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Children's Suite
I include the pdf score but not an actual recording with this submission. It is intended to be a first recital piece for very young piano students, and the performances are all designed to have the piano teacher there, participating with the student during the show, to make the shy young performer's first live show easier. All the pieces hold to beginner's strict "5-finger position" - the student's hands get to rest on the keyboard in one position, each finger over a particular key, never to change throughout each piece. There are vocals, to be shared among the teacher and the student. There are sound effects, such as knocking on the piano with the knuckles to imitate a woodpecker, or banging the long part of one's arms on a lot of keys to indicate a child who has fallen off a swingset and landed with a thump on the ground. The whole point is to create something that very small children would enjoy participating in.
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