2017-2018 Sumer Lesson 3: Katie Moore

Notes & Makeups 

  1. Repertoire Goals: Complete Clementi Op. 36. Learn another Bach Invention.
  2. Burgmuller Op. 109 No. 14 "Song of the Gondolier"

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Lesson Assignments:

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  1. Hanon

    1. No. 14 practice this way:
    2. Staccato practice - pausing then speed. Pausing then speed.
    3. Perform it with expression and improvisation. 

  2. TECHNIQUE

    1. Improvise with notes, rhythms, patterns to make up short pieces with all forms of your technique.   

  3. Sweet Sorrow Op. 100 No. 16 by J. F. Burgmuller (level 5 etude)

    1. How do you approach your pedal in this piece?
      1. Make contrasting ideas
    2. Where is the tension?
    3. Speed build a bit!

  4. The Happy Farmer Op. 68 No. 10 by Robert Schumann (level 4)

    1. Speed up a bit
    2. Difference between 8th note chords and 8th note quarter note chords. 
    3. Legato in melody part B

  5. Cradle Song (level 4 etude)

    1. Pass next week with tension building ideas we talked about?

  6. Lesson & Musicianship 4

    1. Prepare Unit 6

  7. Bach Invention No. 8

    1. Practice the Hanon breathing technique
    2. Don't accent TOO much
    3. Ghost notes?
    4. Your 16th notes slow you don't sometimes. 

  8. Clementi Sonatina No. 4

    1. Con spirito
      1. Learn!

  9. Clementi Sonatina No. 3

    1. Allegro
      1. Increase tempo
      2. pass next week with "Bartok confidence" but with Clementi style.

  10. Kabalevsky

    1. A Slow Waltz Op. 39 no. 23
    2. Pass next week with phrase markings. 

  11. Four Star: Sight Reading & Ear ests Level 5

    1. DUSTIN - BRING BOOK.

  12. Debussy: Children's Corner, L. 113, No. 1 Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum

    1. Review once a week with music at a medium tempo. 

  13. Haydn: Piano Concerto in D Major HobXVIII:11, Movement 3

    1. Review in sections, once a week with music at medium tempo. 

On Hold: 

  1. Solos 4

  2. Czerny Op. 823

    1. No. 50: Transpose to C, D and A
    2. Don't use your ear! Use your eyes and understanding of the chords!
    3. Use your theory skilils

  4. Solos 3 & 4 

    1. PREPARE: page 32

  5. Rhythm 

    1. Left off at 128

  6. Solfege

    1. Chapter 8
      1. Prepare Nos. 35-36 at m.m. 100.

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REVIEW

Remove 3 from the list below

  1. Foggy Bottom Blues (level 4

     

     

  2. Bartok Sonatina Sz. 55: 1. Bagpipers (recital)

     

  3. Scarlatti Sonata in C Major K 159 (recital)

    1. Masquerade by Linda Niamath (Etude L.4

    2. Allegro in G Major (L. 4)

    3. Dragon Fly (Etude L. 4)

    4. Bartok, Dance in E Minor

    5. Clementi Op. 36 No. 2 Movement 3 

    6. Etude in D Major Op. 37 No. 17 by Henry Lemoine (Etude L.3)

    7. Etude in C Major by Carl Czerny Op. 261 No. 81 (Etude L.3)

    8. Folk Dance by Kabalevsky (Etude L.4)

    9. Arabesque Op. 100 No. 2 by Johann Friedrich Burgmüller (L. 3 Etude)

    10. Musette in D Major by J.S. Bach (L. 3 List A)

    11. Clowns Op. 39 No. 20 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (L. 3 List C)

    12. Sonatina in A Minor Op. 94 No. 4 by Albert Biehl (L. 3 List B)

    13. Clementi, Sonatina Op. 36 No. 1 in C Major

    14. Faure Dolly Suite

    15.  Bazaar by Mark Mrozinski (L.2, List B)

    16. Kuhlau, movement 2

    17. *"Allegro in B-flat" by W. A. Mozart

    18. "Angelfish" by Anne Crosby (

    19. "Celebration" by Anne Crosby

    20. Sonatina in G Major by Beethoven

    21. **Adieu by Bergmuller

    22. **Chanson Italienne Op.39 No. 15 Tchaikovsky

    23. Pastorale by Bergmuller

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    PROSPECTIVE REPERTOIRE

    1. Mendelssohn Op. 30 No. 6 "Venetian Boat-Song No. 2"
    2. Moszkowski, Vingt Petites Etudes Op. 91 No. 10, 11