January 28, 2022

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.

  1. Hanon No. 2 in D Major

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    1. SPEED BUILD:

      1. Start at m.m. 66, 69, 72, 76, 80 then 84

    1. Accent practice as needed.

    2. (Next week, A Major)

  2. Technical Requirements Level 4 (After February 6th)

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    1. PRACTICE EACH ITEM 3 TIMES IN-A-ROW CORRECTLY!

    2. This week: focus on tidy attacks and even sound.

      1. FOR EACH ITEM:

        1. CLOSE LOUD:

        2. STACCATO:

        3. LEGATO

Theory

  1. Celebrate Theory: Level 3, UNIT 6

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    1. (Hold)

    2. Pick up from page with Dustin

    3. FIX PURPLE PEN

Musicianship

  1. Four Star Sightreading and Ear Tests Level 4

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  2. Online Ear Training and Rhythm Level 4

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    1. Do the interval recognition online.

    2. https://moodle.rcmusic.com/lms/my/

      1. Click “Piano Teacher Courses”

        1. Login Infoinfo@gledhillartscollective.com

        2. dust2789

  3. Piano Adventures Sightreading Level 3A

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    1. Move on from page 48

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

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

Repertoire

  1. Harlequinade

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    1. Mm. 9-12 - spot this hands alone and then together, 3 times each day.

    2. Memorize

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

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    1. Come off the ends of slurs with a very quick release (staccato), and all detached single notes (like in m. 13)

    2. See all red pen.

    3. Memorize

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

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    1. Speedbuild up to m.m. 104

    2. See the red pen.

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

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    1. Make sure the upbeat of each phrase is softer than the downbeat.

    2. Fix the LH notes

    3. Fix all red pen

Listening Assignments

  1. 🟢Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas

    1. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNEfi9hag0PZ1QSlanqw9PySdR1Aflz1e (Pianist Richard Goode)

    2. Listen to Sonata No. 1 in F Minor.

    3. Listen for the characters in the sonata. When do they come back? What do they do in the middle?

  2. ⚫️Bach Inventions

  1. Your preferences are No. 6, 7, 9 and 10. Perhaps we can learn No. 10 and 6 because they are related keys with one sharp.

Review Pieces

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  9. 🟢Invention in A Minor by Renée Christopher (L. 2, C)

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

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

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

  13. 🟣The Highlands by Christopher Norton (b. 1953) (L. 2 Etude)

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)