Pièces mélodiques Op. 149 n°21

About this work

In Diabelli’s Andante amoroso, the twenty-first piece in opus 149, the melody moves slowly above almost continuous sixteenth notes. Primo sings in slurred groups, while secondo’s right hand rolls through small arpeggios. Secondo’s left hand supplies the bass notes that support the exchange.
Sing above the moving accompaniment
Secondo can practise the sixteenth notes alone, keeping them light enough for the melody to carry. Primo then shapes its phrases without following every small note in the accompaniment. The f-to-p changes bring out the start of a group, but should not make every bar sound like a completely new phrase.
The first and second endings of the repeats are different. Mark out the route together before playing four hands, then practise the turns into the second endings slowly. In primo, several notes remain tied while the accompaniment continues. Listen through the full length of the sustained note, even while your partner’s fingers keep moving.
Score and listeningThe PDF contains both complete piano duet parts in three pages. Alberto Simões’s engraving is distributed by the Mutopia Project under CC BY-SA 3.0 and was made with LilyPond. The MIDI lets you hear both players and their repeats.Original files and credits are available in the Mutopia entry. Explore more music at LesPartitions.info.