an advent calendar
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An Advent An Advent An Advent An Advent
Calendar Calendar Calendar Calendar
Seven short preludesfor a much loved lover of music
Peter DobbingDecember 2011
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Annie I’m so pleased you’ve started practising and playing thepiano again. This collection is a small offering to help youexpand your repertoire, an ‘Anne Mary Dobbing Notebook’, if Imay be so bold.
Most of the pieces were composed in November, while you wereotherwise occupied. The CD was recorded in Parkstone at thesame studio I used 27 years ago when I was teaching in Poole.
To explain the titles: I have used the names of saints whocelebrate their feasts in December, during Advent. I used an oldRoman calendar that can be found in the Liber Usualis.
God bless you, my Annie. And keep on practising.
Love, Peter
1st December 2011
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CONTENTS
Lucia
Clement
Eusabius
Sabbas
Cecilia
Damasus
Ambrose
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November 2011
Lucia
Piano
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dolce
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12
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24
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LH
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q=120November 2011
Clement
Piano
mp
p
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9
13
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mf
21
25
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June 2011
Damasus
Piano
mp
p
5
10
p
14
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mp
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22
rit
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