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Difficulty: Intermediate
Getting started: What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? (Trad.)
1 Riffs and ostinato: Modes
Quick learn: The Italian Bagpipers (Gounod)
2 Latin dance styles
Repertoire: Blue-sky Bossa
Rumba Rhythmique,
Samba
Augmented and diminished intervals
Keys with five sharps and flats
Quick learn: Summer Cha-cha
3 Theme and variations
Repertoire: Chaconne (Handel)
Exploring different bass lines
Recital piece: Andantino (Haydn)
Dominant and diminished sevenths
Quick learn: Flat-key Study
4 Music for television, film and music theatre
Repertoire: The Flower Duet (Delibes)
Recital piece: Allegretto from Symphony No.7 (Beethoven)
Quick learn: Don’t Dilly Dally (Trad.)
5 Mazurkas and Romanticism
Repertoire: Mazurka (Tchaikovsky)
Recital piece: Gypsy Serenade (Duet)
6 Exploring impressionism
Quick learn: Dorian’s Dance
Repertoire: Gymnopédie No.3 (Satie)
7 Looking at minimalism
Chords, cadences and figured bass
Repertoire: Nuovi Inizi
Recital piece: Two-part Invention (JS Bach)
8 Introducing fugues
Quick learn: Frugal Fugue
Repertoire: Fugue in G minor (Telemann)
9 All about ornaments
Quick learn: Ornament Olympics
Recital piece: Spinning Song (Ellmenreich)
10 Concert pieces
Quick learn: La Bourbonnaise (Couperin)
Recital piece: The Fall of the Leafe (Peerson)
Quick learn: Allegretto (Mozart)
Recital piece: Prelude in C minor (Chopin)
Quick learn: Summer Jazz Waltz
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