September 24, 2021

RCMCP: 1st Week in November, 2021??? Always have a goal in intervals.

  • List A: Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

  • List B: Clementi

  • List C: Yoshinau Nakada, Song of the Twilight (L. 3, C)

  • Etude: Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude)

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

Lesson Assignments

🟢 - On the right track, great work!

🟡 - On the right track but it needs detailed attention.

🔴 - This was not prepared or it needs a lot of attention and focus this week.

⚫️ - No assignment this week. Do not practice this item.

🟣 - We didn’t get to this item but we may look at it next week.

Technique - START YOUR PRACTICE WITH THIS

  1. 🟢Hanon No. 2 in C Major - work up to m.m. 138 per 8th note

    1. Start at m.m. 76 per quarter note, and work up one speed at a time to arrive at m.m. 96.

    2. Do close-loud and staccato if you need to.

    3. Do accent practice if you need you.

    4. Be careful of your body being tense.

    5. Don’t drop your wrist below the white keys.

  2. 🟢Technical Requirements Level 3

    1. Prepare all the chords in your “Royal Conservatory of Music Piano Syllabus” in Newzik

    2. If you forget the fingering, consult the “TECHNIQUE BSB MAJOR KEYS” PDF

Theory

  1. ⚫️Celebrate Theory: Level 3, UNIT 6

    1. (Hold)

    2. Pick up from page with Dustin

    3. FIX PURPLE PEN

Musicianship

  1. 🟡Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 3

    1. Do the tests with Dustin at the lesson.

    2. Go online to work especially on the clapbacks.

  2. 🟡Online Ear Training and Rhythm

    1. Focus is CLAPBACKS

    2. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/

      1. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

        1. Login Infoinfo@gledhillartscollective.com

        2. dust2789

  3. 🟢Piano Adventures Sightreading Level 2B

    1. Move on from page 47

      1. m.m. 40 - 60 no faster than this

      2. In your mind, clap and ta the rhythm before you start.

Repertoire

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

    1. Start to learn!

  2. Chopin

    1. Listen to Pollini, Rubinstein, Zimmerman,

  3. 🟢Burgmüller, Op. 100 No. 2, l’Arabesque (L. 3, Etude) (use your NEWZIK APP for this!)

    1. Review

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

    1. See the “9/24/2021” layer in your Newzik.

  5. 🟣Johann Ludwig Krebs, Harlequinade, Suite No. 3 in E-flat Major (L. 3, A)

    1. See the red pen

    2. Apply the drop pop technique and the Hanon wrist technique in order to pass off.

    3. Remember to do the movement more than you think you need to.

  6. 🟣Left Alone by Joyce Grill (L. 3 Etude)

    1. Review

  7. 🟣Nakada, The Song of Twilight (L. 3, C)

    1. Review

  8. 🟣Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)

    1. Review

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

    1. Reivew.

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

    1. Review

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

    1. REVIEW

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

    1. REVIEW

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

    1. REVIEW

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