#11 Touch Typing (index fingers only) In the recording session, Judy Sherman suggested it should, instead, be called Hunt and Peck.
#12 Northpaw (right-hand étude) During my first year at Brandeis, we lived in Salisbury, Maryland, to where I drove every other weekend. The non-driving weekends I spent writing in my office. This was written in a weekend in my office.
#13 Plucking A (inside the piano). There are two versions — one for smaller grand pianos, one for Steinway D's. As the crossbars are in different places.
Not that you asked for it, but here it is backwards.
#14 Martler (crossing hands)
#15 The Third, Man (thirds) the first of six consecutive 'tudes on intervals.
#16 Ice Boogie (melodic, or "broken" octaves) The "Ice" in the title refers to the five-day ice storm in Maine that was going on while I was writing it; branches broke, electricity was out for several days, we learned how to use our coal stove. Beff tried to walk the eight blocks to downtown to catch a bus to work, fell three times crossing the street, and decided to stay home. Much of the piece was thus written by candlelight.
Amy's recording on Bridge
#17 Keine Kaskadenjagd Mehr (descending thirds and fourths)
#18 Pitching from the Stretch (tenths) written at the MacDowell Colony. This is Amy's recording of it on Bridge.
#19 Secondary Dominance (seconds) also written at MacDowell. This is, by the way, the first 'tude movie I ever shot. Hence the shaky camera.
Amy's recording on Bridge.
#18 Pitching from the Stretch (tenths) written at the MacDowell Colony. This is Amy's recording of it on Bridge.
#19 Secondary Dominance (seconds) also written at MacDowell. This is, by the way, the first 'tude movie I ever shot. Hence the shaky camera.
Amy's recording on Bridge.
#20 Fourth of Habit (fourths) for Geoffrey Burleson. Said to sound "like McCoy Tyner on speed" This is Amy Briggs's recording of it on Bridge.
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This is Marilyn Nonken playing it in her living room.
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This is Marilyn Nonken playing it in her living room.
Amy's recording on Bridge.
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