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September 2009 Teachers' Guide and Resources
Listening Guides
You may print these to hand out to your students.
Piano
Sonata No. 16 in C major, K.545, First Movement
pdf
Recommended recordings:
Christoph Eschenbach, Mozart Piano Sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon)
Mitsuko Uchida, Mozart Piano Sonatas (Philips)
Andras Schiff, Mozart Piano Sonatas (Decca)
The
Marriage of Figaro, K.492, Overture
pdf
Recommended recordings
Le nozze di Figaro,
C.D., conducted by James Levine, with Dawn Upshaw and Kiri Te Kanwa
(Deutsche Grammophon)
Le nozze di Figaro, D.V.D, conducted by Bernard Haitink, with Renee
Fleming, Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Kultur Video)
Pieces for students (late-beginner
through intermediate)
Mozart wrote several easier works for the keyboard when he was
younger. Some of them were published in his father’s Notebook
for Nannerl, including Minuets K. 1, 2, 4, and 5,
and Allegro, K. 3. These are great for students who are
on the late-beginner level, who also play pieces from the Anna
Magdalena Bach Notebook. Many of these compositions now appear
in collections of easier-level piano music or in special Mozart
volumes.
German Dances,
pieces from the London Musical Notebook, K. 15, Seven
Variations on “Willem Van Nassau,” K. 25, Two Contradances,
K. 269, and Eight Minuets and Trios, K. 315a are suitable
for early-intermediate students. These works are on a level
similar to Clementi Sonatinas, Bach Little Preludes,
or Burgmüller Progressive Pieces, Op. 100.
Six Vienese Sonatinas and Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 offer
more of a challenge and will be good for an intermediate
student. These are at a level comparable to Bach’s Two-Part
Inventions.
Games
A tempo (term of the month)
Ask the student to try the term out in practice. At the lesson,
student should play a familiar piece. You can guide him to slow
down in one section of the piece, and then go back to the
original speed at the beginning of the next section. Try this in
several different pieces, even at spots where a ritardando is
not written in (just for fun!).
Pitch (Beginner’s
Corner)
1.
Ask the student to turn around or close his eyes. Play two notes for
the student on the piano, one after the other. Ask the student which
one was higher and which one was lower.
2.
Show the student a particular octave on the piano. Have the student
turn around (or close his eyes). The teacher plays one note within
that octave, and the student has to then find that note on the
piano. (This may take several tries at first.)
3.
Play notes on the piano that the student should then match by
singing.
4.
For more advanced students, practice singing intervals starting from
a given note. Later, they can also practice naming intervals that
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