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Piano: UNDERGRADUATE PERFORMANCE MAJOR: 3 compositions (Bach, Classical, Romantic/Contemporary): 1) Bach: Any Prelude and Fugue from W.T.C. I or II or movements from a Suite or Partita, or the Italian Concerto. 2) Any first movement from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven sonatas (except the following: Beethoven Sonatas, Op. 49, Nos. 1 and 2. 3) Romantic or Contemporary work, preferably of virtuosic nature. NOTE: Pieces must be memorized.
This is my university's suggested audition repertoire for piano, none of which lists chopin. All I've played is chopin's nocturnes/etude 10-4, 10-12/fantasie impromptu and random pop music.
I don't think I've played many sonatas, fugues, mozart, haydn, clementi, etc. I have, but they were always short little pieces. Their reccemennded list looks like a foreign language to me.
 
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wait, which category are you going for first of all, performance or non-performance
sonatas are not usually short, and can be like, 20 pages long depending on the sonata; i think you've been mostly playing sonatinas, inventions and etudes which are basically small, not-as-serious 'tunes'
you should go on google/youtube and search for renditions of these pieces
oh man if you've only played (and only liked, im assuming) Chopin, then things are gonna turn ugly when you come to certain Bach pieces
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On December 06 2008 17:01 blue_arrow wrote:
wait, which category are you going for first of all, performance or non-performance
sonatas are not usually short, and can be like, 20 pages long depending on the sonata; i think you've been mostly playing sonatinas, inventions and etudes which are basically small, not-as-serious 'tunes'
you should go on google/youtube and search for renditions of these pieces
oh man if you've only played (and only liked, im assuming) Chopin, then things are gonna turn ugly when you come to certain Bach pieces
I'm not sure what non-performance means. If it means not perform infront of people, why is there a difference in repertoire selection -_--;? I'm going to assume performance major.
And yeah, I've played a few fugues, I hate Bach.
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Doesn't Chopin come in as "virtuosic, romantic work"? Some of his pieces should definitely be within that category.
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Well looks like you're going to have to prepare a prelude-fugue anyways
I would not suggest haydn or mozart if you really, really dislike bach; maybe one of beethoven's later works when he was going all bitter, angry and sad. I've always like the first movment of Pathetique. You should also, just for the hell of it, do the third movement of Pathetique if you like Chopin alot
For the Romantic piece though, you should pick a technically difficult Chopin piece, or a Lizst piece; i think in general Lizst's pieces are more for the virtuoso cause he constantly wrote pieces to show off his massive hands and finger moving skillz. Damn can you imagine if Liszt played SC???
Liebestraum by Liszt is awesome (search up liebestraum + lang lang on youtube; don't copy his lmao facial expressions though, or the auditioner might walk up and rip your face off), but I don't think it's a good idea to load up your repertoire with famous works, because apparently it shows immaturity or something...
BTW I'm assuming non-performance is more like a major based on theory, analysis and composition? That's why they let you play different(simpler) pieces (the listed pieces there could have made your selection ridiculously easy; inventions LOL)
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"the great gig in the sky" by pink floyd.
even if you dont pass it will still be awesome
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Best thing to do is to ask your teacher if you have one, he will be the one who can help you because he knows your level and prolly did go to the uni too.
btw to wich Uni do you apply ?
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