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An attempt at writing for beginners. Perhaps some beginners (or composers with experience writing for beginners) could tell me how I did with that aspect of it.

This is a fairly straightforward sonata form which runs about 3 minutes.

From a quick look I had, based on your question I think that there are a few tiny spots that would cause a bit of trouble.

The one is in bar 6 and 19, left hand, where there's a bit of a jump there. Not much for any pianist, but for beginners it might cause some trouble.

And it's the use of 6plets. It makes sense, but I'd either divide them as 3plets, or skip them at all. It seems that the rhythmic variation, no matter how often met in other classical composers (Beethoven comes to mind) could cause some issues. 16ths are much better in that regard I think.

Also, quick question: A total lack of articulations and slurs. This is on purpose I assume? Also fingerings might be of help for beginners.

I would like to be able to download this and play it. If you use MuseScore, you can easily create a PDF file and those files are easy to access.

I copied out the first page with screen capture, then transferred to Paint ... then increased the size ... then printed. Far too much work and I would like to download it all.

What I sampled was melodic and lovely. I agree with Nikolas on the use of sextuplets .... I would use ordinary triplets because there seems to be no real reason for the groups of six notes. However I do like the left hand leap in bars 6 and 16 . It leads into a lovely "anchor" chord in bar 7 ... ( Heck there's always something in the easiest piece which is a hurdle for the beginner ... I just make them repeat it as a technical exercise ... I have no mercy )

I've nagged about this too many times to remember and polyphonist isn't interested in doing that. So we're stuck with what we've got, unfortunately.

Sometimes he offers some recordings, other times not... Overall access is a bit tricky with his works, due to technical limitation, but his music is often quite lovely! ^_^

Interesting.


Why would making them triplets make it easier to read? It would look twice as cluttered.


As always.


Wouldn't one want to let the beginner figure out his own fingering? Also, there aren't any very good places to put fingerings in this particular movement.


Well, Musescore is a bad program, but Sibelius can produce PDFs with relative ease as well. However, the extra work of creating the PDF, finding it in my files, uploading it to a hosting site, and posting the link back to Pianoworld is going to make me want to shoot myself, as I already have to go through a similar process with the images.

Lately I have been posting the scores with a larger staff size - the idea is that you should just be able to read it off the thread.