30 Easy Piano Pieces for Children Instrumentation : piano Description : Many composers have enjoyed using music to portray animals and their appearance, movements and sounds. In some of these pieces, you might even guess which animal is being portrayed, even if you don't know the title. This book, with its 3 compositions, gathers a large variety: tiny ones like the fly and the grasshopper, huge ones like the bear and the elephant, dangerous ones like the panther and the shark, tame ones like the kitten or the dog, animals living underground like the mole, on trees like the monkey, or in the air like the birds, the wasp or the butterfly. This book therefore provides a rather colourful and instructive 'zoology' for piano lessons. Contenu : M. Schoenmehl: Wasp Sting Blues - F. Couperin: The Benevolent Cuckoosen Kuckucke - A.E. Müller: The Cuckoo Waltz - R. Schumann: Hide and Seek - F. Burgmüller: The Wagtail - P.I. Tschaikowsky: Song of the Lark - W. Kasandijiev: A Magic Concert in an Enchanted Forest - M. Kelemen: The Cricket Tunes its Violin - S. Majkapar: The Butterfly - S. Prokofjew: Marsh of the Grasshoppers - J. Takacs: The Little Fly - S. Stojantschew: The Kitten and the Fly - A. Gretchaninoff: Pussy Is Ill - W. Kasandijiev: Bow the Dog - M. Schoenmehl: Chicken Talk - D. Kabalewski: A Little Hedgehog - M. Schoenmehl: The Mysterious Predatory Fish - Jakob, the Funny Mole - A. Gretchaninoff: Monkey's Dance - C. Scott: The Monkey - C. Gurlitt: The Little Horse - R. Schumann: A Dappled Horse - A. Gretchaninoff: My Little Horse - D. Carr Glover: Wilde Ponys - D. Dushkin: Tiger Cubs Teasing each other - A. Chatschaturjan: The Leopard on the See Saw - H. Mancini: The Pink Panther - R. Schumann: Bear's Dance - B. Bartók: Bear's Dance - A. Gretchaninoff: Elephant's Dance Date de parution : 26/09/2008 Nombre de pages : 48 Format : New Edition portrait
SKU: HL.14001903
ISBN 9788759859605. Danish.
Animals In Concert - Three pieces for Piano solo by Per Norgard. Programme Note 1. A Tortoise's Tango (1984) - dur.: 4' 2. Light of a Night - Paul meets bird (1989) - dur.: 6' 3. Hermit Crab Tango - Esperanza (1997) - dur.: 5' The pieces can be performed together or one by one. In the1980s, quite a few finds turned up in Per Norgard's music. The material could be, say, a number of song birds' equilibrist melodic lines, the overtones of the ocean surf, or waltzing themes by the schizophrenic artist Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930). Or again, as heard here, it can be the rhythms and motifs of the tango and a Beatles song (with bird), explored in three independent piano pieces that form the Animals in Concert suite, about which the composer writes: A Tortoise's Tango: The tortoise as tango dancer must presumably possess certain rhythmic peculiarities, which I have chosen to express by letting the tune of the tortoise shuffle broadly, tripartite through the strict four partite time of tango. Tortoise Tango was the original title of this piece, written for Achilles (the pianist Yvar Mikhashoff), for his so called tango project, including new tangos for piano by composers from all over the world. Light of a Night (Paul meets bird) was commissioned by pianist Aki Takahashi. It is a reworked arrangement for piano of the Beatles song Blackbird. As some of us will recall, the Beatles on The White Album let the beautiful song to the blackbird be accompanied by an (apparently) live blackbird song. It is this authentic bird-motif world that in Light of a Night weaves itself into the Beatles melody and in turn is gradually infected by it, so that a completely new third entity ensues: a kind of Bird-rock ballad (or maybe it is a Beatle-bird?). Hermit Crab Tango (Esperanza): The tango situation is quite special for a Hermit Crab. It is a well-known fact that the hermit crab - this soft animal - must run the gauntlet among the many perils at the bottom of the sea when it must move hose. I have chosen to express the angers by a tango pattern - sharp as a cactus - through which the tune, optimistic, slips to its new shelter. I have borrowed the tune from songwriter Hanne Methling's Introduction: 'I want to get through this time!' she sings in a ecstatically ascending melody line - and I believe that these words must correspond very well to the mood of the hermit crab: 'Esperanza'- the green runners of hope wind among the latticework formed by the tango rows.
