Heller: Playing with Fifths for Piano

by Barbara Heller

Barbara Heller's piano pieces should not just be played; as the composer writes in her preface, the student should learn while playing "to approach the music creatively and experimentally." "You can change the pieces at will and even shape your own personal pieces from the material. We hope that these pieces will help you to discover your own musical world within yourselves, and to let yourselves and others hear its sound." The composer offers a wealth of stimuli and suggestions to help the learner achieve this. Monika Thiery's supplementary comments facilitate the use of the 18 pieces in teaching. 1. Singing Fifths 2. Oscillating Fifths 3. Musical Clock in Fifths 4. Waltz in Fifths 5. Melancholy Fifths 6. Poetic Fifths 7. Loop of Fifths 8. Garlands of Fifths 9. Seesaw Fifths 10. Rhyming Fifths 11. Dreamy Fifths 12. Stories of Fifths 13. Merry Fifths 14. Ascending Fifths 15. Hurdy-Gurdy 16. Machine of Fifths 17. Song of Fifths 18. Etude in Fifths * Manufacturer EB8749 * Piano

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Published January 1, 2000