Carnival
I know the word “carnival,” but since it isn’t held in Japan, I wasn’t sure what it’s like.
I learned that it’s held 46 days before Easter. And looking at online videos, I found masked people, marching bands, dances and parades, a lady flying down from the sky, etc…..
It seems that masks aren’t always necessary, and it can be cheerful or gentle. They vary from country to country. However, one thing I think they all have in common is “everybody is going out into the town and having fun doing something different from usual.”
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This song has the fastest tempo of all my songs but it has no difficult fingerings, so I can play it fully vigorously. I played it with a good feeling, misunderstanding that my playing has improved, and ended up playing last repeat one extra time. So I added the words “Repeat ad lib.” to the score. That solved the problem perfectly. 🙂
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Song Information
- Title: Carnival
- Composer: Issay Tsumeki ( 爪木一晴 )
- Work number: Op. 49
- Date of composition: Aug. 8, 2023
- Date of release: Feb. 15, 2025
Photos
- Two masked men – Schwaben, Germany; by Couleur on Pixabay
- Masked king – Tyrol, Austria; by silvia steffan on Pixabay
- Masked lady – Venice, Italy; by Serge WOLFGANG on Pixabay
- Lady in a peacock dress – Venice, Italy; by Stacy Ropati on Unsplash
- A party dressed in blue and red – Paralimni, Cyprus; by Dimitris Vetsikas on Pixabay
- Rio Carnival 2016; by Scott Lum on Flickr (License CC BY-NC 2.0)
- Dancing team – Brazil; by anjodivino0 on Pixabay