La Pastorale was written by a composer of the Romantic era called Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmuller, who lived from 1806 to 1874.
This piece is from a collection of piano pieces called "25 Etudes Faciles" - twenty five easy studies, and suits piano players of around grade three standard.
This is a good study for developing technique and rhythm. One aspect of technique it is particularly useful for is developing coordination between the hands due to the fact that it consists of a right hand melody over a chordal left hand accompaniment. The challenge is to make the right hand melody sing out above the accompaniment (as indicated by "cantabile" on the score) and to keep the left hand chords light. Keeping the left hand chords light as well as neat, with all the notes sounding together requires good finger control. This will take practice and patience, and plenty of careful listening to the sound that you are making.
As for the rhythm, this piece is written in 6/8 which is a compound time signature. Compound time signatures tend to have a lilting feeling, and plenty of momentum. You can read more about compound time signatures here.
This piece is from a collection of piano pieces called "25 Etudes Faciles" - twenty five easy studies, and suits piano players of around grade three standard.
This is a good study for developing technique and rhythm. One aspect of technique it is particularly useful for is developing coordination between the hands due to the fact that it consists of a right hand melody over a chordal left hand accompaniment. The challenge is to make the right hand melody sing out above the accompaniment (as indicated by "cantabile" on the score) and to keep the left hand chords light. Keeping the left hand chords light as well as neat, with all the notes sounding together requires good finger control. This will take practice and patience, and plenty of careful listening to the sound that you are making.
As for the rhythm, this piece is written in 6/8 which is a compound time signature. Compound time signatures tend to have a lilting feeling, and plenty of momentum. You can read more about compound time signatures here.