Description
My goal in creating this curriculum is to help piano students gain an interest in and a love and appreciation for great classical music.
Aspiring pianists need to know the literature, hear the greats perform, and be inspired and excited by the great music that is available! Just as writers need to read, read, read, pianists need to listen! Through this fun curriculum, students will learn about the musical periods and the great composers and their works. Listening repertoire selected includes selections from the standard solo piano literature, as well as solo piano and orchestra literature and orchestral works.
My hope is that students can add just 5-10 minutes of listening per day to their normal practicing. Listening to great music will change their understanding of music and will vastly increase their music history knowledge. It will excite and inspire them, encourage further study and listening, give them new pieces to add to their own repertoire wish list, infuse more great music into their lives, homes and families, and will boost their musicianship and expression to the next level.
The Autumn Shades of Sound book includes 18 different pieces, including:
- September: At the River by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
- In Autumn by Amy Beach
- The Four Seasons: Autumn by Antonio Vivaldi
- Recomposed: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons – Autumn by Max Richter
- Improvisation on Autumn by Gabriela Montero
- Prelude & Fugue No. 6 in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
- Scherzo, “The Hunt” from Piano Sonata No. 18 by Ludwig van Beethoven
- September: The Hunt by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- October: Autumn’s Song by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Autumn Fairy by Sergei Prokofiev
- Halloween by Charles Ives
- The Joy of Autumn by Edward MacDowell
- Fall of the Leaf by Imogen Holst
- November Woods by Arnold Bax
- Autumn by Oliver Davis
- Autumn by Frank Bridge
- Autumn in Warsaw by Gyorgy Ligeti
- September by Judith Lang Zaimont
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