. Well-known piano solos, how to play them . ter in hisWaldstein Sonata. By way of variety, he brings in a bit of fugato mostunexpectedly, at 80, perhaps some exercise in counter-point, from his scrap-books. You will see how stiffand formal the four measures run—inverted, then withadded parts, and, lastly, with florid counterpoint be-neath, then above. All this seems preliminary to hissetting up a pedal-point on the dominant, at 108, G 64 Well-known Piano Solos being the dominant of the tonic C minor. Here is awarning to the inexperienced, for these three sixteenth-notes at 108 are not triplet
. Well-known piano solos, how to play them . ter in hisWaldstein Sonata. By way of variety, he brings in a bit of fugato mostunexpectedly, at 80, perhaps some exercise in counter-point, from his scrap-books. You will see how stiffand formal the four measures run—inverted, then withadded parts, and, lastly, with florid counterpoint be-neath, then above. All this seems preliminary to hissetting up a pedal-point on the dominant, at 108, G 64 Well-known Piano Solos being the dominant of the tonic C minor. Here is awarning to the inexperienced, for these three sixteenth-notes at 108 are not triplets, yet mostly sotmd so. At 130 we have for the first time the interest trans-ferred to the left hand, two measures being sequentiallyrepeated and constructed so as to bring the second sub-ject back to the tonic, again making use of the aug-mented sixth chord. The chantlike refrain is shortenedat 160, from four measures to two, then to one; thisbeing, as afore-mentioned, a favorite device, a kind ofstretto, which Beethoven repeatedly Spinnradchen BKNDEL N olden times every house, from thecastle to the cot, had a spinningwheel, and often a spinning room,which was used not only by the maidsbut also by ladies of rank. Midstthe whirring of their wheels theysang. The subject is peculiarlyfitted for music; the sound of the wheel can be very wellimitated, and this forms the background on which toreproduce the maidens song. Some imaginations aremore susceptible than others, and can find vivid pictureswhere others see and hear nothing. Those who haveseen Wagners Flying Dutchman w411 recall the scenewhen Senta is plying her wheel. One may almostinterpret the ad libitum trill in the introduction, asthough Senta were trying the wheel until satisfied withits easy motion, and then trolled forth her song. In the introduction, place the note A on the fourthbeat of the measure, as though it were the first of atriplet made complete by the rest. It does not mattervery much here if you pla
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