The Easy Winner Duets in the Great Scott! Joplin for Two Musicians are also available as a digital download.
If you are in a hurry, you can be practicing the Weeping Willow for Violin and Piano, Viola and Piano, and Cello and Piano today. All of the duets could be used for recital or performance.
Practice along with me. There are two videos. You can play with the treble clef down an octave or the treble clef in thumb position.
Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me) is a very easy solo piano arrangement with one note accompaniment line.
The right hand moves slightly in order to cover a 6-note range. The left hand extends the thumb to cover a 6-note range. Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me is available as a digital download. You can also listen to the arrangement here.
A primer piano arrangement of Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me) is also available as a digital download. It is even easier. The hands stay in the same position for the song, but the left hand has to play B flat and B natural. You can listen to the primer arrangement too.
The Augustan Club Waltz duets from the Great Scott! book are now available as digital downloads.
The violin and piano duet requires the violinist to know accidentals and L1 and L2. It can be played entirely in first position.
The viola and piano duet asks the violist to shift as well as play in the key of B Flat Major.
The cello and piano duet also requires shifting skill from the cellist. The piano part in all the duets has an important countermelodic line.
Sheet music for violin and piano, viola and piano and cello and piano is available as a digital download.
This duet was created for a piano student and older brother. The piano part has the melody throughout. The sax part has a flashy counter-melody for the second half. The music is available as a digital download.
Save the date! The Tortoise Piano Recital will happen online on Friday, April 1 at 6:45 pm.
This arrangement was started before the trios but got put to the side for the piano trio arrangements. The string quartet arrangement of Scott Joplin’s Weeping Willow is now available as a digital download. The violins and the viola share the melody. The cello part maintains the eighth note bass line throughout.
As a string quartet arrangement, it is challenging. It could be used for string orchestra with divisi of the double stops in the upper string parts and the basses doubling the cello part.
Get the music for the string quartet arrangement of Scott Joplin’s Weeping Willow here.
The Weeping Willow Duets in the Great Scott! Joplin for Two Musicians are also available as a digital download.
If you are in a hurry, you can be practicing the Weeping Willow for Violin and Piano, Viola and Piano, and Cello and Piano today. All of the duets could be used for recital or performance.
12/8/12 and 12/21/12
Miriam Troxler 