Excerpt: ... the piece, while the left hand, which is destined to accompany the melody, executes a pattern, either harmonic or contrapuntal, of the utmost simplicity. I found it rather amusing, with these very much restricted means, to try to awaken in the child a taste for melodic design in its combinations with a rudimentary accompaniment. Diaghileff was just then giving
Excerpt: ... the piece, while the left hand, which is destined to accompany the melody, executes a pattern, either harmonic or contrapuntal, of the utmost simplicity. I found it rather amusing, with these very much restricted means, to try to awaken in the child a taste for melodic design in its combinations with a rudimentary accompaniment. Diaghileff was just then giving a new production of Le Sacre du Printemps at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. Nijinsky's absence
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Hardcover
Published
January 1st 2013
by Bloated Toe Publishing
(first published May 26th 2006)