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Offline chopin_89

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kinderszenen
on: March 24, 2011, 01:26:23 AM
has anybody used the collection kinderszenen (schumann) regularly as a teaching tool? if anyone who is familiar with teaching the collection as a whole could share some pros and cons, that would be great..
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Offline slane

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Re: kinderszenen
Reply #1 on: March 24, 2011, 02:07:06 AM
Ah "von fremden Landen und Menschen" .. made so famous by "The Getting of Wisdom"! :)
Can't really answer your question but I just looked in the NZMEB syllabus https://www.nzmeb.org/download/Syllabuses/Piano_Syllabuses.pdf and Kuriose Geschichte and Von Fremden etc. appear in the 5th grade syllabus .. so maybe they are only for very clever children??? Or children were much better pianists in Schumann's time?
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Re: kinderszenen
Reply #2 on: March 24, 2011, 10:34:06 AM
the kinderszenen are literally "Scenes from childhood," not "pieces for children."  and so, as you may have gathered already, some of them are a little much for a young child to grasp.  Schumann did write the album for the young (Album fur die Jugend) which is probably more appropriate.
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