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Fantasia 2 [for Harpsichord] by Georg Philipp Telemann for solo piano UPDATED 06 30 20
The Classical Music for Tablet Series offers piano masterworks by classical composers formatted to be
read on 10 inch tablets. I use an Amazon Kindle with Mobile Sheets
Pro and an Air Turn blue tooth foot pedal to practice and perform
piano music. Mobile Sheets Pro imports music from Drop Box onto a
Kindle tablet quickly and efficiently. For performers who use a
different tablet, there are similar products available to provide tablet users
the same functionality.
These
pieces have not been arranged, but most have been edited slightly, and have
been formatted to fit screen size. For example, first and second endings are
often removed and the repeated measures and endings written into the music so
the performer can avoid having to go back to previous pages. These kinds of
section repeats were invented to spare the composers time and the cost of
extra paper and ink. But with a tablet the cost of paper and ink is irrelevant.
Although
there are a lot more page turns with a 10 inch screen compared with letter size
pages, the readability of the music (due to the backlighting on the tablet) and
the portability of the music (travelling with a small tablet instead of
oversized books or portfolios of sheet music) easily makes up for the extra
page turns.
Your
purchase provides one .pdf file that contains both the tablet edition and the
letter size page (printable) version. There are several programs available
online that will allow you to separate this .pdf file into 2 .pdf files to make
it more useful.
Telemann wrote this piece for harpsichord, but it works perfectly on the piano. Although this is sometimes listed as being in D minor, I would call it D Dorian.
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