Emily’S Etude

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Mark Matthews early life

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Born 1961, in Wollongong NSW, studied piano, organ and singing. Did an honours degree in engineering and was a construction engineer before being a musician. Got a diploma in music and now teaches music and engineering at Wollongong College of TAFE. He is also an ABC radio presenter, performs with the Illawarra choir and has recorded solo albums and gospel songs.

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Mark Matthews - emily’s etude background

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Emily’s etude was inspired by mark matthew’s daughter and is a reflection of her conversations that which change constantly, are dynamically varied and always have her with the last word.

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Etudes

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Etude is the french word for study and it is desinged to learn a skill (in this case finger legato). In the 1800s this became popular. Some famous composers who wrote etudes are czerny, cramer and chopin.

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Key

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A flat major

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Form

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It has repeating sections that aren’t in any traditional form so you might call in through composed. It has the sections ABABAC

A phrase 1- 1-4

A phrase 2 - 5-13

B - touches on c major 14-18

A2 - 19-31

B2 - octave lower 32-36

A3 - octave lower and with some of the bass notes double (played as an octave)

Codetta - repeat of bars 14-15 but with new dynamics

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Changing time signature

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Changing metre

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Pause

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Fermata

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Three line quavers

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Demisemi quavers

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Riten

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Ritenuto - slow down immediately

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Accelerando

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Gradually becoming faster

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Rubato

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Treat the beat flexibly, prolong significant notes or chords

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Largo

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Broadly - very slow tempo

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pp

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Pianissimo- very soft

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8ve

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Ottava - series of notes played an octave higher than written on the staff

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Piu accel

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Become even more quick