Set pieces and reviews

A minor · 96 bpm

Russian Folk Song (No. 3 from 10 National Airs with Variations, Op. 107)

Ludwig van Beethoven (ed. Hans-Günter Heumann)

Beethoven's *Op.

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C major · 112 bpm

Passepied in C, HWV 559

George Frideric Handel (ed. Peter Wild)

The passepied is a French Baroque dance — a quick triple-time piece with a feather-light step, faster than a minuet and meant to lift on the off-beats.

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C major · 100 bpm

Bagatelle

Anton Diabelli

Diabelli is best remembered as the publisher who sent a forgettable waltz to fifty composers in 1819 and received Beethoven's monumental *Diabelli Variations* (Op.

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G major · 108 bpm

Minuet in G

Daniel Gottlob Türk

Türk was a Halle-based theorist, composer and organist whose 1789 *Klavierschule* — a comprehensive treatise on keyboard playing — is one of the most cited primary sources for late-eighteenth-century performance practice.

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C major · 104 bpm

Minuet (No. 10 from 24 Short and Easy Pieces, Op. 1)

Alexander Reinagle

Reinagle was an English-born composer who emigrated to America in 1786 and became one of the most important musical figures in early Federal-era Philadelphia — he led concert series, taught Nelly Custis (George Washington's step-granddaughter), and wrote the first American piano sonatas.

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C major · 104 bpm

King William's March

Jeremiah Clarke

Jeremiah Clarke was an English Baroque composer best known to modern audiences for the *Prince of Denmark's March* (long misattributed to Henry Purcell and adopted as a wedding processional).

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A minor · 76 bpm

Le petit mendiant (The Little Beggar) — from Album pour les touts-petits, Op. 103

Mélanie Bonis

Mélanie Bonis (who published as Mel Bonis to deflect the gendered reception of women composers in late-nineteenth-century France) studied at the Paris Conservatoire alongside Debussy and Pierné.

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C major · 116 bpm

Do-Re-Mi (from The Sound of Music)

Richard Rodgers (arr. Alastair Gavin)

Rodgers and Hammerstein's *The Sound of Music* opened on Broadway in 1959 and became, by way of the 1965 film, one of the most widely-recognised musicals of the twentieth century.

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E♭ major · 126 bpm

Titanium (David Guetta ft. Sia)

Sia Furler, David Guetta, Giorgio Tuinfort & Nick van de Wall (arr. Chris Hussey)

*Titanium* was released by David Guetta in late 2011 with vocals by Sia Furler, and reached the top ten in over twenty countries.

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