by Leo Delibes

anyone else played this on piano? my teacher gave it to me today i love it!

Played it on flute... beautiful....

is it on an advert?

Yes I think British Airways still use it.

According to www.music-scores.com it's a level 5 (not grade 5)

I was going to mention this actually....is it really really hard?? OR not?

it is quite hard yes, i think my teacher said it was around grade 7/8

It's a lovely piece.. I had to study it for my dissertation, British Airways adverts, it's great. That was alongside the John Lewis advert, Le Onde. I really enjoyed analysing them and playing them.

Joy

QUOTE (joyjoy @ Mar 19 2005, 05:38 PM)

It's a lovely piece..

and I get to listen to it every time my mobile rings!

QUOTE (noodle @ Mar 19 2005, 06:35 PM)

QUOTE (joyjoy @ Mar 19 2005, 05:38 PM) It's a lovely piece.. and I get to listen to it every time my mobile rings!

Ooooh fab its your ringtone?? At the moment I get to listen to teddy bears picnic...

The flower duet is so nice! My friends played it for their ensemble gcse piece. It was soooo beautiful...

Yes its my ringtone. I heard it eleven times today!!

it'll take me aages to learn

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Mar 19 2005, 10:51 PM)

it'll take me aages to learn

On piano? Or flute?

piano

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Mar 19 2005, 10:53 PM)

piano

Ah.

I have had a look at the music on piano. I looked at it and thought "nope...! I'll stick with playing it on flute..."

good choice! stay well clear of the piano music!

You must have the original version. Some of my younger students have a simplified version of it.

QUOTE (noodle @ Mar 19 2005, 11:07 PM)

You must have the original version. Some of my younger students have a simplified version of it.

i think i have got the original version. if ive got the simplified one, id ahte to see the orginial!!

Thats true. Is it just for repertoire or are you learning it for A level practical or something?

not sure, she just gave it to me and said i think you'll love this!

Yeah its a lovely piece i played it on clarinet for my GCSE music exam a few years ago.

sang it and adore it!

That means do any of you here have the original score?

And in fact, playing really duet is a better choice instead of piano.

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Mar 19 2005, 11:10 PM)

QUOTE (noodle @ Mar 19 2005, 11:07 PM) You must have the original version.  Some of my younger students have a simplified version of it. i think i have got the original version. if ive got the simplified one, id ahte to see the orginial!!

I agree - it's a fantastic piece of muisic, I've got a piano version but it's too hard for me - big runs of thirds all over the place. However, I don't see how you can have the 'original' version for flute *or* piano - the 'original' is a vocal duet from and opera (Lakme??).

I think opera peices often transcribe really well into piano music - I really like Offenbach's Barcarolle from 'Tales of Hoffman' and started looking at a piano version of it last night. Think I'm going to do it with my teacher soon.

sorry i think i mean the 'proper' hard version for piano!!!

QUOTE (StuMac @ Apr 19 2005, 04:32 PM)

QUOTE (noodle @ Mar 19 2005, 11:07 PM) You must have the original version.  Some of my younger students have a simplified version of it.

I know. I meant the originial transcription as opposed to a simplified version in C with one note in each hand and the left hand playing one note in each bar.

There's a version in the book 'Classic Chillout for solo piano' which is easuer than the 'original' but not that simple. I think it only has one vocal line in the RH so the runs of thirds are avoided, but it's still in D and has a lot more than one note per bar in the LH.