Fall Festival

Saturday, November 4, 2017

Concord Community Music School

2017 Fall Festival Required Repertoire List

Romantic Music


All students entering the Fall Festival must choose ONE piece (or group of pieces as noted)
from the following Required Repertoire list. You may use any edition of your choice. The
approximate level of difficult within each group corresponds, for the most part, with Jane
Magrath’s book The Pianist’s Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature.


I. Magrath levels 1, 2 elementary/late elementary
II. Magrath levels 3, 4 early intermediate
III. Magrath levels 5, 6 intermediate
IV. Magrath levels 7,8 late intermediate
V. Magrath levels 9, 10 early advanced


Students will choose ONE solo piece or ONE duet ONLY from the following list











GROUP I (elementary/late elementary)

The Silent Garden Martin Cuéllar

Brooklyn’s Waltz Phillip Keveren

Little Ragtime Waltz Carolyn Matz

Lollipops and Butterflies Edwin McLean

Moonbeam Waltz Martha Mier
Ladybug Lullaby

Memories John Robert Poe

Album for the Young, Op. 68 Robert Schumann
1. Melody
2. Soldier’s March
5. Little Piece (Bagatelle)

Little Scherzo (from Images) Robert Vandall

Water Sprite, Op. 70, No. 27 (from Fifty Pieces without Octaves) Hermann Berens
Busy at Work, Op. 70, No. 22 (from Fifty Pieces without Octaves) Hermann Berens
Circle Dance, Op. 101, No. 60 Ferdinand Beyer
Happily Exercising Ferdinand Beyer
Going on a Road Trip, Op. 200, No. 43 Louis Köhler
In the Garden (Children’s Album, Op. 210) Louis Köhler
Spring Waltz Fritz Spindler
Two Preludes Fritz Spindler
Soldier’s Song (Hero’s March) Moritz Vogel
Above pieces can be found in:
Faber, Ed.: Preparatory Piano Literature
Faber, ed.: Preparatory Piano Literature, Book 1
Marlais, ed.: On Your Way to Succeeding with the Masters
Marlais, ed.: Festival Collection, Preparatory
Marlais, ed.: Festival Collection, Book 1

DUET

Chanson Robert Vandall
Pirouette Robert Vandall


GROUP II (early intermediate)

Valse triste Dennis Alexander

25 Progressive Pieces, Op. 100 Johann Friedrich Burgmüller
3. La Pastorale
6. Progress
7. The Clear Stream
14. Austrian Dance (La styrienne)

Album for the Young, Op. 140 Cornelius Gurlitt
1. March
2. Morning Song
3. The Sky is Bright
17. Scherzo

Moonlight Waltz Martha Mier
Misty Morning

Gypsy Rhapsody Catherine Rollin
Spanish Nocturne

Album for the Young, Op. 68 Robert Schumann
10. Happy Farmer
16. First Loss

12 Melodious Pieces, Book 2, Op. 64 – choose one Jean Louis Streabbog (Gobbearts)

Romantic Inspirations – choose one Robert Vandall


DUET

Moonlit Evening Robert Vandall
Shadow Dance Robert Vandall









GROUP III (intermediate)

The Rainbow’s Promise (from Cyclone!) Melody Bober
Summer Romance
Energetic Etude

Preludes, Op. 28 Frederic Chopin
4. E Minor
6. B Minor
7. A Major

Lyric Pieces Edvard Grieg
Arietta, Op. 12, No. 1
Elfin Dance, Op. 12, No. 4
Sailor’s Song, Op. 68, No. 1
Watchman’s Song, Op. 12, No. 3

To A Wild Rose, Op. 51, No. 1 (from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51) Edward MacDowell

Spotlight on Romantic Style Catherine Rollin
Nocturne
Waltz
Mazurka
Polonaise
Etude

Waltz in B Minor Franz Schubert

Album for the Young, Op. 39 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5. March of the Tin Soldiers
11 (10). Mazurka
15. Italian Song
18. Neapolitan Dance Song
21. Sweet Dreams


DUET

Ballad Robert Vandall
Fly with the Eagles Robert Vandall



GROUP IV (late intermediate)

Moonlight Fantasy Melody Bober
Rain on the Lake
Rhapsody Brilliant
Spanish Rhapsody

18 Characteristic Studies, Op. 109 Johann Friedrich Burgmüller
2. The Pearls
9. The Matin Bell (Le cloche des matines)
10. Velocity (Le vélcité)
13. The Storm (L’orage)
16. Parting (La separation)

Mazurka in A Minor, op. 7, No. 2 Frederic Chopin
Nocturne in C Minor, Op. Posth.
Prelude in E Major, Op. 28, No. 9
Waltz in B Minor, Op. 69, No. 2

Romances without Words, Op. 17 (choose one) Gabiel Faure

Romantic Etudes (choose one) Randall Hartsell

Songs without Words Felix Mendelssohn
Venetian Boat Song, Op. 19, No. 6
Sadness of Soul, Op. 53, No. 4
Retrospection, Op. 102, No. 2
Tarantella, Op. 102, No. 3

Moments Musical Op. 94, D. 780 Franz Schubert
2. A-flat Major
3. F Minor

Scenes from Childhood, Op. 15 Robert Schumann
2. Curious Story
6. Important Event
7. Träumeri

Lakeside Retreat Robert Vandall
Preludes No. 15-21, Volume 3 – choose one Robert Vandall

DUET

Slavonic Dance in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 2 Anton Dvorak
Polonaise in B-flat Major, Op. 61, D. 824, No. 3 Franz Schubert

GROUP V (early advanced)

Espana, Op. 165 (choose one) Isaac Albéniz

Rhapsody in G Minor, Op. 79, No. 2 Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in E Major, Op. 116, No. 6

Nocturne in G Minor, Op. 37, No. 1 Frederic Chopin
Polonaise in C-sharp Minor, Op. 26, No. 1

12 Spanish Dances, Op. 5 - choose one Enrique Granados

Six Consolations, S. 172 - choose one Franz Liszt

Reverie, Op. 85, No. 1 Felix Mendelssohn
Venetian Boat Song, Op. 30, No. 6

Elegie, Op. 3, No. 1 Sergei Rachmaninoff
Polichinelle, Op. 3, No. 4

Impromptu in E-flat Major, Op. 90, No. 2 Franz Schubert
Impromptu in A-flat Major, Op. 142, No. 2

Romance in F-sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 2 Robert Schumann
Aufschwung, Op. 12, No. 2 (from Fantasiestücke)




DUET

Celebration Overture Robert Vandall
Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F-sharp Minor Johannes Brahms