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Today’s piece▷▷▷No.108. Children at Play／B.Wolff
Well, this “B. Wolff”, there is quite little information.
On some sites, the composer is “Bernhard Wolff”. From the structure of the piece and the harmony used, it seems to match the era (per romantic), so it is probably this person.
Unfortunately, why? I could not access it, but it seems that the information is in the University of London database [Hofmeister ⅩⅩ] (a database of music publication records). As far as it can be seen in the search results ……“Wolff, Bernhard, Op. 44. Kinderstücke Kurze instruktive Klavierkompositionen. Spielende Kinder. No. 7. Menuett. No. 8. Türkischer Marsch……“
“Op.44 (-NO.6)” is also written in the score. It seems to be the 6th piece in the piece collection.
Bernhard Wolff (1835-1906)
According to Helm & Baynov’s website, “German composer and music teacher. Student of Hans von Bülow. He wrote many works for piano school (for piano learners?). “
Now let’s play the song.
6/8 time in B-flat major. Simple composition of A-B-A.
It has a bright and cute tone. After transposing to G minor in 〈B〉 and spending some time feeling confused, finally feel fine and return to 〈A〉.
〈A〉
Left hand: accompaniment of chords
Right hand: playing a phrase spanning two bars.
The basic rhythm is the same. It’s easy, but I think it’s a good idea to practice so that you can play it smoothly so that it doesn’t get jerky. Also, this may be just me, but B-flat major is hard to play. There is a flat on E and B, and the distance is subtly close. I feel like it’s easy to get bumpy.
〈B〉
The pattern that played the melody on〈A〉 is on the left. Even though it’s an accompaniment, I think it’s fine to cresc. There is a long cresc. after the pp, so let’s calculate and play. There were various things, but it was solved by fixing the mood easily through 4 bars. Let’s go back to 〈A〉.
There are no dramatic changes in the overall tone. It lacks excitement, but it’s a lovely song. Only at the end does the melody rise and not descend, so want to play it crisply and with a sense of freedom.
Since there are no major changes in the rhythm pattern, it is a piece that I would like to play carefully so that the rhythm and tempo do not fluctuate, so that everyone in the kindergarten can play together.
“Children at Play” …I think that there are various images because it can be translated as “playing child” if it is directly translated. As I wrote earlier, “Let’s play with everyone in kindergarten”, the regular rhythm of the left hand can be heard by the teacher’s chant to keep time “Pon-Pon-Poooon”, so the children can play together. I played while imagining how it was. Everyone got so serious about trying to dance well, and it’s kind of hard to dance at ease….as soon as it goes up, it goes down, and it’s superimposed on a modest melody that can’t get excited.