Humoresque

Composer

Key

D Major and D Minor

Nationality

Czech


Time Signature

2/4

Annotation

Range: G3-C6
Tempo: Poco lento e grazioso
Left Hand
  • 1st and 3rd position
  • Low 2 and High 2 – C5, C#5
  • Accidental – High 3 – G#4
  • Key change from D major to D minor
  • Uses Low 1 – Bb4 and F5 in D minor section
  • Grace notes
  • Either shift into 3rd position, or 4th finger extension for C6
  • Optional harmonic
Bowing
  • Slurs for 16th notes and 32nd notes
  • Leggiero Bowing
  • Bow distribution
  • Use of weight, and less weight in 2 note slur “scooping”
  • Half note slurred into sixteenth note on beat 1 – bow speed and bow distribution work.
Rhythm
  • Half notes
  • Quarter notes
  • Eighth notes
  • Sixteenth Notes
  • Thirty-second notes
  • Some syncopation using eighth and quarter
Previews
  1. m. 9 – String crossing from D string to E string ; Shift if using that fingering; Bowing – work on dropping and lifting the arm.
  2. m. 22 – String crossing with slurs; Shift if using 3rd position
  3. m. 25 – 26 – 3rd position and shift if using that fingering; D minor key change – new finger positions; bowing sinking into string;
  4. Note the changes between m. 25 -26 and m. 29 – 30
  5. m. 38 Learn rhythm; includes 32nd notes.
  6. m. 40 Focus on fingering and intonation for C6 – Either shift into 3rd position or 4th finger extension.
  7. Learn to count sixteenth notes and sixteenth rests; Can count it in 4/8
  8. Focus on scooping motion or banana boat motion with bow arm. Using the arm to create the motion not the hand or fingers.

Recording of Humoreque by Dvorak

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