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Saturday, June 7

Arcangelo Corelli's Sarabande in E minor from Sonata No. 8


Here's a short intermediate skill level piano piano piece I'll have students listen to today as an example of counterpointe where harmony is woven between the real melodies of the left and right hand. My copy is from Volume 17 of Music for Millions, a book of 142 "easy pieces" of classics in piano compiled by one Denes Agay and published by Consolodated Music Publishers in 1956. It's still being published and is now available for $12, a great value, at Amazon, online Easy Classics to Moderns (Music for Millions, Vol. 17): Denes Agay: 9780825640179: Amazon.com: Books


Play the video again, and follow the notes below. Then print out the following one page score and try it yourself. It's absolutely essential to play hands separately first-- and in fact, it's more fun to do that too since there are melodies in both left and right hand that complement one another in that counterpoint fashion-- which must be ridiculously difficult to compose.


One you develop some facility with this--- given todays keyboard and piano "voices" or different instruments like synthesizers and other sounds that are digital samples of string orchestras, replay this piece using interesting new sounds-- and upload to youtube and post it to our forum discussion.

CORELLI discussion