Product Description
Here is a deceptively simple piece, which has multiple musical ideas to introduce to the Young or Beginning Player. The music consists entirely of five-finger positions on the white keys. They dovetail with the half-note at the end of one and the eighth-note at the beginning of the next. The music moves through various harmonic areas, tonic, mediants, sub-dominant, even the subtonic, all the while leaving out any mention of these technical terms. The teacher can introduce these terms if the student is ready for them. Also, the dynamics are structured so that a mini-sonata movement emerges, as the piece builds to the 2/3rd's point, and then tapers off, just as a larger work might do. Crescendo and decrescendo marks, along with the dynamic markings themselves, are included. So, five finger positions can make real music, with genuine musicality, harmonic development, and dynamic contrasts. Any student who can play the seven positions on the white keys can execute this piece. That makes it good for practically Everyone! Works at various tempos. MBB
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