Beth is playing the left hand incorrectly. She is playing most of the left hand legato, this is incorrect. Each bar played is legato, but the legato breaks and restarts with each left hand bar. Playing the piece “as written”, changes the sound of piece entirely. The reason this piece is here is to teach and evaluate the students ability to recognise the difference to notes written legato and those that are not written legato.
It was customary to slur entire legato passages in this way (bar by bar) at the time this piece was originally published. Long written slurs were not a thing in music engraving until much later. Slavish adherence to what we see on the page doesn't take into account historical context or common sense. A disjointed approach does not enhance the musicality of this piece.
Velcroman11 - I disagree with your comment. Listen to all the other recordings of this piece. The LH is always legato, it would sound horrible if not. If you find a recording with LH disconnected each bar, please share as a link.
Velcroman11 - please be careful not to criticise a teaching video unless you really know what you're talking about as it sends out misleading information to students ... slurring for the purpose of indicating phrase shaping varies enormously according to the composer's or editor's intentions and can be interpreted in a number of ways. Phrases are there to show the overall shaping - to suggest that one should break at the end of all slur markings is naive and would most likely result in a disjointed performance at this early grade level. Beth gave a very musical performance of this piece which is what we want from our students.
Feel free to post a recording of how you think it should be played. Otherwise, you can make polite suggestions but not assertive criticisms.That is just proper etiquette.
Excellent playing. I'm thinking that your are the teacher, which of course you are. Thanks for the video.
Thanks Phil - and yep, you are correct
Thanks! It’s helping for my exam!
thanks for this. i'll be taking my grade 1 exam in a few months and this really helps!
Hope the exam goes well / went well!
Thank you so much! It's happening near the end of August and I have yet to play the piece - Mozzie perfectly! 😊
I can play all except for minuet and allgero
By the Way in the book it says that click B Sharp Not B, So Don’t Get Confused
The only I can play ist the first
Many wrong notes in piece N2 many missed B flat
I’m doing grade 2 and nice job
Beth is playing the left hand incorrectly. She is playing most of the left hand legato, this is incorrect. Each bar played is legato, but the legato breaks and restarts with each left hand bar. Playing the piece “as written”, changes the sound of piece entirely. The reason this piece is here is to teach and evaluate the students ability to recognise the difference to notes written legato and those that are not written legato.
It was customary to slur entire legato passages in this way (bar by bar) at the time this piece was originally published. Long written slurs were not a thing in music engraving until much later. Slavish adherence to what we see on the page doesn't take into account historical context or common sense.
A disjointed approach does not enhance the musicality of this piece.
Velcroman11 - I disagree with your comment. Listen to all the other recordings of this piece. The LH is always legato, it would sound horrible if not. If you find a recording with LH disconnected each bar, please share as a link.
Velcroman11 - please be careful not to criticise a teaching video unless you really know what you're talking about as it sends out misleading information to students ... slurring for the purpose of indicating phrase shaping varies enormously according to the composer's or editor's intentions and can be interpreted in a number of ways. Phrases are there to show the overall shaping - to suggest that one should break at the end of all slur markings is naive and would most likely result in a disjointed performance at this early grade level. Beth gave a very musical performance of this piece which is what we want from our students.
Feel free to post a recording of how you think it should be played. Otherwise, you can make polite suggestions but not assertive criticisms.That is just proper etiquette.
@@gandalfthegrey2171 thank you Gandalf well said.