As we enter into the time of weddings, I submit simple accompaniments for the Schubert. I'm tired of trying to play the RH as written, playing pedals like a string bass....on and on.
I know that there are those who are violently opposed to simple accompaniments and that's fine, but for those who are struggling to run a program and play....here they are.
High Key and Low Key
There are more things in this collection, this just happens to be the first one done.
We need to have access to and know things like this and Mother Beloved (wedding song from 50 years ago that we get requests for) to provide music for people who otherwise might think we are....chant snobs!
(i'm not particularly enamored of the lyrics set this way, but you work with what you have.)
I'm not seeing much if any difference in the Gounod (going by memory) . Which is as it would be; I was playing the Bach in high school, and my suckaciousness as a keyboard player is legendary.
Just scrunched it all on two staves and used the LH sustained notes as a harpsichordist might play them to give a foundation for the singer, gave a more difficult part to the RH....for all those Right Handed organists!
Yeah! I'm a right handed piano player and chord the left, more often just the bass note! If I could just sit and practice an hour day it would be better but I have no working piano and when I am teaching I have too many students to stop and practice keyboard. So yesterday I'm driving down I-75 and it occurs to me that perhaps I should take organ lessons, you know nothing fancy, just enough to be able to play hymns and perhaps very simple organ pieces. Do you think it's silly for an old woman to take up an instrument she has loved listening to all her life?
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