Musica!!!!
Maybe I should actually write something about music!!!! Let’s see… at the moment, I’m playing a Courante by Bach, a Sonata by Haydn, a Nocturne by Chopin, a Prelude by Rachmanninoff, and a Jazz piece by Minsky.
My Courante is part of Bach’s French Suites. A Courante is the second in a series of dances meant to be performed in a row. It is very cute with counter melodies, and polyphonic voicing. A bit of a booger when it comes to fingering all of the runs…but very cute!
Haydn. What can you say about Haydn? He seems to have been a great guy! This Sonata in G Major I have is soooooo happy. It is really fun to play. To figure out where the stress of the phrase needs to be, where the releases are. It reminds me of a bunch of children playing and laughing.
Nocturne in C sharp Minor by Chopin is a song you might recognize from the movie ‘The Pianist’. Then again, you might not! It is absolutely gorgeous!! The melody is a little melancholy, but the song resolves at the end into a major chord. Very Cool!!!!! The two against three rhythms are a little difficult until you get the hang of them, and the two and three octave runs are beautiful when you can fit them into 2 beats. Still working on those parts….
Prelude in C sharp Minor by Rachmanninoff is a well known piece. I didn’t know the name of it, but I recognized it as soon as my teacher played part of it. It was a piece Rachmanninoff was requested to play at every one of his concerts. It starts out super loud (fortissimo) in the first two measures, and then moves to super quiet (pianissimo) on the rest of the page through all of the huge over lapping minor chords. On page 2 and 3 it glides into this beautiful melody layered with 3 voices underneath it. On pages 4 and 5 it moves back to the huge chords at a Fortissississimo (ffff) and then finishes at Pianissississimo (pppp) on the C sharp minor chord.
The Jazz piece is called A Park Scene. It is a nice light piece with a few grace notes to accent the great melody. It is the last one for me to learn in this book. I have really enjoyed playing everything in it!!!! I hadn’t played much jazz, but it can be so relaxing just gliding over the keys.
*Rhythms is one of the 2 longest words you can spell in the English language without any of the regular vowels.*
My Courante is part of Bach’s French Suites. A Courante is the second in a series of dances meant to be performed in a row. It is very cute with counter melodies, and polyphonic voicing. A bit of a booger when it comes to fingering all of the runs…but very cute!
Haydn. What can you say about Haydn? He seems to have been a great guy! This Sonata in G Major I have is soooooo happy. It is really fun to play. To figure out where the stress of the phrase needs to be, where the releases are. It reminds me of a bunch of children playing and laughing.
Nocturne in C sharp Minor by Chopin is a song you might recognize from the movie ‘The Pianist’. Then again, you might not! It is absolutely gorgeous!! The melody is a little melancholy, but the song resolves at the end into a major chord. Very Cool!!!!! The two against three rhythms are a little difficult until you get the hang of them, and the two and three octave runs are beautiful when you can fit them into 2 beats. Still working on those parts….
Prelude in C sharp Minor by Rachmanninoff is a well known piece. I didn’t know the name of it, but I recognized it as soon as my teacher played part of it. It was a piece Rachmanninoff was requested to play at every one of his concerts. It starts out super loud (fortissimo) in the first two measures, and then moves to super quiet (pianissimo) on the rest of the page through all of the huge over lapping minor chords. On page 2 and 3 it glides into this beautiful melody layered with 3 voices underneath it. On pages 4 and 5 it moves back to the huge chords at a Fortissississimo (ffff) and then finishes at Pianissississimo (pppp) on the C sharp minor chord.
The Jazz piece is called A Park Scene. It is a nice light piece with a few grace notes to accent the great melody. It is the last one for me to learn in this book. I have really enjoyed playing everything in it!!!! I hadn’t played much jazz, but it can be so relaxing just gliding over the keys.
*Rhythms is one of the 2 longest words you can spell in the English language without any of the regular vowels.*
posted by Seizemusic at 1:09 PM
2 Comments:
Cool, sounds like you have a lot of fun with the pieces that you prepare!
So what is the other longest word that you can spell without using any of the regular vowels?
Sorry this took soooo long!
The other word is 'Syzygys' It means an astrological alignment of at least 3.
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