Quality: 6.5

Difficulty: 8

7:00

Highest Note: alt. G

Dedicated to Ulysse Delecluse, former professor at the Paris Conservatoire; he premiered it in 1956

This is the poetic recollection of a night spent by Henri Tomasi under the Greek sky, near the Parthenon in Athens. (Taken from sneezy)

Movement I is in sonata form and movement II is a five-part rondo

20^th Century, non-avant-garde style: unbarred (part of movement II and all of movements I and III), complex rhythms, negation of beat, chromaticism, large leaps, atypical note groupings

Good sense of rhythm and a steady tempo

Air support over leaps

Finger-tongue coordination

Good finger technique

Light articulation

Observe the breath marks to help with phrasing

Prepared finger technique

Swung rhythms and five magic rhythms, especially in movement III

Practice movement II with the metronome on eighth notes so the rhythm is accurate when the meter changes