<p>The official album-matching songbook to Dudley Moore's 1991 album, Songs Without Words, featuring accurate piano solo transcriptions of all the pieces. Dudley Moore was one of the most beloved and respected artists of our time. Actor, comedian, pianist, composer, conductor, and vocalist, he was renowned for his work in all these areas. Best known to the public for his leading roles in smash hits such as Arthur, Foul Play, and Unfaithfully Yours, he was internationally loved by his audiences. Nevertheless, Dudley's first love was music. A highly-trained classical musician, he studied violin and organ at the Guildhall School of Music in London and later attended Magdalen College at Oxford University as an organ scholar, also studying composition. In his teens, he was inspired by jazz pianists Erroll Garner and Oscar Peterson, and went on to spend many years recording and performing internationally with his own jazz trio. A highly personal collection, Songs Without Words also includes his tribute to composers Tchaikovsky (Thank you, Ilyich) and Satie; a piece dedicated to his son Patrick; and others reflecting his own whimsical play on language. The thirteen pieces share a melancholy and pensive feeling typical of Moore's compositional style. These are, however, challenging pieces, suitable for the advanced pianist. Steve Law's transcriptions were taken from Dudley Moore's recordings. A British composer and arranger, Law studied music at Bristol University and received a Master's degree for his jazz opera Heaven on Earth. In 1998, Law dedicated a piano transcription of Moore's music from the film Bedazzled, and sent the unsolicited score to him, who was so impressed that he invited the young composer to meet with him in London. Law's transcriptions retain the integrity of Moore's rich melodic line, lush expressive harmony and jazz-like improvisation.</p>

Songs Without Words

Arts & Photography

Dudley Moore

Music

Faber Music Ltd

Author: Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Jonathan Mill
Publisher: Samuel French Ltd
Keywords: acting, fringe
Published: 1964-08-31
Language: English
Category: Anthologies, Drama, Literature & Fiction,
ISBN-10: 0573640025     ISBN-13: 9780573640025
Binding: Paperback
List Price: Unknown

Beyond the Fringe (Acting Edition)

Literature & Fiction

PETER COOK

Jonathan Miller

Bennett, Alan.

Dramas & Plays

Concord Theatricals

A very funny show about some unlikely subjects, including a one-legged actor applying for the role of Tarzan, an in-depth interview with an unimpressed shepherd who witnessed the Nativity, and a French singer who misunderstands an Anglo-Saxon vulgarity and composes a song around it.

Good Evening

Samuel French, Inc.

<p>Letters from Dudley is a fascinating book containing the letters written by Dudley Moore(1935-2002) to his former high school music teacher, Peter Cork, between the years of 1980 and 1994. Cork taught Moore at Dagenham County High School in England, and later in life became Dudley's friend. Published here for the first time, these 44 letters (200 pages) reveal Dudley's thoughts and feelings on music, movies, life in Hollywood, and much more--at a time when his film career was at its height. This book offers an extraordinary view of the life and personality of the renowned actor, musician and comedian.</p>

Letters from Dudley

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Martine Avenue Productions, Inc.

This book provides an introduction to the complex world of the ancient societies of the Aegean, offering general insights into the Aegean civilisations of the Minoans, the Mycenaeans, the Trojans of the Bronze Age, and the later Classical Greeks. With regard to the latter, the book explores their history against the might of Persia and the strife and tribulations between their own Greek city states particularly Athens and Sparta. It also shows how Classical Greece made use of the Homeric heroes of the Mycenaean period in its literature and drama to reflect upon its own ancient heritage.

In Search of the Classical World: An Introduction to the Ancient Aegean

History

Ancient Civilizations

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Best of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (v. 2)

Sound Entertainment Limited

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