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Le vent dans la plaine: Prelude Book I No. 3 is a prelude by Claude Debussy from the Late Romantic and Impressionist era. PlayPiano puts it at Level 9, an estimate.
- prelude
- Late Romantic and Impressionist
- dreamy
- stormy
- repeated notes
Also known as Les Vent dans la plaine; from Preludes Bk 1 No. 3.
History
The opening repeated figure moves lightly through two registers. Its instruction to play as lightly as possible suggests wind-like motion without turning the title into a literal sound effect.
Sources
How to practise it
- Keep the returning opening pitches even and light through each register change.
How hard is it
Level 9, estimated
Continuous sixteenth-note patterns and later tuplets require advanced evenness and coordination.
About this piece
- Licence
- cc-zero
- Source
- musescore.com
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