June 12, 2025

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

ASSIGNMENTS

  1. :) Technical Requirements Level 6 (every day assignment)

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

    2. ***Careful of C-sharp minor melodic fingering.

    3. ***Be cautious of a steady beat

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

    1. Do the sight-reading examples from sets 5-6

    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.

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

    1. Memorize!

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

    1. Experiment with body gestures at the end of the piece! I’d like to see some at the next lesson.

    2. Find at least 4 descriptive words that connect you to the piece. What types of feelings are produced by the music? Then practice creating body language to match those words.

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

      1. m.m. 112

      2. m.m. 116

      3. m.m. 120

      4. m.m. 126

  5. 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.

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

    1. Memorize.

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

    1. Practice starting from any measure.

    2. Hands alone practice.

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

    1. Please be mindful about speeding up and slowing down. RCM will definitely notice this and take away point for it.

    2. Expressive contrast.

  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)