Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 1 score (55 pages); 30 cm

Alternative title

1. Piano puzzlers

Subject

1. Piano music
2. Quodlibets (Music)
3. Humorous music

Contents

1. Hava nagila (Hebrew folk song) in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach -- Let's do it (Let's fall in love) in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach (Cole Porter) -- Summertime from the opera Porgy and Bess in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach (music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward) -- My favorite things in the style of Johann Sebastian Bach (music by Richard Rodgers) -- Toreador! from the opera Carmen in the style of Béla Bartók (music by Georges Bizet) -- Cheek to cheek in the style of Ludwig van Beethoven (music and lyrics by Irving Berlin) -- I get a kick out of you in he style of Ludwig van Beethoven (music and lyrics by Cole Porter) -- Let my people go in the style of Ludwig van Beethoven (African American spiritual) -- Some enchanted evening in the style of Ludwig van Beethoven (music by Richard Rodgers) -- Summertime from the opera Porgy and Bess in the style of Ludwig van Beethoven (music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward) -- Let's do it (Let's fall in love) in the style of Georges Bizet (words and lyrics by Cole Porter) -- Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered in the style of Johannes Brahms (music by Richard Rodgers) -- Strawberry fields forever in the style of Johannes Brahms (music and lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) -- Jingle bells in the style of Frédéric Chopin (music and lyrics by James Pierpont) -- Some enchanted evening in the style of Frédéric Chopin (music by Richard Rodgers) -- Ain't misbehavin' in the style of Frédéric Chopin (music by Thoms "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks) -- Yellow submarine in the style of Aaron Copland (music and lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) -- Anything goes in the style of Claude Debussy (music and lyrics by Cole Porter) -- Do-re-mi in the style of Claude Debussy (music by Richard Rodgers) -- Trout blues in the style of George Gershwin (music by George Gershwin) -- Chanukah in the style of George Frideric Handel (traditional) -- Nowhere man in the style of George Frideric Handel (music and lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) -- Hey, Jude in the style of Franz Joseph Haydn (music and lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) -- It's all right with me in the style of Ludwig van Beethoven (music and lyrics by Cole Porter) -- Scarborough fair in the style of Leoš Janáček (traditional English ballad) -- They can't take that away from me in the style of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin) -- London bridge is falling down in the style of Sergei Prokofiev (traditional nursery rhyme) -- Take me out to the ball game in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff (music and lyrics by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer) -- Hey, Jude in the style of Maurice Ravel (music and lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney) -- Over the rainbow in the style of Sergei Prokofiev (Music by Harold Arlen) -- Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered in the style of Franz Schubert (music by Richard Rodgers) --It ain't necessarily so from the opera Porgy and Bess in the style of Igor Stravinsky (music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward).

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. This volume collects Piano Puzzlers which Adolphe has played on APM's Performance Today radio broadcasts. The pieces arrange famous popular tunes in the styles of the great composers. Includes introductions by radio show host, Fred Child and Adolphe; with biographical notes.