{"id":222,"date":"2010-12-27T18:44:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T23:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/?p=222"},"modified":"2013-09-02T08:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T13:22:05","slug":"freestyle-playlist-holiday-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/2010\/12\/27\/freestyle-playlist-holiday-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Freestyle playlist, holiday edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-224\" href=\"http:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/2010\/12\/27\/freestyle-playlist-holiday-edition\/xmastree2010scrop\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-224\" title=\"Our Christmas tree\" src=\"http:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/XmasTree2010scrop.jpg\" alt=\"Our Christmas tree\" width=\"284\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/XmasTree2010scrop.jpg 284w, https:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/XmasTree2010scrop-159x300.jpg 159w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ve been good, since Samantha Claus left some new music under the tree this year.\u00a0 (In our household, Santa brings gifts for Frances, but it&#8217;s Ms. Claus who brings them for me)\u00a0 So, of course, I&#8217;ve been having fun playing through various new scores, all from the fine folks at Dover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beethoven:\u00a0 <em>Complete bagatelles<\/em>.\u00a0 I love Beethoven&#8217;s <em>Bagatelles<\/em>, especially the Op. 126 set.\u00a0 They are so idiosyncratic, so personal, so much fun to play.\u00a0 But the Op. 33 and Op. 119 sets are no slouches, either.<\/li>\n<li>Satie:\u00a0 <em>Gymnop\u00e9dies, Gnossiennes, and other works for piano<\/em>.\u00a0 I have a few volumes of Satie, but somehow I never managed to get the <em>Gymnopedies <\/em>or the <em>Gnossiennes<\/em>.\u00a0 Classics I really needed to play!\u00a0 This volume has a bunch of other pieces I never had the scores for, including some of his Rosicrucian pieces, like <em>Le fils des etoiles<\/em> and the <em>Sonneries<\/em>.\u00a0 Those pieces are quite odd, I must say, and playing them made me realize that they have connections to Cage&#8217;s <em>String quartet in four parts<\/em>.\u00a0 I never really thought of that before, but the odd, disconnected sense of harmony in the <em>Sonneries<\/em> reminds me of the harmonic non-continuity of the <em>String quartet<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Cage began the quartet on the same trip to Paris where he went to libraries to find obscure Satie scores.\u00a0 I wonder what pieces he was looking at?\u00a0 Perhaps the <em>Sonneries<\/em> put some ideas into his head?\u00a0 Anyway, the collection also includes some four-handed music, including the <em>Morceaux en forme de poire<\/em>, which is one of my all-time favorite Satie pieces.\u00a0 Frances &amp; I will have to give them a go!<\/li>\n<li>Ravel:\u00a0 <em>Piano masterpieces<\/em>.\u00a0 This includes the famous <em>Pavane<\/em>, which I&#8217;ve always wanted to play.\u00a0 This collection also includes <em>Gaspard<\/em>, but there&#8217;s no chance I&#8217;m up for that.\u00a0 I may try reading through <em>Ondine<\/em> really, really slowly when there&#8217;s nobody else in the house and the windows are closed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I spent a lot of yesterday playing through all of these things while Frances curled up on the couch and plotted next season&#8217;s botanical adventures.\u00a0 I was figuring out fingerings for the Ravel <em>Pavane<\/em>, periodically going &#8220;Hmmm&#8230;&#8221; as I discovered new possibilities, trying to find a way to play the melody line completely <em>legato<\/em>, even without the pedal.\u00a0 I caught her looking over catalogs and going &#8220;Hmmm&#8230;&#8221; herself.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile it was snowing and the lights were twinkling on the tree.\u00a0 It was so blissfully domestic that I had to go over and give her a smooch right then and there.\u00a0 &#8220;I love hearing you play,&#8221; 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