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Offline pies

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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #50 on: November 17, 2007, 11:27:03 PM
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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #51 on: November 18, 2007, 12:17:48 AM
Literally dark:

Chopin Etude op. 10 no. 5 "Black keys"
Scriabin Sonata no. 9 "Black Mass"

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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #52 on: November 18, 2007, 12:20:00 AM
The suites aren't that difficult


Scelsi middle period pieces are INSANELY difficult.  And as technically nasty as they are, 40 minute microtonal pieces are by definition alone gauntlets of interpretation, touch and voicing.

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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #53 on: November 18, 2007, 05:19:48 AM
You're obviously a shitty pianist

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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #54 on: November 18, 2007, 05:29:27 AM
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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #55 on: November 18, 2007, 10:28:43 AM
Just because the piece seems "not too hard" for you, it may not be the same for everyone else.

Levels vary, skill specialties vary. Just because someone finds something dificult that you don't, does not mean that they are a shitty pianist.
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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #56 on: November 18, 2007, 04:14:01 PM
Doesn't get much darker than Alkan's op. 63 no. 8 titled "Chanson de la Folle au bord de la mer" which translates into something like "Mad women at the edge of the sea".

Its well within you difficulty level & sounds great.

I've attached the sheets & an mp3.

Menancyandsam, are all those preludes dark too? or just "Chason de la Folle au bord de la mer"?

Literally dark:

Chopin Etude op. 10 no. 5 "Black keys"
Scriabin Sonata no. 9 "Black Mass"


Black keys actually sounds happy, not dark, and I couldn't find a midi for Black mass, do you have a link to one?

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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #57 on: November 18, 2007, 07:12:18 PM
That is one piece where a MIDI will not suffice. You will just have to get a recording.

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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #58 on: November 19, 2007, 08:35:16 PM
Possibly Rachmaninoff's Prelude op 3. no 2


(Although it's more sad and depressing than dark)
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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #59 on: November 19, 2007, 10:26:06 PM
Another literally dark piece

Handel Air and variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" from Suite in E, HWV 430

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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #60 on: November 19, 2007, 11:21:04 PM
Another literally dark piece

Handel Air and variations "The Harmonious Blacksmith" from Suite in E, HWV 430

? That peice isn't dark at all.

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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #61 on: November 19, 2007, 11:33:11 PM
? That peice isn't dark at all.
Indeed not, so one must perhaps suppose that the writer who suggested it was seeking merely to make some kind of point about the blackness of the varied smith as portrayed by the German composer in question whom the British adopted as English (an arguably black art in itself).

Before this thread "progresses" any farther (if indeed it does), perhaps someone might like to venture a definition of the word "peice"...

Or pehaps not...

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Re: Does anyone know a dark peice?
Reply #62 on: November 19, 2007, 11:53:49 PM
Indeed not, so one must perhaps suppose that the writer who suggested it was seeking merely to make some kind of point about the blackness of the varied smith as portrayed by the German composer in question whom the British adopted as English (an arguably black art in itself).

Before this thread "progresses" any farther (if indeed it does), perhaps someone might like to venture a definition of the word "peice"...

Or pehaps not...

Best,

Alistair

I dont understand what your saying but what i mean by "piece" is a peice of music for piano, if thats what your asking for.
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