Piano World Home Page Forums Our Most Popular Forums Pianist Corner Any idea for my summer program?

This summer i have to prepare myself, cause next year i will go to grade 7 after 3 year break. Im gonna start working on piano seriously, cause so far i havent practice a lot and i literally have no tehnique...

So which songs do you suggeest? (for 6th and 7th grade?)

This is my list so far:

Moonlight sonata, 1st movement - this one is gonna be hard because my tehnique sucks...

Chopin prelude 7 and 4 - I already work on then

Mozart sonata - dont know exact name, but its pretty easy (i memorized 1st movement so far, i need to learn 3th and 4th)

Few etudes (they are for 5th grade, but very hard)

Plus easy stuff from grades 3-6 i have already played and of course scales:(

As I wrote in another post you started, it's not very easy for us to recommend anything for you, because

1. We don't know what you have played so far.
2. We don't know how relatively difficult the pieces you have learned were for you.
3. We don't know how long it took you to learn them
4. We don't know how well you play what you have learned.

As I recall, you are looking for a teacher. Only someone who hears you play and knows something about your past repertoire and your "learning curve" can helpfully recommend repertoire for you.

When you are asking/talking about pieces, it's a good idea that your readers know what they are; "(Few etudes (they are for 5th grade, but very hard)) tells us nothing, nor does "Mozart sonata - dont know exact name." If you want help from helpful people on this forum, you're going to have to get used to talking in specifics.

I would like to be more helpful, but you don't give us much to go on.

Regards,

Well but still someone can recomend what could be played by 6th grader...

About Mozart: sonatina is named just Sonatina 1...

I know that teacher know whats best for me... but i have whole summer before meeting a teacher... And beside few mozart sonatinas, moonlight sonata 1st and 2nd movement i want to learn something else too:)

Concentrate on finishing what you're working on, then start some new pieces.

Well, not necessarily. Grading of pieces is far from standard world-wide, so "6th grade" to you may not have any relationship to 6th grade to anyone else, particularly since many North American students don't study under a graded system at all.

Many students in England study under the ABRSM system which has eight grades, many Canadian students study under the RCM (Toronto) system, which has 10 grades, others study under Conservatory systems that have 11 or 12 grades so Grade 6 would be a totally different level of difficulty in each system. Many study under no graded system at all.
If you are playing from a reliable edition, and if this is an original work by Mozart, there should be some indication, a K.number, for example, to indicate what this piece is. I've glanced through the complete catalogue of Mozart's works (as listed in The New Grove , a pretty reliable source) and no sonatinas by Mozart are listed. It may be that this is an editor's simplification of something else by Mozart that he, the editor, chose to call Sonatina 1. That's about as helpful as I can be.

Regards,

Hy!

About sonatina...

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~craig/keyscape/mozartvs1/vs1.pdf

My sheets are the same like this one...
I have original sheets from 70s, but its says just "sonatine" and there isnt any other name... i know that its weird... and btw, there are few mistakes on my sheets, for example in last movement there are few times d in right hand instead of c lol...And sonatine it's pretty easy one...

About grades... in my country there are 3 schools...
First have 6th grades, second one 4 and last one 4 (after last one you have diplima)

So you are saying that in some countrys you have diploma in 8 years? I cant that "normal" people could play liszt etudes or rhapsodys after 8 years... for example: Standard 8th grade piece in my country is rachaninov prelude in c (or cis, i cant remember, but its wery well known)

About the Mozart sonatina:

From what I've found out, Mozart originally wrote five divertimenti (KV 439b) for wind trio, and someone later arranged them for piano, re-ordered the movements to make up six sonatinas and transposed them accordingly. If you think it's OK to do that, you might as well play them.

Really?
But they still sound nice...

Mozart Viennese Sonatinas (6) :

"Originally composed for three wind instruments, these popular piano transcriptions were first published in the early 1800s. Easier than Mozart's piano sonatas, they remain favorite teaching pieces and are beautiful examples of the composer's mature classical style. Unlike other editions, this carefully edited volume restores Mozart's articulation markings and the original pairing of several menuet and trio movements that were previously mismatched. A discussion of Mozart's ornamentation and articulation is also included."

From the Alfred Edition.

Regards,

Maybe a greig nocturne or debussy's reverie would be appropriate and different

BruceD: They do really sound very beatifull and in the typical mozart style:)...

Sero: I will check for this ones, thanks for advice:)

EDITED:

Are this sheet original and legal?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13372/Debussy-Reverie-piano-music-score3s