- Level: Elementary (the primo is slightly easier than the secondo)
- Pages: 2 page piece; 2 files provided (primo and secondo) each with 4 pages, cover included!
- Style: Swaggering
- Bonus: mp3 performance recording
- Format: PDF instant download + mp3
Get ready for a swashbuckling good time with everyone’s favorite chickens! The Buc-Buc-Buccaneer Waltz (does anyone else hear a chicken bawking?) is wonderful fun for students who are new to duets. The waltz feel and melody are fun for students to play, which makes the process of learning to perform a duet for the first time exciting!
What Level is Buc-Buc-Buccaneer?
Buc-Buc-Buccaneer Waltz is elementary level. The quarter note is the smallest note value, and the waltz is wonderful practice for students who may be struggling with the feel of triple time. The piece is written in a natural minor scale with a sharp 4th scale degree occasionally making an appearance for a pirate sound. All the accidentals are written throughout the piece so students don’t have to worry about key signatures.
The Primo is slightly easier than the Secondo, making it a wonderful duet for sibling groups or students who aren’t at the exact same level. The Primo features beautiful dynamic swells and diminuendos, while the Secondo has no dynamics save for a fortissimo in the last measure. This creates a wonderful opportunity for exploring dynamics as a duo, and learning about how they weave in and out (or dance around one another!) to great different sounds.
The Primo features both staccatos and accents, as well as a few phrasings and ties written in. The Secondo has plenty of phrasings written in, as well as a few staccatos.
The Primo never leaves its hand position, and is perfect for small hands. The Secondo moves out of position for some scale-like passages, with clear fingers written in.
There is no pedaling for either part.
Bonuses
With your purchase of this Buc-Buc-Buccaneer Waltz studio license, you will receive:
- A bonus mp3 recording of Diane Hidy and her student performing Buc-Buc-Buccaneer Waltz. You are permitted to send this example performance track to your students to help them learn the piece.
What is the Studio License?
Buc-Buc-Buccaneer Waltz is delivered digitally (through your email receipt) and is studio licensed. This means that you can print and use this piece for any student that you directly teach for your entire lifetime of teaching.
Bundle and Save
Buc-Buc-Buccaneer Waltz is one of three All Cooped Up duets that are especially fun for Halloween events. You can get an even better value by purchasing them all together as this All Cooped Up Halloween Duets Bundle.
Melody Suter –
This too is a favourite and my students are loving learning it. They love the little illustrations that come with the pieces and most of them know chickens quite well as they live on farms and can see the typical chicken actions and responses in the music. They are really enjoying the music and also the fact they get to play with others. Thank you Diane and Wendy.
Kelly Parker –
I love this whole set (Poultry Pranks, Buc-Buc-Buccaneer, Chicken Bone Dance). I told my students it’s a Halloween sonatina so they would need to learn them all. 😉 There are a lot of expressive dynamics in the score and with some modeling I found the students really embraced the crescendi. I am so pleased with the musical results I’m getting from my Level 2A students with this piece. The duets are great too!
Kathy G –
My mother-daughter duet team especially loved this one, even continuing past Halloween because family travel prevented them from playing it for me beforehand. At one point the daughter solemnly told her mom, ‘your right hand is too loud there’ and the mom nodded and off they went again. These three new duets are a wonderful addition to the All Cooped Up universe.
Kirstin –
Pirate chickens…completly genius and hilarious! We started our first duet class a few weeks ago with this one, and it was a hit! My students are still practicing it, even though they passed it two weeks ago!
Cynthia Carrell –
I have two sisters who are students and who are learning this duo. They love it! – It’s accessible, fun, and challenging, but quick to learn, and it’s also is teaching them valuable ensemble skills. All of Wendy Steven’s music is so attractive!
Carol Ann Biffle –
This was a fun sight reading challenge for my early intermediate student playing the secondo part.