Alfor's Rarities

[Timtin]

Here's the list of all Scarecrow music books currently in print and in copyright, plus those to
be published in the near future. The Holbrooke book out next year should be very interesting.
It also has a link to the Rights and Permissions page.
https://rowman.com/Action/nBISAC/SCP/36

[WCosand]

Alberto JONAS
MASTER SCHOOL OF MODERN PIANO PLAYING & VIRTUOSITY
7 Volumes

The complete 7 volumes can be downloaded here:
http://archive.org/search.php?query=mas ... ol%20piano

Volumes I & II have been reissued by Dover.

Interesting that the volumes scanned belonged to Alma Mahler!

[Jim Faston]

Alberto JONAS
MASTER SCHOOL OF MODERN PIANO PLAYING & VIRTUOSITY
7 Volumes

The complete 7 volumes can be downloaded here:
http://archive.org/search.php?query=mas ... ol%20piano

Volumes I & II have been reissued by Dover.

Interesting that the volumes scanned belonged to Alma Mahler!

From the Werfel collection at UMass Amherst. I believe it has all been digitized.

http://archive.org/search.php?query=cre ... lection%22

[alfor]

[...You can add me to the THANK YOU, ALFOR list!

You are welcome!

[alfor]

I am beyond grateful to you for your dedicated, hard work. The music of Alexei Stanchinsky is just...I thought I would never find some of it. *Thank you* for now and for always. Um...I'm only sorry that I have nothing of any value to offer to you...

You are welcome!

[remy]

Alfor, thanks very much for the fascinating biography, including those wonderful photographs.

And thanks for posting the links for the Alberto Jonas MASTER SCHOOL OF MODERN PIANO PLAYING & VIRTUOSITY. I tried that 5 finger arpeggio exercise and noticed immediately that the stretch of a fourth between my third and fourth fingers is difficult, so I'll be working on it.

I wonder if it was Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel herself who donated those books to the library in Amherst, or if it was her estate. Did she have a connection with U. Mass?

Harvard professor Tom Lehrer's memorial song for Alma:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-gRxhAV_vE


jeremy

[fleubis]

Along with jeremy, I too am finding many useful exercises here in the Jonas volumes. One of the first things that struck me is the scale exercises playing hands together but with each in different dynamics and touches---it's all perfectly logical to practice this, if you think of it, but it's a new exercise for me, and I'm sure that I'm the only one here that missed that little exercise!

There are some other exercises that are laughable for small hands like glissando octaves in opposite directions, but these are few and far between and I expect to get many years of practical use from these volumes.

Technical Note:
I have found that the Jonas volumes are in a rather unusual PDF format such that they cannot be read by my MusicReader 4.0 software, and this had to be overcome by printing out selected pages. If anyone else is having this difficulty, that author of the MusicReader software states that these volumes are in an "unsupported format". Meanwhile, I am attempting to convert them to a format compatible with MusicReader 4.0.

Update
Using Adobe Acrobat Pro and saving an OPTMIZED version yields a beautiful version that works fine in MusicReader 4.0

[alfor]

To Mr. total chaos, with orderly compliments:

Andrei Y. ESHPAI

Piano Works

Eshpai Piano Works.pdf

Eshpai Piano Works colour cover.pdf

Mainly fairly easy folksong influenced material.
The Sonatinas showing a slight French influence.

[caostotale]

Many thanks, Alfor!

[pianophiliac]

To Mr. total chaos, with orderly compliments:

Andrei Y. ESHPAI

Any chance of getting English translation of the titles?