Erik SATIE
ENFANTINES
Nine piano pieces for beginners.
• Menus propos Enfantins
• Enfantillages pittoresques
• Peccadilles Importunes
€12.00 – €16.00
WEIGHT: 220 gr.
The collection Enfantines contains nine pieces for beginners. Seven of them are two pages long. For a beginner, this already takes quite a bit of practice. One piece is even three pages long, while another is just one page. Although written for children as exercises with a nice musical balance, they are very suitable for the adult beginner, too. These pieces are a perfect addition to your repertoire once you have reached page 77 in the NOTUS PIANO FOUNDATION Textbook, at which point you will know all the white keys of the piano.
Please choose the product type below for your purchase: HARDCOPY (printed and stapled in the spine, 16 euros) or PDF with the option ‘READ and PRINT’ (12 euros).
Erik Satie, best known for his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes, composed three collections of three pieces each in the fall of 1913. These pieces were actually intended to be learned and played by children.
These three volumes together are also known as the Enfantines. The nine pieces are as follows:
– Menus Propos Enfantins (October 10, 1913):
(1) – Le chant guerrier du Roi des Haricots
(2) – Ce que dit la petite Princesse des Tulipes
(3) – Valse du chocolat aux Amandes
• Enfantillages Pittoresques (22 oktober 1913)
(4) – Petit Prélude à la Journée
(5) – Berceuse
(6) – Marche du Grand Escalier
• Peccadilles Importunes (26 oktober 1913)
(7) – Etre jaloux de son camarade qui a une grosse tête
(8) – Lui manger sa tartine
(9) – Profiter de ce qu’il a des cors aux pieds pour lui prendre son cerceau
The pieces bear the unmistakable style of Satie’s salon music but are nevertheless strongly narrative, illustrative, harmonious and melodic. As a result, the beginning pianist has a lot of room for personal interpretation, which results in a great deal of satisfaction and can even encourage experimentation.
Five-finger position.
These nine pieces are composed based on the five-finger position with beginners in mind. The principle adopted here is that each entire composition is written with five consecutive naturals (white keys) for each hand. Moreover, in the Enfantines, the notes of each hand follow one another such that the composition is based on ten consecutive naturals, one for each finger. The hands don’t have to be moved at any point during the entire piece. They are therefore excellent finger reflex exercises. At the beginning of each composition, we have illustrated the position of the hands on the piano using a diagram of the piano keyboard, the player’s hands and the staff (see the example pages below). This helps the beginner to start the pieces in the right way and also serves as a teaching aid.
Seven of the nine compositions are two pages long. Both pages are side by side. As a result, there is no need to turn pages while playing. One piece is one page long and one is three pages.
In this NOTUS edition, the original order of the nine compositions has been changed, arranging them instead from easy to difficult (with regard to beginner piano technique). This is justified in the introduction. Explanations are also given for the short phrases Satie notated between the staves. These phrases set the mood of the pieces and at the same time give some insight into the lives of children at the time (rich and poor).
Plus some supplementary guidelines for reading NOTUS Music Notation, for the few who come into contact with NOTUS for the first time through this publication.
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Version: HARDCOPY – PRINT
– size: 21.7 x 31.5 cm
– number of pages: 26
– stapled in the spine
– weight: 176 gr + packaging 44 gr = 220 gr
– cover: 4-colour printing
– interior: black
– illustrated with 3 pictures
Version: PDF-READ-and-PRINT
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