Product Description
NOTE: This version is in the original key of F major. This arrangement is also available in the keys of G major and D major.
The relaxed bossa-esque pop song, The Look of Love, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Originally made popular by Dusty Springfield, and recorded by Stan Getz, Sergio Mendes, Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, Andy Williams, The Four Tops, Diana Krall, and so many other artists. Arranged for piano-vocal, from the series "The Singer at the Piano".
"The Singer at the Piano" is series of piano-vocal arrangements by Elise Letourneau of standard and popular songs, geared to singers with intermediate piano skills and no improv background. Please visit Elise Letourneau's website to learn more.
WHAT IS IT?
musically and pianistically arranged, and well-edited with the pianist-vocalist specifically in mind
standard 3-stave piano-vocal system with chord symbols
piano does not double the melody
no piano intervals larger than an octave
no more than 5 piano notes played simultaneously, and fewer while singing
easy and clean to read
thoughtfully arranged to support a singer, with good intros, and important or tricky notes well-supported by the piano
includes written instrumental sections
selections are offered in a choice of keys, with the vocal range indicated on the cover page
no more than 4-5 performance pages, with optimized page turns, plus title/lyric page
WHO IS IT FOR?
singers who wish to play the piano for themselves
pianists who wish to sing and play
voice instructors who need to accompany their students in lesson and in performance
singers and pianists who wish to play music together
WHY IS IT NEEDED?
regular piano-vocal-guitar sheet music occupies an important place, but it seems to be intended to be all things for all people
in The Singer at the Piano series, the vocal line is not doubled in the piano part, so the singer becomes more independent
the chord symbols and the written accompaniment are unified as much as possible, so that if a pianist favours one over the other, the singer doesn't experience a harmonic shift
the arrangements reduce the stress on voice teachers who arent trained pianists, who find themselves in the position of needing to accompany their students, thereby creating a better lesson experience and boosting the singers recital outcome
regular p-v-g sheet music can sometimes favour larger hands
sometimes regular p-v-g music puts the music and the lyric on different pages (i.e. "see additional lyrics"), which is inconvenient for a pianist-vocalist doing both parts
regular p-v-g sheet music often follows an artists recorded arrangement, creating road maps that aren't always obvious for less experienced musicians to follow, as well as difficult page turns, and too many pages to comfortably fit on the music stand
ABOUT THE ARRANGER
Elise Letourneau is a multiple award-winning composer, and an accomplished songwriter, arranger, producer, vocal & multi-instrumentalist performer, and educator. Her choral works have been performed around the globe. She has decades of performance experience as a pianist-vocalist, and as a piano and voice instructor, and this series is inspired by the questions students have asked her so many times. Elise has worked as a studio vocalist, a solo and ensemble performer, and she has directed traditional, jazz, and rock choirs. She has played the piano for thousands of vocalists, and she loves the collaborative nature of the relationship.
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.