph into a lovely and enjoyable to play composition. Many of the selections also have an...

The Virtuoso Pianist Part 1 by Charles-Louis Hanon

By: George F. Litterst May 6, 2019

[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]Explore these 20 iconic etudes by Charles-Louis Hanon in a contemporary and novel format. Each score presents just enough notation to guide you in learning the patterns and fingerings that comprise the etude. Use the study notes by...

Paul’s Practical Piano Pieces by Paul Sheftel

By: George F. Litterst December 2, 2018

[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 album consists of 9 inventive compositions that could only have been written by Paul Sheftel! These are amazingly fun and humorous works for aspiring pianists who have reached the intermediate playing level. Model MIDI performances and study...

Nocturne by Paul Sheftel

By: George F. Litterst December 2, 2018

[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 is a popular student composition that is also published as part of Carl Fischer’s 17-piece album, Interludes by Paul Sheftel. All of the pieces in Interludes are composed as “stepping stones” for late elementary and early intermediate level...

Interludes 2 by Paul Sheftel

By: George F. Litterst December 1, 2018

[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]Paul has composed 15 intermediate-level compositions as “stepping stone” pieces for aspiring pianists. Enjoy these character pieces as you develop your technical skills. Each piece concentrates on just a few keyboard issues having to do with coordination, dexterity,...