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Offline migamaral

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Firstsight reading
on: May 29, 2007, 03:26:30 PM
Hi everybody. I´m a piano student from Portugal. Can someone tell some piano scores good to pratice firstsight playing?
Thank You
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Offline nightingale11

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Re: Firstsight reading
Reply #1 on: May 29, 2007, 03:50:41 PM
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Offline rachmaninova

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Re: Firstsight reading
Reply #2 on: May 29, 2007, 06:42:32 PM
Hi!

I'm from Portugal too!  :D
Last year I had sightreading lessons in my course. Our teacher made us read Bach's Chorals and Inventios (also orchestral suites, 4 hands version), Schubert's Lieder, some Czerny, 4-hand pieces by Schubert, Kavalevsky, Carlos Seixas, Scarlatti...  and lots more, but I don't remember right now. The sky is your limit!
Everything from Bach is great to read at first sight and why not to try "Cravistas Portugueses"?
There are several books with exercises related to this matter (our teacher used some in our classes), you can find them here:
https://www.ipp.pt/conteudos/ECTS_PORT_v002_Abr_2005/4P_Instrpianacomp%20.htm#LEITURA%20E%20TRANSPOSI%C7%C3O%20I

Best regards,
Carla
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Offline mycrabface

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Re: Firstsight reading
Reply #3 on: June 04, 2007, 01:48:21 PM
Quote from: migamaral on May 29, 2007, 03:26:30 PM
Hi everybody. I´m a piano student from Portugal. Can someone tell some piano scores good to pratice firstsight playing?
Thank You
The happy farmer
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Re: Firstsight reading
Reply #4 on: June 13, 2007, 07:49:06 AM
This piece was written by Ravel for that purpose :

https://imslp.org/images/c/c0/Ravel_-_Pr%C3%A9lude.pdf
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