December 6, 2021

🔴 - 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

  1. Level 2

    1. List A: Allegretto in C Major by Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748-1798) (L. 2, A)

    2. List B:

    3. List C:

    4. Etude

TECHNIQUE

  1. HANON NO. 4 (Finger Independence Practice)

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    1. A Major (REMEMBER TO STAY IN THE BLACK WHEN YOU’RE APPROACHING A BLACK KEY)

      1. Close Loud at m.m. 96, one note per tic

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

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

      3. Legato m.m. 72 per half note

        1. FOCUS: on balance and relaxation.

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

THEORY: Level 2

  1. 🔴🟢🔵🟢🟢🟢🟡🟡 Prepare Unit 8

MUSICIANSHIP

  1. ⚫️Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests: Level 2 Set 10 (on hold)

    1. Do 1 set a day.

      1. Anusha - Don’t go faster than m.m. 60 per quarter note.

      2. Squeaky - Take more time before you start.

    2. DON’T TOUCH THE KEYS BEFORE YOU BEGIN

    3. YOU MUST TAKE AT LEAST 30 SECONDS TO PREPARE FOR THIS IN YOUR MIND.

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

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    1. Keep this at a slow tempo so we can continue to make it feel very comfortable in your fingers.

    2. Focus more on the expression and fine-tune some of the ares that have pauses (like the beginning of m. 22).

    3. mm. 17-18 - keep the bottom note quieter.

    4. Increase tempo after next week.

    5. Two more lessons

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

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    1. Start to learn and we’ll get to this next time!

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

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

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    1. Pass off next week with no music and shorter ends of two-note slurs.

    2. More legato in m. 7 and 15.

Repertoire Review List:

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

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

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

  3. 🟢Clementi, Op. 36 No. 1, Movement 3 (L. 3, A)

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

  5. 🔵Colored Windows by Edna Mae Burnam (L. 2, Etude)

  6. 🔵Feelin’ Good by Christopher Norton (L. 2, Etude)

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

  8. 🔵Burgmuller, The Limpid Stream, Op. 100 No. 7 (non-RCM)

  9. 🔵Burgmuller, Innocence. Op. 100 No. 5

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

  11. 🔵Ann Crosby-Gaudet, Periwinkle Twinkle (L. 2 B)