Late Elementary Piano Duet
by Tom Gerou
From Duettini, Book 1
Bright, lively, and delightfully quirky, Picasso in Paris captures the angular energy and unexpected charm of a modern masterpiece. Its gently avant-garde character gives late elementary pianists an unusually sophisticated musical experience while remaining accessible, engaging, and rewarding to perform.
Students develop rhythmic precision through complex meter, accents, alternating-hand patterns, and crisp staccato articulation. Whole-tone scale passages, colorful intervals, changing accidentals, and a broad dynamic range create a vivid contemporary sound world. Imaginative and marvelously adult-like, this duet makes an especially distinctive recital or festival selection.
Concepts include: accents; allegro; alternating hands; complex meter; crescendo and diminuendo; flats, natural signs, and sharps; intervals of 2nds, 3rds, 4ths, and 5ths; quarter, half, and whole notes; rhythmic precision; staccato; whole-tone scale; and dynamics from p through f.
