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François Couperin: Les petits moulins à vent (The little windmills)

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Uploaded by on Jan 26, 2009

This piece comes from Couperin's Pieces de clavecin, Book 3: 17th Ordre. I have uploaded this as part of a short series of videos of a few of the many pieces on the 2009-10 piano exam syallabuses (Grades 5-8) of three major international examining bodies based in the UK. This is on list A of the ABRSM Grade 6 syllabus (it was on the Grade 6 syllabus for 1969 at which time I first learned to play it!). I think the piece can take a little rubato - otherwise it can sound boring on piano. A harpsichord recording I heard had pronounced breaks before some of the leaps, presumably to add variety, but I have not included them here. In an exam, you would not play the repeats as I have done.
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  • Lovely.

  • @gyenming Thank you!

  • It's so easy!

  • @TheK0909 Thank you. Do you mean the piece is easy, or I play it in a way that makes it look easy?

  • @PSearPianist no it's so easy my teacher made me just sightread this and i got it right until the repeat in the first page

  • @TheK0909 That's good sightreading! I wish you luck with your continued study of the piece!

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  • @PSearPianist this reminds me of J.S. Bach-it sounded as if Bach made it.

  • @01orhun Thank you.  Sorry for the delay in responding to your kind comment!

  • perfect :) without any mistake =)

  • @aninon46 Gracias por tu comentario muy amable. Yo no hablo el idioma español, pero sí sé cómo utilizar Google Translate!

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