Stretching the Standards Imaginative Arrangements for Piano by Dick Hyman Default:Default Staten Island Hornpipe - D

Staten Island Hornpipe - D (Reel/Hornpipe)

Series: Audition Songs

31 now published with two piano accompaniment audio CDs for the first time ever

a Gershwin-esque ballad

school roommates who grow up to become the Wicked Witch and the Good Witch

Stretching the Standards Imaginative Arrangements for Piano by Dick Hyman Default:Default Staten Island Hornpipe - DThese 12 arrangements are intended to depart a bit from the way that the songs were first set down by Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and Richard Rodgers. In terms of harmony, the use of modulations, and the recasting of melodies with unexpected accompaniment, I've tried, with all due respect, to move their classic songs into new territory. Sometimes I've embellished the melodies themselves in the way a jazz player might throw in variations, but these are