What piece(s) are you currently trying to learn?

Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C Minor

....uh, yeah, i'm a newb.

can anyone recommend any short easy etude that can be learned in like 2 months for an audition? =D

I'm begining to learn Artounian's Trumpet Concerto right now... it's so cool!

Glad to hear that people are appreciating Sor! :)

I'm currently learning the 20 studies by Sor aswell! I'm also learning 12 studies by Tarrega.

These are the longer pieces I'm learning atm:

Bach- Cello Suite 1

Sor- Variations over a theme from the Magic Flute by Mozart Op.9

Sor- Gran Solo, op 14

Tarrega- Capricio Arabe

And that's about it!

While I'm not composing, I'm playing guitar, and while I'm in school I want to get home :blink: School kills my spirit :'(

Hi, Akhil G. Here

Yes that Cocky 17 year old Beethoven - Schubert Nut

At the Moment (Already Begun)

Bach : The Entire Book I - Well Tempered Klavier

Mozart: Sonata in A Major , Sonata in G Major

Beethoven: Sonatas - Op.2 No.1, Op.10 Nr.2

Concerto No.1 in C Major & Concerto No.3 in C Minor

Schubert: Sonata in A Minor Op.143

Brahms: Sonata Nr.3 in F Minor

4 Ballades - Op.10

Chopin: Fantasy in F Minor: Op.49

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor

All to be Finished By (June 2005 - Bach Will take long)

All the above for all 4 Years of Universty - starts- March 06! (1st Yr)

Large Works Already Learnt This Year:

Clementi: Sonata in G Minor (Op7.)

Beethoven: Sonata Op.53 " Waldstein", Both Op.49 Sonatas.

Schubert: Sonata in A Minor Op.164

Hey Letehn .... Earlier you said that you want to learn the waldstein, I looked at pathetiqe last year and If your thinking of giving up Pathetique ..... Please don't even look at Waldstein.

And by the way August 2005 made 2 years since I had my 1st encounter with formal music training. Don't mean to dishearten you but maybe a little competition is what might give you the boost you need - Look what It did for me.

Ever heard of taking things easy? :laugh:

Absolutely not!

Plan out what needs to be done so you learn the music faster. I too am learning new music and I plan to know how to play them all during the summere so my college oditions go well. :laugh:

What Beethoven piano sonata of intermediate difficulty should i tackle?

I'm thinking #13, but what does anyone think?

Btw, only up to about #20 as i only have the first 2 books.

- Tartini's Devil Trill (bloody difficult for the violin. Tartini came up with this after having a dream where the devil played the violin :S)

- Kabalevsky's Violin Concerto (Overall a very nice piece: a constant battle between major and minor. Very russian folk like as well.)

- Bruch's First Violin Concerto (Third movement, an immensely difficult gipsy dance. Ouch!)

- Kreutzer Etudes (Going to Etude No. 18. Pretty much the Bible of Young Violin Students :laugh:)

OK, after at least three aborted attempts, I'm actually seriously putting effort into learning Kabalevsky's 3rd piano concerto ("Youth"). Funny, three years ago I couldn't seem to get the second and third movements at all over a whole summer, and now I've just brought the second movement up to performing standard in a week...

In any long concerto the second and the third movements are the esaiest to learn with very llittle practice. Don't take this by you don't need to practice because it is the most important to go to college for music. ;)

In any long concerto the second and the third movements are the esaiest to learn with very llittle practice. Don't take this by you don't need to practice because it is the most important to go to college for music. ;)

In this particular concerto, the third movement is the most difficult to learn - a lot harder than the first movement. The second suddenly became easy when I realized how the structure worked.

But, um, I'm not sure why you're talking about going to college for music. I graduated from college almost two years ago (biology, not music), and I'm in medical school now.

Samuel Barber's Excursions for piano. It's a four movement piece that describes the regions and life of the American environment, including a bustling, boogie-woogie style New York city song; a relaxed blues set in the southern Louisiana; variations on an American folktale (talk about difficult, this pits 7 to 8!); and an American squaredance.

Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor (opus 3, my favorite opus!) It opens in a resolute, march feel, and it quickly builds to powerful bursts of chordal energy. I am just floored by the middle section of this piece: it is SOOOOOO beautiful! I think I would die to hear this part performed by orchestra and a male and female vocalist. It's progression is basically:

D , D7 , C-7/D , D7

D , C-/D , Bb^0/D , D7

G- , G-/F , C-/Eb , A7/Db

D , D , A7/D

This chordal style is seen somewhat in Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. Hearing that on piano...(drooling on keyboard)

Piano:

Claire De Lune by Debussy

Reverie, also by Debussy

Bear Dance by Bela Bartok

Trombone:

David (pronounced Daveed) Trombone concerto

Variations on a Gavotte by Corelli - Arranged by Rascher, for alto sax

I'm hoping to play this one at a solo and ensemble festival, but its rather tough. ^^

well i posted about 4 months ago about starting Polonaise in Ab Major by Chopin (aka Heroic Polonaise).

I didn't end up starting it till November

Here's a clip of what it sounded like in January (at the 60 day mark, not memorized, full of page flips, and some iffy parts)

Polonaise in Ab Major by Chopin

I'm working on these...

Claire De Lune (Debussy)

Fantasy in D Minor (Mozart)

Fantasie-Impromptu in C# Minor (Chopin)

Piano

Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin

Trombone:

Trombonology - Tommy Dorsey

Partita 3 - Bach arr me

For me, well Bach's Cello Suite No.1 in G major. The cello suite by Bach is actually quite hard especially when it comes to the part where I have to change to all kinds of position and add a vibrato while playing a fast part from some of the movements. As for piano, Fugue No.1 from The Well-Tempered Klavier Book I.

Right now, I

Boccherini Bb Cello Concerto - Gruetzmacher Cadenza.

Popper etude #9 (it's so obnoxious).

I just finished the prelude for the 3rd Bach suite. I think I will relearn the 2nd this week.

That's it right now.

i'm almost halfway through liszt's transcendental etude no 11 (my personal favourite) and have just made it past the section with all those bloody arpeggios (why must he make so difficult :innocent: ) and am coming to my favourite part of the etude--the one with the thunderous chords.

Chopin's "Grande Valse Brillante"

I am trying to learn "Je Suis le Pluie" by Debussy. It from the series of pieces called "Estampes". I would also like to learn "Prelude in G Op. 32" by Rachmaninoff. If anyone knows where to find this music on a sheet music site then post that address please. If someone already has it will they scan it and poast it as a PDF file, thank you.

WEll not really working on it anymore since we just performed it a little while ago...but

Clarinet

Chester!!! (Most people should know this....but i forgot the composers name)

Tenor/Soprano Sax

I-80 Shuffle (A nice song...if you would like to listen...its on Windows Media *Shudders and Gasps*)