Kleinkonzert 3

This evening it was Mozart's piano sonata no. 11 in A major.

J especially liked the 3rd movement, the famous "Rondo alla Turca."

Puppets and piano practice 8: Kleinkonzerte 1 & 2

I'm working on starting a new routine, which is to sit down with J and one of the puppets and watch musicians performing. 

Last week we watched piano arrangments of two pieces J loves: "Edelweiss" and Grieg's "Morgenstimmung":

Today we watched Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata":

J pays more attention when Gustav is paying attention. Also, I take this as another opportunity to work on musical vocabulary in German with J. I got tired of constantly looking up stuff on the internet, so this summer I bought a little music theory book in Vienna. (My musical training preceded my beginning German, so I never learned German musical vocabulary in any complete or systematic way.). Here's the one I got:

Volkslieder 2

We also listened/watched to two versions of this one, a traditional interpretation by Hermann Prey and a Manhattan-Tranfer-ish one by the Ute Mann Singers. 

Since in J's piano lessons we're working on modes, I sang this one also in Phrygian, with an F natural in the penultimate bar.