The opening melody of this work's second section is to be played "sweetly and a little clumsily" in the great octave, and is based on the folk song "Dodo, fait dodo".
The opening melody of this work's second section is to be played "sweetly and a little clumsily" in the great octave, and is based on the folk song "Dodo, fait dodo". The fourth part of this work begins with staccato E-F-G-A eighth notes, which are then played in octaves offset by a sixteenth note. In addition to "Jimbo's Lullaby" and "The Snow is Dancing", this work first publicly performed by Harold Bauer includes a movement whose ragtime rhythm is interrupted by a slower section in G-flat major that quotes Wagner's Tristan prelude. The first piece in this set "should sound like an exercise", and is called "Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum"; others were inspired by a velvet elephant, a "little shepherd", and other toys of the composer's daughter Chouchou, including a certain minstrel puppet. FTP, name this set of piano pieces that includes "Golliwogg's Cakewalk", a work of Claude Debussy.
The opening melody of this work's second section is to be played "sweetly and a little clumsily" in the great octave, and is based on the folk song "Dodo, fait dodo".
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