Piano Development

Clavichord, harpsichord, piano --- each is a stringed keyboard instrument, yet each instrument as it appears in various shapes and sizes possesses its own merit and strength and strength as well as its weaknesses.

Sonatas and Variations

  • Lecture I : Sonata Structure and Variation Technique

  • Lecture II : The Binary Sonata

  • Lecture III : The German Baroque Master

  • Lecture IV : Transition to the Classical Style

  • Lecture V : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

  • Lecture VI : Proto-Romanticism in London, Prague and Vienna

  • Lecture VII : Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

  • Lecture VIII : Early German Romanticism

  • Lecture IX : Parisian Romanticism

  • Lecture X : Later German Romanticism

  • Lecture XI : European Nationalism and Neoclassicism

  • Lecture XII : French and Russian Piano Music 1850-1950

  • Lecture XIII : American Music, Jazz, and Atonality

  • Lecture XIV : Film Music; Piano Ensemble and Concerto-Variation Works

  • Piano Concertos

  • Lecture I : What is Concerto?

  • Lecture II : Mozart

  • Lecture III : Beethoven

  • Lecture IV : The concerto after Beethoven

  • Lecture V : Russian composers

  • Lecture VI : Ravel, Bartok

  • Lecture VII : Schonberg, Barber

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    Character pieces

  • Lecture I : Beethoven and Schubert

  • Lecture II : Schumann

  • Lecture III : Brahms

  • Lecture IV : Chopin

  • Lecture V : Liszt

  • Lecture VI : Scriabin and Debussy Preludes

  • Lecture VII : Granados and Albeniz

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    Dance Music

  • Lecture I : Introduction

  • Lecture II : The Suite

  • Lecture III : Schubert and Chopin

  • Lecture IV : Liszt and Brahms

  • Lecture V : Debussy, Ravel and Schonberg

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    20th century Music

  • Lecture I : France

  • Lecture II : In the America: USA

  • Lecture III : Russia

  • Lecture IV : Spain

  • Lecture V : Other Composers