Curricular Unit Piano I
Code LPI004
ECTS 8
Cientific area Performance Practices
Learning outcomes
The goal of this curricular unit is to form a professional musician (pianist) in every way. It is intended to develop the necessary technique to perform music of different periods and styles, with total domain of the musical language and, also, to develop memory and listening capacities.
Syllabus
Virtuoso études (Czerny op. 740, Moskowski op. 72 and Chopin); preludes and fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier (J. S. Bach); Classical Sonatas (Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven); works of free choice (Waltzes, Polonaises, Nocturnes by Chopin; Preludes by Debussy; Impromptus by Schubert; Intermezzi, Rhapsodies, Ballades by Brahms; Preludes, Barcarolles, Nocturnes by Fauré; Songs without words by Mendelssohn; or others of similar difficulty).
Teaching methodologies
These classes are individual, therefore, developed according to each student’s capacities and personality, in order to guarantee the best comprehension of the Program. The dialogue between the teacher and the student is important as well as the demonstration of the musical content by the teacher.
Bibliography
Bach, C.P. Emanuel (1948). Essay on True Art f Playing Keyboard Instruments, New York: W. W. Norton & Company
Türk, Daniel Gottlob (1982), School of Clavier Playing, 1st Ed., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
Kalkbrenner, Friedrich (1841). Method of Learning Piano, op. 108, Leipzig: Fr. Kistner, n.d.[1841]
Feinberg, Samuil (2008). Pianism as Art, New York: Manhattan School of Music
Neuhaus, Heinrich (2016). Art of Playing Piano, Amersham: Kahn & Averill
Teaching Staff:
Paulo César Aguiar da Silva Oliveira (regent)
Alexei Victorovitch Eremine