Largo from The New World Symphony
Largo printable sheet music for piano from Dvorak's "New World Symphony," free! This beautiful orchestral piece is also known, sometimes, as "Going Home," with sentimental lyrics that match the warmth of the melody.
I remember that in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" Francie Nolan's beloved school music teacher won the hearts of his tough little immigrant students with the sheer joy and beauty of the music he shared with them and taught them to sing -- not until years later did Francie learn that the proper name of "Going Home" was really "Largo", from the New World Symphony.
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Here is the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in part 2 of Dvorák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World' -- a very exciting performance:
"I LOVE this song"
I once gave this arrangement of Dvorak's Largo to a student who seemed sad. First, I told her what my piano teacher told me years and years ago about Dvorak - that he was in America, the "new world," and was homesick for his own country.
Suspecting that the solemness of the music might touch a chord with her, I played the whole piece. She looked me in the face and said, "I LOVE this song."
Two weeks later she had the music almost perfect. (And she was still saying, "I LOVE this song.) It was just right for her, having started Piano Adventures 2B not too long before.
Same arrangement, much shorter
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All notes can be reached without stretching
If you examine this second arrangement, and the following one, you will realize that the "5-finger hand position" is all that is needed to play all the notes. Place the hands in "C position," and it's all there!
I started a couple of younger students on this arrangement, and the first thing I had them do was just find a Left Hand C open chord, down low (after identifying those initial bass clef notes on their Note-Reading worksheets).
Then I asked them to lift their hand and come up an octave to the next higher C position. Back and forth. Easy-peasy, even for young students still in the first pages of "the Red Book" (John Thompson). Then we made a little duet out of the piece, with me playing the melody, just the first two lines. (Line 3, above, requires more explanation.)
The Largo, VERY short indeed, with lettered notes
This "New World Symphony" feels so American...
It is interesting that this symphony written by a composer from Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) seems to capture the essence of America... some of the feeling of this particular melody can even be detected in Disney's "Pocohontas."
And here is a great American baritone, Lawrence Tibbett singing the song "Going Home" (mentioned by Francie Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), based on the horn solo from this beautiful symphony:
The links for the Largo piano music:
Download printable sheet music, long arrangement, for "Largo" from The New World Symphony
Download introduction to the Largo
Download really short introduction to Largo
Dianna:
Your website is a light in the darkness. THANK YOU for all you do in helping to spread the love of music. It matters!
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