Product Description

Piano Stylings of the Great Standards is a series of books created for the pianist who longs to play the best-loved and most important songs of the popular genre in very special and elegant musical settings. The arrangements are represented in varying styles, written and influenced by the many great pianists who, over the years, have helped to shape popular piano performance. Titles include: All The Things You Are, As Time Goes By, Blue Moon, Don't Worry 'Bout Me, Laura, Moonglow, My Foolish Heart, Over The Rainbow, Stormy Weather, Where Or When. This is the first volume inthe Steinway Library Of Piano Music.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #471406 in Books
• Published on: 2003-05-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Arrangements
Just a note about the pianist that might like this. These arrangements are great for people who are not quite at the point of being able to improvise independently as jazz pianists, but will give you many musical ideas toward that. Many of the arrangers are people you've never heard of, but the style in which they play like Dick Hyman (who has arranged and performed on several Woody Allen movies), you will recognize.

I wouldn't recommend this book to a beginning player - the rhythms are too complex and some of the velocities might be difficult, but for the intermediate to advanced player, you will find challenge and enjoyment in the very rich and harmonically complex arrangements. Keep them coming Steinway!

High Quality Throughout
The arrangements are not technically difficult, but they have lots of accidentals and various rhythms that require close and careful reading. Fortunately, the publishers have produced a beautiful volume, with large, almost oversized, easy-on-the-eyes printing set on heavy paper in a lay-flat binding. In other words, the book itself is as elegant as the arrangements it contains. Also included are the original sheet music settings.