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Historical keyboard instruments

Harpsichord, clavichord, organ and fortepiano and what each does to touch and sustain.

Category
Style periods and performance practice
First taught in
5.7 Recognise a sequence
Theory cards
  • Playing Baroque music on a modern piano (Level 5)
  • The piano grows with the music (Level 10)
  • Fortepiano and modern grand (Diploma)

In the lessons

4 lessons and 4 pieces where the Method teaches or uses it, in teaching order.

LessonLesson and piece
5.7Recognise a sequenceInvention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775, Johann Sebastian Bach
10.10Prepare a complete performancePrelude in A-flat major, Op. 28 No. 17, Frédéric Chopin
D.4Let ornament and sequence direct the phrasePrelude and Fugue in F-sharp minor, BWV 859 — complete pair, Johann Sebastian Bach
D.5Connect two contrasting movementsPiano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78 — complete, Ludwig van Beethoven

In Musicianship

The units whose theory questions ask about it.

UnitTitle
5.7Rests and syncopation
10.10Seventh colours
D.4Compound intervals

In the app, the Theory library has the whole cards, with their questions, and a deep dive into this idea. The glossary from A to Z

Practise all 157 lessons at your piano

In Musalea each lesson runs step by step, and after every run the app tells you what to fix: the bar, the hand and how to practise it.

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