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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

Sonatina in E-flat major Op.168 No.2

Anton Diabelli

36/100 +5 pts 3-6 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Style classique and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Sonatina in F major Op.36 No.4

Muzio Clementi

35/100 +4 pts 3-6 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Gentle

Sonatina for piano no. 4

Camargo Guarnieri

35/100 +4 pts 3-6 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style moderne et contemporain and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Sonatina Op.37 No.2

Carl Reinecke

34/100 +4 pts 3-6 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

Sonatina

Béla Bartók

42/100 +11 pts 8-16 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Indépendance des mains and Style classique — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Sonatina in G major Op.79

Ludwig van Beethoven

43/100 +12 pts 8-16 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Style classique and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced

Piano Sonatina A major op. 60,2

Friedrich Kuhlau

43/100 +12 pts 8-16 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM). The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Legato — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Balanced

Sonatina in G major (Anh.5 No.1)

Ludwig van Beethoven

40/100 +9 pts 8-16 weeks

close skills moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Indépendance des mains and Style classique — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Piano Sonatine, op. 16

Albert Roussel

50/100 +19 pts 20-40 weeks

close skills high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. The skill that will carry the work: Style classique and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Challenge

Sonatine in F sharp minor

Maurice Ravel

50/100 +19 pts 20-40 weeks

close skills high risk to confirm

Challenge

2 Sonatinas, op. 54

Sergei Prokofiev

50/100 +19 pts 20-40 weeks

new reflexes high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap into Intermediate (around grade 6 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Style moderne et contemporain and Passages rapides — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

2-Part Inventions, BWV.772-786

Johann Sebastian Bach

32/100 +1 pts 2-3 weeks

new reflexes low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 3 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Style baroque and Ornements baroque — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Same level

Sonatina Op.20 No.1

Friedrich Kuhlau

32/100 +1 pts 2-3 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Indépendance des mains and Style classique — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

Same level

Scherzo from Sonatina in A major Op.59 No.1

Friedrich Kuhlau

33/100 +2 pts 2-3 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Equivalent demands, still Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM): what changes is the ground. What changes is the skill in play: Staccato and Style classique — practise it slowly and hands separately before any attempt at tempo: that is where tension builds up.

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