After watching your tutorial, I can clearly see how to elevate my playing of this Minuet! I do enjoy using some slurs, though my preferences might stem from my limited knowledge of Baroque music. I'm also excited to learn the minor companion soon! 😊Thanks for sharing your tutorials publicly!
I prefer its companion minuet, an almost mirror opposite, the G minor minuet. Lovely, beautiful, slightly somber and less overplayed. Great for introducing basic dynamics, and these pieces can be trickier than one thinks (at least for the low intermediate student; I do not consider the AM Notebook pieces to be beginner material). There’s a moving bass line, mini scale-like runs, contrary motion, staccato. There’s also the other minuet in G major that’s a lot of fun, too.
Janna, Thank you. If we change the slur markings of those edited books, will adjudicators at festivals and competitions know that the editing of the books is not original? I suppose we could always bring the urtext edition for the adjudicator.
I have loaned an urtext to a student for this very reason. Otherwise, I would feel comfortable leaving a post-it note saying “student and teacher have altered some articulations” if I felt like it was a festival where this was appropriate. Any informed judge knows the composer didn’t write those slurs.
After watching your tutorial, I can clearly see how to elevate my playing of this Minuet! I do enjoy using some slurs, though my preferences might stem from my limited knowledge of Baroque music. I'm also excited to learn the minor companion soon! 😊Thanks for sharing your tutorials publicly!
Thank you for watching! More info here: www.jannawilliamson.com/blog/how-to-teach-petzold-minuet
Always lovely insights!
Thanks. I own the Masterclass Classics Level 3 and I agree with you.
I love almost all of the editing in those books! Just not that one.
Me too.@@JannaWilliamson
I prefer its companion minuet, an almost mirror opposite, the G minor minuet. Lovely, beautiful, slightly somber and less overplayed. Great for introducing basic dynamics, and these pieces can be trickier than one thinks (at least for the low intermediate student; I do not consider the AM Notebook pieces to be beginner material). There’s a moving bass line, mini scale-like runs, contrary motion, staccato. There’s also the other minuet in G major that’s a lot of fun, too.
Agreed. I pretty much prefer anything in minor over major. 😂
I would suggest to get more into the topic of baroque dance... consider allways tjat ONE Menuett step equals Z
TWO 3/4 Measures!
Janna,
Thank you. If we change the slur markings of those edited books, will adjudicators at festivals and competitions know that the editing of the books is not original?
I suppose we could always bring the urtext edition for the adjudicator.
I have loaned an urtext to a student for this very reason. Otherwise, I would feel comfortable leaving a post-it note saying “student and teacher have altered some articulations” if I felt like it was a festival where this was appropriate. Any informed judge knows the composer didn’t write those slurs.