Set pieces and reviews

List A · G major · 120 bpm

Allegro assai (3rd movement from Sonata in G)

Georg Benda

Georg (Jiří) Benda was one of the leading Bohemian composers at the Saxe-Gotha court — a contemporary of C.P.E.

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List A · G major · 116 bpm

Sonata in G, C. 34

Domenico Cimarosa

Cimarosa is best remembered as a Neapolitan opera composer (*Il matrimonio segreto*, 1792), but his thirty-odd one-movement keyboard sonatas — small, witty, perfectly formed — circulated widely in the late eighteenth century and remain a staple of intermediate teaching.

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List A · C major · 116 bpm

Menuet and Trio (3rd movement from Sonata in C, Hob. XVI:1)

Joseph Haydn

Hob.

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List B · A minor · 152 bpm

Waltz (No. 2 from Lyriske småstykker, Op. 12)

Edvard Grieg

Grieg's *Lyriske småstykker* (Lyric Pieces) Op.

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List B · F major · 84 bpm

Sunsets in Savannah (from Portraits of the Sky)

Randall Hartsell

Randall Hartsell is an American composer and educator (FJH Music) whose teaching pieces — *Portraits of the Sky*, *Quiet Moments*, *American Sketches* — sit firmly in the post-Romantic American piano idiom: tonal, lyrical, atmospheric, written to be enjoyed by intermediate students.

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List B · G major · 88 bpm

Cloudscapes (No. 4 from It's a Piano Thing, Book 2)

Ailbhe McDonagh

Ailbhe McDonagh is an Irish cellist and composer whose teaching collections (*It's a Piano Thing*, *It's a Cello Thing*; Faber Music) bring a contemporary chamber-music sensibility into early-grade writing.

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List C · C major · 132 bpm

Danse du cocher (No. 15 from Petite suite en 15 images)

Jacques Ibert

Ibert's *Petite suite en 15 images* (1943) is a set of fifteen miniature character pieces written for young pianists during the Occupation — small, witty, deliberately approachable, but with the harmonic ear of a French composer who had absorbed Ravel and Poulenc.

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List C · F major · 132 bpm

Wallace and Gromit Theme

Julian Nott

Julian Nott composed the music for Aardman Animations' *Wallace and Gromit* shorts and features — *A Grand Day Out* (1989), *The Wrong Trousers* (1993), *A Close Shave* (1995), *The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005).

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List C · A minor · 76 bpm

Canzonetta

Raymond Yiu

Raymond Yiu is a Hong Kong-born British composer (Stonemason Press; *The London Magazine*) whose larger works — the symphony, song cycles, the orchestral *Northwest Passage* — sit in a finely-crafted contemporary-tonal idiom.

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