SKU: ET.PNO81

ISBN 9790207003256.

L’enfance en éclats 2001 [Childhood Shattered]
As its title suggests, Childhood Shattered is program music. A simple and graceful tune, symbolizing childhood, is abruptly interrupted by a horrific, dissonant chord. The tune returns ; but the echo of the chord, still lingering in the background, tells us that the memory of the traumatic event persists. Life has darkened. Nothing is as it was before. The initial melody wanders into keys ever stranger and more distant, ultimately arriving at a new theme, obsessive, with grating seconds and thrusting accents. This shattered childhood and its episodes of aimlessness, will it give birth to new certainties?
The piece is an exercise in contrasting detached notes with tied notes.
Commissioned by the Association Jeune musique. Required work at the International Piano Competition Freiburg - Jeune Musique, 2002.

Toccata (2004)
This piece by Caroline Charrière issues from the historical lineage of the toccata, traditionally an exercise of dexterity characterized by repeated musical motifs.
The introduction is constructed of subtly displaced upper-register chords in the right hand that alternate with two lower notes in the left hand, creating an almost meditative preamble. In the rapid section of the piece, the performer playfully exploits the keyboard's full breadth in the course of spirited dialogues between notes high and low.
Commissioned by the Association Jeune Musique. Required work in Category IV at the International Piano Competition Freiburg - Jeune musique, 2004.
Irène Minder-Jeanneret.

SKU: FJ.W9450

UPC: 241444383902. English.

Your students will love playing this piece because the rhythm is so fun! There are no eighth notes so syncopations occur with tied quarter notes. A cheerful piece where hands are positional---L.H. in D/Dm and R.H. in C/Cm---and accidentals are used. It's a great stand alone sheet (i.e. no duet or lyrics)---a perfect performance piece!

About FJH Written For You Piano Solos

Sparkling and lyrical pieces which promote musical expression.

SKU: HL.14003433

ISBN 9780711925427. 8.5x12.0x0.089 inches.

Each illustrated set of puzzles contains ten question papers, information for teacher and parents and a certificate of achievement for the pupil. These puzzles take into account limited reading and writing skills of younger children. Set 2 covers key signatures, new notes and rest values, octaves, naturals, tied quavers, changing time-signature, Italian signs and expression marks.

SKU: AP.36-50760003

ISBN 9781621563013. UPC: 660355122026. English.

These two pieces by Amy Beach (1867-1944) are each tied together thematically by a hermit thrush at two different times of day: in the morning and in the evening. A Hermit Thrush at Eve is prefaced by a short text by John Vance Cheney and A Hermit Thrush at Morn is prefaced by text by J. Clare.

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