Levels Pieces Technique Reading Musicianship Glossary
Consolation in E major, S. 172 No. 1
Franz Liszt (1,811–1,886)
Key E major
Style Romantic
Roughly RCM 9 · ABRSM 8 · Trinity 8 · Henle 5–6
Focus lyrical cantabile, pedal, tone
What its lesson teaches
Study Liszt’s Consolation No. 1 in E major. On the second beat of bars 4, 20 and 24 the harmony is a dominant ninth on F sharp (F sharp–C sharp–A sharp–E–G sharp): a seventh chord with one more third on top. Hear how it differs from the plain seventh. Explore eleventh and thirteenth voicings, and the modal-jazz card, separately in the keyboard step. At the keyboard: voice ninth, eleventh and thirteenth chords.
Technique E major scale, hands together, 4 octaves E major arpeggio, hands together, 4 octaves
The other lesson pieces of Level 9
Jazz Blues Shells Fugue in C major, BWV 846 Sonata in G major, Hob. XVI:27: I. Allegro con brio Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 64 No. 3 Première Arabesque, L. 66 No. 1 Song without Words in A minor “Volkslied”, Op. 53 No. 5 Andantino (Trois nouvelles études), B. 130 No. 1 Étude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2 No. 1 Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1: I. Allegro molto e con brio
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