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Texture often refers to the overall "thickness" or "thinness" of piano writing. A few groups of octaves and fifths, especially if slow, would be a thin texture. A fast four-part dissonant fugue would be a thick texture. You could more loosely describe texture as the atmospheric e...

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some recommendations for arrangements of hymn tunes as stand-alone pieces for the piano, in the spirit of the organ tradition of "preluding" on a hymn--using the hymn tune but branching off into different harmonizations, counter-melodies, or even creating a ...

You print the scores then read them, right? I mean.. one can't sight-read from laptop can they? Sorry for the belated reply. I started out printing everything and putting it in binders, but after a couple years I got tired of carrying all that paper. I do in fact read from a laptop. I use landscape...

a little more about the Takacs cycle

http://new.oberlin.edu/home/news-media/ ... id=3863268

I just have to recommend my former teacher Peter Takacs' complete set of the Beethoven sonatas which came out very recently. Takacs (professor of piano at Oberlin Conservatory) has focused on Beethoven for most of his career and this is the result.

Try [5 3] 2 1 2 [5 3] 2 1 2 etc. At the shift from 2 to [5 3], do not turn the wrist at all, just squeeze the tips of fingers 2 and 5 together like chopsticks, while moving the whole hand and forearm to the left. [5 3] is much more stable and less tense on a third than [5 4]. Don't twist the wrist o...

The tooltip idea for dates is a good one. HTML 4 supports a "title" attribute of links, so no JavaScript needed. There is still the problem of changing thousands of links though. And I'm a newbie with wiki syntax--is there a way to easily add a title attribute to a link in wiki, or could i...

Sure!

That would be an issue. I wonder how Spotify handles it. (or maybe they're not telling.)

The real problem with ScoreExchange is the same as the problem with most sheet music sites on the web: insufficient inventory. ScoreExchange has no Hindemith, no Martinu, no Bernstein. The only Gershwin is a couple of arrangements for middle-school band. The only BEETHOVEN is a couple of easy arrang...

I agree. Listing recordings AFTER scores would be very helpful.

Hello, I have grown so accustomed to IMSLP for pre-1923 music that it seems very inconvenient now to find (and afford) 20th and 21st c. music. (Even when you buy 20th-21st c. music, music publishers haven't really gone digital yet, so all you get is a book which then has to be scanned if you like to...

I can't believe no one has posted here yet! I am a professional pianist, piano teacher and dance accompanist. I am not independently wealthy and have to choose my score purchases carefully. (I own the Urtext Beethoven sonatas, the Well-Tempered Klavier, complete Schubert sonatas, Rhapsody in Blue an...

We've got Scherzo no. 2 on imslp.org but not no. 1. Opus 10 I believe. Is it available?
thankyou!

Thanks Sbeckmesser and Panda.
By the way, I'm not necessarily looking for music by "major composers".... but it does need to be good quality music.
I will check out your suggestions.
Heather