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Update 3: 15 February 2025 PianoTell Recital #3 is now live! Please comment on the performances directly on the recital thread. rogerch — Flutter Nightowl...

Sophia

Animisha Have you heard of Piano Syllabus?

I will repeat WieWaldi’s comment - I hadn’t but as soon as I wake up properly, I will expand my knowledge horizon and look it up 😁

Animisha

Sophia
It is here: https://pianosyllabus.com/x-default.php

I use it all the time when choosing my pieces.

ShiroKuro

Animisha I couldn't open that link, do you have an alternative?

Sophia

Thanks Animisha! That'll definitely come in handy now that I'm preparing to stand on my own two feet, pieces wise 😃

Sophia

ShiroKuro It's working for me... try again?

Animisha

ShiroKuro How strange. Maybe if you just use: https://pianosyllabus.com/

ShiroKuro

Sophia It's working for me... try again?

Weird, I can open it on my phone but not on my laptop. Maybe it's a browser problem.

WieWaldi

ShiroKuro I can open it on my phone but not on my laptop. Maybe it's a browser problem.

Big hint from a software developer: Always install at least 2 different browsers on your computer. Sometime one browser can't open a webpage, but then the other can.

ShiroKuro

WieWaldi Big hint from a software developer: Always install at least 2 different browsers on your computer

I have two, I only log in to PT with one of them.

ShiroKuro

Animisha That was the first thing I tried, same result.

rsl12

Sophia

ShiroKuro which version of the Toccato in Dm is that? Is it this one?

That's the one, Shiro 🙂 Four pages of it, so give me one good reason why I shouldn't skip it 😃

What if I offer to write lyrics and sing along?

Sophia

rsl12 What if I offer to write lyrics and sing along?

Oooooooooooohhhhhhh you be careful!!! I might take you up on that with another piece. In fact, I'm pretty sure that at some point, I'll be cashing in on your very generous offer

rsl12

(I'm joking of course. It would be a fun challenge to write lyrics, but not a fun challenge to actually sing the melody.)

pianoloverus

Sophia So now I face the difficult decision whether I want to be a Serious Pianist who Plays Bach

There are hundreds of other pieces by Bach to choose from if you don't like this one.

pianoloverus

Animisha About the Bach piece, it is Piano Syllabus level 9. Completely outrageous of Alred's editor to put that in their book.

There are very many transcriptions of that organ work. So unless one knows the piano syllabus is ranking the one posted in this thread, one can't conclude the ranking for the piece posted on this thread is level 9. Maybe The piano syllabus is ranking this transcription by Busoni:

Sophia

I can’t answer that one, pianoloverus, and I’m currently in between computers so I can’t scan my page either. But the pieces surrounding it are Prelude in C Major from the Well Tempered Clavier, Trumpet Tune, Fur Elise, Prelude in A Major (Chopin), and Moonlight Sonata. That should give an indication of the level of this particular transcription. I can’t imagine it would suddenly deviate all that much from the norm 🙂

pianoloverus

Sophia I found one listing on piano syllabus for the Bach Toccata in D minor that was ranked 9 but it was the Busoni transcription which makes perfect sense. Unless there was another specific listing for the version posted earlier (which doesn't even have a transcriber listed on the sheet music), then the assumption that the previously posted transcription is a level 9 is incorrect.

Sophia

Haha yeah, I would have assumed the same really. But I didn't quite think I had progressed to level 9 after such a short time (I wish!) so I readily believe it when I hear that this version is more at the "Fur Elise" level I am just about to reach ^_^

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