August 6, 2025

2025-2026 Goals:

  1. RCMCP Level 6: First week in October.

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

ASSIGNMENTS

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

    1. Work on B and C-sharp minor scales.

    2. Work on keeping the correct tempi. You’re a little under tempo but almost there!

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

    1. Do the sight-reading examples from sets 9-10

    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. In four-measure sections, gradually increase your tempo to m.m. 92 pr quarter note.

    2. Be mindful of the LH down-stem notes and hold them for their full value.

    3. Careful of clean pedaling.

    4. Work on memorization - Have all memorized by next week!

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

    1. Practice three times per week at a slow tempo, then medium, then final.

      1. Slow: m.m. 60 (focus on exaggerated expression)

      2. Medium: m.m. 96

      3. Final: m.m. 126

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

    1. Listen to the recording every day with the music, noticing where I take time and where I don’t. Then try to play with the recording to match the tempo and expression - especially the slight tempo variations.

    2. Start to memorize.

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

    1. *Memorize.

    2. See the orange highlights.

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

    1. Practice starting from any measure.

    2. Hands alone practice.

  8. 🟪Album for the Young, Op. 39, No. 9: Waltz by Tchaikovsky (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)