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Water Lilies in C major

William Gillock

What's this piece like?
Big Note Solos is a wonderful collection for beginners with short pieces that are both extremely inventive and well written. This piece will help you develop pedal technique as well as coordination between right and left hands.
Who's this piece for?
Great piece for beginners who like relaxing, dreamy pieces.
1-2 pages
Romantic
C major

MOOD: Calm, dreamy, melancholic and relaxing.

TECHNIQUE: Broken chords and crossing hand.

Ranking
Equivalent to RCM preparatory levels
Equivalent to ABRSM level 1
Equivalent to Suzuki book 1
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2001

Terrorists attack the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in NYC.

2002

On the Transmigration of Souls, John Adams' homage to the victims of the 9/11 attacks premieres in NYC.

2003

Licht ("Light"), Karlheinz Stockhausen's cycle of seven operas, started in 1977 and was completed in 2003 with the opera Sonntag aus Licht.

2004

Third largest ever recorded earthquake devastates the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

2005

Water Lilies was first published 12 years after W. Gillock died.

2012

The existence of the Higgs Boson was confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider in Cern, Switzerland.

2016

Bob Dylan receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.

2016

Pierre Boulez, one of the dominant figures of the post-war classical music world, dies on January 5th.

2018

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking dies on March 14th.

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