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Title: Complete Preludes, Books 1 and 2 by Claude Debussy ISBN: 0-486-25970-6 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: good for reading, bad for playing
Comment: This is an affordable book that is fine for following along while listening to the music being played by someone else, but very frustrating to play from for oneself. The book does not open flat on a piano stand, and keeps falling when the pages are turned. It needs constant propping up by other books, which interrupts passages that have not been memorized (especially for non-professional pianists like me with a poor memory). The Schirmer editions are a bit better in this regard, and the Peters and Kalmus editions open even more flatly than the Schirmer volumes. I will not buy a Dover piano book again for playing -- only if I intend merely to follow a score while listening. Dover editions are cheap compared with those published by other companies, but you get what you pay for.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Composer, Great Value
Comment: The Preludes of Debussy are from a different planet. The sounds that he got from the piano are still like no other composer, even after over 100 years since their composition. Dover yet again has printed a most economical edition that is very affordable for the pianist that would like to delve into these gems. Recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Piano essential for advanced students
Comment: This is one of those sets that I think, if I were stranded on a desert island with a Steinway (and a good piano tuner), I could delve into for years with little other music.
These short pieces are excellent for sight-reading difficult passages with many key changes and unexpected accidentals, for intricate harmony and for expression of mood. The names are evocative of feelings and sights, such as an underwater cathedral, bells in the evening air, wind through heather and the like.
Though short pieces of a few pages, each provides a particular challenge to the piano student, as well as being appropriate for concert encores or intimate playing.
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Title: Piano Music: 1888 1905 by Claude Debussy ISBN: 0486227715 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Etudes, Children's Corner, Images Book II and Other Works for Piano by Claude Debussy ISBN: 0486271455 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Le Tombeau de Couperin and Other Works for Solo Piano by Maurice Ravel ISBN: 048629806X Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Complete Preludes and Etudes-Tableaux by Serge Rachmaninoff ISBN: 0486256960 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Complete Preludes and Etudes for Solo Piano by Frederic Chopin ISBN: 0486240525 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1980 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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