{"id":241,"date":"2026-01-11T22:23:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/?p=241"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:24:15","slug":"debussys-prelude-to-an-afternoon-of-a-faun-a-transcription-shortened-for-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"Debussy&#8217;s &#8220;Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun&#8221; &#8212; a transcription shortened for piano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a shortened version of a transcription of this orchestral piece for solo piano made by Leonard Borwick published in 1914. It is available for free download from the Petrucci Music Library online. I shortened the transcription to half the playing time by playing through the 6th measure on the 6th page, and then jumping to page 12 to complete the piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Debussy&#039;s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (shortened version for piano)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cNTFZmFbzOU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a shortened version of a transcription of this orchestral piece for solo piano made by Leonard Borwick published in 1914. It is available for free download from the Petrucci Music Library online. I shortened the transcription to half the playing time by playing through the 6th measure on the 6th page, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.mustacich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}