Capriol Suite

[elspeth]

I've just started working on my first transcription of an orchestral piece... Peter Warlock's Capriol Suite, originally for strings and arranged for piano by a chap I've never heard of, Maurice Jacobson. A 1939 edition from my favourite second-hand music supplier... since discovered I could get it free online, but hey... a nice edition from a good bookshop, I'm not grudging the small sum I gave for it.

Anyway, it's not a difficult suite by any means, but I'm having a hard time getting the melody in this bit to come out right... it seems to get lost in the surrounding chords. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[berrt]

I tried - and found it hard, too. The melody came out better when i played the melody notes slightly before the chord notes.

But then - im not really the person to give piano playing advice :-)

B.

[faulty_damper]

To make the melody stand out, the corresponding keys must accellerate faster than the other notes (obviously) and is actually much easier to describe than do.

[elspeth]

actually much easier to describe than do.

Such is life! Ah well... will keep working on it! Thanks for the comments! I may be back with more questions from the other movements when I get round to starting them...