Repertoire Study List

Would you like to enjoy some beautiful piano music? These are titles that were played in competitions at the 2025 MTNA conference in Minneapolis.

Here is the list with Titles, Composers, Birth/Death Dates, place of birth. LINK

If you wish to add some discussion to column J—-it is open for general editing. Topics might include historical and contextual background, cultural and theoretical influxes, performance tradition, form and structure, motivic development, harmonic language, rhythmic complexity, counterpoint and textural elements, technical and pianistic challenges (fingerings and hand distribution, articulation and voicing, use of pedal), interpretation and artistic considerations (tempo and rubato, tone color and dynamics, comparative interpretations, expressive meaning), connections to other works (influences and similarities, legacy and modern performance.

Listen to the recordings from YouTube playlists linked below and be able to recognize the titles.

There is a link for a quiz for Playlist #1.

Here are Study Playlists from the spreadsheet.

Playlist Number 1 (26 pieces), A quiz will be provided at the end of May for these pieces to see if you can recognize them.

List Number 2 (25 pieces)

List Number 3 (25 pieces)

List Number 4 (27 pieces)

List Number 5 (18 pieces)