March 23, 2023

RCMCP

  • Level 1: December 6, 2019, Received 85

  • Level 3: December 9, 2021, Received 82

  • Level 4: Fall 2022

💜Hanon No. 2 in G Major

  1. Do them WITH AND WITHOUT the music. Start to memorize.

    1. Close Loud First

      1. Every finger curved, ascending and descending, Forward and strong attack.

    2. Staccato Second

      1. Keep fingers round and attack from above the keys.

    3. Medium Tempi

      1. Start at m.m. 66 and work your way up to 100

      2. Mm. 66, 72, 84, 96, 104

      3. Remember to keep you fingers rounder / curved. They are currently too stretched out.

  2. No. 1 - C, G at m.m. 84

  3. (No. 10 - left off at m.m. 84)

  4. (No. 9 - left off at m.m. 92)

  5. (No. 8 - left off at m.m. 88)

  6. (No. 7 - left off at m.m. 100 in C Major)

  7. (No. 6 - left off at m.m. 92 in C Major)

  8. (No. 5 - stopped at m.m. 100 in C Major)

💜Technical Requirements Level 4 (left hand only for now)

  1. See the yellow highlights.

    1. Careful about using the correct fingering.

    2. Keep position consistently in one place on the keyboard.

    3. PRACTICE EACH ITEM 3 TIMES IN-A-ROW CORRECTLY.

  2. Focus on Legato and Even Sound

    1. FOR EACH ITEM:

      1. CLOSE LOUD:

      2. STACCATO:

      3. LEGATO


💛Celebrate Theory: Level 4

  1. Finish Unit 7 (Triads) Fix all red pen

🖤Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 4

  1. Finished. Please see assignment #2 below.

🖤Online Ear Training and Rhythm Level 4

  1. Work on clap backs and playbacks.

  2. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/

    1. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

      1. Login Infoinfo@gledhillartscollective.com

      2. dust2789

💚Piano Adventures Sightreading Level 3B

  1. Move on from page 87

    1. m.m. 40 - 60 no faster than this

    2. In your mind, clap and ta the rhythm before you start.


💚Burgmuller, Ballade in C Minor Op. 100 No. 15 (L. 4 Etude)

  1. RH C minor triads staccato: Use your elbow as a hinge and tap the keys from ABOVE the keyboard. Remember to try and find balance and play softly. This may take several days to understand.

  2. LH 16th notes passages: remember there are two positions: the C,B,C trill and the ascending G, A, B, C. Practice this gradually faster and faster.

  3. Continue to practice in sections and start to play faster.

💚Cécile Chaminade, Barcarolle Op. 123, no. 8 (L. 4, C)

  1. Gradually build up your speed, two measures at a time, to m.m. 69.

💚Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 3 (L. 4, B)

  1. M.m. 46 per measure. Work up to m.m. 52.

💚Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 2 (L. 4, B)

  1. Listen carefully to all of your 16th notes and make sure they’re softer but sounding clearly!

  2. Memorize!

💚Masquerade by Linda Niamath (L. 4 Etude)

  1. MOVE YOUR WRISTS! Please drop and raise your wrists according to phrase markings.

💛Etude in G Major, op. 823 no. 53 by Carl Czerny (1791-1857) (L. 4, Etude)

  1. Do Left Hand practice for the wrist rotation: rotate your wrist with frozen fingers. Don’t use fingers so much. Find balance so we hear all the notes.

Listening Assignments

  1. Bach Inventions

  1. Your preferences are No. 6, 7, 9 and 10. Perhaps we can learn No. 10 and 6 because they are related keys with one sharp.

💚Review Pieces

  1. 💚Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 116 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (L. 4, A)

  2. 💚March in D Major, BWV Anh. 122 by Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) (L. 4, A)

  3. Sonatina in F Major op. 168 no. 1 by Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) (L. 4, B)

  4. The Happy Farmer, op. 68 no. 10 by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) (L. 4, C)

  5. 💚Old French Song, Op. 39 No. 16 by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) (L. 4, C)

  6. 💚💚Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

  7. 💚Bach, Musette in D Major (L. 3, A)

  8. 💚Kabalevbsky, Clowns (L. 3, C).

  9. 💚💜Gavotte in G Major HWV 491 by George Frederic Handel (L. 3, A)

  10. 💚Clementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 1 in C Major - Movement 1 (L. 3, B).

  11. 🟢💚Gavotte in G Major HWV 491 by George Frederic Handel (L. 3, A)

  12. 🟢Tajcevic, Little Piece No. 7 (Etude, L. 3)

  13. 🟢Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

  14. 🟢💜Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

  15. 🟢Left Alone by Joyce Grill (L. 3 Etude)

  16. 💚💚Nakada, The Song of Twilight (L. 3, C)

  17. 💚💚Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)

  18. 💚Canon in D Major by Carleton Elliott (1928-2003) (L. 2)

  19. 💚💚Invention in A Minor by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

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

  21. 💚Edna-Mae Burnam (1907-2007) Colored Windows (L. 2 Etude)

  22. 💚💚Alexander Gedike (1877-1957) Etude in C Major Op. 36 No. 22 (L. 2, Etude)

  23. 💚The Highlands by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2 Etude)

Review Once a Week with your Music

CLASSICAL

  1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

    1. Minuet in F Major K. 2 by (L. 1, A)

CONTEMPORARY

  1. Béla Bartók (1881-1945)

    1. For Children, Book 1, No. 1 and 2 (L. 2, B)

  2. (recital) Etude in C Major by Felix le Coupey (L. 1 Etude)

  3. Skating Waltz

  4. Distant Chimes.

  5. Canon by Carleton Elliot (1928-2003) (L. 1, C)

  6. (3/23) Detectives by Christine Donkin (L. 1 Etude)

  7. (3/23) German Dance in D Major by F. J. Haydn (Level 1. A)

  8. Angelfish (Level 1. B)


HOLD

  1. Czerny Op. 823

    1. we left off on no. 8

  1. Rhythm Book.

    1. PREPARE: Nos. 43-45 on page 23

RCMCP

Exam: Piano - Level 3
Exam Confirmation No.: 5391486
Scheduled for: Thursday, 09 December 2021 2:00 PM

  • List A: Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

  • List B: Muzio Clementi, Sonatina in C Major, Op. 36 No. 1, Allegro

  • List C: Wild Mignonette Op. 205 No. 1 by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901) (L. 3, C)

  • Etude: Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

  • Etude: Grill, Left Alone (L. 3, Etude)