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Topic: Scriabin Preludes Op 11: Easiest to Hardest. Rank them please (Read 9670 times)

presto agitato

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Scriabin Preludes Op 11: Easiest to Hardest. Rank them please

on: November 10, 2007, 05:48:04 AM

It is number 14 the hardest one?

Please rank them

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Re: Scriabin Preludes Op 11: Easiest to Hardest. Rank them please

Reply #1 on: November 10, 2007, 08:15:57 AM

Quote from: presto agitato on November 10, 2007, 05:48:04 AM

It is number 14 the hardest one?

Please rank them

Is this the kind of nonsense that pianists are preoccupied with these days. The whole easy-hard thing is probably one of the intellectual barricades that's going to lead so many of you to play electric keys in wedding bands or quit music entirely.

It would be nice to hear someone actually ask an interesting question about Scriabin...or anything for that matter!

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dan101

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Re: Scriabin Preludes Op 11: Easiest to Hardest. Rank them please

Reply #2 on: November 12, 2007, 02:30:04 AM

I think you probably have an instinctive idea as to what's the hardest piece of the lot. When I was a student (some 10,000 years ago), I found out then that difficulty levels of pieces were and still are a highly subjective topic. I wouldn't be preoccupied with it.

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Re: Scriabin Preludes Op 11: Easiest to Hardest. Rank them please

Reply #3 on: November 12, 2007, 09:59:09 AM

Go and try sightread them all, and then rank them yourself.

I do that with most pieces now, although there are some bunches of pieces which are so difficult, I don't even bother ranking them until I am up to that skill level.

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Re: Scriabin Preludes Op 11: Easiest to Hardest. Rank them please

Reply #4 on: November 12, 2007, 02:27:21 PM

i think no.18 is preety tricky comparing to all.

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