Music for Study

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Solo piano

May 1, 1940, Composers’ Forum Laboratory, New York City, Erich Weil, piano

Numbers 1 and 2 published by E. H. Morris in Contemporary American Piano Music

1. Children’s Suite for Piano (1938)           Shepherd’s Song           March           Waltz           The Small Sad Sparrow           Corn Song           Irish Lament (Famine of 1845)           The Brook	5 min 30 sec
2. Two Preludes for Four Hands (1941)	2 min
3. Five Little Canons (1941)	2 min
4. Two Descriptive Pieces (1941)	3 min
5. Study in Changing Meter (1935)	1 min 30 sec

There are seven pieces in the Children’s Suite for Piano, and each piece is a beautiful little composition that stresses some aspect of technique, such as trills, within the context of a complete composition that is aesthetically pleasing.

–adapted from Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Vivian Fine, Scarecrow Press, 1999

 

Music for Study...is a broad title that encompasses five separate sets of minatures....Fine composed these pieces for didactic purposes, but not specifically for her own few students. Children’s Suite is a wonderfully successful set and should be more widely known and used among piano teachers.

-Leslie Jones, “The Solo Piano Music of Vivian Fine,” Doctor of Musical Arts thesis, University of Cincinnatti, 1994.