Piano Solos for Intermediate and Early Advanced
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For a while I've been working on these two songs and I'm so grateful to learn new piano music that is refreshing to the soul or provides opportunities for growth as a pianist. Both of these songs are amazing to learn and teach to Intermediate or Early Advanced. Hope you enjoy these selections.
Refraction, created by Travis Lohmann (from a series called Portrait No. 5,) a composer in Las Vegas, Nevada and where I learned about his music through Piano Pronto, composed a song about how to make the piano create sounds like refraction. The term refraction means the bending of light from one medium to another: rainbows, straws in a water glass that look crooked, water droplets while in the light, the human eye are just examples.
This solo creates an audatory expression of refraction through the melodious motif, harmonies and modes. The selection is delineated to "paying tribute to the minimalistic stylings of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt". With the various key changes, dynamics and the haunting melody. that creates a sensation that represents the change or bending of light. Hope you enjoy my interpretation by implementing various visuals.
Here is the link to the solo:
The second selection is Rondo alla Turca, (Turkish March) by Mozart is a selection that I've been working on here and there for over two years. Yet understand that within the last several months is when I really focused on it. I'm honest that it's not perfect, yet grateful for attempting a selection that I had only learned the main section of. Rondo alla Turca is a popular piece by Mozart, expressing Turkish music and celebration of their culture. This selection is from the 3rd Movement of Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331. Mozart's composition represents speed, agility, fingering and a strong chordal structure. I'm hoping to continue working on this selection when I can. Yet so grateful for attempting a song that I've wanted to play in it's entirity for several years.
What are you trying that's bigger than yourself? Would like to know. Thanks for your support. Blessings.
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