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Table Of Contents

Ode to Joy ................................................4

Minuet .......................................................5

Mexican Hat Dance ..................................6

Hungarian Dance......................................8

In the Hall of the Mountain King .............10

Canon in D..............................................12

Rondo Alla Turca ....................................14

The Entertainer .......................................16

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy ..............18

March of the Nutcracker .........................20

Moonlight Sonata....................................22

Bolero .....................................................24

Maple Leaf Rag ......................................26

Funeral March ........................................28

Sonatina .................................................29

Wedding March ......................................31

Spring .....................................................33

Fur Elise .................................................35

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik..........................37

1812 Overture.........................................38

About this piece:

Allegro maestosoLudwig Van Beethoven

Arranged Ruth Searle

Ode to Joy

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It was written by Ludwig Van Beethoven who lived from 1770 to 1827. He was a German composer influential in the Classical and Romantic era. He later became deaf, but still composed!

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ModeratoJ.S.Bach


Minuet

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J.S Bach was a German composer and lived from 1685 until 1750. He wrote music that was influential in the Baroque musical period which was characterised by complex musical theory, a focus on tonal centres, and a type of Call and Response between instruments which was called ‘Imitative Counterpont’. You can learn about the Call and Response within another context in the Introduction to Gospel book.

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Mexican Hat Dance

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About this piece:Jarabe Tapatio known in english as The Mexican Hat Dance, was composed by Jesus Gonzales Rubio in the 19th Century who was a professor of music in Guadalajara.

The piece of mexican folk music was later accompanied by an iconic dance that has earned the title as the National Dance of Mexico which is taught as compulsory in schools throughout Mexico.

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Hungarian Dance

Johannes BrahmsArranged Ruth Searle

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This piece is by the composer Johann Brahms of the Romantic Era. Brahms was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1833 and although he was a major part of the Romantic movement he also had many characteristics of the Classical era music in his compositions.

He was a perfectionist and extremely self critical about his work despite his great popularity. The Hungarian Dance is a series of 21 lively dances based on Hungarian folk songs. Only three of these were completely original by Brahms.

This particular piece is perhaps the most popular and is named Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor. (It has been transposed for this arrangement to the key of E minor.

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AdagioEdward Grieg (1843-1907)



In the Hall of the Mountain Kingfrom 'Peer Gynt'

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About this piece:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He lived in the Romantic era and was best known for his music for the play Peer Gynt.

This piece ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ was originally set for an orchestra and later adapted for piano. The whole piece lasts only two minutes in total but has become an icon in popular culture. The piece is set to a scene in the play where the main character Peer, has sneaked into a castle and tries to escape from the King and his trolls.

AndanteJ. Pachelbel

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About this piece:This piece Canon in D was composed by Johann Pachelbel, a German composer from the Baroque period. He was an organist and teacher as well as a composer and is considered to have helped popularise the German organ tradition. He had many compositions but the Canon is one of his most popular works today, it had a resurgence of popularity during the 1970s and more recently has been adapted to feature in pop songs. The piece was composed for a string ensemble, and later adapted for piano.

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Rondo Alla Turca

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Turkish March

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About this piece:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prodigious composer of the Classical period. He began composing music at the tender age of five and had more then 600 compositions over his lifetime.

He influenced other great composers such as Beethoven, Chopin and Tchaikovsky. This piece known as Turkish Rondo, or Rondo Alla Turca, was originally the third and final movement of a piece called Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major.

The name for this particular movement was Alla Turca: Allegretto, and is more well known then the other two movements. It imitates the trend of that time which was Turkish military marching music.

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The EntertainerA Ragtime Two Step

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About this piece:Scott Joplin was one of the most influential pioneers of American Ragtime music. He was a musician and composer and was best known for his song Maple Leaf Rag.

In popularity, this song The Entertainer comes a close second, and was created at his home in St Louis, Missouri in 1903. This rag-time two step (the subtitle of the song) was a popular dance in those times, it is in the key of C major.

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Dance of the Sugar Plum FairyPeter Ilyich Tchaikovsky


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About this piece:Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer who was very much the Romantic era composer. His compositions showed the expressiveness and drama that was typical of this period.

Some of his most famous works include; 1812 Overture, Romeo & Juliet, the Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and the Nutcracker, of which this piece, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, played near the end of the production.

The musical work was composed in 1891 to accompany the story by E.Hoffman to create a fairy tale ballet.

P.I.TchaikovskyArranged Ruth Searle


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About this piece:Here is another piece by Tchaikovsky. This was the theme song for the Nutcrackers march. It is the second piece that is played in both the ballet and the musical suite.

The Nutcracker has become the most popular ballet of the Western world.

Eight pieces from the musical work were selected by Tchaikovsky to make The Nutcracker Suite suitable to be performed simply as an orchestral work featuring the celesta. The instrumental gained success much sooner then the full ballet.

Ludwig van BeethovenArranged by Ruth SearleAdagio

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About this piece:Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer of the Classical/Romantic eras. He was a great pianist, and one of the most influential composers of all time. He composed masterpieces throughout his life despite being partially, and then completely deaf. The Moonlight Sonata (no.14) was written in 1801 and was dedicated to his pupil, a 17 year old Countess whom he had affections for.

Maurice Ravel

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About this piece:Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer and a pianist. He lived from 1875-1937 in the era known as the ‘impressionistic period’. Ravel’s musical style is very classic, he uses traditional structures with experimental harmony.

This piece Bolero is his most famed piece, contrary to Ravels complacency with the orchestral work. It was originally written for a ballet and was one of his last pieces before he became ill and retired from composition.

Maple Leaf RagScott Joplin


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About this piece:Here is another Ragtime piano piece by Scott Joplin. The Maple Leaf Rag was one of Joplin’s earlier works and was written to honor the Maple Leaf Club, which was a black social club in Missouri in the 1890s.

After its completion Joplin boasted to a fellow ragtime composer that this rag would make him the ‘King of ragtime composers’.

After it was published in 1899 it sold over 1 million copies of sheet music, and was a huge success bringing Joplin the accomplishment of having composed the first great sheet music hit in America.

Frederic Chopin was a Polish piano composer of the Romantic Period. He lived from 1810 to 1849. He was a very influential piano composer of his time, and was labeled a Child Prodigy as a teenager.

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Largo

Funeral MarchF. Chopin (1810-1849)


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Muzio Clementi lived from 1752 to 1832, and was a composer in the Classical period. He specialised mainly in piano, and composed 110 piano sonatas in his lifetime!

SpiritosoM. Clementi, Opus 36 No. 1

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Wedding MarchFelix Mendelssohn

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Mendelssohn lived from 1809 to 1847 and was from Germany. Some of his work includes symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano and chamber music. He is among the most popular composers of the Romantic era.

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VivaceAntonio Vivaldi


Spring

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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678 and died in 1741. He was a popular composer in the Baroque era. He was also an Italian priest, and a famous violinist.

It is part of a collection of 4 concertos originally for the violin, called The Four Seasons. This series of concertos was his most well known works. The performance indication at the top of the piece ‘Vivace’, indicates for it to be played lively and vivacious.

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Ludwig Van BeethovenPoco moto.


Fur Elise

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About this piece:Fur Elise was composed by Ludwig Van Beethoven as a Bagatelle in A minor for solo piano. The piece was written around 1810, and is said to be devoted to one of his mistresses at the time.

Fur Elise is one of the most popular classical pieces that piano students around the world request to learn. It is popular for its beautiful melody, and simple arrangement. The right hand carries the melody, while the left hand plays arpeggios to accompany.

Wolfgang Amadeus MozartArranged Ruth Searle

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

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About this piece:This piece loosely translated as “A Little Night Music” is one of the most popular compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Originally intended for a Chamber ensemble, he wrote this piece in Vienna during 1787 while he was also working on the opera Don Giovanni.

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Pyotr Illich TschaikovskyArranged Ruth Searle

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About this piece:This is a Classical overture written by Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky the Russian Composer. The piece was written to commemorate Russia’s defense against Napoleon’s army in Moscow 1812. It is a full orchestral arrangement, complete with climactic firing of Cannons!

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