Jennifer Boster Piano Studio: Listening Assignment

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Grieg Listening Assignment #1

Meet Edvard Grieg!

First read two short biographies about this Norwegian composer, found here and here.
Next, print the assignment sheet and follow the directions. The pieces to listen to are found below. Have fun!

Grieg Listening Assignment No 1

In the Hall of the Mountain King - from Peer Gynt

Morning Mood - from Peer Gynt

Piano Concerto in A minor, 1st movement - performed by famous pianist Arthur Rubinstein

Bach Listening Assignment #3

This listening assignment is a great chance to get to know a piece you have never heard before! After printing out the assignment sheet, click here to pick a Bach piece to listen to. Have fun!
Bach Listening Assignment No 3

Music History Listening Assignment #1

Print out the assignment sheet and follow the directions. The listening piece is located in a YouTube video at the bottom of this post. Enjoy!

Music History Listening Assignment No 1

Brief History of Piano Music

George Rochberg - String Quartet No. 6 - Variations on Pachelbel's Canon in D

Bach Listening Assignment #4

Print out the assignment sheet & follow the directions. The pieces to listen to are at the bottom of this post. Enjoy!
Bach Listening Assignment No 4

Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major

Two-Part Invention No. 1 in C Major
click here to listen - you'll need to scroll down and find the right piece

Two-Part Invention No. 13 in A minor

Bach Listening Assignment #2

Bach's Anna Magdalena Notebook contains some great pieces for beginning piano students. Print out the assignment sheet and read the brief history of the Anna Magdalena Notebook. Then go to the website below and listen to the four pieces listed. Follow the directions on the assignment sheet, and enjoy!

Bach Listening Assignment No 2

Click here to go to Piano Society, where you can listen to some pieces from Bach's Anna Magdalena Notebook. You will have to scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on each piece individually by name.

Menuet in G Major
Menuet in G minor
Musette in D Major
Menuet in D minor

Bach Listening Assignment #1

Let's meet Johann Sebastian Bach!

First, read two brief biographies of this great composer - here and here.

Next, print the assignment sheet, listen to the pieces below, and follow the directions on the assignment sheet. Enjoy!

Bach Listening Assignment No 1

Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

Toccata and Fugue in d minor for organ

Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major from the Well-Tempered Clavier

Listening Assignments

Get to Know a Famous Composer!

Bach Listening Assignment No. 1
Bach Listening Assignment No. 2
Bach Listening Assignment No. 3
Bach Listening Assignment No. 4

Grieg Listening Assignment No. 1

Piano Literature Listening Assignment No. 1

Music History Listening Assignment No. 1

Repertoire Listening #1

Get to Know a Famous Composer!

Places to go to learn more about the composers: (right click to keep the above form open)

Composer biographies & recordings on PianoSociety.com
Composer biographies on Classics for Kids
Composer biographies on MakingMusicFun.net

Suggested pieces to listen to:

You can find most of these on PianoSociety.com. I have put links in on some of these to better recordings.

Bach
any of the Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier

Scarlatti
any of the Sonatas

Clementi
Sonatina in C, op. 36 no. 1

Haydn
any of the Sonatas

Mozart
any of the Sonatas (I especially love the slow middle movements)

Beethoven
any of the Sonatas (including one that I played)
Variations

Chopin
any of the Ballades
any of the Preludes
any of the Nocturnes
Mazurka op. 17 no. 4

Brahms
Ballades
Rhapsodies
Intermezzi

Schumann
Carnaval
Kinderszenen
*Arabeske in C
Davidsbündlertänze

Liszt
Concert Etudes
Transcendental Etudes
Consolations
Hungarian Rhapsodies
Liebestraume

Grieg
Piano Concerto
Lyric Pieces (especially Wedding Day at Troldhaugen)

Rachmaninoff
any of the Preludes
any of the Etudes
any of the Piano Concertos (but you especially need to hear #2 - movement 1 (part 1 and part 2 of the recording), movement 2 (part 1 and part 2 of the recording), movement 3 (part 1 and part 2 of the recording)

Debussy
Clair de Lune
any of the Preludes
Arabesque no. 1

Ravel
Jeux d'Eau
Le Tombeau de Couperin

Satie
Gymnopedies

Bartok

Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue

Kabalevsky

Prokofiev
any Sonatas
Cinderella Suite
Romeo and Juliet

Shostakovich
any of the Preludes and Fugues

Joplin
The Entertainer
Maple Leaf Rag

Piano Literature Listening Assignment #1

Print out the assignment sheet and follow the directions. The listening examples are located in YouTube videos at the bottom of this post. Enjoy!

Piano Literature Listening Assignment No 1