January 23, 2025

2024-2025 Goals:

  1. April 27, 2025 - FINAL RECITALS

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

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

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

    1. Review Unit 2: Rhythm.

ASSIGNMENTS

  1. Senior Project:

    1. Think about the options above.

  2. 💚Etude in E Minor op. 29 no. 14 by (L. 6, Etude)

    1. Learn a few quick facts about Bertini and talk to me about him next lesson.

    2. Finish learning the entire piece!

    3. Remember to exaggerate your movement and dynamics every single time.

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

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

      1. CLOSE LOUD

      2. STACCATO

      3. LEGATO

      4. SPEED-BUILD

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

    1. Do the sight-reading examples from sets 3-4

    2. Practice singing your intervals.

      1. Play the starting note

      2. Sing the starting note, the note above and the starting note again.

      3. Play the interval to confirm.

      4. Then sing and play the interval at the same time.

  5. ***💛Celebrate Theory: Level 5 Unit 2

    1. Complete pages 9-13

    2. Eventually Redo Unit 2 and 6 before taking the test.

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

    1. Fix any remaining pen and watch the new video in the blog.

    2. Four measures at a time, speed-build. Start at m.m. 60 per quarter note. Move through 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 100, 104

  7. ***💚Tchaikovsky, Album for the Young, Op. 39, No. 9: Waltz (L. 6, List C)

    1. Please please please work on including your body, head, and arms into the dynamic contrast of this piece. What ever you try, it will probably not be quite enough in terms of movement - so do MORE than you think you need to! :)

  8. 💚Aria in G Major by Telemann (L. 6, A)

    1. Listen to the YouTube link I texted to your thread.

      1. Notice the flexibility in the melody.

      2. Notice all the ornamentation (trills, extra notes)

    2. Work on memorization:

      1. Play with and without the music in small chunks.

  9. 🖤Listening assignment

    1. Bach Invention No. 4

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

    💚Review Pieces

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

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

  12. 💚💚Clementi, Sonatina Op. 36 No. 3, Allegro (movement III)(L. 5, B) (needs two-week period for review)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  27. 💚💚Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

🖤Czerny Op. 823, No. 11

  1. Passed! Yay.

  2. 🖤Hanon No. 3 in G Majo

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)