Amy Beach Childrens Carnival Op. 25 ( UNIVERSAL CHILDRENS DAY FINALE)

Childrens Carnival, op. 25, has six movements, which are named after characters or episodes that may be found in pantomime or commedia delarte. The first movement, Promenade, is the marchstyle introductory piece to the suite. Promenade opens with a trumpetlike, fourmeasure fanfare in octaves with both hands playing together. The fanfare features repeated notes and arpeggios, and Beach was very specific regarding fingering in this section. Beachs fastidious and thorough fingering indications demonstrate her desire to help students develop good technique, and provide her interpretation, as a pianistcomposer, of the best execution of the piece. Promenade has a righthand melody with a brokenchord accompaniment. The primary rhythmic skill addressed in Promenade is the execution of the dottedeighthsixteenth rhythm in the melody. The B section contrasts this skipping dottedeighthsixteenth rhythm with a flowing scalar even eighthnote rhythm to reinforce the stylistic difference between the two