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Valse - Maurice Ravel - ABRSM 2017/18 Grade 7 Piano C1 - with TEACHING NOTES

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Channel: MusicOnline UK · 2016 · Education

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Want a DISTINCTION in YOUR next ABRSM Exam? https://www.music-online.org.uk/2019/01/how-to-get-distinction-in-abrsm-exams.html Valse - Maurice Ravel - ABRSM 2017/18 Grade 7 Piano C1

TEACHING NOTES
This beautiful valse by Ravel will provide you with hours of discovery how the sea of accidentals floating across the notes fit together to make dissonance and consonance in Ravel's unique harmonic language.

Where the LH crosses over the RH (bars 19 onwards) patient practice will be necessary to achieve the desired tone for the "bell-like" dotted crotchets. In this recording some of the marked LH cross overs have been taken with the RH, nevertheless the same tone is required to ring out.(0:51). Notice also in this recording the slight rearrangement of hands for the final chord.

The piece is marked so that the top part should always be prominent. However, the bass notes in particular should be resonant enough to provide sufficient foundation.

Regarding rubato, this should be subtle if at all, you will notice slight pulling back in this video, at the ends of phrases, particulary before the "breath marks" e.g. 0:32. Don't be afraid, by the way, to make a slight pause on these breaths.

To communicate a convincing performance of this piece, DON'T get too tied up with note learning, accidentals, and other technicalities, at the expense of understanding the music's beauty. Feel the wispy, dream-like character of the piece. It IS a valse and should flow like one.

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