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Topic: Anyone recognize this exercise?  (Read 1674 times)

Offline Petter

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Anyone recognize this exercise?
on: February 10, 2009, 07:01:23 PM
Hold C with your third finger and play a D minor arpeggio with 4, 5, 4, 2, 1 with both hands. The exercise is labeled #11 and the instructions is in Italian, the chord later changes Gm7, Gm6, E and A.   
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Re: Anyone recognize this exercise?
Reply #1 on: February 10, 2009, 10:54:27 PM
Try this site and type in the Italian. It will give you a fairly good translation of the instructions to the exercise.

https://babelfish.yahoo.com/
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Re: Anyone recognize this exercise?
Reply #2 on: February 11, 2009, 12:59:55 AM
What's the Italian?
Favorite new teacher quote -- "You found the only possible wrong answer."

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Re: Anyone recognize this exercise?
Reply #3 on: February 11, 2009, 04:34:01 AM
What's the Italian?

OK Bob, I'll explain it as best I can. You see the original poster was asking about a piano exercise (OOPS, an assumption) and the poster mentioned that the instructions were in Italian.

Now, he didn't mention that 'Italian' referred to the language, so that's what I assumed.

So, my reference to 'Italian' appears to some to be equally vague as well.

Perhaps to clarify things, the original poster can elucidate us as to what he meant by 'Italian' and only then an appropriate response be generated to the benefit of all.:D

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Offline Petter

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Re: Anyone recognize this exercise?
Reply #4 on: February 11, 2009, 09:25:00 AM
Yes sorry, the instructions were in Italian (me knows a little italian  8)) and meant that the note C was supposed to be held throughout the exercise. I was wondering if anyone perhaps knew who wrote the exercise or what set of exercises it comes from. I found it on an old single A4 paper.
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Offline pianisten1989

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Re: Anyone recognize this exercise?
Reply #5 on: February 11, 2009, 01:04:36 PM
It sounds like Brahms, exercise number... Something.. Someone has obviously stolen them! But it's brahms, 51 exercises.

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Re: Anyone recognize this exercise?
Reply #6 on: February 11, 2009, 01:09:27 PM
Yea I looked through them, but it didn´t correspond with #11, I´ll look closer.
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Re: Anyone recognize this exercise?
Reply #7 on: February 11, 2009, 04:12:06 PM
#15  8)
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