Copland - Appalachian Spring Suite

By Bryan Stanley

I have purchased Billy the Kid and Rodeo piano transcriptions and rather complicated to do properly but A. Spring is worth the price just to play the first couple pages with faster parts taking more time and perhaps can do more justice with quality keyboard for introduction. Great lead into...

worship service.

very enjoyable

Every time I have listened to this composition, I have wished I could play it with the piano. Now finally it is reality! I was afraid that the arrangement would be too difficult to my playing skills. Fortunately Sheet Music Plus provided the site with four invaluable "sound bites". I...

could instantly see that I can actually play it along and enjoy the result. The final two pages belong to the best music ever written by any composer. Tears come to my eyes every time. Thank you, Sheet Music Plus!

I can only echo the praise in "As good as it can get," the other review of this work. Kudos to the transcriber who did a phenomenal job of preserving the marvelous chords in the orchestral version. The occasional "baldness" in the arrangement is due to the limitations of the...

piano itself. There is not an overabundance of technical challenge and few chords require more than an octave span. This is a great arrangement of a stunning classic!

As long as I know "Appalachian Spring", I have been waiting for a piano transcription. Thus, I was thrilled to see that this work has finally been achieved. Of course, the piano can't fully display the whole orchestral range of the ballet, but it gets quite close. I appreciate...

this edition and am very happy to play it. It can only be advised to anyone who likes Copland.