November 29, 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 have all of these ready to pass off on the first try. Practice with the metronome as indicated.


💚Celebrate Theory: Level 5, Unit 4

  1. Prepare the entire unit.

💚Listening assignment

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

  2. Listen to Bach’s 15 Inventions, No. 1, 2, and 3.

  3. Highlight the “subject” or theme that repeats throughout.

💜Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 5

  1. Complete the sight-reading examples for Sets 3 and 4 (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. 🖤Sonata in D Minor K. 34 by Domenico Scarlatti (L. 5, A)

  2. 💚Little Prelude in C Major BWV 939 by J. S. Bach (L. 5, A)

    1. Learn the entire piece, hands alone first, then together, one small section at a time.

  3. 🖤Melancholy Reflections by Mike Schoenmehl (L. 5, C)

  4. 🖤Pierrot and Pierrette op. 25 no. 4 by Amy Beach (L. 5, C)

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

    1. Keep fingers round this week. This was much better today.

    2. Big test for you this week is to get your body involved in the dynamics contrasts this piece has to offer. Focus on huge contrasts in the sound.

    3. Speed build

  6. 💛Harmony of Angels (L. 5, Etude)

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

    2. Work up to m.m. 108

    3. ❤️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)