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[sergioral]

Hello dear colleagues!

In the scope of my master work in piano performance (piano exercises: use or not?), i would like to know if in your country (any country...specially those who have piano tradition)

1- the official program in conservatories mention the use of exercises?

2- PLEASE, can you send it to me?

If anybody have this information i will send my gmail in private to send the information.
This is central and very important to my work.

Grateful for your help.

Greetings from Oporto, Portugal.

[pianisten1989]

In sweden we have the tradition of not moving a single part of your body, Especially not the arms or wrist. "Movements only disturb the music" is our motto. Exercises are hanon and scales, both of them should be played very, very slowly and with great musicality - "Technique is a trivial thing, that isn't really necessary". Therefore, students tend to think of themselves as members of the "Non-virtuoso school" - not because they can't play fast, but because they just aren't that shallow.

Sadly, it's actually like that in Sweden. It has begun to change, but it's only a few teachers who knows how to play in a relaxed way.

Per Tengstrand, Roland Pöntinen and Staffan Scheja are probably our most well-known pianists.

Maybe this wasn't at all what you asked for?

[sergioral]

@pianisten1989:

Thanks! It´s for sure very useful! But, i really need the official program. For eg. a sheet with this information:

Swedish official program piano:

1st grade: -Bach, "Anna Magdalena Bach"
               -Czerny op.599
               -Bartok "microkosmos I", etc....
2nd grade:

And so on

This will be a proof tu pur in my thesis.

All students need to fulfill a min. program to be sucessful. Is that program i need.

(p.s: sorry this english)

[sergioral]

Nobody can help? :S

[birba]

https://www.conservatorio.sassari.it/doceboCms/index.php?special=changearea&newArea=71

This is the programme for 5th, 8th, and diploma (10th) years in Italy.  The etudes aren't mentioned.


https://it.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080608083539AA54Xt1


These are some etudes you can choose from when you do these exams.  

Hope you speak italian! 

[countrymath]

I'm from brazil.

My conservatory uses the old  "starting slowly and gradually increase the tempo" method. They give us the pieces that THEY want to, including national composers (why, FGS, do we have to play national pieces?). We have no harmonic and melodic analisis, a lot of czerny, hanon and pozzoli and they only give inventions on the 4th year of lessons. "Strenghtening the fingers is the most important on piano technique".

[sergioral]

Oh, countrymath, this is a "gold mine" to me!

You can recommend some official website (or document) like Birba made? Please?

In Portugal we have the same problem! Slow to fast and no much more information and the practice of exercises and scales as exercises!

For sure, only the most conscious and gifted students, with system go to higher level.

Thanks for the thread

[countrymath]

There is no program on the website, but i will restart my lessons next week. They put me on the 6th semester (3rd year) and i will have to make these pieces:

Polonaise* in G minor (Ana magdalena bach nº 16) - Bach
Czerny - Studies for thumb passage nº 1,2,3,4,5 (I REALLY HATE THIS)
Tocatina - some russian composer named something with K
Sonatina in F major - Clementi
Hanon - Hanon

*Not sure if it is a polonaise.