An Advent

Calendar
Seven short preludes
for a much loved lover of music

Peter Dobbing
December 2011

Annie Im so pleased youve started practising and playing the

piano again. This collection is a small offering to help you
expand your repertoire, an Anne Mary Dobbing Notebook, if I
may be so bold.
Most of the pieces were composed in November, while you were
otherwise occupied. The CD was recorded in Parkstone at the
same studio I used 27 years ago when I was teaching in Poole.
To explain the titles: I have used the names of saints who
celebrate their feasts in December, during Advent. I used an old
Roman calendar that can be found in the Liber Usualis.
God bless you, my Annie. And keep on practising.
Love, Peter
1st December 2011

CONTENTS

Lucia
Clement
Eusabius
Sabbas
Cecilia
Damasus
Ambrose

Lucia
November 2011

q=80 dolce

Piano

12

18

24

30

pp

LH

Clement
November 2011

q=120

Piano

mp

13

17

mf

21

25

29

Eusabius
November 2011

q=80

Piano

3
3
3
3
3

3
3

3
3
3

LH

13

3 3

3
3
3 3 3 3
3
3
3

LH

17

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3
3

21

3
3
3
3 3 3

25

29

3
3

33

3
3
3
3
3 3 3

3
3

3 3 3 3

36

10

Sabbas
November 2011

Piano

mp

11

11

14

17

21

24

12

Cecilia
November 2011

q=120

Piano

15

faster

PP

20

25

13
30

a tempo

35

41

48

52

14

Damasus
June 2011

q = 50

mp

Piano

10

15

14

mp

19

22

rit

16

Ambrose
q=160

mf

mp
4

12

Piano

16

July 2011

20

17

subito

24

28

31

35

mf

mp

18

39

43

47

51

19

55

p cresc

59

63

67

69