Piano Course Session 1:  The Classical Era & Mozart's Piano Sonatas


Pre-class music:  Mozart.

    Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 454  "Semplice" or "Facile"  (1788)  (13:00) 

            Sviatoslav Richter (1915 - 1997), piano

                  1.  Allegro  (sonata form)


    Piano Sonata No. 13 in B♭ major, K 333/315c   (1783–4)

            Vladimir Horowitz, piano   

                   1.  Allegro  (sonata form)  (5:30)


     Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K 332/300k   (1783)

            Anke Chen, piano  -  Movement 1       

                   1.  Allegro  (sonata form)  (5:00)

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Course Handout (hidden)

   1.   Classicism and Romanticism in Art   (20:00)  (Handout, p. 6)

   2.   Late Baroque Polyphony vs. Classical Era Homophony  (10:00)

   3.  18th Century Classicism and 19th Century Romanticism in Music (10:00)

   4.  Instrumental Music Genres and Forms in the Classical Era  (5:00)   (Handout, p. 8)
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         Break time  (10:00)  2:25 - 2:35 

         Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330, Friedrich Gulda, piano.  Movement 1  (5:00) 

         Piano Sonata No. 9 in D major, K.311,  Daniel Barenboim, piano.  Movement 1  (5:00)
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   5.   What are variations?   (7:00)

            Twelve Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman',  K. 525  (1781/2)  (pronounce)
                                     Magdalena Baczewska, piano  (play 3 variations)


   6.   What is Binary Form and Ternary form (2:00)


   7.   What is the Rondo form?  (10:00)

            Rondo No. 3 in A minor, K 511 (1787)  Seong-Jin Cho, piano  (7:30)


    8.   What is the Sonata Form?  (12:00)

          Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Movement 1 (edited)   Gustavo Dudamel, cond.  (3:15) 

           Mozart  -  Piano Sonata No. 6 in D major, Movement 1  (1775)  (3:30)
                           Friedrich Gulda, piano


   9.  The Forms Commonly Used by Movement  (see course handout, p. 10)


  10.   The Piano Sonatas



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