Description: Azure Skies is a gentle, descriptive piece that invites the performer to depict a mood of euphoria.

Purpose: Voicing a melodic line while accompanying it in the same phrase. A good study in pedaling and an introduction to accellerando.

Suggestions for Instruction: Have the student play only the first note of each measure, then play again connecting the sounds with the damper pedal. Then add the other notes subordinately. Stress the “pp” at the end.

Key: C Major

Publisher: Willis Music
Series: Willis
Piano Level: Late Elementary
Pages: 4
Credits: Ronald Bennett Later Elementary Level
Composer(s): Ronald Bennett