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  • September 1, 2011 at 4:43 pm #83137
    Saul Davis Zlatkovski
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    What are your favorite pieces for developing pedaling technique?

    September 1, 2011 at 6:13 pm #83138
    Jessica A
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    What do you mean by pedaling technique?

    September 2, 2011 at 4:38 pm #83139
    Elizabeth Volpé Bligh
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    You can’t beat the orchestra harp part for the Magic Fire Music by Wagner. The Debussy Danses are excellent for this purpose as well. Pierne’s Impromptu-Caprice is another good one. There are innumerable orchestra excerpts with crazy pedalings: i.e.Salome’s Dance by R. Strauss.

    September 2, 2011 at 5:42 pm #83140
    sherry-lenox
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    Hi Saul- if you are speaking of developing as in intermediate students, Etude 47 from Bochsa’s Fifty Etudes is great. It’s a very familiar Mozart melody with enough chromaticism to make planning a must and the need for precise pedal changes an essential.

    I get enormous satisfaction from making progress with it. No doubt there are many good students who could handle it after a couple years of instruction. It’s taken me a little over four years but worth every minute.

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