October 24, 2021

RCMCP: Before Winter Break 2021

  • 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

  1. Hanon No. 2 in C Major

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    1. SPEED BUILD to m.m. 86 per quarter note.

      1. Do this gradually. If you can’t get to the final tempo above, list which one you can.

      2. Staccato Practice in Isolation: FOR TIDY ATTACKS

        1. Pinpoint the area that is untidy

        2. Apply staccato to that area

        3. The remaining notes are legato

        4. Start slowly to train your muscles to understand the movement

        5. Gradually speed build.

      3. Accent Practice:

        1. Every four notes. Rotate the placement of the accent.

        2. Make sure EVERY pattern is 100% correct with the accent in the right place.

        3. If you make a mistake, or don’t place the correct accent, go back to the beginning of the pattern you are on.

        4. Remember the accent is VERY strong.

  2. Technical Requirements Level 3

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    1. Formula Pattern, Chromatic, Tonic Triads.

      1. Prepare all the above.

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

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    1. Go back to the beginning and start doing Set 1 and on again.

    2. Do the tests with Dustin at the lesson.

    3. Go online to work especially on the clapbacks.

  2. Online Ear Training and Rhythm

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    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

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    1. Move on from page 86

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

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

Repertoire

  1. Gurlitt, Wild Mignonette (L. 3, C)

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    1. Fix m. 13 and 17 RH notes

    2. mm. 9-13 LH rhythm

  2. Tajcevic, Little POiece No. 7 (Etude, L. 3)

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    1. Start learning with NFRPE!

  3. Possible New Pieces

    1. Clementi Op. 36 No. 1 vivace (L. 3, B)

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

    3. Lemoine, Etude in D Major (Etude, L. 3)

    5. Kabalevbsky, Clowns (L. 3, C)

      1. Start to learn with NFRPE chart.

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

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    1. See the blue pen. Spot these sections.

    2. Next week we will address expression.

  5. Bach Inventions and Sinfonia’s

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    1. Tell me next week which ones are your favorites.

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

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    1. SPOT PRACTICE ALL YELLOW BOXES

      1. Spot Practice is any kind of practice that you do to clean up a small section

      2. Remember to start one measure before and finish one measure after.

      3. Do accent practice (rotating the accent every group of four) on all the circled green sections AND anywhere else that needs it.

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

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    1. Review once a day with your music at a medium tempo focusing on tidy attacks.

Review Pieces

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

    1. Review

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

    1. Review

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

    1. Review

  4. 🟢Canon in A Minor by Cornelius Gurlitt (1820-1901)

    1. Review

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

    1. Reivew.

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

    1. Review

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

    1. REVIEW

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

    1. REVIEW

  9. 🟣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