May 23, 2025

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2024-2025 Goals:

1. Will not be here for the final recital.

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. ❤️Review the following before you take your test:

   1. Review and memorize the following key signatures:

      1. C, G, D, A, E, F, B-flat, E-flat, A-flat majors

      2. A, E, B, F-sharp, C-sharp, G-sharp, D, C, and F minors

      3. Order of sharps and flats:

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

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

      4. Practice writing all of the key signatures on staff paper every day.

   2. Review the rhythm chapter. With a special focus on the rules for combining strong and weak beats, ,as well as compound vs. simple time signatures.

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

   1. Please be careful of the tempo markings in the syllabus.

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

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

   2. Practice with the audio samples in Newzik titled Clapback Playback 5-8

   3. 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.

4. **Etude in A-flat Major, Op. 139, No. 51 by Czerny (L. 6, Etude)

   1. Add flexibility in phrasing - taking time at the beginning and ends of phrases.

   2. Work up to m.m. 92.

5. **Etude in E Minor op. 29 no. 14 by (L. 6, Etude)

   1. Speed-build one-two systems at a time at the following speeds:

      1. m.m. 92

      2. m.m. 96

      3. m.m. 100

      4. m.m. 104

   2. Play through and as soon as you find a spot that you can’t play with the metronome, stop and spot the section until you can play with the beat.

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

   1. Avoid ghosts notes in the LH.

   2. We need even more expression - taking time at the beginning and ends of phrases.

7. 💚Sonata in G Major, Hob. XVI:G1, Movement 1 by Haydn (L. 6, List B)

   1. Start to memorize as well! Ask yourself theory questions! Add articulation where it’s needed.

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

   1. Continue to memorize but use your knowledge of theory and technique to help you.

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

   1. Continue to memorize but use your knowledge of theory and technique to help you.

10. 🖤Listening assignment

    1. Bach Invention No. 4

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

    💚Review Pieces

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

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

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

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

15. 💚💚Harmony of Angels (L. 5, Etude)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28. 💚💚Harlequinade (L. 3, A)

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

30. 💚💚Kabalevbsky, Clowns (L. 3, C).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

43. 💚💚💚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)

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HOLD

1. Czerny Op. 823

   1. we left off on no. 8

1. Rhythm Book.

   1. PREPARE: Nos. 43-45 on page 23

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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)