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I’m shortening the active list. With learning new pieces and new skills, it’s too much. My teacher suggested so should choose 5 to learn well and memorize, so that’s my current goal (which I’ve basically reached, just short of complete memorization). Maybe I’ll add back others over time.
Repertoire Rotation Bach - Prelude C maj (WTC I) Debussy - Prelude VIII (La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin) Db maj Liszt - Consolation 3 Db maj Piazzolla - Milonga Del Angel B min Tchaikovsky - October (nearly complete)
Short List To Add Back From Bach - Adagio D min (BWV 974) Bach - Goldberg Aria Beethoven - Sonata 27.2, 1st movement C# min Chopin - Prelude 28.4 E min Chopin - Nocturne 20 (Posthumous) C# min Chopin - Nocturne 72.1 E min Chopin - Prelude 28.15 Db maj Satie - Gymnopedie 1
In Progress Debussy - Clair de Lune Saint Saens - Swan Song Le Cygne
Fading...... Beethoven - Fur Elise Chopin - Prelude 28.7 A maj Chopin - Prelude 28.20 C min Mendelssohn - 30.3 E maj Mendelssohn - 30.6 F# min Mozart K545
Jazz / Pop Autumn Leaves Imagine Misty Killing Me Softly Sirius / Eye In The Sky (Alan Parsons Project) Pachelbel - Canon D (incompletely learned) Fly Me To The Moon Mad World Time (Alan Parsons Project) The Way It Is (Bruce Hornsby) Over The Rainbow
Aspirations / Future Pieces Bach WTC (assorted) Beethoven Sonata 13 (Pathetique) Adagio Chopin - Prelude 28.6 B min Chopin - Nocturne 1 9.1 Bb min Chopin - Nocturne 2 9.2 Eb maj Debussy - Arabesque Debussy - Page d' album Liszt - Romance S.169 Scriabin preludes Op 11 Sibelius Op 40.9 Petite Serenade Pensees Lyriques Tiersen - Comptine d'un autre ete Rachmaninoff Preludes Dmaj, C#min Rachmaninoff Fragments, Variation 18 Theme Paganini
Okay.....I'm really having trouble maintaining much of anything right now. As my pieces have become longer and more complex, I just can't seem to rotate through the repertoire and it's a little upsetting. Firstly, because I love these pieces and want to be able to play them whenever I want. Secondly, because I'm back to where I feel like I can't play much at any given time.....my new ones aren't ready and at the older ones are drifting away.
With that in mind, maybe I'll shift strategies to bringing back one piece, staying with it for a week, then on to the next one. I'll really have to limit them to a few select favorites. Last week I did the Liszt Consolation and Milonga del Angel; tonight I started to bring back October. We'll see how this works.
🺠🺠Cheers
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I think it's a great idea to experiment with the length of time you spend with a piece cmb13, that might make all the difference... Since my lesson 'block' ended last June...I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out my own lesson plan of sorts, which includes building a repertoire list. It's very helpful that this thread is here. I've decided that I'll base my plan around the school year ( Sept.-June ). Each year my goals will be decided on and clearly defined during the summer, I'm reserving that time for making my lesson plan, discovering new music, and generally having some freedom and fun. My plan this year is mostly about building a repetoire list. After six years I should definitely have one! ( even a very modest one ). I have 21 pieces on my current list ( almost all of them pieces I went though with my teacher ). I've left a few slots open in case there are a couple more that I really want to add....but I'm capping off at 25. I'm rotating through them, no more than 5 at one time...when I feel that I've gone as far as I can with a piece at this time ( including memorisation ), then it goes to the bottom of the pile and I replace it with another one from my selection. For sure I spend a couple weeks with a piece before it gets replaced.
I've stopped looking at learning a piece as a linear process...but more like different points on a spiral that I keep circling back to...each time ( hopefully) with stronger skills.
Hi, I like your thread idea. Here's my repertoire; a music list (average of 2 pages in length) I can play by heart.
Current Repertoire Jeux Interdits (anonymous) Ave Maria, Franz Schubert Fur Elise, Beethoven
Work in Progress & Aspirations The Swan, Camille Saint-Saens
Since we've moved, I no longer have weekly lessons. I'm hoping that building a memorized list of music will keep my brain active and maintain all the wonderful musical knowledge my teacher shared with me!
Hi, I like your thread idea. Here's my repertoire; a music list (average of 2 pages in length) I can play by heart.
Current Repertoire Jeux Interdits (anonymous) Ave Maria, Franz Schubert Fur Elise, Beethoven
Work in Progress & Aspirations The Swan, Camille Saint-Saens
Since we've moved, I no longer have weekly lessons. I'm hoping that building a memorized list of music will keep my brain active and maintain all the wonderful musical knowledge my teacher shared with me!
Have a great day!
Good list, I like those pieces; The Swan is really nice. I wonder, which version are you playing? I had an easy version, as I believe it was transcribed for piano by others, but would like something a little more in depth.
I think it's a great idea to experiment with the length of time you spend with a piece cmb13, that might make all the difference... Since my lesson 'block' ended last June...I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out my own lesson plan of sorts, which includes building a repertoire list. It's very helpful that this thread is here. I've decided that I'll base my plan around the school year ( Sept.-June ). Each year my goals will be decided on and clearly defined during the summer, I'm reserving that time for making my lesson plan, discovering new music, and generally having some freedom and fun. My plan this year is mostly about building a repetoire list. After six years I should definitely have one! ( even a very modest one ). I have 21 pieces on my current list ( almost all of them pieces I went though with my teacher ). I've left a few slots open in case there are a couple more that I really want to add....but I'm capping off at 25. I'm rotating through them, no more than 5 at one time...when I feel that I've gone as far as I can with a piece at this time ( including memorisation ), then it goes to the bottom of the pile and I replace it with another one from my selection. For sure I spend a couple weeks with a piece before it gets replaced.
I've stopped looking at learning a piece as a linear process...but more like different points on a spiral that I keep circling back to...each time ( hopefully) with stronger skills.
Suzy, you and I must have started around the same time; we're probably covering some of the same pieces. 21 pieces is a lot; I have that many as above, but find I just cannot keep up with even half that many. That's why I'm developing a "short list". Let me know how your rotation method goes; good luck with it! And feel free to post the list; I'd love to see what you're playing.
None of this is relevant for me. I look forward to having a first piece I'd like to keep as repertoire. 😂 Maybe by the time I get to RCM Level 7, I'll find something... or maybe not.
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The Swan arrangement is from one of those 'all time favorites' music book collections. It's 2 pages and written in the key of G-Major. It's a very pretty tune and I have about 75% memorized since last night's practice session.
Back as a student, the first time I was able to played through the first page without any mistakes, I thought I caught my teacher wiping a tear from her eye. Then I butchered the remainder of the piece. Ugh!
As a side note, I caught a YT of a performance of The Carnival thinking I might want to learn the other movements. Wow, it's a bit intimidating for me!!
Chopin---Op. 35---third movement (Funeral March) Handel---Suite for Harpsichord No. 4 (HWV 437)--sarabande con variazioni movement
In reality--my repertoire pieces only really mean that I can play them reasonably well, in their entirety, from memory. They are all still works in progress and I am slowly polishing them as technique evolves.
It would be fair to say everything I play is a work in progress!
...... In reality--my repertoire pieces only really mean that I can play them reasonably well, in their entirety, from memory. They are all still works in progress and I am slowly polishing them as technique evolves.
It would be fair to say everything I play is a work in progress!
Yes, well, that's why we're in the ABF, not The Pianists Corner.
None of this is relevant for me. I look forward to having a first piece I'd like to keep as repertoire. 😂 Maybe by the time I get to RCM Level 7, I'll find something... or maybe not.
Cliff's Notes, please? I'm still working on War and Peace!
Then there is a small list of pop/rock/ Tom Petty: Breakdown Toto: Hold the Line Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays The Who: Baba O'Riley Tom Waits: Picture in a Frame Floyd Cramer: Last Date
Love the list, Suzy. Baba O’Riley is no joke! like Hold The Line also.... they're all good. Of the classical, I’m working on Invention 4 now....I just completed 1. I’m looking forward to playing 13. Not that much overlap otherwise. Let me know how it goes with the project. I hope you can play them all at will by Nune - that will be a great accomplishment.
Okay.....I'm really having trouble maintaining much of anything right now. As my pieces have become longer and more complex, I just can't seem to rotate through the repertoire and it's a little upsetting. Firstly, because I love these pieces and want to be able to play them whenever I want. Secondly, because I'm back to where I feel like I can't play much at any given time.....my new ones aren't ready and at the older ones are drifting away.
With that in mind, maybe I'll shift strategies to bringing back one piece, staying with it for a week, then on to the next one. I'll really have to limit them to a few select favorites. Last week I did the Liszt Consolation and Milonga del Angel; tonight I started to bring back October. We'll see how this works.
🺠🺠Cheers
I only have 2 that I keep up, mainly because I love them and also to play when I'm testing pianos. I also wanted to have several active pieces in my repertoire but my current pieces are getting longer and longer, so that's just not reasonable anymore. It was easy when I was playing pieces 2 pages long. Now I'm looking at some 10+ page pieces, and many pieces that are 4+ pages. Just not doable anymore.