Benny Andersson Piano is a unique and beautifully presented collection of Benny Andersson’s music from ABBA, Chess and more, arranged for intermediate level solo piano. Alongside these 21 faithful transcriptions are introductory notes by music journalist Camilla Lundberg, with French and German translations, and a photography section documenting Benny’s career. Songlist - I Let The Music Speak - You And I - Aldrig - Thank You For The Music - Stockholm By Night - Chess - The Day Before You Came - Someone Else’s Story - Midnattsdans - Målarskolan - I Wonder (Departure) - Embassy Lament - Anthem - My Love, My Life - Mountain Duet - Flickornas Rum - Efter Regnet - Tröstevisa - En Skrift I Snön - Happy New Year - I Gott Bevar

Composers, arrangers, conductors, session musicians, and executives worked in easy listening and scoring, complicating an academic focus that lionizes film music while ignoring or deriding easy listening. This book documents easy listening’s connections with film music, an aspect overlooked in academic and popular literature. Fueled by the rise of the LP and home entertainment, easy listening became the largest midcentury commercial music market, generating more actual income for the record business than 7- inch singles. Easy listening roped in subgenres including classical, baroque, jazz, Latin, Polynesian, "exotica," rock, Broadway, and R&B, appropriated and reinterpreted just as they were for cinema. Easy listening provided opportunities in orchestral music for conservatory- trained composers. Major film composers such as Henry Mancini and Michel Legrand had a prodigious output of easy listening albums. Critics fault easy listening for structural racisms, overlooking its evolution and practitioners. Easy listening helped destabilize a tripartite record business that categorized product as race records, old time records, or general popular music. Charlie Parker’s with Strings records altered the direction of jazz, profoundly influencing other performers, encouraging bold crosspollinations, and making money. The influence of technology and historical contexts of music for work and leisure are explored. Original interviews and primary sources will fascinate scholars, historians, and students of cinema, television, film scoring, and midcentury popular music.

Since the early days of silent film accompaniment, the piano has played an integral part in the history of cinema. Film's fascination with the piano, both in soundtracks and onscreen as a status symbol and icon of popular romanticism, offers a revealing opportunity to chart the changing perception of the instrument. From Mozart to Elton John, this book surveys the cultural history of the piano through the instrument's cinematic functions. Composer biopics, such as A Song to Remember, romantic melodramas like the Liberace vehicle Sincerely Yours, and horror films such as The Hands of Orlac, along with animated cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry demonstrate just how pervasive the cinematic image of the piano once was during a period when the piano itself began its noticeable decline in everyday life. By examining these depictions of the piano onscreen, readers will begin to understand not only the decline of the piano but also the decline of the idealistic culture to which it gave birth in the nineteenth century.

ABBA was the biggest selling pop group of the Seventies. Between their first single in 1972, when the group was not yet called ABBA, and their final singles in 1982, ABBA recorded and released 98 unique songs. In addition they recorded versions of some of their biggest hits in Swedish, German, French, and Spanish; performed a number of songs in concert that were never released on record; and recorded a number of songs that didn't see the light of day at the time, but have been released from the archive the decades since the group 'took a break'; at the end of 1982. Everyone remembers ABBA's biggest hits - songs like 'Waterloo', 'Mamma Mia', 'Fernando', 'Dancing Queen', 'Take A Chance On Me', 'Chiquitita', and 'The Winner Takes It All' - but there are many gems to be found on the eight studio albums and 21 singles released during the group's lifetime. 'ABBA: Song by Song'; is a look at every single song by the Swedish supergroup, written by a life-long ABBA fan. Find out what inspired the songs, what went in to recording them, and their impact around the world in the 1970s and 80s and beyond.

My My! The story of ABBA told through a selection of their greatest hits. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo (the song, not the battle) – a seminal moment in pop history which saw Swedish sensation ABBA burst on to the international music scene. How is it that half a century later this seventies Eurovision act is bigger than ever – reaching listeners of all ages and spinning off into musicals, museums and holograms? Giles Smith, writer and music fan, sets out to find out why. My My! is a celebration of ABBA through the ages. It’s one fan’s way of saying: thank you for the music.

This superb selection of Michael Jackson hits spans the whole of his extraordinary career. From his piping Rockin’ Robin’ at the age of 14 to 2003’s One More Chance, these are the musical highlights of The King of Pop’s journey from child prodigy to global superstar. Each song is beautifully arranged for Piano and Voice, with Guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics. Alongside these arrangements are stellar images charting the progression of Michael Jackson’s career, as well as a full introduction discussing his rise to fame with the Jackson 5, his solo career and the controversies which dogged the last few decades of his life. Additionally, an integrated Spotify section also allows you to hear each the songs in this collection as you learn to play them. There has never been a better time to discover why, behind the public figure, Michael Jackson’s music is still adored to this day. Songlist: - Baby Be Mine - Blame It On The Boogie - Burn This Disco Out - Can You Feel It - Cry - Girlfriend - Human Nature - The Lady In My Life - Man In The Mirror - Off The Wall - One More Chance - P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) - Rock With You - Rockin’ Robin - Thriller - You Are Not Alone

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