Product Description
This iconic American classic for piano solo has been presented in many forms. This form takes sections, settings, passages, and forms from ALL the available sources, and blends them together into a single accessible yet formally complete and integral version.
The long-time solo piano version, in the now-familiar blue or purple cover, the Levine setting, also for piano solo,
the two-piano Levine setting, the concerto solo part, end the newest addition to the Rhapsody family,
the Zizzo original setting: these are all source material for this latest "compendium" of the Rhapsody, which seeks to incorporate the full musical experience of the concerto, with the most playable yet full-sounding renderings of the various piano-only settings.
These passages have been further re-designed for readability, pageturn convenience, and a limited amount of wider leaps and hand-span issues, making this version IDEAL for anyone with normal hands, a reasonable technique, and the desire to play this Grand Treasure of a piece!
Chord symbols provided, where the going gets thick. Some passages edited for chord size, range of leaps, and complexity of hand/finger movement. A blues approach to notation is used throughout, using Bb-B natural, rather than the classical musician's A#-B, or E#-F#. Audio clip plays from the beginning. MBB, for WB Music Corp and SMP
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.