Set pieces and reviews

List A · D minor · 152 bpm

La tarantelle

Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller

Burgmüller settled in Paris in the 1830s and earned a living writing study pieces for the salon-piano market — *Études faciles* Op.

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List A · C major · 132 bpm

Spiritoso (1st movement from Sonatina in C, Op. 36 No. 3)

Muzio Clementi

Clementi's *Six Sonatinas* Op.

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List A · D minor · 138 bpm

Hook's Hornpipe (from Piano Tales for Peter Pan)

Nikki Iles

Nikki Iles is a British jazz pianist, composer and educator (RAM, Royal Academy of Music) whose teaching pieces marry her jazz-harmonic ear with the rigours of Classical pedagogy.

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List B · C major · 110 bpm

Someone You Loved (arr. for piano)

Lewis Capaldi, Benjamin Kohn, Peter Kelleher, Thomas Barnes & Samuel Roman

*Someone You Loved* (2018) is the breakthrough single by Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi — a slow piano-led ballad that became the longest-running UK number-one of 2019 and crossed into the global pop canon.

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List B · G minor · 88 bpm

Foggy Blues (from Naoko Ikeda: The Graded Collection)

Naoko Ikeda

Naoko Ikeda is a Japanese composer (FJH Music) whose teaching pieces — *Tropical Sunset*, *Quiet Storm*, *The Graded Collection* — sit in a tonal-jazz idiom that has become a small institution in American and British piano teaching.

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List B · B minor · 144 bpm

Waltz in B minor, D. 145 No. 6

Franz Schubert

Schubert wrote dozens of small piano dances for the Viennese house parties (*Schubertiaden*) at which his songs and dances filled the evening — *Deutsche Tänze*, *Ländler*, waltzes, ecossaises.

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List C · F major · 120 bpm

The Village in May (from My Neighbour Totoro)

Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi (Mamoru Fujisawa) has scored almost every Studio Ghibli film since *Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind* (1984).

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List C · C major · 116 bpm

Jackson Street Blues (from Jazz, Rags & Blues, Book 4)

Martha Mier

Martha Mier is an American composer and educator (Alfred Music) whose *Jazz, Rags & Blues* series has been one of the most-played introductions to early-jazz piano in the English-speaking world for thirty years.

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List C · G major · 96 bpm

La pluie et l'arc-en-ciel (No. 8 from Musiques d'enfants, Op. 65)

Sergey Prokofiev

Prokofiev's *Musiques d'enfants* (Op.

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