contrasting pieces?

[notxokay]

hi, im new to this forum, but i'm a 14 year old girl who has been playing piano since i was 5 or 6, and now im looking to finish off the rest of my high school years at an art acadamey, and i was wondering if anyone could help me at all in the process, because i have a few questions.
if i were to use Bach Prelude and Fuge No. 2 from the first book, would i have a chance of getting in,
and also, if i were to use that, what would a contrasting peice be?
ive never heard of that term before, and i am really confused.

[faulty_damper]

A contrasting piece would depend on what it's contrasting.  It just means something else that is different from another.

Contrasting pieces at the composer level would be Beethoven's piano sonata #1 and #32.  Both piece are strikingly different.
Contrasting pieces occur among composers, Liszt's works compared to Chopin's.
Contrasting pieces occur over periods: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionism, 20th Century, Modern.

In your case, it most likely means playing a contrasting piece for the Bach piece, which is from the Baroque era, against another piece from the other eras.  You could use a sonata by Mozart, Haydn, or Beethoven, which are usually requirements for most music program auditions.

For the audition pieces I am going to do, I will have to perform 3 or 4 contrasting works.  Here is an example of the contrasting pieces I am tentatively planning on:

Bach Well Tempered Klavier Book II, prelude & fugue in Fmoll (baroque)
Beethoven piano sonata Op10 No2 (classical)
Alkan Esquisses Op 63 No5 (romantic)
Rachmaninov Prelude in C#moll (rachmaninov  )

[faulty_damper]

Also, usually a multi-movement piece like a sonata or songcycle usually has contrastic movements or songs.

Sonatas usually follows this form:
I. moderate or fast tempo
II. slow tempo
III. fast tempo

example:  Beethoven's Pathetique sonata, Op13

Songcycles contain contrasting pieces and each piece contains different ideas on a more general topic.  The general topic could be about finding love and the songs could be about flowers, the girl in town, her overprotective father, etc.  But they usually contrast each other.  Think of Schumann's song cycles.

[notxokay]

thank you so much.

[faulty_damper]

You are welcome.