PRACTICE PIANO SCORES
updated Sept. 23, 2006

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Very selected favorite practice piano scores... mostly in MINOR KEY.

The MIDI samples here are not mine. I just got them from the net to support the PDF. Remember these are public domain scores---Compositions done more than 75 years ago, no longer subject to copyright claims. They are too popular and the world owns them... Write me if I violated rules and I will remove them from here.

These scores are so uplifting and great! The world is too noisy already. You can lessen it a bit by appreciating classical music. Let it come to you. They are complex, intelligently done and relaxing. Listen to them with eyes closed!

COMPOSER	COMPOSITION	SCORE	SOUND	REMARKS
BACH, SEBASTIAN	Toccata & Fugue in Dm	PDF Score	MIDI	This is the Dracula Theme appropriately for organ. A very long piece of repetitive scaling. It will take me some time to learn this hard, long piece...
BEETHOVEN	Fur Elise (Sonata, Op.27, No.2)	PDF Score	MIDI	They say this is an easy piece... has a different impact. There is something untold, some subtle pain soothed by the journey in each measure. There is repose when you start playing it.
	Moonlight Sonata	Page1 Page2 Page3 Page4	MP3 MIDI (better version)	If you are isolating in gloom. Close the doors. Play this with all your might! This piece broke my heart dozen times!
CHOPIN	Nocturne in C#m	PDF Score	MP3 MIDI	The intro to "The Pianist movie. Slow, expressive but erratic piece, a hard one. The trills need a great deal of practice.
	Prelude in Em	PDF Score	MIDI	LENTO. A 1-page funeral requiem. Seems easy to listen but it has hard passage halfway.
	Waltz in Am Opus 69 No.4	PDF Score	MP3	Exhilarating and inspiring piece--so fresh to listen to. It makes you want to be a bohemian wandering freely in the renaissance era.
	Waltz in C#m Opus 64 No.2	PDF Score	MP3 MIDI	My most favorite Chopin piece ever! The mystery is reaching through my pituitary gland! :):)
	Etude Opus 10 No. 4	PDF Score	MIDI	Eccentric...A dream piece.
MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY	Venetian Boats Opus 30. No.6	PDF Score	MIDI	My most played piece. Expressive...Continuous but rising with depth. I loved the trill parts but it was not captured by the MIDI sample here.
MOZART	Rondo Alla Turca	PDF Score	MIDI	A very very popular piece. Wonder why they said it's an easy piece. I guess the fast tempo makes it hard, especially the passage in its last quarter portion. It will intermix your brain hemisphere.
SATIE	First Gnossienne	PDF Score	MIDI	Quite an easy piece but mysterious. If you have watched "Chocolat", this was played in the lovemaking scene:-)
SCHUBERT	Musical Moments in Fm No.3	PDF Score	MIDI	Creative...fast and playful. A favorite one from Schubert. The style starts with minor, then halfway it shifted to major key. This one is lingering!
TCHAIKOVSKY	June Barcarolle	PDF Score	MP3	The thematic impact of this is like Venetian Boats. I can listen to the music 10 times in one sitting.
That's all for the moment...