The Character Piece
A Guide To Style And Interpretation
Presented from a practicing musician's point of view and including performance notes for each piece, this unique collection of compositions that span many eras will delight students looking for shorter, expressive works to play for pleasure and will assist them in achieving stylistically correct interpretations.
Included in this collection are works by composers who excelled in writing character pieces.
Character pieces are short, lyric piano pieces that usually evoke a particular mood or scene, suggested more often than not by a descriptive title.
This is an Alfred Masterwork edition.
Edited by Maurice Hinson
Please see table of contents for selections.
Table of Contents
Prelude in G Minor Op. 28, No. 22 - Frederic Chopin
Prayer - Cesar Franck
Les Langueurs Tendres Wq. 117/30 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Prelude in E Minor Op. 81, No. 4 - Stephen Heller
Nocturne No. 2 in C Minor - John Field
By Smouldering Embers Op. 61, No. 6 - Edward MacDowell
Le Piccadilly - Erik Satie
Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy
Eintritt Op. 82, No. 1 - Robert Schumann
Ballade in D Minor Op. 10, No. 1 - Johannes Brahms
Elegy on the Motif E B B A Op. 41 - Emil Sjogren
Morgenunterhaltung - Zdenko Fibich
Lamentation on Schubert's Death by His Friend - Anselm Hüttenbrenner
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca Searle 161/6 - Franz Liszt
Abendlied Op. 33 Book II, No. 4 - Adolf Jensen
Jagerlied Op. 19, No. 3 - Felix Mendelssohn
Unschuld - Bedrich Smetana