The Gentleman's Private Collection is an extension of
the solo piano music I wrote for Monaco.
I worked on it for over a year and it is
all solo piano music, there's no orchestra, so it's like an old silent movie era style.
Not exact matches
On the plus side, he has taken that most cliched of film
music devices, the duduk, and crafted some truly beautiful
solos («Driving in Geneva»); the
piano solo version of the main theme which appears half way through the album is exquisite; and some of his Philip Glass - style cellular, repeating phrases are terrific.
A national BARD research study showed that classical
music with a slow tempo (50 - 60 beats per minute) and very simple arrangements, such as a
solo piano piece, significantly lowered stress levels in animals.
So it was a thrill to find, and be able to import, Final Fantasy VI: Original Sound Version
Piano Solo Sheet
Music via Amazon.
The
music is much more lush than the previous game which only featured a
solo piano.
This time I made a conscious decision to present the audience with a new interpretation, one involving a chamber
music arrangement and
solo piano performance.
[Continuing his «Sound Current» series for GameSetWatch, Jeriaska catches up with the director of Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu's Dog Ear Records label to discuss the company's diverse set of video game and related soundtracks, from
piano versions of game
music classics through spinoff projects and
solo albums.]
While the game was scored for
solo piano, (45 minutes of silent movie, ragtime - ish, old fashioned
piano music,) the material itself struck me as being pretty malleable.
In 2005 his video game
music performances included, in March, performing at the San Francisco Walk of Game ceremony with Gavin Newsom in attendance and performing at the Game Audio Network Guild Awards at the Game Developers Conference, in May, performing at the BradyGames booth during the Electronic Entertainment Expo along with an MTV interview, on July 6, performing his
piano and vocal arrangement of Final Fantasy VII — Sephiroth's Theme with vocalists Cindy Shapiro and Laurie Robinson at the Hollywood Bowl in the inaugural Video Games Live show with 11,000 people in attendance, on August 26, performing a video game
music and classical
music recital at Penny Arcade Expo in Bellevue, Washington, on October 13, playing 21 encores after his first video game
solo recital at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas.
For those wanting to bring this epic
music to life for themselves, this supplemental folio presents the two pieces as
piano solo arrangements.
Explore the world of William Merritt Chase in this montage from the exhibition set to waltz - like
music for
solo piano by Victor Herbert, a popular figure in New York City's musical scene in Chase's day.
Many recordings of his
music have been released,
solo piano as well as with the Toronto Ensemble CCMC and others.
Recent and upcoming
solo recitals include debuts at the Fribourg International
Piano Series and the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, as well as the Mariinsky Concert Hall, Bad - Kissingen Summer
Music Festival, Besancon Festival, Rotterdam Gergiev Festival and Helsingborg
Piano Festival.
When Stefan Wolpe (1902 - 1972) began «Battle Piece» in 1942, it was to have been the first of a series of works for
solo piano titled «Encouragements,» intended as a composer's contribution to the struggle against Fascism; part of the genre Kampfmusik that had earlier included chamber operas, theatre
music, and agitprop songs.