🇫🇷Charles Camille Saint-Saëns ： Six Etudes Major and Minor Thirds Op.111

The first piece in Saint-Saëns’s Six Etudes, Op. 111, is an étude centered on major and minor thirds, designed to develop coordination and balance between the hands. The successive intervals should be shaped as a continuous musical line, while the small-scale movements retain clear definition and direction. A key point of interest is how the technical repetition avoids sounding monotonous, instead emerging through changes in the overlap and resonance of the notes. In practice, begin by checking that each note is even at a steady tempo, avoiding tension in the wrists and arms while paying attention to the balance between the hands and the cohesion of the phrases. Rather than pursuing speed alone, aim to combine lightness with precision.