A Child's Wish

Description

A Child's Wish is a contemporary piano piece registered as dating from 2006. Little reliable information is available about its composer, Georgi Iliev, and nothing is known about how the piece came to be written or where its title comes from. What follows describes the piece as far as the score data allows.

It is in E minor and 6/8. In 6/8 the bar is felt as two broad beats of a dotted quarter each, and the groups of three eighth notes give the music a rocking flow. It lasts about two and a half minutes and contains 826 notes, ranging from E2 to D6, about four octaves centred on the middle of the keyboard.

It is rated advanced, yet it averages only about five notes a second, and the range fits a 61-key keyboard. The challenge is likely to be keeping the broad two-beat flow while not chopping up the groups of three. Listen through once at full speed to find where the hard passages lie, then slow the playback and repeat them with A-B looping. Use the hand colours as well to check which hand carries the melody and which the accompaniment.

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