Gottes Segen (from Drei Lieder, Op. 14 No. 1)
by Luise Adolpha Le Beau · arranged by Samuel Araya
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Publisher
- Samuel Araya (self-published on IMSLP, 2021)
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About this piece
Samuel Araya's 2021 cello-and-piano arrangement of 'Gottes Segen', the first of Le Beau's Drei Lieder, Op. 14 (Berlin: Fürstner, c.1887). The cello takes the hymn-like vocal line over the song's repeated-chord accompaniment. It gives younger students a way to play Le Beau, whose catalogue entries otherwise start at the 4 Stücke, Op. 24 and the Cello Sonata.
Technical overview
A slow song melody ('Mässig bewegt') in F major and 4/4, written in bass clef. The line reaches F above middle C, so students shift to 3rd position, and it uses dotted-quarter and dotted-half rhythms with crescendo and diminuendo hairpins over a steady repeated-chord piano part.
Technical focus
- Shifting
- Dotted Rhythms
- Dynamics
- Hairpin Dynamics
- A String Notes