September 5, 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. Senior Project:

    1. Think about the options above.

  2. 💚Technical Requirements Level 6 (every day assignment)

    1. ❤️See your syllabus for the yellow highlighted items. Memorized at the lesson.

      1. CLOSE LOUD

      2. STACCATO

      3. LEGATO

      4. SPEED-BUILD

    2. Please don’t drop your wrist when you play your thumb

    3. Gently raise your wrist at the end of the scale.

  3. 💚Four Star Sight-reading and Ear Tests Level 6

    1. Compete Set 4

  4. 💜Celebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 7

    1. Finish the rest of the unit.

    2. Finish pages 13-15

      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

  5. 💚Solfeggio in D Major by J.C.F Bach (L. 6, Etude)

    1. Work on expression (exaggerate) and take some time when you get to climactic moments.

    2. Work up to m.m. 60 per quarter note.

  6. 💚Sonatina in A Minor by Georg Anton Benda (List B)

    1. Prepare with NFPER, measures 1-16 and more if you can.

    2. Do this slowly with a clear goal for each practice session.

  7. 🖤Listening assignment

    1. Bach Invention No. 4

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

    💜Review Pieces

  8. 💚Melancholy Reflections by Mike Schoenmehl (L. 5, C)

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

  10. 💚Little Prelude in C Major BWV 939 by J. S. Bach (L. 5, A) 7/10

  11. 💚Harmony of Angels (L. 5, Etude)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  24. 💚💚Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

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

  26. 💚💚Kabalevbsky, Clowns (L. 3, C).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

🖤Czerny Op. 823, No. 11

  1. Passed! Yay.

  2. 🖤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. 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)