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Inspiration

It is nothing weird if I say that this small corner, the Q-inspired one can offer a lot of inspiration... as the name of it also suggests. I finished reading this post and realized that the composer that @ zeraton talked about, Dmitri Shostakovich was indeed underrated. Even I, whose main genre is classical music didn't pay enough attention to that composer. When we were still in the elemental school we had some of his easy pieces in the curriculum but they were not my favourite ones. When we grew up a bit and started to play more serious stuff, we all preferred composers like Chopin and Liszt. Later Debussy, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Prokofiev, but Shostakovich, unfortunately, stayed out of the list.

But the day to change that arrived. At least in my book. So, as the inspiration was still very very fresh, I decided to leave aside other things I would maybe for sure have to study and found the music scores of one famous piece composed by Shostakovich.

Lesson

Yes, I am a piano teacher, so it would be nice if I would give now a small lesson about this piece and the composer in question. But I have enough hours to work and teach today, so I will nonchalantly pass the ball again to this post where you can learn about the tragic life of Dmitri but sadness is not predominating there, don't be afraid. Maybe you can also draw your own conclusions and find your inspiration from his life and from the examples that the writer of that article pointed out.

Still, a few words about this Waltz no.2 will come. I am sure the piece sounds familiar as it is considered one of the most known works of Shostakovich. It is a part of a suite, Suite for Variety Orchestra, and comes as the seventh movement of it. Even if you are not a musician, you can hear the waltz tempo and feel the three beats in every measure. The first one is the strong beat, followed by two weak beats. Looking at its bigger form, it is written in the typical ternary form, where the middle section of a Minor key modulates to the relative Major key. (this is where you hear the "happier" sound, not the sad and melancholic one from the beginning and the end). It is just a very simple and basic explanation of how you can recognize the parts.

The measures, as I already mentioned, can be heard as a sequence of three beats. The photo below represents several measures (bars) from the composition. In every measure, we see three beats, right? So, let's move to the next part of this post, which will be the...

Game

The game. Long time no see in my posts. I used to make those guessing games, maybe some of you remember. And if you don't remember or you are new to my blog, then it is the right time to take part in a new one. In the guessing game in this corner.

The answer to my question can be find out in the video, you will just have to listen to it... and count a bit... or just roughly guess if you are lazy to count. {I suggest this second option 😁}

How many measures did I play in the video?

Don't cheat! I will know if you do that and use for example Google to find out the answer. It would be more than easy... and actually, who would do that? Who would like to cheat and find out the answer like that?

Anyway, the answer you could have from the internet is NOT the right one, as I played here the piece differently. I did something with the parts of the piece... maybe I added some... maybe I skipped some... that is the mystery!

I will send the right answer to the admin of this community, edje, and when a few days pass, we will check out the possible answers and reward the correct one with a little detail. {don't wait for a fortune}. In case there are several correct answers, the winner is who guessed the first. If there is no correct answer, the closest guess will be accepted as the winning one.

So, enjoy this little waltz and have fun listening and counting the measures ;)