Bijou Minuet
Composer
Key
D Major
Nationality
British
Time Signature
3/4
Annotation
Range: E4-D6
Tempo: Allegretto
Form: Minuet and Trio – AABBCCDDAB
Left Hand
- Uses 1st and 3rd position.
- Most shifts are after open strings, or are replacement finger shifts. Only a couple shifts are from a finger to a different finger. This is a great piece for a beginning shifter.
Bowing
- Collé
- Staccato
- Slurred detaché
- 12 sixteenth notes slurred together.
- Contrasting dynamics – echo phrases.
- Only 1 crescendo and diminuendo
Rhythm
- Slurred Dotted Eighth followed by 2 32nd notes
Recording
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