Pardon my ignorance. Agogics means?
There are rests written throughout this piece for a reason, very easy to naturally sustain everything over them all or neglect sustaining notes that should not vanish with the rest.
Thoughts about a couple of things:The only rests I see are the eighth rests in the accompaniment. If pedal is used, those rests will vanish. I am wondering whether I am understanding this as you intended.
Not playing this piece but this is something I haven't yet discussed with my teacher so I'll just ask you guys. I kind of assumed from the beginning that one should not pedal through rests? Which requires a lot of footwork sometimes...
So in an effort to further the learning.. I've just sat in adobe acrobat for a moment and removed all dynamic markings from our score. File is attached.. it still contains phrasing and accents.. they were too hard to get out without me just rewriting the score from scratch (which is a heap of effort..)Anyway.. point being.. I would invite anyone to print it, then fill in your own dynamics, by hand, with some pretty serious detail. For example, you may mark multiple dynamics at any one moment such as that the top voice is mf and the lower voice is mp while the accompaniment part is p... or any other array of musical shenanigans.This should help you cement your own interpretive ideas. But then, also.. scan it (or digitally photograph it) and post it.. so that we can look at each others ideas.. because seeing the contrasting thoughts should be interesting and spur further ideas of our own. I'll post mine later today or tomorrow.I also think it would be cool to hear some explanation.. "I like this dynamic there to provide a contrast against that other section" or "this cresc. is meant to build to a climax point in bar X"
This piece is grade 5 I think it was mentioned, when I first reviewed the notes it made me think it's more like grade 3 for AMEB standard, but then the pedaling required makes it a little more difficult and I found is one large part of the challenge to control this piece.