Curricular Unit: Piano II
Code: LPI013
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 musicallanguage and, also, to develop memory and listening capacities.
Syllabus:
Virtuoso études (Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Scriabin, Stravinsky); Sonatas (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann); 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; Preludes by Lopes Graça; Dances by Granados; Songs and dances by Mompou; Arabesque, Noveletten by Schumann; Preludes by Scriabin; Preludes by Shostakovich; Preludes by Rachmaninov; 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. It is important the dialogue between the teacher and the student and also 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