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What charming "little pieces" do you know?

They should be simply remarkable.

Here's my entry: Musical Snuff Box by Liadov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVfyiDO7Kk0

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I entirely agree with you about Lyadov's 'Musical Snuffbox' - it's a beautiful gem.

    Many of Percy Grainger's works are, in my opinion, mini masterpieces, such 'Country Gardens', 'Handel in the Strand', 'Mock Morris', 'Molly on the Shore', 'Shepherd's Hey!', 'Train Music', etc. Other charmers that come to mind:

    Ives - The Circus Band

    Ives - Hallowe'en (how appropriate!)

    Ives - Remembrance

    Ives - Scherzo: all the Way Round and Back

    Ives - Song of Harvest Season

    Ives - Yale-Princeton Football Game

    Satie - 3 véritables préludes flasques

    Shostakovich - Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two)

    Satie - Le Piccadilly

    Varèse - Tuning Up (OK, maybe not charming, but a fascinating 3 minutes)

    There are also some sub-four-minute overtures that I return to time and time again:

    Bernstein - Candide

    Kabalevsky - Colas Breugnon

    Mozart - Bastien and Bastienne

    Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro

    Salieri - Il talismano

  • 1 decade ago

    March of the Tin Soldiers, #5 in the Tschaikovsky Album for the Young, op. 39, is all in the treble clef.

    The lowest note is A below middle C.

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