<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>take heart pat !! we're just having a little harmless fun with this current thread of conversation. i'm sure most of us know that many of the really difficult works, such as the fugue from hammerklavier, ALL of prokofiev and boulez, and certainly godowsky and sorabji , are just garbage. ( the sheet music for the sorabji would be particularly absorbent as a garbage liner because of all the ink ! ) . but, be encouraged! many of the really difficult works contain entry level sections, or compositions, within them which are quite accessible. i.e. the aria and a few of the variations in goldberg ; op.10 no.6 in chopin etudes, numerous chopin preludes. you just have to listen to these works before, and get inspired to
go where you were afraid to go ( before ). </div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> James Atkins Pritchard <jamesatkinspritchard@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> pzumst@bluewin.ch; Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. <f_minor@glenngould.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, August 31, 2010 9:32:46 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [f_minor] Kontrapunkt Thread Of Easy Stuph<br></font><br>
The Schumann Kinderszenen are wonderful pieces and some are quite easy to play.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 August 2010 19:15, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch" target="_blank" href="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch">pzumst@bluewin.ch</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch" target="_blank" href="mailto:pzumst@bluewin.ch">pzumst@bluewin.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;">My fellow Gouldians</span></font></span><div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;"><br>
</span></font></div><div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;">There is currently a short list of very difficult piano pieces doing the rounds on f_minor as a fun off-topic.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;">I consider this as elitist and bragging. </span></font></div>
<div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;">Like the blokes down at the pub talking about their engines and tractors and tuning. Or like playing Quartet. I got a Chopin Sonata, you only have Satie, hand over your card. GG would dissaprove of such "competitions" I reckon. At least in theory he would.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;">I suspect that there might be people around who are inspired by GG and who would like to take piano lessons so I decided to create a Kontrapunkt Thread for a short list of easy piano pieces.</span></font></div>
<div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="7"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;">I'll start with Louie Louie and the Klavierbüchlein für Anna Magdalena. Now you may go ahead. Give the beginners a go</span></font><span style="font-size:36px;"> </span><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;">and inspire courious people to try the piano or learn an instrument in general. </span></font></font></div>
<div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:medium;"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14px;">Pat</span></font></div></span></div></div>
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