JuLY 28, 2022

🔴 - This was not prepared or it needs a lot of attention and focus this week.

🔵 - We didn’t get to this item but we may look at it next week.

🟡 - On the right track but it needs detailed attention.

🟢 - On the right track, great work!

⚫️ - No assignment this week. Do not practice this item.

Lesson Assignments

Royal Conservatory of Music Certificate Program: May 19th 12:15 pm

  1. Level 3

    1. List A: Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126 by Johann Sebastian Bach

    2. List B: Clementi Sonatina no. 1

    3. List C: Funny Puppy by Anne Crosby Gaudet

    4. Etude: L’Arabesque

    5. Etude: Left Alone

TECHNIQUE

  1. RCMCP Technique Level 4

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    1. Do the highlighted items

    2. Broken: more legato and be creative with your dynamics

    3. Solid: chest out, shoulders down, feet flat, big sound.

  2. HANON NO. 1 (work up to m.m. 80) Two Octaves

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    1. G Major (please correct your mistakes if you make them while practicing Close Loud and Staccato).

      1. Close Loud at m.m. work up to 96 for next week one note per tic

        1. If you make a mistake, you need to go back one rotation and fix it.

        2. REMEMBER SHOULDERS RELAXED, CHEST OUT AND FORWARD, NECK RELAXED.

      2. Then, Staccato at m.m. 104, two notes per tic (two octaves)

        1. Relaxed shoulders

      3. Legato m.m. Start at 72 per half note and work up to m.m. 88

        1. Ultimate Oiled Fingers (legato)!

        2. Keep fingers close to the keys.

    2. (No. 10: Left off at m.m 104 in C Major)

    3. (No. 9: left off at m.m. 88 in C Major)

    4. (No. 8: left off at m.m. 72 in F Major)

THEORY: Level 3

  1. Unit 7

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    1. Fix the red pen.

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests: Level 4

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    1. Review previous sets

    2. Complete Set 5 in Newzik or in your book.

READING

  1. Piano Adventures: Sightreading, Level 2B

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    1. Before you begin, do the rhythm in your head (not thinking about the tones - JUST THE RHYTHM)

    2. Move on from page 14. You’re doing well here!

    3. Please prepare silently in your mind for at LEAST 30 seconds before you begin any sightreading exercise.

REPERTOIRE:

  1. Clementi Sonatina op. 36 no. 1: II: Andante

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    1. Add pedal

    2. Sing melody

    3. LH even softer when you add pedal.

  2. Masquerade by Linda Niamath (b. 1939) (L. 4, Etude)

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    1. Speed build to m.m. 138

    2. Keep dynamics

    3. Fix dynamics pedaling voicing at the end.

  3. Left Alone by Joyce Grill (b. 1936)(L. 3, Etude)

  4. L’Arabesque, op. 100 no. 2 (L. 3, Etude)

  5. Clementi, Op. 36 No. 1, Movement 3 (L. 3, B)

  6. Musette in D Major, BWV Anh. 126 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1665-1750)(L. 3, A)

  7. Funny Puppy by Anne Crosby Gaudet (L. 3, C)

Repertoire Review List:

Rotate these each week. I will hear one of them each week and not in any particular order.

  1. Clementi Sonatina op. 36 no. 1 in C Major: Movement 1

  2. 💚💙Little Piece No. 7 by Marko Tajcevic (L. 3, Etude)

  3. 💚German Dance in B-flat Major, Hob. IX:22, no. 5 by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (L. 2, A)

  4. 💚💚Atacama Desert by Wynn-Anne Rossi (b. 1956) (L. 2, B)

  5. 💚 Ecossaise in G Major WoO 23 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (L. 2, A)

  6. 💚 💚 Menuetto in C Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (L. 2, A)

    1. Work on building tempo

  7. 💚 Allegretto in C Major by Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-1798) (L. 2, A)

  8. 💚 💚 Invention in C Major by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

    1. Dynamics

  9. 💚 💙Clementi, Op. 36 No. 1, Movement 3 (L. 3, B)

  10. 💚Cornelius Gurlitt 1820-1901) Etude in D Minor, Op. 82 No. 65 (L. 2, Etude)

    1. Careful of hiccups in the pedal

  11. 💚💚Colored Windows by Edna Mae Burnam (L. 2, Etude)

    1. No pulling on the keys. Plant and move forward. Round 5th finger. Top voices.

  12. 💚Feelin’ Good by Christopher Norton (L. 2, Etude)

  13. 💚Etude in C Major Op 36 No. 22 by Alexander Gedike (L. 2, Etude)

  14. 💚Burgmuller, The Limpid Stream, Op. 100 No. 7 (non-RCM)

  15. 💚Burgmuller, Innocence. Op. 100 No. 5

  16. 💚💚Ann Crosby-Gaudet, Periwinkle Twinkle (L. 2 B)