Les cinq doigts is a 1921 piano composition byIgor Stravinsky. Subtitled8 mélodies très faciles sur 5 notes (8 very easy melodies on 5 notes), the work comprises eight short pieces in which the right hand generally plays only five notes, remaining in essentially the same position at the keyboard throughout the work. Themovements of the work have these tempo markings:
Richard Taruskin has noted that the third section, the "Allegretto", is anarrangement of the Russian folk melody "Kamarinskaya".[1]
Stravinsky made a recording ofLes cinq doigts forBrunswick Records as part of his first recording contract, signed in 1925.[2]
In 1962, the composerorchestrated the pieces, adding a fewcounter-melodies andimitations, yielding the chamber work,Eight Miniatures for Fifteen Players.
The Moderato movement is featured in the movieCoco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky.[citation needed]
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