August 19, 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

RCMCP Fall 2022 Level 4

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

      1. Close Loud

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

      1. From the key

      2. Above the key: (always keep in motion when you’re in the air).

  2. HANON NO. 4 (work up to m.m. 88) 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. 3: left of at m.m. 88 in G Major)

    3. (No. 2: left off at m.m. 88 in G Major)

    4. (No. 1: Left off at m.m. 80 in G Major)

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

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

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

THEORY

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  1. Level 3, Unit 8 - fix the red.

  2. Level 4, Unit 1 - PREPARE

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests: Level 4

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    1. We will check in with tests after you get to set 8.

    2. Work on sets 4-8 in Newzik or in your book.

READING

  1. Piano Adventures: Sightreading, Level 3a

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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. Air in B-flat Major by Handel

    1. Learn after Cool Cat

  2. Cool Cat Waltz by Katya Pine (L. 4, C)

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    1. SEE THE MARKINGS IN NEWZIK.

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

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    1. Memorize

    2. Pass off next week with:

      1. Pedal clear

      2. All LH rests - be careful of them.

      3. Top voices when RH has 3rds

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

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

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

  4. Clementi Sonatina op. 36 no. 1 in C Major: All three movements

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

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

    1. Drop wrists lower with a hook finger when you have two-note slurs in the RH.

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

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

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

    1. Work on building tempo

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

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

    1. Dynamics

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

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

    1. Careful of hiccups in the pedal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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