Joyce Grill, Stately Dance
Joyce Grill
"Stately Dance" is in essence a classic Minuet, complete with Baroque articulation. The composer allows the performer, by not adding slurs, to chose to do a non-legato accompaniment, which would be in line with Baroque performance practice. This is a great opportunity to introduce this concept to the young performer. Other classic elements are sequences and four bar phrases.
Composer/Publisher Information[]
Joyce Grill, a former faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, provides practical suggestions from her extensive teaching experience as she presents workshops to teachers and students across the country. Grill holds the MTNA Master Teacher Certificate and has been active in MTNA serving as the Wisconsin State President and the Division Vice-President. She also founded the La Crosse Area Music Teachers Association and serves on several arts advisory boards. In 2006, she was named a MTNA Foundation Fellow.
Grill holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has also received training at the School of Fine Arts in Fontainebleau, France, where she studied theory and composition with Nadia Boulanger and piano with Robert and Jean Casadesus.
Known for her ensemble writing, Grill is also a frequent guest conductor for multi-piano concerts. Some of her best-known publications originally published by Warner Bros. Publications, including In Style, Down the Road, and Accompanist (Yes, It Really Happens), are now available from Alfred Music Publishing.
Country Scenes is available through Alfred Music Publishing.
Author[]
Dr. Alan Huckleberry, Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy, The University of Iowa School of Music