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About this piece
Ten Toads is a short piece for cello and piano by Australian composer Elissa Milne, published by Faber Music in 2006 in Fingerprints, a collection of fourteen pieces by living composers for Grade 1–4 cellists. Marked 'Marching' (minim = 76) in cut time and D minor, it moves in steady quaver patterns and ends with two pizzicato notes. It was a selected piece for ABRSM Cello Grade 1 from 2010 to 2015 and is also in the RCM Cello Repertoire Preparatory Level book. Faber also sells it as a single digital download.
Technical overview
A Grade 1-level march in D minor using first-position notes on the G, D and A strings, plus a final pizzicato low D. It works on separate-bow quavers with string crossings, staccato, frequent dynamic contrasts with a crescendo, a poco rit./a tempo and a pizzicato ending.
Technical focus
- A String Notes
- D String Notes
- G String Notes
- C String Notes
- String Crossings
- Detaché
- Dynamics
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Articulation
- Tempo Changes
- Pizzicato
- Collaboration with Piano