This piece is intended, ultimately, to be included in the next revision of Playing the Carillon: An Introductory Method. For years, I've used Prelude No. 2, from Three Preludes for Carillon, by Theophil Rusterholz as a piece for introducing relatively simple pedal playing with the "violin" figurations reminiscent of the Preludios of Matthias Vanden Gheyn. After teaching that piece for several years, I decided that a better preparation for Vanden Gheyn would be a piece with some of the same idioms as Vanden Gheyn, especially the fully-diminished seventh chords, and with more logical development. My first intention was to replace the Rusterholz piece, but Hannah, the student for whom I first wrote it, and my friend and colleague Laura Ellis, persuaded me that since the Leuvens Preludio is actually somewhat more difficult to play (notably because the pedal part moves more quickly), the Rusterholz piece would still serve a useful purpose. (Since we printed 150 copies of the fifth edition in 2017, it will be awhile before the next one comes out!) The edition I use with my students (which is the version that will eventually go in the book) includes instructions about catching the repeated-note key on its way back up (to repeat it with shorter strokes), pedal indications, and other instructions. I decided the piece was useful enough, and enough fun for a student to play, that we shouldn't wait, but make it available now. Since the GCNA as an organization doesn't take sides about any one particular approach toward technique and teaching, I stripped all the instructions out for this publication. (You may contact me if you want the version with all the notations. That's part of why I am keeping the copyright.)

—John Gouwens