Curricular Unit: Piano Reduction III
Code: LFM012
ECTS: 2
Cientific Area: Musical Training
Learning Outcomes
> Piano reduction unit aims to develop reading skills and inner hearing ability of the score and its piano performance. Piano reduction requires the knowledge of how to demonstrate the score text on the piano, i.e. the ability to arrange and adapt. The realization of handwritten piano reduction and score analysis are additional supporting skills for score-reading.
> Playing on the piano and/or singing the instruments in “F” (ex.: French horn, trumpet etc.) and in “A” (ex.: clarinet, trumpet, French horn). Make a written piano reduction of a work (movement) for string orchestra and playing them on piano. Know how to define the functions of instrument groups in the orchestral score.
Syllabus
Preparation of written piano reduction of a work originally written for string orchestra; Playing on piano a score written for classical orchestra. Sight-reading of excerpts from symphonic works, by instrument groups or together, which include the instruments in C-clefs and transposing instruments such as “B”, “F”, “A”, “E” and “Es”.
Examples of works for study during the semester:
Beethoven: Symphonies n.º 3 (I, II), n.º 5 (I‐IV), n.º 7 (I‐IV), n.º 9 (I‐III). Schubert: Symphonies n.º 4 (II, III), n.º 8 (I, II); Octet op. 166; Music for drama “Rosamunde” (n.º 1, 2, 4). Bizet: L’arlesiana Suite (n.º 1, 2), Suite Jeux d’enfants op. 22 (March), Symphony “Roma” (I, III, IV). Mendelssohn: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Overture, Nocturne), Symphony No. 4 “Italian” (II, III). Dvorak: Serenade for string orchestra op. 44 or other works of equivalent difficulty.
Teaching Methodologies
The study material presented in the class is consolidated through independent work. Control of learning is accomplished through weekly presentation of homework that includes individual preparation of extracts and selected scores on the piano, and the realization of handwritten piano reductions.
Bibliography
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Mikirtumov, Y. (2013) Redução para piano: três especificidades, Évora: Universidade de Évora.
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Wolf, О., (1976) Crestomatia de leitura de partituras, 2 Ed., Leningrado: Muzika
Teaching Staff
Yan Mikirtumov (regent)