I want to apply to music college in January next year Please give me advice

[a99966613]

I want to apply to music college in January next year, I am worry how to choose the song

Please give me advice
The following are the provisions of the tracks

Students ages 12 through 15:

1 A work by Bach, excluding the two-part inventions.

2 A complete sonata by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven

3 A Romantic work by Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, or Liszt.
4 A work by a 20th or 21st-century composer.


question

1 Please recommend me bach, more suitable for the audition song
2 I decided op13 of Beethoven
3 Romantic suitable which the first
4 rachmaninoff prelude in g minor suitable it?

[michael_sayers]

I want to apply to music college in January next year, I am worry how to choose the song

Please give me advice
The following are the provisions of the tracks

Students ages 12 through 15:

1 A work by Bach, excluding the two-part inventions.

2 A complete sonata by Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven

3 A Romantic work by Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, or Liszt.
4 A work by a 20th or 21st-century composer.


question

1 Please recommend me bach, more suitable for the audition song
2 I decided op13 of Beethoven
3 Romantic suitable which the first
4 rachmaninoff prelude in g minor suitable it?

I think that for no. 4 they are looking for something that isn't romantic style music as this already is covered by no. 3.

How about Schoenberg's Op. 11?

Or how about some Dmitri Shostakovich or Alexander Tcherepnin Preludes . . . or maybe something by a living composer (again, though, not romantic era sounding)?

[visitor]

I think that for no. 4 they are looking for something that isn't romantic style music as this already is covered by no. 3.

How about Schoenberg's Op. 11?

Or how about some Dmitri Shostakovich or Alexander Tcherepnin Preludes . . . or maybe something by a living composer (again, though, not romantic era sounding)?

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op
 a safe and standard way to go about this is to stick to the basic lit they request, ie prelude and fugue by Bach, the sonata you chose, then perhaps a middle length romantic, perhaps Brahms Rhapsody op 79 no 1 or no 2 (2 is easier)
get creative w/ the modern work,there is lots to choose from,ie reccommend exploring the Berstein Anniversaries, maybe do a set or few selections if a  single is too short

[michael_sayers]

Hi a99966613,

At least you have until January, which is a lot of time to prepare.

You can select the music, work out the fingerings, have some schedule involved (maybe a certain amount of weeks to get it all memorized with the intended fingerings, and then the remaining months to practice it . . . divide up the hours of the days).

When I am practicing, I know weeks or months in advance what I will be doing on a particular day, I know what the goals are for that day - everything is laid out already for me on a chart - and I get it done whether it needs two hours or twenty [that was back when I was a teenager, I don't pull 20 hour days anymore, at least not with practicing piano].

Show the other piano students how it's done!

By the way, maybe some Busoni would work for you as the 20th century requirement.


Mvh,
Michael