Blossom’s Navigator
Summer, 2025
String Quartets
Getting to know the string quartet literature; HERE
Expanding our Repertoire
Some music here just for listening. Given your study of the piano, I think a good starting point for some work on history and context would be just listening and talking about some repertoire for piano
This may lead to some analysis work, but for now, we'll just talk through them in our lesson time, but after you've listened in advance.
It's also a nice change of gear after keyboard work
Haydn Sonata No 24 in D major, Hob XVI-24
Debussy Estampes, L.100
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfYEkk9nir4 (fabulous little lecture on the piece
Ligeti
l'escalier du diable :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoLam2O3gtY
ricercate #7 :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXsRlMneOS0
Boyce : piano music
Five Polite Waltzes is the first piece I wrote that has remained ‘in the catalog.’
Here are some videos of pieces of mine for solo piano; there are links to many videos on that page, and you are free to poke around if you want.
This is a longer collection of audio recordings of music for solo piano
Resources
musictheory.net is a fairly flexible and comprehensive site for drilling, even in it’s free form.
Rob Hutchinson’s Music Theory for the 21st Century Classroom has most everything you’ll bump into. It’s not very exciting, but it’s clear and tidy in its design and its logic.
possible future work
warp and weft
texture as the lost technics of composition
pocket Botstein
a way to hear the 20th century.
listening work
how to keep track of all your listening.
Better Know Your Sonatas
Be a baller like Clementi; Understand the difference between form and structure