the famous start part of Beethoven Symphony No. 5
♭Mi
=#Re, the famous start part of Listz La Campanella
I'm practicing works of Louis Vierne.
the famous start part of Beethoven Symphony No. 5
♭Mi
=#Re, the famous start part of Listz La Campanella
I'm practicing works of Louis Vierne.
I was remembering something, but I shifted my thinking.
Fa So Do
Mi
I asked an AI web service to suggest piano pieces from the time Debussy was alive that I had not known. Based on the results, I read sheet music on IMSLP. I thought I might enjoy pieces by Vierne, so I downloaded his piano scores and played them.
This work "Silhouettes d'enfants" has the simplest notation among them.
(Note that the work was composed in 1920, after Debussy had passed away.)
I think that the work has brighter aspects than his other piano works (exerpt for "Suite bourguignonne").
I feel that the work features fading piano tones than the resonance of organ sounds.
I thought that I heard this music before, but I realize I hadn't truly listened to it.
As this is my first time playing his work, I found that some note patterns and sounds were unfamiliar to me.
(I listened to some of his works for organ and piano quintet.)
I didn't feel the pieces as they were relating to childlen, rather, I thought they were something else.
I supposed that the composed had been sensing or feeling silhouettes of children.
I played the pieces simply by reading the sheet music and imagining things that are not real or else.
I think that the una corda pedal of my electric pedal doesn't produce good sound, so usually I refrain from using it. However, about this work, I think one of intentions behind una corda might have been for a change in tone color, like an organ, so I used it.
I played the pieces in this way this time. I hope that the composer wouldn't mind too much .... .
No. 1
waltz
fade, resonance
No. 2
walk
together
No. 3
chromatic
5, 6, 7
1, 3
♭5, #5, 7th, M7th,
root
G
left hand part - right hand part
wind
kirakira
No.4
wave, stream, whirl, light,
fade, resonance
No.5
ancient, modern
100 years ago, present
clear, blur
bounce, step
子どもの影、シルエットということだが、どちらかというと、立体的に弾いてみた。
I was curious about the work between the well-known "Waltstein" and "Appassionata". I opened the music book and started reading and playing it. I thought that maybe I like it. I forgot whether or not I had listened to it, maybe, I had listened to it by a complete Beethoven sonata CD or someone playing, etc.
I felt that the 1st movement is like a sonata in the late period of Beethoven, or Brahms, or Menuetto of Mozart?. I felt that the 2nd movement is like Sonatine of Ravel, or a rapid music of J.S.Bach, or like some parts of Chaccone in F Major of Pachelbel.
the 1st movement
Menuet
spring?
flowers
party
end-start
fall?
letter
string, vocal,
brass,
dome
cathedral
tutti
circle
rotate outside
the 2nd movement
I found that I missed tones occasionaly when I see finger numbers. I used a music sheet without finger numbers from IMSLP site, and wrote a finger number if I feel it is necessary.
I found that I can play it easily that I see the left hand notes. I see vaguely the right hand notes in the edges of eyes.
I practiced the piece by playing it non-legato and with a rythmic pattern on my digital piano, as well as full legato and as chords.
piano
blackhole
storage, memory
compression, pale; vivid, texture
spread
gradation
第1楽章
始めのテーマが何度か出てくる。
弾いているうちに、音符が変わっているだけでなくて、雰囲気も変わっているのだろうかと思った。
Menuetと書いてあるから軽く楽し気に穏やかに弾き始めてみたものの、そういうわけでもなかったのかもしれないと思った。
(尚、録音時に音間違いや鳴らなかった音があります。)
第2楽章
練習をする中で、ピアノ以外の音にして雰囲気を変えて弾いてみたりした。
記憶について考えることがあった。この曲とは関係ないと思うけれども。なので、ブラックホールとかも考えていたりした。
練習しているうちに手と耳で覚えた。
たまに一音ずつ確認するようにした。
この録音の時は、部屋を暗くしていた。それまでの録音では途切れることがあったが、続けることが出来た。
(尚、音間違いやズレがあります。)
When I was a high school student, I played the electric bass in a small band in a club at school. Also I continued piano lessons and my piano teacher handed me the music sheet for this piece after we finished the three major sonatas. I practiced it, wondered "is it Czerny etudes?". I memorized it then used a grand piano during a lunch break at school to play it, since my piano was an upright piano and my piano teacher's piano was an upright too.
I hadn't played it since then.
Recently I opened this sheet music again.
I noticed different aspects than before. I think that some parts of this music resemble healing music, drum and bass music, minimal music, or etc..
I read that this piece "Waldstein" is referred to as 'aurore' in French, meaning 'dawn'.
I had forgotten the notes completely.
I practiced little by little. It took a bit long time.
It was hard to maintain concentration, tension and relaxation to play the 1st movement and the 3rd movement from the start to the end. I selected recordings with fewer mistakes and less unnecessary poses.
I'm not sure whether I like the pieces or not. However, I think I have become to like them more than before.
The 1st movement
DoMi Re#Fa ReSo
I - VV - V
(Lydian?)
right hand *|||||||
not pause
left hand ||||||||
So Si La So #Do Re Do Si La So
in the middle part
#Fa La So #Fa Re ♭Mi Re Do ♭Si La ......
V7♭9 / IVm ?
The 3rd movement
2, 3, 4, 5 octaves
M7
sus4
The 1st, 2nd and 3rd movements
stable
carriage
luxury car
handle
walk
humming
look out, look around,
landscapes
conductor
relax
at ease as possible
refrain from running
refraing from skipping
space
clearance
air
wind
I recorded them in July, 2025, Mercury retrograde, Doyo, further, the 3rd movement on a new moon day.
録音する時に譜面を見ているかどうかというと、見ながら弾くときもあるが、この曲は譜めくりのタイミングの問題と、各部分を練習して結局覚えてしまった(覚えないと弾きにくい)という事情で、但し譜面を置いておきたいと思い、適当なタイミングで譜めくりできるようにしておいた。
高校の頃、(ツェルニーなのかな)と思いながら練習しているうちに覚えてしまったものの(若い頃は手続き型記憶が強いらしい。手を動かせば覚える。あるいは、受験勉強で記憶能力が高くなっていたのかもしれない。)。自分の家も先生の所もアップライトだったので、グランドピアノで弾いてみたくて、高校のピアノで休み時間に弾いた。
特に好きだったわけでもない。その後弾くこともなかった。だから、ほとんど覚えていなかった。
今回は、譜面をみて、和音や音の縦や横の動きや間隔を確認しつつ(手続き型記憶でなくて、理論的に記憶するようになっているらしい)、練習していった。指使いはいつものごとく、楽譜のものはみないよう塗り潰したり、数字が書いていない楽譜をIMSLPからダウンロードしたり、自分で考えていく所もあった。
また、最初から最後まで録音することを優先した。尚、運転はできないので想像に過ぎないが、大きめな安定した車、出そうと思えばスピードも出るし、大きなエンジン音も出るような車で、なるべくゆったりと走り、その一方で、スース~と風景が流れていっていくような感じで。
「オーロラ」夜明け、明け方とも言われるらしいですが。真昼間のけたたましさがないように、静かめに始めてみましたが。第1楽章の出だし、ソレのVで#ファレなんでしょうけど、ミ#ファソって、普通のハ長調のミファソより明るいわけで。それで、トトトトと走ってそうなものの、走ると続かないので、抑えて。第2楽章、第3楽章は、スキップしてるような音型にきこえる・みえるものの、スキップし出すと続かないので、抑えて。