Find a Little Moment to Dream is a collection of 4 piano solos suitable for pianists that are Grade4-5 / Intermediate and above.
Each piece has been carefully composed to promote piano technique, musicality and well-being. This collection features four of the pieces from Find a Moment to Dream. Each piece focuses on playing and hearing relaxing piano pieces that boost your mood as you progress on your musical journey.
A Moment to Dream is peaceful, tranquil and meditative.
The flowing pianistic left hand ostinato-style quavers / eighth notes provide a calming layer for flurries of semiquaver / sixteenth notes and demisemiquaver / thirtysecond notes to dance over. Low open fifth pedal chords with cluster chords rising above them provide a contrast during the middle section as the nature of the dream changes.
Features: Fast right hand flurries, left hand ostinato-style, cluster chords
Focus: To work on finger dexterity, evenness of tone, chord placement
Beneath the Moonlit Sky is atmospheric, mysterious and has a sense of awe.
The hypnotic continuous quaver / eighth note motifs in the left hand provide a soothing texture for the right hand repetitive motives to sparkle over the top of to create an air of mystery and intrigue.
Features: Continuous quavers / eighth notes, chords of major and minor 6ths, repetition
Focus: To work on stamina, co-ordination, chord placement
A Castle in the Clouds is mysterious, captivating, and has an ethereal air.
The use of open fifths in the left hand crossing creates a sense of spaciousness that is filled by the flurries of right hand semiquavers / sixteenth notes. The sense of vastness continues through the use of octave higher repetitions of right hand motifs that are accompanied by flowing pianistic left hand patterns.
Features: Hand crossing, open fifths, octave higher repetitions
Focus: To work on spatial awareness, chord placement, legato playing
Dream Weaving is energetic, magical and has a hypnotic quality.
The minimalist techniques of rhythmic displacement, inversion and retrograde applied to repetitive motifs helps add to the mysterious feel while the driving energy is achieved through the flowing left hand quavers / eighth notes.
Features: Minimalist techniques, repetition, ostinato-style left hand
Focus: To work on stamina, maintaining a consistent speed, co-ordination
Total number of pages in book: 20
Find a Little Moment to Dream (Studio License)
This entitles you to print and use as many copies as you need for use by your students within your studio
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