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The Cross-Eyed Pianist
Guest post by Ann Martin-Davis, pianist and teacher
‘Dum diddle diddle dum dum dum.’
How can it be that this simple tune that we all know isn’t counted in three? Yes, you heard me, not in three, but in fact in four plus two.
Try it out right now in your head – go on – and then go through all those other Baroque minuets that you have been humming for years and you’ll see that the shape of the melodies and the articulation that follows fall into the same pattern.
Now fast forward 200 years to Ravel; Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn, the Sonatine, Menuet Antique, and you’ll find the same patterns, and why? Because this is how it’s danced.
Learning the dances of the Baroque period doesn’t just sort out your understanding and playing of these composers, but it can inform pretty much everything else dance related that you might be involved with.
I’m with the dancer and historical coach Chris Tudor, and I’m joined by harpsichordist Sophie Yates, and Bach specialist, Helen Leek. We’re here to learn some of the basics and after intros in our ‘comfortable clothing’, we’re warming up with a simple hand held chain called a linear carole.
Caroles, or carols as we now call them, always used to be danced and sung, but at some poi
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Piano Concerto No. 1 (Scharwenka)
Piano concerto
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- I. Allegro patetico - Adagio (average bringing off time: 10-12 mins)
- II. Allegro assai (7-8 mins)
- III. Allegro non tanto (10-12 mins)
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