Easy Classics To Moderns V. 17 - Suggestions?

[applelover]

Hi, I'm kind of new to piano really loving it.  Also new to your site which looks great.  My piano teacher is teaching me theory right now which is okay because it's really interesting but in the mean time I'm kind of on my own for finding music to learn and play.  I think learning something from either this book, Volume 17 Easy Classics to Moderns or Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach would be nice.  A couple of the minuets from AMB were very nice, and I just learned a few of Beethoven's 6 German Dances were are the right skill level and sound great (Beethoven is the best).

So any song suggestions from these books? Would help if the song isn't obscure so I could download the music somewhere so I know what the music is supposed to sound like.  Thanks.

[bernhard]

My favourites of the AMB are:

Minuet in G BWV Anh.114 (C. Petzold)

Minuet in Gm BWV Anh, 115 (C. Petzold) – Beautiful lyrical minuet, reflective and slow. This minuet is meant to be played with the previous one in ABA form (minuet in G – minuet in Gm – minuet in G).

Minuet in G BWV Anh. II 116 (anon.) – Excellent piece to introduce 2 voice inventions which may be too difficult for a beginner.

Minuet in Am BWV Anh. II 120 (anon.) – Another excellent 2 voice canonic work, that will develop hand independence and yet is easy enough for a beginner.

Minuet in Cm BWV Anh. II 121 (Anon.) – Hauntingly beautiful slow minuet.

March in D H. 1.1 (C. P. E. Bach) – Uplifting and full of joy.

Menuet in G (G. Bohm) – Another good introduction to counterpoint

Musette in D BWV Anh. II 126(anon.) – Excellent piece for the virtuoso to be (very easy but impressive), with daring skips on the LH and fast runs on the RH.

March in Eb (anon.) BWV Anh. II 127 (anon.) – Another excellent preparation for 2-voice inventions.

Menuet in Dm BWV Anh. II 132 (anon.) – Another very beautiful reflective minuet, which will develop hand independence.

Aria in F (J. C. Bach) – Only 16 bars long, this beautiful aria can be easily learned by a beginner and then be used at a later stage to teach improvised ornamentation.

Prelude in C BWV 846/I (J. S. Bach) – One of the few pieces in the notebook that is actually by Bach, this prelude is the first prelude in the WTC book I.

I am not familiar with the other book you mentioned, but if you would like to try other pieces, have a look on these threads.

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,1970.msg15762.html#msg15762
(easy sonatas)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2147.msg18098.html#msg18098
(Easiest piano piece ever written)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2314.msg19869.html#msg19869
(Schumann’s Album for the young)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2340.msg20224.html#msg20224
(Building your piano foundations – suggestions for a progressive repertory)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2398.msg20989.html#msg20989
(Serenade by Schubert - suggestions for Scarlatti sonatas and Prokofiev pieces of beginner/intermediate level).

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2562.msg22127.html#msg22127
(Suggestions for repertory for someone who has been playing for a year)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2851.msg24984.html#msg24984
(Introduction to romantic pieces – how technique is specific to pieces)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4140.msg38111.html#msg38111
(True repertory for total beginners)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4416.msg41105.html#msg41105
(nice slow romantic piece for beginner)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5063.msg49589.html#msg49589
(Albums for the young)

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,2357.msg56150.html#msg56150
(Joe Hisaishi sheet music)

https://www.pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,7008.msg80656.html#msg80656
(Beautiful music that is not hard to play)

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[applelover]

thank you!

[bernhard]

You are welcome

[silverpeal]

Hi apple.  I'm also working from the Agay book.  I've only played a few in here but my favorites so far are:

C.P.E Bach - La Caroline - in a minor key - sounds trickier than it is.  Lots of dynamics changes.  Dramatic.

Tchaikovsky - The Sick Doll - moody, melancholy piece.  (also in minor) slow tempo; helpful if you're working on voicing

Carnival - Couperin - sprightly, playful.  Once you learn it, it is easy to get up to a fast tempo.