August 7, 2024

2024-2025 Goals:

  1. RCMCP Level 6: moving forward - confirmed with Emilia August 7, 2024.

  2. Senior Project: synesthesia, guitar and piano duo, music from Portugal and Russia

  3. Level 5 RCM Theory. How to move forward?

    1. Review Unit 2: Rhythm.

ASSIGNMENTS

  1. đź’šTechnical Requirements Level 6

    1. Memorize where the natural half steps are found in the major and minor scales.

      1. Major: half steps are found between scale degrees 3-4 and 7-8

      2. Minor: half steps are found between 2-3 and 5-6

      3. Minor Harmonic: Raised 7th

      4. Minor Melodic: Raised 6th and 7th

    2. See your syllabus for the yellow highlighted items.

      1. CLOSE LOUD

      2. STACCATO

      3. LEGATO

      4. SPEED-BUILD

  2. đź’šFour Star Sight-reading and Ear Tests Level 6

    1. Finish set 1

  3. đź’šCelebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 7

    1. Review pages 1-3

    2. Prepare pages 4-7

      1. Memorize the order of sharps and flats:

      2. Father, Charles, Goes, Down, And, Ends, Battle

      3. Battle, Ends, And, Down, Goes, Charles’, Father

        1. Sharps: F, C, G, D, A, E, B

        2. Flats: B, E, A, D, G, C, F

  4. đź’šSolfeggio in D Major by J.C.F Bach (L. 6, Etude)

    1. Block each harmony and learn to the end of the piece.

  5. đź–¤Listening assignment

    1. Bach Invention No. 4

    2. Highlight every time the subject happens in both the treble and bass clefs.

    đź’śReview Pieces

  6. đź’šMelancholy Reflections by Mike Schoenmehl (L. 5, C)

  7. đź’šClementi, Sonatina Op. 36 No. 3, Allegro (movement III)(L. 5, B)

  8. đź’šLittle Prelude in C Major BWV 939 by J. S. Bach (L. 5, A) 7/10

  9. đź’šHarmony of Angels (L. 5, Etude)

  10. đź’šđź’šPrelude op. 39 no. 19 by Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) (L. 5, Etude)

  11. đź’šđź’śClementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 2, Movement 3 (L. 4, B)

  12. đź’šđź’šCĂ©cile Chaminade, Barcarolle Op. 123, no. 8 (L. 4, C)

  13. đź’šđź’šMinuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 116 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (L. 4, A)

  14. đź’šđź’šBurgmuller, Ballade in C Minor Op. 100 No. 15 (L. 4 Etude)

  15. đź’šđź’šMasquerade by Linda Niamath (L. 4 Etude)

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

  17. đź’šđź’šEtude in G Major, op. 823 no. 53 by Carl Czerny (1791-1857) (L. 4, Etude)

  18. đź’šđź’šMarch in D Major, BWV Anh. 122 by Carl Philip Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) (L. 4, A)

  19. đź’šđź’šSonatina in F Major op. 168 no. 1 by Anton Diabelli (1781-1858) (L. 4, B)

  20. đź’šđź’šThe Happy Farmer, op. 68 no. 10 by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) (L. 4, C)

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

  22. đź’šđź’šHarlequinade (L. 3, A)

  23. đź’šđź’šBach, Musette in D Major (L. 3, A)

  24. đź’šđź’šKabalevbsky, Clowns (L. 3, C).

  25. đź’šđź’šGavotte in G Major HWV 491 by George Frederic Handel (L. 3, A)

  26. đź’šđź’šClementi Sonatina Op. 36 No. 1 in C Major - Movement 1 (L. 3, B).

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

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

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

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

  31. đź’šđź’šNakada, The Song of Twilight (L. 3, C)

  32. đź’šđź’šCanon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)

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

  34. đź’šđź’šFranz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) German Dance in B-flat Major Hob. IX:22 No. 5 (L. 2, A)

  35. đź’šđź’šEdna-Mae Burnam (1907-2007) Colored Windows (L. 2 Etude)

  36. đź’šđź’šAlexander Gedike (1877-1957) Etude in C Major Op. 36 No. 22 (L. 2, Etude)

  37. đź’šđź’šThe Highlands by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2 Etude)

đź–¤Czerny Op. 823, No. 11

  1. Passed! Yay.

  2. đź–¤Hanon No. 3 in G Major

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. BĂ©la BartĂłk (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: BurgmĂĽller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

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