Pleyel: Minuet in C major

 

From Bastien's Easy Piano Classics

Diabelli: Bagatelle in G major

 

I got this from James Bastien's The Older Beginner Piano Course, Level 2, but it's also in Bastien's Easy Piano Classics.

Mozart: Minuet in C major, K. 6

Like the last tune I did, I got this from James Bastien's The Older Beginner Piano Course, Level 2, but it's also in Bastien's Easy Piano Classics.  I used the Pianet T sample.

Haydn: Minuet in G major

To-day's Haydn's birthday, so here's one of his minuets.  I got this from James Bastien's The Older Beginner Piano Course, Level 2, but it's also in Bastien's Easy Piano Classics.  I used the Pianet T sample.

Rameau: Minuet in Rondo Form

From Bastien's Easy Piano Classics

Purcell: Air in D minor, Z. 676

From Bastien's Easy Piano Classics

Couperin: Le petit rien

From Bastien's Easy Piano Classics

Haydn: German Dance, Hob. IX:22, No. 2

Originally, I found this on IMSLP, which gives the catalogue number as Hob. IX:22, No. 2, but then I discovered it's also in Easy Piano Classics, which has better fingerings, more interesting articulation (the staccato notes), and a few more notes compared to what I found on IMSLP, so I used that version for my recording.

Easy Piano Classics

I recently started learning some pieces from Easy Piano Classics in The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library.  (I posted a Telemann gavotte last week, and I've already recorded two more pieces.)  The book is divided into periods of music history, and at the beginning of each section, there's a selection of pictures of keyboard instruments from that particular period.  For "The Contemporary Period (1900-present)," one of the instruments is a Pianet N:

I think "electric" is a better adjective to use than "electronic" though.  I like this distinction between the two:  "Try playing the keyboard with the instrument UNPLUGGED from both the mains (if applicable) and any amplification.  If it makes a musical sound (however faint) it IS an electric piano."  Since, according to the user manual, "the Hohner Pianet N has mechanical vibrators (reeds) which are intonated by the keyboard action" and those vibrations are then "converted into electrical vibrations by electrodes," it does fit this definition of "electric piano."

Telemann: Gavotte in C major

This is from Easy Piano Classics in The Bastien Older Beginner Piano Library.  The book doesn't offer any information on the piece itself, which I'm a bit disappointed about.  In some ways, this is a combination of two movements from Telemann's 36 Fantasias for Harpsichord, TWV 33 (14:II and 15:IV), and I wish I could find out more about the similarity.