Wedding Day At Troldhaugen Options

[fsharpminor]

With these books you should open them in the middle and bend them back a bit, and hold it like that for a while, do it every now and then, and it should be ok. There's so many gems in this collection, my favourites are Woodland Peace, Erotikon, Butterfly, Brooklet, At thy feet, Phantom, definitely recommend getting the complete set. And if anyones not got Emil Gilels recording on DG, i would strongly recommend that too, he really brings out the colours and intimacy of these pieces, just wish he'd recorded all of them.

And dont forget the Nocturne that's set for Grade 8

[dorfmouse]

Troublesome books: I read a tip recently which seems to work. Starting alternately from the front and back of the book, gently flatten every tenth page until you get to the middle. Less destructive than bashing the spine of your expensive Urtexts with a hammer!

Wedding Day at T. is also available free on sheetmusicarchive.net if you want to get your paws on it straight away.

[Scaramouche]

Thank-you. I'll order the book shortly and get that free copy just to have a play through whilst waiting for the book.

[jod]

I've got a number of things through sheetmusicarchive.net and other freebie internet sites. If you print them out on decent enough paper you can make excellent anthologies using plastic display books. (the type of thing you can get cheaply from tesco).

I would recommend it as a way of obtaining music for repertoire building for any musician who is watching the pennies.

Dover score do behave well on pianos, and when you can afford and justify buying the whole lot are a really worthwhile investment. However there is nothing wrong with building collections of public domain music off free downloads. It is legal and gives the cash-strapped musician access to a lot of really good music and a wider repertoire withou breaking the bank.

[enharmonic]

Ohmigod, you lucky thing being able to learn this. It is my absolute favourite, but sadly well beyond my abilities. The only time I'll get to play Wedding Day will be on heavenly harps in the Next World!

[Scaramouche]

I have no idea if it is within my capabilities..I have just ordered it. I heard it on Classic FM and loved it, so we will soon see!

[maggiemay]

I was asked to play this at a wedding when I was in my mid-teens. On the organ, I might add, using a piano copy. Great fun and the choir were requesting it for weeks after - it was the hit of the year.

[fsharpminor]

I was asked to play this at a wedding when I was in my mid-teens. On the organ, I might add, using a piano copy. Great fun and the choir were requesting it for weeks after - it was the hit of the year.

Ooh I must try that , with a bit of pedalling added too. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Chopinzee]

With these books you should open them in the middle and bend them back a bit, and hold it like that for a while, do it every now and then, and it should be ok. There's so many gems in this collection, my favourites are Woodland Peace, Erotikon, Butterfly, Brooklet, At thy feet, Phantom, definitely recommend getting the complete set. And if anyones not got Emil Gilels recording on DG, i would strongly recommend that too, he really brings out the colours and intimacy of these pieces, just wish he'd recorded all of them.

And dont forget the Nocturne that's set for Grade 8

oops forgot that one, though I do play it and for some time had trouble keeping the left hand rythm steady while executing the r.h trill, when i did get it the trill came out too loud...have to keep working on it ! It's a fab piece, and really takes me back many years to that Gilels record. For some reason I never tried learning Troldhaugen, there are certainly some difficult parts, but now with all you folks raving about it, I'll have to have a go too! Another piece is on the cards is ''the Bridal Procession goes by'' from Griegs Pictures of Everyday Life Op 19, guess i got my work cut out !

[dorfmouse]

This piece holds a special place in my piano learning heart. A year or so ago I was determined to finally learn how to memorise and this was my do-or-die piece! I thought I never could and it was such a boost to my confidence to manage to play it from beginning to end without the score. Now, I claim no great technical mastery over it and the couple of bits that really caused me grief probably eventually sounded better in my imagination than in reality … but it was great fun to learn, full of character and the music evoked many very detailed visual scenarios. I think I had the beginnings of a movie screenplay by the end!

Have fun!

[Scaramouche]

Arrived today...hard (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif).

[Hils]

This piece holds a special place in my piano learning heart. A year or so ago I was determined to finally learn how to memorise and this was my do-or-die piece! I thought I never could and it was such a boost to my confidence to manage to play it from beginning to end without the score. Now, I claim no great technical mastery over it and the couple of bits that really caused me grief probably eventually sounded better in my imagination than in reality … but it was great fun to learn, full of character and the music evoked many very detailed visual scenarios. I think I had the beginnings of a movie screenplay by the end!

Have fun!

This is so exactly my own experience, dorfmouse, it is uncanny. It was something my grandmother played all her life and I loved it then but never really got to grips with it while I was having lessons. Finally this year I thought, come on, get it learnt - an dsoon realised it's one of those you can't actually play until you memorise it (well, that's my opinion anyway) so I had to break with my "I can't memorise - wrong shaped brain" excuses that have served me well all my life. Again like you, I have by no mens mastered it but people have at least stopped running from the room with hands over their ears when I start playing.

For anyone thinking of learning it it's about DipABRSM standard (at least that's where the ISM music journal put it when they reviewed Grieg music through the grades earlier this year).

[dorfmouse]

This is so exactly my own experience, dorfmouse, it is uncanny. It was something my grandmother played all her life and I loved it then but never really got to grips with it while I was having lessons. Finally this year I thought, come on, get it learnt - an dsoon realised it's one of those you can't actually play until you memorise it (well, that's my opinion anyway) so I had to break with my "I can't memorise - wrong shaped brain" excuses that have served me well all my life. Again like you, I have by no mens mastered it but people have at least stopped running from the room with hands over their ears when I start playing.

For anyone thinking of learning it it's about DipABRSM standard (at least that's where the ISM music journal put it when they reviewed Grieg music through the grades earlier this year).

Well done!
It's very liberating to know you can actually memorise and frees you up for trying pieces you think you have no hope of attempting. I get really cross when people say their teacher insists they watch the music all the time; I ended up not being able to take my eyes off the score for a couple of seconds . I'm just advocating that people should be encouraged to do both and that the likes of you and me can be taught how to memorise too for when it's desirable.

[Chopinzee]

For sure there are times when you have to memorise, faster pieces generally, i have'nt learned Troldhaugen yet, but the Butterfly from Lyric pieces is one piece where I have to memorise those right hand parts.

[Hils]

Well done!
It's very liberating to know you can actually memorise and frees you up for trying pieces you think you have no hope of attempting. I get really cross when people say their teacher insists they watch the music all the time; I ended up not being able to take my eyes off the score for a couple of seconds . I'm just advocating that people should be encouraged to do both and that the likes of you and me can be taught how to memorise too for when it's desirable.

Cheers, dorfmouse. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/closedeyes.gif) The watching the score thing is good for sight reading - I was rigorously trained to do that and I was always proud of my sight reading. But being unable to play anything for friends because "all my music is at home" has just started to sound too pathetic even to me. And having taken mournful possession of my first pair of glasses this week, I realise memorising may become a necessity even to play my 'old' music in the future - not just for the troglodyte's wedding....sorry was that not one of your mental images for this piece?!