Piano Duet
SKU:
HL.14023265
Composed
by Hanne Mulvad. Music
Sales America. Tuition.
Choral Score. Composed
2005. 32 pages. Edition
Wilhelm Hansen #WH30488.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14023265).
ISBN
9788759810866.
Danish.
From the
preface:
The aim
of the publication of
these four-handed piano
compositions is to fill a
void within the sphere of
sight-reading
(and
almost sight-reading) at
the beginner and
intermediate level. These
three volumes together
contain 36 Nordic folk
songs from Denmark,
Norway, Sweden, Finland
and the
Faroe
Islands. The selection is
based first and foremost
on their being well
suited to the
instrumental
expressive
possibilit
ies of the piano, and
being good
representatives of the
rich and atmospheric
Nordic musical
heritage.
When one
practises sight-reading
on one’s own it is
tempting to stop as
onegoes along, because
the desire to
play
the correct
notes is often given
priority at the expense
of the rhythm and
expression.
Music
without an organic pulse
will leave the player
with an unsatisfactory
feeling of stress and
failure, and
the
stream of thought
will not form part of a
natural flow. Good
sight-reading training is
therefore ensemble
playing,
where the
teacher supports the
pulse and rhythm.
In
many other publications
of four-handed duets the
secundo part is written
in two bass clefs, and
the primo part in
two
treble clefs.
Reading this untrained
combination of clefs,
along with the stressful
fact that the music has
never been
seen nor
heard before, can confuse
the pupil.
In volumes
1 and 2 the secundo part,
which is intended for the
pupil, is therefore
notated in a treble clef
and bass
clef, as
piano music for two hands
is usually notated. In
volume 3 the degree of
difficulty is more
varied, but in
most
of the pieces
improvisation is an
interposed element in the
primo part, being
therefore a good
challenge for the
pupil.
In the
improvisatory sections a
chord or a scale is
notated. These can form
the tonal starting point,
but here too
the
pupil is
encouraged to experiment
with, for example, the
shift between major and
minor thirds, and between
the high and
low
sixth and seventh.
