Piano Key A To G: Episode Thirty Four - When Voices Become Keys: The Are of Piano Transcription

A good deal of my time this week was spent messing around with a choral work by Sir Edward Elgar. It is a beautiful, delicate setting of the Eucharistic hymn ‘Ave Verum Corpus’ - in Latin, ‘Hail True Body’ - and, since I had finally managed to transcribe and record the piece, I thought it might be an ideal opportunity to look at the subject of piano transcriptions. Specifically, what are they? Why might we be interested in attempting them? And how would you go about making one in the first place?

As always, I hope you enjoy the show! [For free public domain classical scores, as mentioned again in the podcast, please visit the Petrucci Music Library.]