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Topic: Compose for a virtuoso! Cheap tricks!  (Read 1916 times)

Offline Jemmers

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Compose for a virtuoso! Cheap tricks!
on: December 19, 2003, 05:26:51 PM
Alright, everything below this is purely a JOKE. So please (please!!!) don't flame me. I already posted this under miscellaneous.

Ok here's the cheap trick to writing for a virtuoso. Take any simple children's song (and i mean SONG, ed...) like for example, Humpty Dumpty. Now, between every melody note, add a gajillion notes of the same chord. I recommend 7 for starters, 15 if you're writing for Horowitz. 31 if you're writing for Cziffra. Repeat for left hand if attempting to topple Islamey.

Add an accent to the melody notes. Done :)

Any other cheap tricks? Like say... double the tempo...

Offline Black_Key

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Re: Compose for a virtuoso! Cheap tricks!
Reply #1 on: December 20, 2003, 08:39:36 PM
Remember that every melodic note should be put in octaves ;)

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Re: Compose for a virtuoso! Cheap tricks!
Reply #2 on: December 21, 2003, 06:47:50 PM
...while every non-melodic note should be encompassed with thirds, or preferably measures containing more accidentals than notes...
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Re: Compose for a virtuoso! Cheap tricks!
Reply #3 on: December 27, 2003, 03:16:27 PM
there's always the thalberg trick of having arpeggios in both hands and a melody played with the thumbs.  why not have the arpeggios played with rapidly ascending and descending chords?  


What it all comes down to is that one does not play the piano with one’s fingers; one plays the piano with one’s mind.-  Glenn Gould

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Re: Compose for a virtuoso! Cheap tricks!
Reply #4 on: December 27, 2003, 03:32:58 PM
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why not have the arpeggios played with rapidly ascending and descending chords?  


As in the original version of Liszt's Paganini etudes,
Ed

Offline cziffra

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Re: Compose for a virtuoso! Cheap tricks!
Reply #5 on: December 27, 2003, 03:36:00 PM
i keep hearing about how there were original paganini etudes...are they still available or did they vanish from existence?  i can't seem to be able to find them.  what is the story behind them?
What it all comes down to is that one does not play the piano with one’s fingers; one plays the piano with one’s mind.-  Glenn Gould

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Offline fanaticalpianist

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Re: Compose for a virtuoso! Cheap tricks!
Reply #7 on: December 29, 2003, 09:38:42 PM
I have the pdfs to the Original Paganini Etudes and the mp3 to the original version of La Campanella, it is quite interesting :)  E-mail me if interested.
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