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Topic: Help! Need dance or Ballet music!  (Read 1453 times)

Offline spcheng

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Help! Need dance or Ballet music!
on: January 23, 2009, 09:02:10 PM
Hi,
I just enrolled into a piano repertoire class, and the theme for this quarter is dance or ballet music - and I have to choose 2 (Both cannot be from the same era). Was thinking about a Waltz or Mazurka from Chopin.

As I am not too familiar with pieces, please make some reccomendations!! - there is a time limit of 6 minutes for each piece!

Please help me with choosing! Much appreciated!! :D ;)
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Re: Help! Need dance or opera music!
Reply #1 on: January 24, 2009, 02:20:57 PM
what about the 3 fantastic dances by Shostakovich? or the Brahms Waltzes or Hungarian dances or Dvorak Slavonic dances arranged for solo piano?

This is the sort of thing I would go for as I bet everyone is thinking of Chopin

and there are literally tons of Operatic transcriptions out there by Liszt, Thalberg

I don't know if they would Class Schönbergs suite for piano OP. 25 dance I suppose it is inspired by dance but i think they would be rather tricky to dance to and they all have dance names
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Re: Help! Need dance or Ballet music!
Reply #2 on: January 25, 2009, 12:19:53 AM
Thanks for the reply!!! I'll check out the Shostakovich dances and your other reccomendations! (Your right that alot of people are thinking Chopin pieces) I made a slight mistake saying operatic pieces, but its actually dance or ballet inspired!
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