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Listen to an exceprt of No. 1:
Be my love in the rain
Listen to an exceprt of No. 4:
These Sweet Days
Listen to an exceprt of No. 10:
Laughter and the love of friends
10 minimalist pieces for Piano. Each title is a quotation:
1. Be my love in the rain
from ‘A Line-Storm Song’ by Robert Frost (1874-1963)
2. Live i’ the sun
from ‘As You Like It’ by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
3. Show me a hero
from ‘The Crack Up’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
4. These sweet days
from ‘One of Us Two’ by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)
5. Farewell goes out sighing
from ‘Trolius and Cressida’ by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
6. The long black land
from ‘Meeting at Night’ by Robert Browning (1812-1889)
7. The last ride together
from ‘The Last Ride Together’ by Robert Browning (1812-1889)
8. Home-born happiness
from ‘The Winter Evening’ by William Cowper (1731-1800)
9. Dappled things
from ‘Pied Beauty’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1899)
10. Laughter and the love of friends
from ‘Celebratory Ode’ by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
Difficulty level: grades 6-8/Advanced Intermediate to Advanced