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By Moonlight

written by Jon Schmidt(from the album ) A Day in the Sunset

By Moonlight ©1998

Side Notes: Helpful Hints:

copyright ©1998

With a flowing, yet rubato feel

=65-72

(while it's cheap)

Attention beginners: If this song looks too hard, start at measure 10

asterisk notes may be played with R.H. if you like

4

6

• A friend of mine met a very pretty Fijian woman ona trip to the island. One warm clear night they found themselves walking hand in hand by a river. Themoonlight was reflecting off the water and into herbeautiful long black hair, etc., etc., etc.. They fell in love

Pedal ad-lib, except where noted

and ended up gettting married. As a wedding gift I tried to capture in music that perfect night for them.

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• The rhythm on this song looks like it could be scary. Just take it one column at a time and the rhythm will take care

thought to be an excellent essay on Rubto in Book 1 (in an effort tobe a little more up to date politically). Let me just mention that thegist of "Rubato" is that you have the permission to speed up, slowdown, or even stop the tempo if you feel it will help you to expressthe phrase more, uh, expressively.

• To the great relief of many, I've decided not to reprint what I had of itself.

(And also, dig it.)girls

It's Not.

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32By Moonlight ©1998

8

I find it funny that people are fine with 6-8 time, yet they have a problem with 12-8 and 9-8 time. This is quite useless bec

The =1 The =2 The =3.

1

Isn't that easy? Oh, and sometimes you might need to know that

2 3 1 2 3

ause they all work the same. Remember, whenever the bottom # is 8:

I use this system almost all the time because I don't like saying "ta te ta" or "ee and a".

The =4 The =6 and The =8

(It can be used with 4-4 time!...or 3-4!.. or 2-4 or 2-2 or 7-8

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14

17

You might want to start on this measure the first time. If you do,look at measure 2 to see what the asterisks mean.

or5-8 ........

pedal simile




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23

26

29

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F#

* *

E

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cresc.

A




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35

38

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decresc.

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L.H.

cresc.

R.H.

cresc. decresc.

dolce

* *

*1 2 3

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45

48

Cross R.H. thumb under to avoid collision

1

51

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pp

|

cresc.

decresc.

5 3 2 1

*

cresc.

|Do a 3 against 2 rhythm if you like.

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54

57

60

4

1

5

1

63

cresc. decresc. * *

*

cresc.

E

molto allarg.a tempo

A

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84

important hold

GA

1 2 3 4 molto rit.(a division of Molto Meal ®) a tempo

E

cresc.

decresc.F

molto rit.

no pedal lift

a tempo * *

rit.

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