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Courante, Premier livre, RCT 1 is a piece by Jean-Philippe Rameau from the Baroque era. PlayPiano puts it at Level 6, an estimate.
- keyboard work
- Baroque
- dancing
- grand
- hand independence
- voicing
Also known as Courante from Premier Livre, RCT 1.04; Rameau, Jean-Philippe, Premier Livre de Pièces de Clavecin - 4. Courante.
History
Let the pickup open into a long dance gesture. Hold the supporting line without weighing down the shorter figures. The three-half-note metre invites a larger pulse rather than a hurried sequence of small beats.
Sources
How to practise it
- Keep the sustained or entering voice audible without making its supporting material heavy.
- Practise the encoded lines separately, then combine them while preserving their different rhythms.
How hard is it
Level 6, estimated
The opening moves from a pickup into several voices with held notes and shorter decoration; 37 measures in 3/2, 46 chord members and 14 ornaments suggest solid intermediate sustained-voice control.
About this piece
- Licence
- cc-zero
- Source
- musescore.com
More by Jean-Philippe Rameau
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