August 4, 2022

2021-2022 Goals

  • High School tests Winter 2021 or Spring 2022

  • RCM Level 10 depends on high school enrollment

🟢 - on the right track, great work!

🟡 - on the right track but it needs more work

🔴 - needs lots of attention and work

⚫️ - no assignment - don’t practice this item.

🔵 - We didn’t get to this item,

Concerti

  1. Haydn, Concerto in D Major, Hob. XVIII:11, III, Rondo

  2. Kabalevsky, Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 50, I, Allegro

  3. Muczynski, Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 7, I, Maestoso

Lucy Moses Competition

  1. Info comes out in November.

Radda Rise International Piano Competition

  1. 2nd Place in Division 2: October 5, 2021

Music Teacher’s National Association

  1. https://www.mtna.org/MTNA/Content/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=NYCOMP&WebsiteKey=17496be1-f933-420c-81ba-c03a4662ddca

  2. September 14th deadline: (October 14th for 20 min of music).

New Orleans Virtual International Competition

  1. Submitted. Results announced

Lesson Assignments

Order of practice AND lessons is 🔴🔵🟡🟢

READING

  1. “Sightreading Pieces” in you Newzik. DAILY

    💚

    1. Tchaikovsky, Album for the Young, op. 39

      1. Login: info@gledhillartscollective.com

      2. Pass: Gabrielfaure1924!

    2. DON’T FISH FOR NOTES:

      1. TAP rhythm on fall board

      2. PLAY rhythm on fall board with contour and approx. spacing of notes.

      3. PLAY rhythm on keyboard same as above

      4. PLAY same as above with dynamics

      5. PLAY trying to read notes but accessing the above techniques when they might not be correct

  2. Beethoven Piano Sonatas (paused at op. 27 no. 1)

  3. Brahms Piano Works (Paused at p. 12)

  4. Grieg Lyric Pieces in Newzik (op. 54) (finished August 2022)

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. Transcription:

    1. Send Dustin a text with possible Disney songs to transcribe.

      🖤 (after NOPI)u

    2. Numb Little Bug

      1. Review

TECHNIQUE

  1. Piano Technique Book 2008 Edition Royal Conservatory Music Development Program BOOK

    🖤

    1. E Major, E minor (Chords and arpeggios)

      1. No sliding

      2. Correct on the first try.

      3. 2-4 octaves.

      4. Write down your maximum tempi.

  2. Czerny op. 299 no. 39

    ❤️❤️

    1. YOUR PRACTICE TIME IS NOT PRODUCTIVE:

      1. SMALL SECTIONS (two measures at a time if needed), then DOVETAIL TOGETHER: 2+2, then 4+4, 6+6, etc

      2. DON’T FORGET:

        1. Memorize harmony / patterns first without playing it.

        2. Hands alone is valuable!

        3. Identify what’s wrong or difficult about the section before you start to practice it.

        4. Use any GAC tools you need.

        5. REPETITION IS KEY - Not only in one day, but multiple days. Sometimes it takes 3-10 days to see improvement.

    2. No. 3, 12, 19, 30, 32 WE WILL LEARN LATER

  3. Prepare Hanon no. 1

    💛

    1. TWO OCTAVES

    2. C major through E major without stopping.

    3. More legato, closer to the keys, no sliding.

    4. Work your way up to m.m. 132

BAROQUE

  1. Go to President Gledhill’s Spotify and listen to Handel Chaconne in G Major.

CLASSICAL

ROMANTIC

  1. Rachmaninoff, Prelude op. 23 no. 4 in D Major

    1. Triplet section mm. 19-35

      1. Delicate / smooth texture in soprano triplets

      2. Rich singing sound in alto melody which follows through the phrase with clear direction.

CONTEMPORARY / POST-ROMANTIC

  1. Debussy: Image, Book I: Reflets dans l’eau

THE GRAND HANDBOOK OF GAC TERMINOLOGY

  1. WCNB: Wrist Contouring (Not Bathroom)

🔵Repertoire for Review

BAROQUE

  1. Johan Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

    1. Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F Major, BWV 856 (L. 10, A)

      1. prelude

    2. French Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major BWV 815 (L.

      1. Allemande (L. 7, A)

      2. Gigue (L. 7, A)

    3. Invention No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 775

    4. Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779

    5. Invention No. 12 in A Major, BWV 783 (L. 8, A)

    6. Invention No. 15 in B Minor, BWV 786 (L. 8, A)

    7. Sinfonia No. 8 in F Major, BWV 794 (L. 9, A)

  2. Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)

    1. Sonata in E Major, K 531 (L. 8, A)

    2. Sonata in G Major L 487, Domenico Scarlatti (L. 9, A)

    3. Sonata in E Major K380, Domenico Scarlatti (L. 9, A)

CLASSICAL

  1. L. V. Beethoven (1770-1827)

    1. Sonata Op. 10 No. 1 in C Minor (No. 5)

      1. Movement II

      2. Movement III

    2. Sonata in C Minor, Op. 10 No. 2 (No. 6) (L. 10, B)

      1. I. Allegro

    3. Sonata in G Minor, op. 49, no. 1 (L. 8, B)

    4. Sonata in G Major Op 49 No. 2 (L. 8, B)

  2. Muzio Clementi ()

    1. Six Sonatinas, Op. 36

      1. No. 1 in C Major

      2. No. 2

      3. No. 3

      4. No. 4

      5. No. 5

      6. No. 6

  3. Haydn

    1. Piano Concerto in D Major, Hob:XVIII:11

      1. Movement 3: Rondo all’Ungarese: Allegro assai

    2. Piano Sonata, No. 53 in E Minor, Hob. XVI:34 (L. 9-B)

      1. Movement III: Presto

  4. Friedrich Kuhlau (1786-1832)

  5. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

    1. Sonata in C Major, K 545, Allegro (L. 8, B)

ROMANTIC

  1. Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller (1806-1874)

    1. The Storm Op. 109 No. 13 (L. 8, Etude)

  2. Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

    1. Valse Op 69 No. 1 (L. 8, C)

    2. Waltz Op. 69 No. 2 in B minor (L. 8, C)

    3. Chopin Waltz in F Major Op. 34 No. 3

    4. Chopin, Nocturne in B-flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1

  3. Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

    1. Humoreske in C Major Op. 6 No. 3 (L. 8, C)

    2. Notturno, Op. 54 No. 4

  4. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

    1. Gondellied (Barcarole) in A Major (L. 8, C)

  5. Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

    1. Album für die Jugend, Op. 68 No. 12 Knecht Rubrecht (L. 8, C)

CONTEMPORARY / POST-ROMANTIC

  1. Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

    1. Children’s Corner:

      1. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum (L. 10, D)

      2. The Little Shepherd (L. 8, D)

    2. Page d’Album (L. 8, D)

    3. Préludes, Book 2, L. 123

      1. 5, Bruyères

      2. 6. “General Lavine” - eccentric

  2. Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

    1. Improvisation in C-sharp minor Op. 84 No. 5 from Huit Pièces Brèves (L. 9 Etude)

    2. Barcarolle Op. 26 No. 1 in A Minor

  3. Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

    1. Etude Tableaux, Op. 33 No. 7 in G Minor

  4. Maurice Ravel (1875-1737)

    1. Prelude in A Minor (L. 8, D)

  5. Alexander Scriabin ()

    1. Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 11 No. 22 by (L. 8, D)

  6. Sergei Prokofiev ()

    1. Op. 65

      1. No. 6 Waltz (L. 7: C)

      2. No. 12