Lace

Description

Lace, from 2003, is the one piece by Ravi Kumar on this site rated advanced, with long runs of fast small notes; its title is the English word for the openwork fabric. Little can be confirmed about the composer or how the piece came about, and the work itself does not settle how the title relates to the music.

There is no key or time signature in the data for it. It lasts just under three minutes with 1,076 notes, about six a second, noticeably denser than Kumar's other pieces here, most of which run at two to four, and the figures show long stretches of unbroken small notes. The range spreads over more than five octaves, from F-sharp 1 to G-sharp 6.

It is rated advanced, calling for the stamina to keep small notes going for long spans and the finger control to keep them even. Start with the playback speed well down and watch the falling notes to see how the two hands share them. Cut the densest passages into short A-B loops and bring them up towards full speed a step at a time. A 76-key instrument or larger is needed for the full range.

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