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Author: Tim2
Date: 2007-11-14 01:42
About Miluccio 8 Grande Etudes, specifically #2, I’d like to know in if in measure 44 there might be a misprint. It seems to me that the two diminished groups of four in this measure should start on Bb and A rather than C and B as they do in my Leduc edition. The Bb and A would fit better with the pattern Mr. Miluccio has written in the measures before and after. Thank you very much.
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2007-11-15 01:47
Interesting - I'd never questioned it. Wouldn't you also move the other notes of the groups down by the same interval? I'll try it out next time.
I'd guess the passage was intended as printed. There seem to be similar asymmetries in corresponding sections throughout the etude. As written, the particular spot you mention has sort of grown on me as turning from the preceding figures into the downward ones following.
Btw, it's a very nice piece offering scope for both expression and technique. I've been trying sporadically to work it up as part of my unofficial first year comeback program (after 32 years away.)
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Author: Tim2
Date: 2007-11-16 00:24
Well, I'm not making any come back, Philip. I bought these only because I wanted something challenging. And maybe I bit off a bit much here. The pattern here is four measures in a row, measures 41 to 44. Each of the four measures are identical, each measure descending a half step chromaticly (sp), except for the last two groups of four notes in measure 44. If the last two groups of measure 44 start on Bb and A, respectively, then measure 44 fits exactly with the previous three. And the bonus is that those two groups of four diminished chords would descend perfectly with the diminished chords that follow, chromatically descending, Bb, A, G#, G, F#, F, E, D#, D.
The theme in this etude, is so lyrical and meloncholy. I think each variation is so inventive. I like where the music goes. I can't play it at the tempo stated but no matter, the music is lovely on this one.
Have you played others of these eight?
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Author: Philip Caron
Date: 2007-11-16 20:02
I'm doing my version of work (which isn't very disciplined) on #2 and #4, and play around sometimes with #3 and #6. I don't care much for the others, though I'll occasionally amble through them. Most of them contain the occasional off-key figurations such as the passage you are referring to in #2. It's apparently part of Miluccio's style.
Tim, what do you make of the tempo markings in #4? To me they indicate 168 MEASURES per minute, meaning the whole piece would take just over 40 seconds. Never mind making music at that speed, the sheer agility implied awes me. I'm keeping faith that with practice it's doable, but it won't exactly be tomorrow.
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Author: Tim2
Date: 2007-11-17 00:30
Philip, The quarter note at 168, it awes me too, I would never be able to do that. Too fast. The technique is just too much. I learned it at a much more accessible tempo. I like the style of how he puts these notes together. The brillant section is great. What a climax!!!
I have only worked on 1, 2, and 4. I'll keep 3, and 6 in mind. The capricio, #8, look good to.
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