Hi Everyone
This Eleventh Little Suite in Fifteen Sketches – both audio and printable – for the piano, concludes the series of Little Suites begun this year. Note that sketches 2, 3 & 4 of this suite form a Sonata that was posted on this blog earlier this year.
Although each suite is in 15 sketches, the first and last of each suite are the same. So 14 pieces multiplied by 11 comes to 154! I wanted it to be 153 because that is how many pieces there are in Bartok’s Mikrokosmos, however I overran!
The idea of 15 sketches in a “little suite” came from the French composer, Jacques Ibert, who wrote such a collection.
Click on a title in the first list to listen, and click on a title in the second list to download the written music.
Thanks
Click on a title to listen
1. Prelude
2. First Movement Sonata 2
3. Second Movement Sonata 2
4. Third Movement Sonata 2
5. A little toccata
6. Sleeping Beauty
7. White horses
8. Blackbird on the lawn
9. Doe and fawn
10. Little romance
11. A trinket
12. Jurjina
13. Clowns
14. Tarantella
15. Finale
Click on a title to download the written music
1. Prelude
2. First Movement Sonata 2
3. Second Movement Sonata 2
4. Third Movement Sonata 2
5. A little toccata
6. Sleeping Beauty
7. White horses
8. Blackbird on the lawn
9. Doe and fawn
10. Little romance
11. A trinket
12. Jurjina
13. Clowns
14. Tarantella
15. Finale
A trinket, Jurjina, and the power of the composer to transcend. I am partial to those for the aura they invoke.
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Thank you very much Uma. Your interest is much appreciated – as you know!
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Nice! I think the Blackbird was one of my favorites.
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Thanks for listening Chelsea. The blackbirds are constantly hopping around my window!
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Do they hop away when you play their song?
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The blackbirds take absolutely no notice whatsoever of my piano playing!
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Beautiful compositions, as always.The Blackbird and Jurjina are my favorites.
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Thank you. I’m rather fond of Jurjina as well!
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