Informationen zu "Barbara Arens, Traditional Scottish Arr: Barbara Arens Scottish Collection Piano Solo"
Verlag: Spartan Press Music Publishers
Verlagsnummer: SP1357
EAN: 9790579983576
ISMN: M-57998-357-6
Beschreibung
Barbara Arens writes... A fact: I love Scotland. Every time I come home
after travelling in Scotland I feel myself bursting with ideas inspired by
all I've seen and experienced there. The heather-covered hills and the dusky
forests, the wind, the amazingly pure air, the mysterious ruins - and
especially the water - be it a dark brown burn, a roaring waterfall, heavy
clouds, a gentle mist, or the waves of the North Sea, or a loch just begging
to be explored - and the people I meet and their lovely, almost always
comprehensible speech... What a source of inspiration! And then there's the
music - nothing is more thrilling than hearing massed bands of pipes and
drums, as well as the rich tradition of folk music. So I come home and sit
down at the piano and try to put these impressions into music, trying always
to keep the pieces as easily playable as possible - I want my piano students
to enjoy them and express themselves through them without struggling with
technical difficulties. So some of these pieces reflect my impression of a
landscape, standing stones, a sunset over a loch, but some of the pieces are
based on actual traditional gaelic songs and tunes. A wonderful discovery was
finding the Scots Musical Museum, the collection of traditional songs
assembled and revised to a great extent by Robert Burns, which appeared in
Edinburgh 1769?1803 - a fantastic resource. I'm hoping you'll enjoy playing
this collection of Scottish Piano pieces.
