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Gentle step

The safest next step.

Gentle

One 2, for 1-4 pianos

John Cage

30/100 +5 pts 3-6 weeks

close skills low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 3 ABRSM/RCM). The skill that will carry the work: Connaissance des formes — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Gentle

Suite for Toy Piano

John Cage

30/100 +5 pts 3-6 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 3 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style baroque and Ornements baroque — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Gentle

Sonatina Op.13 No.3

Dmitry Kabalevsky

29/100 +4 pts 2-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 3 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: 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.168 No.1

Anton Diabelli

31/100 +6 pts 3-6 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

Gentle

Sonatina in C major Op.36 No.3

Muzio Clementi

29/100 +4 pts 2-4 weeks

partial transfer low risk to confirm

A short step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 3 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Style classique and Indépendance des mains — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced step

A genuine step up, without a jolt.

Balanced

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

Anton Diabelli

36/100 +11 pts 6-12 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

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

Balanced

Primitive, for string piano

John Cage

35/100 +10 pts 6-12 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: Style baroque and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Balanced

Variations in D Hob. XVII:7

Franz Joseph Haydn

34/100 +10 pts 6-12 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

A real step up, staying in Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM). New compared with the previous piece: Analyse harmonique and Style classique — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Balanced

Sonatina Op.37 No.2

Carl Reinecke

34/100 +9 pts 6-12 weeks

partial transfer moderate risk to confirm

Ambitious challenge

A useful leap with guided practice.

Challenge

Piano Sonata G major K. 283 (189h)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

44/100 +19 pts 16-32 weeks

partial transfer high risk to confirm

An ambitious leap while staying in Elementary (around grade 5 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. New compared with the previous piece: Analyse harmonique and Indépendance des mains — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Challenge

Music for Piano 3, for piano

John Cage

40/100 +15 pts 16-32 weeks

new reflexes moderate risk to confirm

An ambitious leap while staying in Elementary (around grade 4 ABRSM/RCM) — only worth starting if the practice time is really there. The demand here is musical rather than mechanical: Phrasé — the notes will be secure long before the musical line: work in whole phrases, singing the main voice.

Same level

To widen the repertoire without raising the level.

Same level

B. London Music Book K. 15a-15qq

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

26/100 +1 pts 1-2 weeks

partial transfer 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: Analyse harmonique — understand the form and the harmony before memorising, or memory collapses the moment you play for someone.

Same level

Sonatina in G major Op.36 No.2

Muzio Clementi

27/100 +2 pts 1-2 weeks

partial transfer 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 classique and Indépendance des mains — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

Same level

Sonatina in C major Op.55 No.1

Friedrich Kuhlau

27/100 +2 pts 1-2 weeks

partial transfer 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 classique and Connaissance des formes — the notes are not enough: articulation and ornaments follow performance conventions best checked in an urtext edition.

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