Piano Adventures 4: Wild Flowers and Cadenza

  This lesson plan includes activities for "Wild Flowers" in Piano Adventures 4.

Music Sample

Listen to the 2 different performers play the same piece. Can you hear any differences in their expression, tempo, and dynamics? The cadenza in measure 27 can be played freely without a strict tempo.

Wild Flowers

Wild Flowers

Improvisation

This piece, has an impressionistic style. Impressionistic music evokes a mood, atmosphere, or feeling rather than telling a strict story. The form often includes interesting harmonies and flexible tempos (rubato). 

Listen to some sample improvisations below and then create your own improvisation in impressionistic style. 

Moonrise

Cathedral

Pagoda

Private Music

Ocean Without a Shore

Quiet Voices

Colors of Seven

Supplementary Impressionistic Music

Glistening Willow by Dennis Alexander  in Keys to Stylistic Mastery Book 1

Osaka Castle Garden by Dennis Alexander in Keys to Stylistic Mastery Book 1

Supplementary Music in the Key of F Minor

Swords of Shannon by Andrea Dow in WK Performance Pop 3

Open Spaces by Andrea Dow in WK Performance Pop 3

Supplementary Pieces in A Major

Pronto 4 page 63 Verdi

DP Minuet in A

Michael Aaron 3 Hungarian Dance pg. 56

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