January 17, 2024

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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. Practice with and without your book so that you can play these for me next week, memorized, and correct on the first try.

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💚Celebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 6

1. Prepare the Handel assignment.

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💚Listening assignment

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

2. Bach Invention No. 3: see the red pen.

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

💜Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 5

1. Complete the sight-reading examples for Set 8 and 9 (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

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1. 💚Sonata in D Minor K. 34 by Domenico Scarlatti (L. 5, A)

   1. Fix green pen.

   2. Learn to the end!

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

   1. Memorize, one measure at a time by studying the music first without plyaing the notes. Notice the harmony and memorize the harmonic movement.

   2. Then look at the music and if you played it correctly without then play with the music to verify all was correct.

   3. Then play without again.

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. PLEASE MOVE YOUR WRISTS according to the music / contour of the notes / arrows in the music.

   2. Finish memorizing.

   3. Be able to know which sections are memorized by focusing on small sections at a time.

   4. Focus on memorization and fingers round at all (almost as if you were scratching the keys).

   5. Left off at m.m. 76 speed-building.

6. 💜Harmony of Angels (L. 5, Etude)

   1. See the markings at the end of the piece.

💜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)

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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)

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HOLD

1. Czerny Op. 823

   1. we left off on no. 8

1. Rhythm Book.

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

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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)