Description
From VENTURING BEYOND, this is Daydream in E major, an attractive, quasi-Impressionist piece for the developing pianist.
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<i>Notes on the composition:</i>
This piece pays homage to the great Impressionistic composers of late 19th and early 20th-century France, including
Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. In order to create an appropriately dreamy atmosphere, the piece must be played
with a consistently gentle touch, even in forte passages, and students may choose to use the una corda pedal as well,
depending on their instruments.
Skills employed in this piece:
* Reading in moderately sharp keys with many accidentals
* Counting with ties over the bar and metrical dissonance
* Doubled thirds in the RH
* Beginning 2-voice polyphony in the RH
* Legato touch
<i>Notes on the collection:</i>
VENTURING BEYOND features twenty late beginner to early intermediate-level piano solos, representing all key signatures with three or more sharps/flats (including enharmonics)--keys rarely seen in today's pedagogical piano literature for the early grades. These pieces, written in Baroque, Classical and Romantic styles, not only help acquaint students with the idea of reading "within keys," but they also introduce common musical genres of the Western Classical canon (including the scherzo, sarabande, minuet, and fugue). These short, expressive compositions--each no more than two pages in a medium-sized font and requiring no more than a major sixth reach--are also ideal for adult students who desire to play musically satisfying repertoire that is within their technical grasp, but still suitable for public and private performance.
This volume also refrains from invoking programmatic titles or content that might suggest that it is geared toward the school-age student; thus, it is ideal for student pianists of all ages, from 5 to 105! This volume is pre-formatted to print double-sided, so that each of the two-page pieces will lie on facing pages when bound and no page turns will be required."