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Offline herbert_von

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6 hands and more...
on: April 06, 2003, 10:12:53 PM
I'mlooking  for new pieces for three or more piano students (on one instrument only), from first  to high level  Thanks for new ideas

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Re: 6 hands and more...
Reply #1 on: August 06, 2004, 03:24:18 AM
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I'mlooking  for new pieces for three or more piano students (on one instrument only), from first  to high level  Thanks for new ideas


Rachmaninoff Romance for 6 hands one piano
here is the link:

https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/store/smp_detail.html?sku=WB.EL03500&cart=32999193304102221&searchtitle=Sheet%20Music

The begining sounds like piano concerto no.2 but it's different.  It's really a beautiful piece. :)
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Re: 6 hands and more...
Reply #2 on: August 07, 2004, 03:20:54 AM
For beginners:

1. Laura Shur - Tunes for three (for six hands , one piano) - Five extremely easy pieces for beginners. This is clearly pedagogical material. All parts similar difficulty. I cannot say I am too impressed. (I am not sure, but I believe there is a second volume).

Much better is:

2. Giovanni Piazza - 10 easy pieces for piano six hands ("Drei Mal zwei - Tre per due" - Schott). The first piece is a nice arrangement of twinkle twinkle little star. It then progresses through several different music styles (minimalist music, jazz, rock, but mixed up with classical styles: for instance there is a "blues"-fughe, the rock is a rock-passacaglia, and so on).

3. Pinwheels - Katherine Beard

4. Manfred Schimitz - Serenades for Six Hands (Mel Bay) - 13 piano pieces for six hands for young beginners. Especially appropriate for music instruction.


Intermediate:

1.      "Klavierspiel zu drift". (Schott) - A collection (organized by Franzpeter Goebels) of pieces for 6 hands in three volumes: Most of the pieces are originally solo piano pieces (from the likes of Mendelssohn, Bach, etc.) arranged for six hands.

2.      C. Gurlitt - Six Pieces for Six Hands; edited by Weekley & Arganbright. Special edition for one piano, six hands.

3.      Stephen Yarbrough - Romp Ala Mozart for one piano, six hands. Myklas Music Press

4.      Joyce Grill - Three's A Crowd Rag for One Piano, Six Hands (Warner Brothers.)

5.      Christopher Norton  - Microjazz piano trios (Boosey & Hawkes) - Easy pieces in popular styles such as jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll and reggae for three piano players (one piano six hands).

4. Also have a look here:

https://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=33418

“Heroes of mine” A very nice piece by Bernard Hughes (no relation) which you can print.

https://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=30298

Phillip Butall – “Three is company” (You will have to pay for this one).


Advanced: (Not that difficult since it is shared amongst six hands).

1. Percy Grainger – Zanzibar boat song (for one piano, 6 hands) (Schott).

2. Rachmaninoff – Besides “Romance” that Nana suggested above, there is also “Waltz” (Russian State Music Publishing – in one volume all of Rach’s duets as well)

3. Arthur Levering - Uncle Inferno for piano, 6 hands (7:00)Wonderful piece, it received the 1990 Composers Guild First Prize (music for children). You can listen to it (and order) here:

https://www.arthurlevering.com/music.html


4. You can order the pieces below from the Lithuanian Publishing centre:

https://www.mic.lt/index2.html

Valentinas Bagdonas (1929) - Polyphonic Sonatine 1981 - 8'
Sonata – 1993 - 11'
Two Moods – 1993 - 12'
Festive Prelude – 1995 - 8'
Quasi tango – 1995 - 10'

Vytautas Barkauskas (1931) - Divertimento op.101 – 1993 - 4'

Zita Bruzaite (1966) - House of Rain – 2002 - 2'30

Vytautas Mikalauskas (1930) - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves – a cycle of 8 pieces for piano two, four, six hands - 1997-2000 - 15
Flower Suite - 1996-2001 - 20'

4. A collection of 13 pieces by several obscure American composers arranged for 6 hands by Julius Muller all downloadable:

https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mussm:@field(SUBJ+@band(Piano+music++6+hands++))

Just the tip of the iceberg, but this should get you started.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.


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Re: 6 hands and more...
Reply #3 on: August 07, 2004, 06:32:28 AM
Bernhard, I'm interested in this selection you recommended

2. Giovanni Piazza - 10 easy pieces for piano six hands ("Drei Mal zwei - Tre per due" - Schott).

and have done a search on Musicroom.com and Sheetmusicplus.com and they don't have ANYthing by Giovanni Piazza ... and I'm too lazy to go searching further, so would you know of any place on the net where I may get it?

Thank you!!

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Reply #5 on: August 08, 2004, 09:22:32 AM
Thank you Bernhard.  You're better than AskJeeves!!!

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Reply #6 on: August 08, 2004, 11:50:34 AM
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Thank you Bernhard.  You're better than AskJeeves!!!


Soon people will be Bernharding, rather than googling... ;D
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Reply #7 on: August 09, 2004, 03:27:12 AM
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Soon people will be Bernharding, rather than googling... ;D


Soon?  We already are!!! :)  (or should that be already am ... no am is singular, are plural ... mmmm We are already doing that!!  ;D yeah that works...
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