A Warm Breeze in April (2012)
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$10.00
A Warm Breeze in April
4-hands piano // 2:00
Premiere: April 2012
Program note:
This short duet for four hands, written for two seven-year-old piano students at The Rivers School, is meant to sound more complicated than it is. The piece contains a running quarter note throughout its entirety; each student plays a repeated quarter note in one hand while playing a melody or harmony in the other. In some measures, one player has the melody alone while the other plays only the repeated quarter notes. Never do the players have a moving line in both hands at the same time. The pitch material is based around white-note keys, so that no accidentals are needed. These simplistic characteristics allow the players to focus on other factors, such as changing registers and varying rhythms.