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Essential information about the book L'accordéon d'Albana - Book 5 "Paths of Europe"
With "L'accordéon d'Albana," Thierry Bouchet offers a study path designed for the instrument, while engaging with history. Although the accordion was born in the 19th century, its pedagogical repertoire draws as much from popular idioms as from the spirit of earlier didactic collections, such as character pieces in the style of Michel Corrette. The series also pays tribute to the French accordion tradition, notably to the Lyonnaise accordionist Albana Serrepuy, a figure of 19th-century salon music, whose "fine talent" and "method" inspire here a lively musical learning grounded in practice.
Book 5, "Paths of Europe," brings together dances and character pieces inspired by several cultures of the continent, designed to work on style, phrasing, articulation, and keyboard balance in a coherent musical progression. Included are: France "Bateau-mouche"; Hungary "Hungarian Airs" (a. Chant magyar, b. Hungarian Dance); Ireland "Irish Dances" (a. Gig, b. Hornpipe, c. Reel); Spain "Sevillana"; Bohemia "Zingari"; Russia "Russian Suite" (a. Valse triste, b. Winter Song, c. Scherzo, d. Variations). Each page associates a precise stylistic color with a clear technical objective: movements and positions, right-hand articulation, bellows control, first polyphonies, and harmonic playing. All pieces can be played on an accordion without registration; some lend themselves to timbre choices according to the performer's taste, without altering the indicated pitch of the bass reed.
