Side Notes: Helpful Hints:
• This song is dedicated to the memory of one • This version has been transposed to an easier key because, although it is a simple song,
of my best friends, who was also my music too many people who played it were intimidated by five flats. (I have however, included
mentor and older sister, Rose-Anne. “Tribute” in the original key. It appears at the end of the book.) Try the original version
It is intended as an expression of loss,
love, assurance and reunion. first. If the five flats give you trouble, see my Helpful Hints in the song “All of Me” on page
51. If all else fails, learn this version first and it will make learning the other version much
easier.
• Besides the definition that I gave earlier in “Cherished Moments,” there is another
definition of rubato that works better when playing expressive music that is very slow in
tempo, like that at the beginning of this song. This definition says to let the important notes
steal time from the less important notes. When thinking of this definition choose what you
consider to be the important notes. Think of them as rocks thrown into a pool. Watch the
ripples until you feel ready to go on. (Don't let the fear of waiting too long make you
continue before you are ready.) Then the job of the shorter or connecting notes is to balance
out the lengthened notes with the feeling of acceleration. So the music doesn’t drag.
• Level of difficulty: easiest in the book. (Especially if you start on measure 16 and skip
the fast middle part.)
Tribute
(Rose-Anne's Song)
*Easier Key
Slow Rubato written by Jon Schmidt
©copyright 1996 (from the album Walk in the Woods )
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Pedal ad-lib, except where noted
6 8va . . . . . . .
Slowly, with the bottom
11
note on the down beat.
R.H.
[
This is a downward
arpeggio.
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15 now flowing, but not too fast (sensitive)
18
22
26
( )
slow cresc.
30
5 5 5
4 2 4 2 1 2 4
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5
4 2 1 1 2 3
slow cresc.
1 1 1
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1
1 1
46
3 4 1 2
cresc. 2 1
3
5 This fingering changed my life.
3 5 5 5
50 3 4
2
2 3 4
2
3
4
2
3
4
2 3 4
2
3 simile
1 1 1 1
cresc.
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dim.
58
62
66
1
2
3
70
cresc. 1
3 2
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Majestically
74
1 2
rit. a tempo
78
2
1 1
thumb on both
cresc. dim.
2 1
1 3
82
1
3
3 4 3 2 3
86
4
2
1 1
slow dim.
2 1
1 3
90
top two if you can't reach
3
4 5 4
3 2
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94
3
1 1
98
molto cresc. dim.
103
1 1
For a shorter performance,
skip to measure 169 now.
rit.
Mood change: begin a double time feel.
109 (Make a gradual transition to an up-beat mood.)
a tempo rit. a tempo
113 Continue transition until the measure 117.
cresc.
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=132-144
accent
simile
120
123 5 5
3 2
2 1
5 5
5 1
1 1
126 3
1
4
3 5
129 4 1 3 4
1 3 2
cresc.
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133
Make sure to notice quarter note.
136
(quarter note)
140
5 5 5
2 2 2
143 3 2
1
146 5 5 Yes, that's right.
2 3
3
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5 4 5 3 5
149
153
157 L.H. over
160 L.H. over L.H. over
accent simile
dim.
L.H. over L.H. over
163 L.H. over L.H. over
rit.
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"G"
167
return to slow Rubato feel
172
dim.
175
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