Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking is a slow syncopated melody over a repeating bass pattern with a soft pedal note. You want a ‘dreamlike’ sound and a consistent slow tempo. Using both una and tre corde pedals helps to achieve that sleepy softness, except in bar 26. I like to enlist the student’s help and get them to use their imagination to narrate a sleepwalking story - describing the ‘sitting up’ chord and the ‘getting out of bed’ of the first 5 bars. What is causing the crescendo at bars 14 to 16? And notice the slow deep breathing occurring at bars 21 to 25. What sudden event could have happened at bar 26? Finally, the opening sequence begins again but this time our sleepwalker fades into a deep sleep.