Relieve your workaday stress with Solo Piano Sheet Music from "The Naked Piano Elements" by award-winning composer Gary Girouard. These piano solos range from intermediate to advanced level transcriptions. These are neo-classical solo piano compositions featuring strong melody and tonality. This version includes dynamic markings, phrasings and pedaling. Titles in this book include: Water; Love; August; Miracles; Springtime; Footprints; Time; Winter's Wonder; Sunshine; Enchanted Forest; Dreams; Cosmic Journey; Awakening.

Marilyn Nonken finds precedent in the works of pianist-composers Liszt, Scriabin and Debussy for spectral attitudes towards the musical experience.

Leading scholars re-evaluate the opposition between Beethoven and Rossini, the great symbolic duo of early nineteenth-century music.

Portrays Schoenberg's atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out 'musical idea' and 'basic image' frameworks.

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The six mean Herdman kids lie, steal, smoke cigars (even the girls) and then become involved in the community Christmas pageant.