Late Intermediate

"Playground" by Mary Watkins begins with a waltz-like feel, accompanied by a playful, wandering melody. The piece moves quite fast, and features many unexpected, yet still consonant harmonies. The left-hand chordal rhythms feature clustered jazz

Philippa Schuyler’s music reflects a blend of Romantic aesthetics and global influences drawn from her extensive travels. Her compositional style is characterized by lyrical, melody-driven writing, often conveying emotional immediacy and poetic

Mary Watkins’s Ancient Visions (1997) is an expressive and rhythmically driven work for solo piano that suggests modal and Middle Eastern-inspired musical elements. The piece opens with a steady, repeating pattern in the left hand

Mirrors, by Mary D. Watkins, is a dreamlike and meditative piece for solo piano. The left hand plays a repeated triplet eighth note figure for the entire piece, endlessly cascading like gentle waves upon a shore. The right hand

Schuyler’s “Wanchai Road” is mysterious, spontaneous, and chaotic, reflecting the actual Wanchai Road in Hong Kong. It is reminiscent of beeping cars and tramways with a relentlessly consistent left hand rhythm, while the right

The T’Chaka Suite is a set of three dances published in 1927, named after the Zulu king Shaka, who ruled parts of modern-day South Africa from 1816-1828.  All three dances contain a strong rhythmic drive and use of open

“Song Without Words (Pleading)”, by Florence Price, is the sixth in a set of “Seven Miniatures” for piano.Reminiscent of Mendelssohn’s own "Songs without Words," this piece opens with a few measures of solo introduction, setting

“Wild Flowers” is a late intermediate piano piece by composer Ida M. Larkins, and was first published in 1905 by the Pioneer Music Publishing Company in Chicago. It is a waltz with quite a bit of repeated material

"Little Melody in E-flat major" is the fifth of the Seven Miniatures. These Miniatures comprise seven standalone pieces, published in An Album of Piano Pieces and Second Album of Piano Pieces, each of which revealing

Blaize is a short, two-minute piece written by Zenobia Powell Perry in 1985.  A rhythmic and muscular piece, it sounds very chromatic, and almost never lands on a cadence until the very last measure. It is built mostly