Pages: [1] 
|
 |
|
 Author
|
Topic: What does this sign mean? (Read 410 times)
|
drexo
PS Silver Member
Newbie
 Offline
Posts: 20
|
 I don't have a Piano teacher and I really don't know what this mean... Can someone help me out? Thanks! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
steve_m
PS Silver Member
Full Member
Offline
Posts: 148
|
It means double sharp. It just means play the note a whole step above the note it's next to. So since it's next to a C, you really play a D.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
phil13
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Offline
Posts: 1698
|
Double-sharp.
Sharp it twice, meaning in this case play C dbl.sharp, which is the same as D natural.
That's a great Scriabin etude, by the way. One of my favorites, I play it all the time.
Phil
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
ZEN COFFEEHOUSE CAFÉ
COFFEE
½ Cup Full.........................$1.50
½ Cup Empty........................87¢
"...duel is duel and deadline is deadline." ~Pianowolfi
|
|
|
steve_m
PS Silver Member
Full Member
Offline
Posts: 148
|
Double-sharp.
Sharp it twice, meaning in this case play C dbl.sharp, which is the same as D natural. Beat you to it. That's a great Scriabin etude, by the way. One of my favorites, I play it all the time.
Phil
showoff  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
arensky
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Offline
Posts: 2239
|
Since C is already sharp, the x (double sharp) sharps C# which gives us D.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
= o o =
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side...
Hunter S. Thompson
|
|
|
drexo
PS Silver Member
Newbie
Offline
Posts: 20
|
Thanks a lot!  Yeah, I also really like this piece. I started learning it today, after I heard a great performance by Horowitz of this piece. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
allthumbs
|
The incidental you are referring to is called a 'double sharp'. It tells you to play C double sharp (C##) instead of C#, which is already sharp because of the key signature.
In practical terms, it just means playing D.
The opposite would be true in a key signature with flats and you saw a 'bb' before the note (2 flats).
Cheers
allthumbs
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
It is better to remain silent and be thought of as an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt.
|
|
|
nicco
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Offline
Posts: 1211
|
Let me clarify, its called a "double sharp".
"double sharp"
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
|
|
|
drexo
PS Silver Member
Newbie
Offline
Posts: 20
|
Thanks for the replies everyone!
Well, since this topic is a bit about Scriabin's Etude in C Sharp minor, I would like to get some advices about this Etude, if anyone can give me some. What are, in your opinion, the most difficult parts in this Etude?...
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
nicco
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Offline
Posts: 1211
|
I dont feel any particular parts stick out as harder, its more the overall use of voicing and building up tension.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche
|
|
|
ganymed
PS Silver Member
Sr. Member
Offline
Posts: 357
|
isnt that opus 2 no 1 i love this etude aswell  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come."
Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness of Being
|
|
|
|
|
Pages: [1] 
|
|
|
Most popular classical piano composers:
Piano Street Sheet Music Library, complete list:
|
Etude opus 2 no 1 - FIRST PAGE PREVIEW 
