November 15, 2023

Text Thread: Piano Journal

EVERY TIME YOU PRACTICE, WRITE DOWN WHAT YOU PRACTICED AND FOR HOW LONG IN THE Text thread between you, me and your mom.

RCMCP

  • Level 1: December 6, 2019, Received 85

  • Level 3: December 9, 2021, Received 82

  • Level 4: June 2, 2023 (with Dustin), Received 83.5

  • Level 5:

Winter Milestones

  1. Performance Class

  2. Repertoire toward level 5 or 6 in Spring 2024

🖤Czerny Op. 823, No. 11

  1. Passed! Yay.

🖤Hanon No. 3 in G Major:

Use the speed-building practice chart.

  1. ACCENT PRACTICE:

    1. Rotate which note you play accents in groups of four.

    2. Do this with the 2nd, 3rd and 4th notes.

  2. STACCATO PRACTICE:

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

  3. MEDIUM TEMPO:

    1. Start at m.m. 66 and work your way up to 84

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

  1. No. 3: C, G at m.m. 84

  2. No. 2: C, G at m.m. 84

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

💚Technical Requirements Level 5

  1. Please see the highlighted items in your RCM Syllabus.


💜Celebrate Theory: Level 5

  1. Finish page 17 and go over pp. 9-18 with Dustin next time.

💚Listening assignment next week

  1. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YsTuK8yFcbOKgC3ZkQq1x?si=XSkaxGNGSa-X1WxSCo1XWg

  2. The link above is to a Spotify playlist for Bach’s 15 Inventions. Find the music in your Newzik project and listen to two a day while looking at the music! Tell me your favorites.

💚Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 5

  1. Complete the sight-reading examples for Sets 1 and 2 (two each practice session should be 5 practice days).

🖤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

  1. New piece from list A or C

  2. 💜Clementi, Sonatina Op. 36 No. 3, Allegro (movement III)(L. 5, B)

    1. Your fingers are too stretched out and flat. Please make them more rounded and curved when playing scale-like passages.

    2. Continue to speed-build

  3. 💜Harmony of Angels (L. 5, Etude)

    1. Listen for 100% even playing in the beginning. An examiner will take away points for this.

    2. Listen for clean pedaling.

    3. This is at about m.m. 100. Work up to 108.

    4. Your softs need to be softer.

    5. Memorize.

💜Review Pieces

  1. Prelude op. 39 no. 19 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (L. 5, Etude)

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

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

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

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

  6. 💚Masquerade by Linda Niamath (L. 4 Etude)

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

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

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

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

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

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

  13. 💚💚Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

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

  15. 💚💜Kabalevbsky, Clowns (L. 3, C).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  28. 💚💚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)