On Sep 22, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Carl Donsbach wrote:
Harold Owen wrote:
There is a delightful piece from the Bach family for three players at
one keyboard. It is written for two children in the middle and an adult
whose hands are on the outside. I...
The lutenist John Dowland wrote a piece for "two to play on one lute", presumably written for a young lady student. The player of the bass part is supposed to pass his arms around the treble player.
Carl Donsbach
In _Men, Women and Pianos_, Arthur Loesser points out that there was a whole genre of early-19th-c. 4-hands music written for one player to take the outer parts while another played the inner. As w. the Dowland, this was designed to facilitate courtship.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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