Piano Safari

Composer: Chee-Hwa Tan
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Piano
Level: Late Intermediate

Composed by Chee-Hwa Tan, Windy Nights and Other Tales is a collection of three captivating piano solos. Each piece corresponds with a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. These pieces are intended to encourage young pianists to explore the inherent value of poetry in music and to be bold in expressing that same poetry in performance.

A note from the composer:

"This trilogy of piano solos is inspired by more of my favourite poems from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. The pieces in this collection reinforce specific musical and technical elements at the intermediate to late intermediate levels of piano study. I encourage students to first recite the poems and to imagine how they would communicate the story through the sound colours of the piano. Metronome markings serve only as guidelines - please feel free to choose tempos that reflect how you want the poems to sound."

Contents:

• From a Railway Carriage
• The Land of Story Books
• Windy Nights