Mayevski Yu. Funny Rhythms. Vol. 2. Cheerful pieces for piano in 4 hands

This exact collection embraces material for music-making in 4 hands, being simultaneously a small educational aid for mastering of modern rhythms. Music lovers and students of middle grades at colleges are welcome to join the process. 

I considered it my main objective to represent rhythms widely used in modern instrumental dances and songs, working out special formulas for to resort to them every time. Thus I decided it would be expedient to begin pieces in this collection from mere clapping of the given rhythm. It's useful to exchange parts during the studying. There is one more interesting task, i. e. reading of the figuring, which indicates harmony. Usual classical education has not yet provided it. Even mature pianist fail sometimes because of their habitual playing from sheet. However, darting a glance back to the music art's start, it's worth to mark the harmonies to be indicated with figures. Hence the skill of improvisation appeared.

Trying to perform music from this collection any pianist will easily learn the material, comparing it with figuring, thus following harmonic fluctuations. Afterwards the pianist is to adhere only to figuring, without any notes. Therefore I adduced the table of mostly simple figuring indications and their corresponding musical realization. Any executant should notice the figuring indications so as the literal ones differ sometimes depending on the country (e. g. the note b is signed as h). That's why the table of harmonious indentification will be of great use for everybody. Hopefully, such music-making will make your day at the keyboard.

Contents:

BEAT
M. G. Schneider. THANK YOU. Arranged by Jouri Maevski

SAMBA
G. Malmsen. FATEFUL SAMBA. Arranged by Jouri Maevski

WALTZ
Jouri Maevski. WALTZ. From the Past

TANGO
J. M. Rodriguez. LA CUMPARSITA. Arranged by Jouri Maevski

BOSSA NOVA
WINTER WONDERLAND. Arranged by Jouri Maevski

SYNCOPATED RHYTHM
R. Parker — H. Charles. LAST EVENING. Arranged by Jouri Maevski

COMPLICATED MIXED RHYTHMS
V. Poltoratsky. SOUVENIR. Arranged by Jouri Maevski